Summer of My German Soldier (Puffin Modern Classics), Paperback

Reducere. An emotional, thought-provoking book from multi-award-winning author Bette Greene. The summer that Patty Bergen turns twelve is a summer that will ...

Reducere. It has been a while since Folks lived in the Big House, and an even longer time has passed since there has been a garden at the House. All the anim...

This Faber Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Alan Johnson MP. 'Larkin, with his (in the best sense) provincial eye, and his unparallel...

From his remarkable debut in 1966, Seamus Heaney pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was aw...

Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he spends the last o...

Explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations throughout the history of art. This title provides a basis for the appreciation of p...

The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country, and launched his worldwide literary reputation. 'Kundera is ...

John Osborne's play launched the 'angry young men' movement, writers from working or middle class background who had become disillusioned with Brit...

Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding...

John McGahern is widely considered to be one of Ireland's greatest writers, with fans including John Updike, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin and John Ba...

"My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost..."The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim, desperat...

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. Zorba has...

As James Joyce was working on Finnegans Wake, he asked his friend T.S. This celebrated episode, Anna Livia Plurabelle, was the first part of Joyce'...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGreece in the age of heroes....

Contributor(s): Author: Marguerite DurasA sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unf...

George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. Thi...

Marito is a young Peruvian who toils away at his local radio station, dreaming of becoming a writer, before his life is torn apart by two arrivals....

On receiving an early copy, Evelyn Waugh remarked 'If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable. 'She's horrif...

Reducere. Summer I Turned Pretty, PaperbackFor as long as she can remember, Isabel has spent the summer with her family at their friends' beach house, where ...

Reducere. David Perry was an American soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the founding of the United States - this autobiography r...

Reducere. DescriptionOft quoted but seldom credited, Charles Dudley Warner's My Summer in a Garden is a classic of American garden writing and was a seminal ...

Reducere. The Good Soldier opens with the famous line: "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." John Dowell, half of one of the couples whose dissolvin...

DescriptionFeaturing specially commissioned artwork, archive photography, and full-color maps, this engrossing study investigates the doctrine, tra...

Reducere. The story of a man in love with a place, a woman, and a dream. Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel -- and stayed twenty-two years....

Still dealing with her own mother's sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship wi...

DescriptionThis study examines the force of tradition in conservative German visual culture, exploring thematic continuities in the post-conflict r...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Romantic follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty, a perfect beach read for teen girls. Isabel's caught between two brothers; Conrad, whose left for...

This absorbing study investigates the doctrine, training, equipment, and combat record of the US specialist beach-landing troops and their German o...

For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Koschorrek, a fresh young recruit, wrote his notes ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile recounting highlights of one of his summer vacations, the author gives hints on how you can make the most of yours. Go with some p...

Reducere. DescriptionSet during World War I on an isolated country estate just outside London, Rebecca West's haunting novel The Return of the Soldier follow...

Reducere. Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot ``the actions of simple soldiers....I believe that true heroism...

Reducere. DescriptionGeneral Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck of the German East-Africa campaign shares his narrative of the war, and his effective use of guerilla wa...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. When Humphrey hears that school is ending, he can't believe his ears. What's a classroom hamster to do if there's no more school? It turns out that...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. John of Gaunt was an English prince in the 14th century whose political skills and astute negotiating strengthened the monarchy of his brother, Kin...

Reducere. Colorful watercolor illustrations enhance the story of a little boy's attempts to catch a rainbow

One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-speci...

Publisher: Kodansha America, IncAuthor(s): Nagisa FuruyaNumber of pages: 224Collection: My Summer of YouPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 146 x 207...

Reducere. Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude-and danger-of the mountains, where he finds...

A laugh-out-loud, poignant and uplifting ode to the simple pleasure and small joys in life. Perfect for fans of Gail Honeyman, Rosanna Ley and Ruth...

Reducere. Peter M. F. Sichel, a fourth-generation wine merchant, found the path he was destined to walk interrupted by the Nazis while growing up as a Jew in...

The dramatic memoirs of a machine-gunner on the Eastern Front. Gives a brutal and detailed account of fighting in Stalingrad and the frozen retreat...

- Combat stories of eight German infantry soldiers: one paratrooper, two members of the Waffen-SS, and five members of the Wehrmacht - A concluding...

A colourful new edition of Spot's Colours, Shapes & Numbers with revised text and new images. Chunky board book format, suitable for introducing fi...