ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
5990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
8390 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
6590 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
3290 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
4990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
8990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
2499 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
2990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
4990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
IntroductionIWAS born and raised near Bahia Mar, the Fort Lauderdale yacht basin where Travis McGee moored his poker-prize houseboat, the Busted Flush.Slip F-18, as every true fan of John D. MacDonald knows.Here roamed one of American fiction's most popular recurring knightsMcGee, knockabout...
SPRING, PRESENT
WEST MAUI, HAWAII/TOKYO, JAPAN
Not another night.
The man known as Civet opened his eyes. A gray-green gekko was staring at him. Immobile, the tiny lizard clung to a wallpaper anthurium blossom. Its head was twisted so that it could continue to stare at Civet.
Not another...
PrologueThere are three distinct but inevitably interlinked elements in this story: the British Merchant Navy (officially the Mercantile Marine) and the men who served in it; Liberty Ships; and the units of the German forces, underseas, on the seas and in the air, whose sole mission was to seek out...
IT HOVERED IN the ink-dark water, waiting.It was not a fish, had no air bladder to give it buoyancy, but because of the special chemistry of its flesh, it did not sink into the abyss.It was not a mammal, did not breathe air, so it felt no impulse to move to the surface.It hovered.It was not asleep,...
"We shall be arriving in Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, in just a few minutes." Mellifluous, accentless, the Dutch stewardess* voice could have been precisely duplicated on any of a dozen European airlines. "Please fasten your seat belts and extin^sh your cigarettes. We hope you have enjoyed your...
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Looking back, it's hard to remember if the low morale at California Fidelity originated with the death of one of the claims adjusters or the transfer of Gordon Titus, an "efficiency expert" from the Palm Springs office, who was brought in to bolster profits. Both events contributed to the...
^Author's Note
I wish to express my gratitude to Robert Giroux for editing the whole manuscript, and to Cecil Hemley, now head of Ohio University Press, for revising parts of the translation in collaboration with me. Mirra Ginsburg, Elizabeth Pollet, Elaine Gottlieb, Ruth Whitman, Marion Magid,...
I acted on impulse. I opened the door and went in. My eyes were blazing, my cheeks scarlet."Anna!" cried Charles.'T overheard," I said.I was looking straight at him and I knew at once who he was. He was tallrather leaner than I had imagined; his hair was black; his eyes were such a dark brown that...
müiipvmApril Fool's Day and even the temperature joined in the joke: the daytime high had been ninety-three; at midnight the temperature stuck at eighty-six.He lay on the convertible sofabed in the front room stripped to boxer shorts, sheet thrown back, thin body oiled in sweat. The window fan...
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My name is Asher Lev, the Asher Lev, about whom you have read in newspapers and magazines, about whom you talk so much at your dinner affairs and cocktail parties, the notorious and legendary Lev of the Brooklyn Crucifixion.
I am an observant Jew. Yes, of course, observant Jews do not paint...
The Lonely SeaEarly in the new year of 1954, Alistair MacLean entered the short story competition of the Glasgow Herald with a story called "The Dileas". It is the haunting tale of the love an old seaman bears his two sonsa love so great that he takes an old fishing boat out in a terrifying storm,...
author's note
The stories in this collection were all written in my later years, some of them quite recently. About one third are about immigrants in the United States, where I have now lived a longer time than in the country of my birth, Poland. I have translated these stories with the...
M.Lichael awoke to the mindless fury of the guns. It was an obscene ritual celebrated in the darkness before each dawn in which the massed banks of artillery batteries on both sides of the ridges made their savage sacrifice to the gods of war.Michael lay in the darkness under the weight of six...
11 1.The statutory defdmition of homicide is the "unlawful killing of one human being by another." Sometimes the phrase "with malice" is employed, the concept serving to distinguish murder from the numerous other occasions in which people deprive each other of life^wars and executions coming...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The translations of Psalm 6 on pages 301-302 and of Proverbs 31 on page 4ious Ideas (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1963). Psalm 33 on page 299 wa.s specially translated by Dr. Sandmel. The Psalms of Ascent on pages 335-336 were translated for this book by scholars in Israel.
Other...
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Agony is socially unacceptable. One is not supposed to weep. Particularly is one not supposed to weep when one is moderately presentable and thirty-two. When one's wife has been dead six months and everyone else has done grieving.
Ah well, they say: he'll get over it. There's...
I have made several attempts to describe this book, only to find that the descriptions stood somewhere between a meaningless abstraction and every book that has ever been published. Then I thought of a story which seemed like a metaphor for the book itself, so I am going to introduce the book by...
Cfiapter One
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can't believe Tm on this road again, twisting along past the lake where the white birches are dying, the disease is spreading up from the south, and I notice they now have seaplanes for hire. But this is still near the city limits; we didn't go through, it's swelled enough to...
1MaestroIt was the last daylight hour of a December afternoon more than twenty years agoI was twenty-three, writing and publishing my first short stories, and like many a Bildungs-roman hero before me, already contemplating my own massive Bildungsromanwhen I arrived at his hideaway to meet the...
Ice
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)ARING through frigid mists and roiling clouds, he stretches fully his long wings upon the unpredictable currents. Streamers of silvered plumage, running bilaterally across his wings and cresting his majestic questing head, ripple and blur in the wind. He banks and dips. There is a...
the commission
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Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door.
'New York's...
Introduction
i was born and raised near Bahia Mar, the Fort
Lauderdale yacht basin where Travis McGee moored
his poker-prize houseboat the Busted Flush.
Slip F-18, as every true fan of John D. MacDonald
knows.
Here roamed one of American fiction's most pop-
ular recurring knights—McGee,...