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990 Ft
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eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
4490 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).
9990 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.
6560 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).
5999 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).
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.
Bnmetti stood at his window and flirted with springtime. It was there, just on the other side of the canal, evident in the shoots he saw popping up from the earth. Over the last few days, someone - in all these years, he had never seen a person working in the garden - had raked the earth, though he...
Kiadói borítója kopottas. In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedy While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her mother, Eddress, is struggling for courage. Though bound by an indestructible love, their journey through a world that is darkening with...
As.S I WAS PACKAGING WHAT REMAINED OF THE DEAD BABY, THE man I would kill was burning pavement north toward Charlotte.I didn't know that at the time. I'd never heard the man's name, knew nothing of the grisly game in which he was a player.At that moment I was focused on what I would say to Gideon...
ACT IScene IA room on the first floor of Zilia's palace at Moncalieri. There is a door left and a door right. The curtains in the windows centre are open. Three Candelabra of wrought iron, one between each window with candles lighted later. The room is red with the glow of the setting sun. The time...
OneHe was a high man and a hard one. His great beak and his jutting jaw and his dark obsidian eyes gave him the look of an old eagle, imperious and hostile. Yet, faced with the evidence of his own mortality, he felt, suddenly, small and ridiculous.The surgeon, his junior by a quarter of a century,...
The last three novels, all links in the long chain that binds the Forsytes to their collaterals and descendants, are here presented in one volume.
The first növel of this third and last trilogy—Maid in Waiting—was begun at Bury House, Sussex, on March 23rd, 1928. Laid aside for a time,...
PREFACE
This is my first book. At the age of seventeen I wrote a biography of Meyerbeer; I cannot imagine why, since I knew nothing of music and had never heard any of his operas. I have long forgotten whatever I knew about him, but I do not believe that he was a romantic figure; and I can only...
ACT I The Scene is the living room in the Radferns' house, "Ferndale Laburnum Grove, Shooters Green-a suburb in North London. The time is Sunday evening in late summer, still daylight at first. On the back wall from right to left are a small window, then a door that can lead directly into a...
CHAPTER I
uncle baldwin comes and goes I
it was Tuesday evening and so William's friend, Green-law, from the Buntingham Grammar School, was there. When William dropped the stub of his cigarette into his coffee cup and said, "Well, what about a game?" Green-law nodded and then replied solemnly:...
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uER NAME WAS EMILY ANNE. SHE WAS NINE YEARS OLD, WITH black ringlets, long lashes, and caramel-colored skin. Her ears were pierced with tiny gold loops. Her forehead was pierced by two slugs from a Cobray 9-mm semiautomatic.
It was a Saturday, and I was working by special request of my...
PREFACE TO THE COLLECTED EDITION
I beg the reader not to be deceived by the fact that these stories are told in the first person singular into thinking that they are experiences of my own. There are three ways in which an author can tell a story. He can tell it from the standpoint of God, as one...
Julian couldn't believe that Doctor Sachs had swallowed the lie about his drinking.
'Oh, not a lot, half a bottle of wine a day, the odd bourbon,' he'd said, as beads of whisky perspiration broke out on his forehead. He'd lightly clenched his fists to hide the slight tremor in his hands as...
the complete short stories ofw. somerset maugham
Preface
This is the first voiume of my collected short stories. In my early youth I wrote a number, but they are so immature that I have preferred not to reprint them. A few are in a book that has long remained out of print, a few others are...
PART I
CHAPTER I Promenade
Coming down the steps of Snooks' Club, so well worn by the apostles of things as they were, on that momentous mid-October afternoon of 1922, Sir Lawrence Mont, ninth baronet, set his fine nose towards the east wind, and moved his thin legs with speed. Political by...
PREFACE
Those who teach pupils of approximately twelve to thirteen, and who believe that personal explanations are better than printed ones, will find this book supplies their need, that of a book containing sufficient exercises for one year's oral and written work.
It is an adaptable book. It...
CHAPTER I
uncle baldwin comes and goes I
it was Tuesday evening and so William's friend, Green-law, from the Buntingham Grammar School, was there. When William dropped the stub of his cigarette into his coffee cup and said, "Well, what about a game?" Green-law nodded and then replied solemnly:...
FOREWORD
IJ EW MEN HAVE THE GIFT OF TRANSCENDING NATIONAL ORIGIN
and cultural heritage to enter intimately and understandingly into the life of a people alien to them by birth. Jaime de Angulo was such a man. His forty years of living among the Pit River Indians of California gave him the...
PrefaceHaving to write a preface after labouring for five years to produce the book is an unnerving experience and something of an anti-climax; rather like an elephant who has succeeded at long last in giving birth to her calf being then required to balance a bun on her head.But a preface has its...
Ungvári Tamás könyvtárából. San Francisco debutante Jessica Poole hasn't seen her father "Pogo" Poole since the divorce between him and her mother Katharine, many years before. Pogo went off to travel the world and enjoy himself, while Katharine remarried to stodgy banker Jim Dougherty. ...
INTRODUCTION
Before introducing the plays in this volume to the reader, I should like to make some brief observations on dramatic writing and my own particular attitude toward it. Although the dramatist may also be a . man of letters, capable of producing novels, poems, essays, criticism, I...
THE GENERAL IDEA THE first of the Canadian Mitchells landed in the country on tiptoe and in the dark, with his claymore and the unexpired portion of the day's ration. Having come through the Battle of the Plains with honour, he found Quebec good-or at least better than Scotland-in spite of...
S AINT'S PROGRESS i
; ;; Such a day made glad the heart. All the flags of July were waving; the sun and the poppies flaming; white butterflies spiring up and twining, and the bees busy on the snapdragons. The lime-trees were coming into flower. Tall white lilies in the garden beds already...
THE DREAM
My dream ? Can 1 remember my dream ? I was floating down the nursery stair, And my little terrier ran in front With his feet treading on the air ; And when we came to the dining-room, The King and the Queen were there. And father and mother, two and two; And a baby elephant from the...
nee upon a time there da>elt on the out-skirts of a large ujood a poor oioodcatter CJDith his oiife and bis tcuo children; the boy cuas colled Hansel and the girl Gnstel. He had alcuoys little enough to live on, ond once, when there a3as a great famine in the land, he could not even provide...
Ungvári Tamás könyvtárából. The Tiger and the Horse is a three-act play by Robert Bolt, written in 1960. It takes its title from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction." The play's story involves Jack Dean, a Professor...
THE LITTLE TIPE
William was a boy, not very old, who lived in Ireland. The house he lived in he had been born in, and so had his father, and his father's people for many a long year back. It was a thin house and a tall one ; there was one part of it that was round, on account of having once been...
CHAPTER ONE
Martin tucked his racket under his arm and paused to wipe his glasses. Without them the figures on the court dissolved into one of those modem paintings he disliked : a blur of red ant-bed cut by white lines and white net. He blew on the lenses and polished them again. He was taking...
INTRODUCTIONONE of the most important movements in China to-day is the discovery of their own country by young Chinese intellectuals. A generation ago the most progressive of their fathers were beginning to feel a stirring discontent with their own country. They were conscious, indeed the...
Atkins International Airport, outside the city of Waq, in the country of Zanj, is something of a surprise. The traveller who steps down onto the tarmac after bouncing over hot air currents for hours in a racketing, shivering turboprop has been buffeted into grimfaced acceptance and deafened. This...
Chapter One
Behavioral science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building at Quantico, half-buried in the earth. Clarice Starling reached it flushed after a fast walk from Hogan's Alley on the firing range. She had grass in her hair and grass...
CHAPTER ONE (i)
Between six and eight on Friday, October the thirty-first, the day appointed for his handing over his practice to the young man who had bought it. Dr. Bradley "took" his evening surgery as usual and for the last time. At six o'clock precisely, shod in the carpet slippers that...
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I HAVE never begun a novel with more misgiving. If I call it a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call it. I have little story to tell and I end neither with a death nor a marriage. Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes...
frejace
THE preparation of this book was a delightful adventure, which I was forced to bring to an end too soon: if it had not been for sober considerations of proportion, size, price, announced date of publication and the unreasonable demand of my publishers, I should at this moment be still...