FAWCETT CREST

"QUINTESSENTIAL UPDIKE...These tales are elegies for lost youth and receding passions." --The New York Times "If one trait can account for John Updike's staying power, it is the man's exquisite grasp of ordinary miracles....With his small mirages, his puddles left by both the heroic and the...

Borítóinak szélei kopottasak.

The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses,...

Borítói kopottasak. Felső borítóján és annak belső oldalán tulajdonosi névjelöléssel.

Gerince megtört, deformált, borítója enyhén kopottas.

Texas. A land of sprawling diversity and unparalleled richness; a dazzling chapter in the history of our nation, a place like no other on earth. Through the remarkable lives of four families, this epic saga spans four centuries and two continents and charts the dramatic formation of several great...

Könyvgerinc megtört. Lapok hullámosak. Borítón töredezettségek, kisebb szakadások találhatók. Lapélek foltosak. From the glories of the Prado to the danger and dazzle of the bullfights, master storyteller James A. Michener magnificently captures the stunning kaleidoscope that is...

Gerince megtört, ragasztása sérült, a könyvtest kettévált. For Harriet Delvaney, the great house of Menfreya, standing like a fortress on the Cornish coast, had always been a citadel of happiness and high spirits. Not until she herself came to Menfreya as a bride did Harriet discover the...