The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima, Paperback - Henry Scott Stokes

Reducere. Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan...

Sellers has long been acknowledged as one of the screen's greatest comic actors. In this biography, Roger Lewis draws on over 300 interviews with S...

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Reducere. In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Yukio Mishima, one of the leading figures in modern literature, The Death of a Man pre...

A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationshi...

British journalist Henry Scott-Stokes describes the transformation of his understanding of the Greater East Asian War (the so-called Pacific War) f...

The true story of one of the biggest financial scandals in recent history reaches very different conclusions to the standard narrative.Publisher: B...

The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople monastery of Stoudios and the me...

In this extraordinary investigation based on extensive documentary research and dozens of interviews with the key players, Brian Brivati sets out t...

Reducere. Starul , care de la publicarea in revista literara japoneza Gunzo, in 1960, pana la traducerea sa in engleza, in 2019, a fost greu accesibil public...

Reducere. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important oper...

A new account of the tragic life and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both, in the course o...

First English translation of a Greek novella first published in 1920 by the Corfiot author Konstantinos Theotokis. A tragi-comedy of Corfiot villag...

Reducere. Acute Misfortune is an unflinching portrait of talent and addiction.In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his s...

Dingo Bold is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and dingoes. At its heart is Rowena Lennox's encounter with a ding...

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Reducere. Considerata capodopera lui Yukio Mishima, tetralogia Marea fertilitatii , ale carei romane, Zapada de primavara , Cai in galop , Templul Zorilor si...

Tetralogia Marea fertilitatii , pe care Yasunari Kawabata o considera o capodopera, a fost scrisa intre 1965 si 1970. Terminat in anul fatidic 1970...

Reducere. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callous...

Reducere. Roman-cult, aparut initial in foileton in revista Shukan Playboy, in 1968, Viata de vanzare a fost relansat in 2015, in timpul evenimentelor dedica...

Reducere. Roman autobiografic, care il consacra pe scriitorul Yukio Mishima la numai 24 de ani, Confesiunile unei masti aduce in prim-plan incidentele unei m...

Reducere. • Nominalizat la Premiul Nobel pentru literatura Unul dintre cele mai cunoscute romane ale lui Mishima, Templul de aur a fost ecranizat de trei ori...

Reducere. Cai in galop , cel de-al doilea roman din tetralogia Marea fertilitatii, aparut la un an dupa Zapada de primavara , a fost ecranizat in 1985 intr-u...

Reducere. Ecranizat in 2005 in regia lui Isao Yukisada, romanul Zapada de primavara face parte din tetralogia Marea fertilitatii, capodopera lui Yukio Mishim...

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Reducere. Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart, Paperback

Of all the screen juveniles groomed for stardom by Warner Brothers in the 1930s, few were touted as highly by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner as Ross Al...

Rudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America's idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cin...

Reducere. In 1823, Hugh Glass did the unthinkable: he wrestled a grizzly bear...and won. But that is only the beginning of the remarkable tale--Glass, badly ...

Reducere. • De trei ori nominalizat la Premiul Nobel pentru literatura E intotdeauna greu sa judecam un mare scriitor contemporan: ne lipseste distantarea. I...

Reducere. • Nominalizat la Premiul Nobel pentru literatura Yukio Mishima a scris aceasta fascinanta carte in august 1967, cu trei ani inainte de dramatica sa...

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Reducere. Sellers' fluidity as an actor made for a terrifying madness that grew like a slow metastasizing cancer throughout his adult life. The story of Pete...

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Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black g...

On 17th August 1909, Madan Lal Dhingra was executed in Pentonville Prison for the assassination of Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a high-ranking o...

Reducere. Red Star, White Nights: The Life and Death of Yuri Soloviev is a biography of one of history's greatest dancers, who ended his own life in a snow-b...

The Life and Death of Andy Ducat tells the story of one of England's earliest sporting heroes. He played football for Woolwich Arsenal, Aston Villa...

Reducere. Iubiri monstruoase sau iubiri fara noroc, relatii sordide sau de un erotism care transcende tabuurile, personaje care sfideaza orice morala si sunt...

Reducere. After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and f...

A memorial to one of the greatest coaches in college football history written by the man who knew him better than anyone: his oldest son and coachi...

A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh

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Reducere. In a major new biography, veteran military historian and WII biographer, Charles Whiting combines both talents to tell the tale of barefoot Texan s...

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 ...

Referred to by Churchill as `the Beast', `Tirpitz' was Germany's last great battleship and was one of the largest ever constructed in Europe. It wa...

Reducere. Black Crowes drummer and cofounder Steve Gorman shares the band's inside story in this behind-the-scenes biography, from their supernova stardom in...

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