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eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
6990 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).
7499 Ft
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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:
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4790 Ft
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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.
IL izzie Willoughby and Alice Partridge had had a conference at breakfast.When the ship in which they had traveled from England had docked at Capetown, they had both received letters, Lizzie from her brother Evelyn, who said that because of the imminence of war with the Boers he had enlisted in the...
Introduction
Irring Howe
Ordinarily we do not think of Thomas Hardy as a writer of short stories. He lives for us as the author of several distinguished novels dramatizing the clash between a long-settled culture and invading spokesmen of resdessness, and also as a lyric poet, master of the...
FROM the sofa in the living room where she was immersed in the Sunday paper, Miriam heard the door between the breezeway and the kitchen open and close. She called out, "David?" and when her husband came into the room, "Mr. Raymond called just after you left. It sounded important."Rabbi David Small...
Chapter One
WHILE waiting in the old house in Copenhagen, Det Gamle Huus, as the Danes would caU it, with a fire crackling on the wide hearth and a gale sweeping up the Sound so that flying spume clouded the windows, I decided to write my autobiography.
It was the only way to make what had...
oneA BIG NOISY wind out of the northeast, full of a February chill, herded the tourists off the afternoon beach, driving them to cover, complaining bitterly. It picked up gray slabs of the Atlantic and smacked them down on the public beach across the highway from Bahia Mar. It rattled loose sand...
IntroductionSINCE 1951,1'have been working for an aggravating, tyrannical, towheaded four-year-old boy. He has insisted ^n my drawing his adventures and misadventures, daily and Sunday, from morning to night.This little slave driver has kept my nose to the drawing board continuously, while doing...
Forei^osrdA tall, thin, handsome man with hom-rimmed glasses and a cigar in his mouth handed his vicuna coat to the hat-check girl at the Sans Souci restaurant in Washington. He gave her a wink. Paul, the maître d'hotel, rushed up the steps and said, "Monsieur Buchwald, Henry Kissinger just called...
it was an acid job, and they're never pleasant to come upon, even when you're more or less prepared to find something wrong, as I'd been. One of our people had failed to call in when he was supposed to, and I'd been pulled off another job nearbywell, five hundred miles south in the Black Hills of...
ONEJUST BEFORE DAWN there was a subtle increase in the traflac, more of a pulsing insistence in the oncoming whin-ings and diminishing drones. Charles Drovek, president of the Crossroads Corporation, lay wakeful and restless in the bedroom of his home three hundred yards behind the showplace of the...
THE JOINT RETURN
THE GHOST OF LYNDON B.
The ghost of Lyndon Johnson was raised by President Nixon at a press conference in Disney World. Mr. Nixon told AP managing editors it was Mr. Johnson who gave him the secret on how to get out of paying income taxes when you hold the highest office in the...
"Why Cotton?" asks a Pans (1951) entry in her red leather diary, this query interlaced among plane departures, telephone numbers and places to have been at noon yesterday, half a recipe and stubs of india pages occasionally used tor the lighting of cigarettes off a gas stove. "Why, anyway?" An...
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COMMANDER JAMES D, SWANSON of the U.S. Navy was short, plump and crowding forty. He had jet-black hair topping a pink, cherubic face, and with the deep permanent creases of laughter lines radiating from his eyes and curving around his mouth, he was a dead ringer for the cheerful,...
Author's Note
This is a work of history in fictional form—that is, in personal perspective, which is the only kind of history that exists. In the years 1962-1967 I taught English at the University of Detroit, which is a school run by Jesuits and attended by several thousand students, many of...
ONE
Shortly after dawn, or what would have been dawn in a normál sky, Mr. Artúr Sammler with his bushy eye took in the books and papers of his West Side bedroom and suspected strongly that they were the wrong books, the wrong papers. In a way it did not matter mucii to a man of seventy-plus,...
CHAPTER ONE
For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other's existence.
Danny's block was heavily populated by the followers of his father, Russian Hasidic Jews in somber garb, whose habits and frames of reference...
Chapter
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Laughing at myself is what I do best. Lord knows I have had practice, there being no city like Washington for laughable situations, but it appears to me that I have outdistanced even politicians in my race toward the ridiculous. I wanted to make my mistakes at the top and I have. You...
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DJ
On the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement, a holy convocation shall it be unto you, and ye shall fast . . . and no manner of work shall ye do on this day . . . it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. A sabbath of rest it shall...
We turned off the Turnpike onto a macadam highway, then off the macadam onto a pink dirt road. We went up sharp little rise and there, on the level crest where Schoelkopf's weathered mailbox stood knee-deep in honeysuckle and poison ivy, its flopped lid like a hat being tipped, my wife first...
-Prologue --If you could call a ten-by-six wooden box mounted on a four-wheel trailer an office, then I was sitting in my office. I'd been sitting there for four hours, the earphones were beginning to hurt and the darkness was coming in from the swamps and the sea. But if I had to sit there all...
Preface
In his will Mark Twain directed the Trustees of his Estate to confer with his daughter Clara and Albert B. Paine, his biographer, concerning the administration of his "literary productions." Paine served as literary executor from 1910, when Mark Twain died, until his own death in 1937....
I
The natives call it the River of Goats, the Rio de las Cabras. In the time I was there I saw no goats, but that means nothing. I wasn't hunting goats, I was hunting a man. Anyway, we only ran up the stream a few miles, until the jungle started closing in on either side, overhanging the water...
Tec stood alone in deep shadow at the garden's edge, while before him rose the great golden helix of the Tower of History, its top glowing with light as dawn came to Roi-issa.Curiosity marks the sentient being, and mystery arouses desire for knowledge, even forbidden knowledge. Tec made Ms...
The NeighborhoodYou CAN find people who will tell you about the neighborhood. Each will have his special vision. All those visions can never be added together, for perhaps, like a raddled and lusty woman reaching the weary end of middle age, the neighborhood has been all things to all men.But there...
chapter 1
the sun, cold yellow veiled by gray clouds, freed itself from the mist and reached down to the rain-washed platform. The i railway lines, curving, meeting, parting, multiplying, suddenly gleamed against the dark tracks. Sylvia Pleydell shivered ? at the touch of the chill wind and...
Jiiiroduotion
This book is the work of Phyllis Diller, the lady with a thousand gags. One thousand and two I forgot her face and figure.
Phyllis is the only woman (that's just a wild guess) I know who was refused a subscription to Good Housekeeping. You'll understand why if you've ever...
Chapter 1HiiiniiiHiiiiBiiaiiinH^^^I woke with the feeling of disorientation an unfamiliar bed gives you, woke in a room too small, and too still. It took long seconds to remember this was George Tarleson's cruiser, the "Vunderbar," to remember I had borrowed it yesterday noon, Saturday noon, teUing...
FOREWORD
I first heard this story of "Jonathan Ferner" when I was a little girl, and I heard it from our family physician.
The history of medicine has its martyrs as well as the history of religion. Though many know the Saints who died for them, by name, few know the names of the physicians who...
Chapter One
The shapely dancing teacher and I were testing
an aphrodisiac and had been at it for some time. Late sunlight was arrowing through the Ozark pines around my mountain eyrie as we pursued our experiments with single-minded devotion. Norma Jean, the red-haired hoyden who was my...
IT STARTED out all wrong.The westbound plane was four hours late, with a twenty-minute hold at Istanbul on Pan Am Flight 204 from Bangkok. By the time Durell arrived in Geneva, it was eight o'clock in the evening.Then, coming in off the passenger ramp and having his passport stampedthere had been...
1 Not long ago I returned from my thirty-fourth trip to
Asia and my ninth tour of Vietnam. As I departed from Tan
Son Nhut Airport, the U.S. Marines were reinforcing Khe
Sanh in expectation of a massive North Vietnamese attack.
I had not gone to Vietnam to write an analytical book
jabout...
A Trail in the JungleTuc, the Communist from Sarkhan, trotted through thejungle, wearing only a pair of dirty shorts. He was hungry,but he enjoyed the sensation. He would wait anotherhour before eating. In a small bundle tied to his shoul-ders were a singlet, sandals, political cartoon books, amap...
Gerincén sérült a borító. Gerince kissé félrenyomódott. Fedlapja felszakadt. Rabbi David Small, the new leader of Barnard's Crossing's Jewish community, can't even enjoy his Sabbath without things getting stirred up in a most unorthodox manner: It seems a young nanny has been found...