A Kestrel for a Knave (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Reducere. Billy Casper is a fifteen-year-old with no future, growing up in poverty and seemingly destined to follow his older brother into a life of toil in ...

Billy Casper is a fifteen-year-old with no future, growing up in poverty and seemingly destined to follow his older brother into a life of toil in ...

"York Notes", designed for English literature, aim to stimulate ideas and thought-provoking questions, helping the reader to think independently ab...

Reducere. DescriptionHarriet Ogilvy is a young woman with a small fortune and a mental disability, making her the ideal target for the handsome and scheming ...

Reducere. DescriptionGarnet Montrose returns home from Vietnam to small-town Virginia with injuries so terrible that people become ill at the sight of him. S...

Reducere. Set against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, The Wrong People (1967) is the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday...

Reducere. "Grips the reader . . . The story has pace and excitement, unforced sentiment and wholly unaffected gaiety." - "Times Literary Supplement" "He know...

Reducere. By the age of fifteen, Arthur Rimbaud was already one of the most brilliant poets of his time. And for the next four years - and four only - Rimbau...

Reducere. When Kleinzeit, an advertising copywriter whose name means either 'hero' or 'smalltime', depending on who you ask, picks up a sheet of yellow paper...

The Supreme Court has ordered an end to racially segregated schools, and folks in the predominantly white Southern town of Caxton are prepared grud...

Reducere. Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortion...

Reducere. Gregory Dawson, a middle-aged and disillusioned writer, is holed up in a Cornish hotel working on a film script he must finish. A chance encounter ...

Reducere. To Florence Hackett and her daughters Elinor and Louisa, Richard Baurie, a handsome young bookstore clerk and aspiring poet, seems a little odd but...

Reducere. The hero of John Wain's classic novel is Charles Lumley, a young man fresh out of university and wondering what to do with the rest of his life. Fe...

Reducere. A planetary system, consisting of a star and five planets, is travelling through our galaxy and will pass close to Earth. The four largest planets ...

Reducere. Hailed by critic E. F. Bleiler as a ``landmark book in the history of fantasy, `` Mervyn Wall's classic The Unfortunate Fursey (1946) is set in 11t...

Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons and too young to kn...

Reducere. The Cook opens with Conrad, nearly seven feet tall, gaunt, and dressed all in black, arriving on his bicycle in the town of Cobb. He quickly secure...

Reducere. "Keeps you pegging away, page after page, unwilling to put the book down." - New York Times "Mr. Shute knows how to pick astonishing stories and ho...

Reducere. "A great read-evocative of another era, engrossing from the first page, chilling." - "Publishers Weekly" "McDowell must now be regarded as the fine...

DEATH IN THE FAMILY BUT COME BACK SOON, the sign said. Obviously it was a lie. The people in the grocery store just wanted to make sure he couldn't...

Reducere. Told in the form of interviews with those who knew and hated him, this hilarious and irreverent mockumentary recounts the rise and fall of notoriou...

Reducere. 'A spellbinder . . . takes hold before the first shot is fired' - New York Times 'Rarely does a tale about pursuers and pursued reach the intensity...

Reducere. "One of the greatest works of science fiction ever written." - Richard Dawkins "Without a question the most intelligently written science fiction s...

Reducere. Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in u...

Reducere. Description'A thorough reinvention of the Gothic landscape . . . Gregory's voice and vision are wholly original.' - Ramsey Campbell 'Admirable . . ...

Reducere. DescriptionMaggie Caine and her family leave New York to visit the Caine family home, an old farmhouse in Ohio, which her husband has just inherite...

Reducere. Alan and Kate Marlowe are a typical, loving, middle-class couple, with four young children. But they wish they had just one more, a beautiful baby ...

A torrential downpour forces Philip and Margaret Waverton and their friend Roger Penderel to seek shelter in an ancient, crumbling mansion inhabite...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this dark, haunting tale, Richard Merton recounts the story of his close friend, Tony, a young lawyer recently returned from the war,...

When Lieutenant Alastair Lynch shoots young Drummer Malcolm Harley in the back for desertion in the face of an enemy attack, his action seems to be...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the finest and best-selling horror novels of the 1970s returns at last to chill a new generation of readersIn the isolated farmin...

Reducere. A torrential downpour forces Philip and Margaret Waverton and their friend Roger Penderel to seek shelter in an ancient, crumbling mansion inhabite...

Reducere. Everything seems to be going right for Julian Spencer. The brilliance of the young composer's work is beginning to be recognized, and he is engaged...

Reducere. Description"A horror story the like of which is not often seen ... a tragic tale calculated to chill the blood of any reader whose nerves are not w...

Reducere. "The finest writer of paperback originals in America." - Stephen King "Readers of weak constitution should beware." - "Publishers Weekly" "McDowell...

Reducere. "Arresting and terrifying . . . Will keep you pondering long after you put it down." - "New York World Telegram and Sun" "Taut detachment . . . irr...

Reducere. DescriptionSet in the waning years of London's Fleet Street, this is the story of John Dyson and his colleagues in the crossword and nature-notes s...

Reducere. "Inventor of a new mythology and weaver of surprising folklore, Lord Dunsany stands dedicated to a strange world of fantastic beauty . . . unexcell...

Reducere. Renowned scientist John Sinclair and his old school friend Richard, a celebrated composer, are enjoying a climbing expedition in the Scottish Highl...

With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines' "A Kestrel for a Knave" contains a new after...

Reducere. Though best known for his classic novel of Edwardian childhood The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley was also a master of supernatural and macabre fiction,...