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The Third Man and the Fallen Idol
ISBN: 9780140185331 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in Vienna to visit his old friend and hero Harry Lime. Harry is dead, but the circumstances surrounding his death are highly suspicious, and his reputation, at the very least, dubious. Graham Greene said of The Third Man that he "wanted to entertain people], to frighten them a little, to make them laugh" and the result is both a compelling narrative and a haunting thriller. The Fallen Idol is...
The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-...
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Our Man In Havana
ISBN: 9780099286080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age -- so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, M.I.6's man in Havana. To keep the job, Wormold pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories. Then the stories start becoming disturbingly true.
Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age -- so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus...
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The Heart of the Matter
ISBN: 9780099478423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With a new introduction by James Wood
Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences." With a new introduction by James Wood
Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted being scrupulously honest an... |
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Loser Takes All
ISBN: 9780140185423 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bertram had no belief in luck. He was not superstitious. A conspicuously unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time. Quite quietly: St Luke's, Maida Hill, and then two weeks in Bournemouth. But Dreuther, a director of Bertram's firm, whimsically switches wedding and honeymoon to Monte Carlo. Inevitably Bertram visits the Casino. Inevitably he loses. Then suddenly his system starts working . . . For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles,...
Bertram had no belief in luck. He was not superstitious. A conspicuously unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the sec...
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Ways Of Escape
ISBN: 9780099282594 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as if seeking out danger, Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last days of the French, Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion. With ironic delight he recalls his time in the British Secret Service in Africa, and his brief involvement in Hollywood. He writes, as only he can, about people and places, about faith, doubt, fear and, not least, the trials and craft of writing.
With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as if s...
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The Ministry of Fear
ISBN: 9781509828036 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Graham Greene's gripping WWII thriller about a man who knew too much.
Graham Greene's gripping WWII thriller about a man who knew too much.
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May We Borrow Your Husband?
ISBN: 9780099283843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A widow and a divorcee tipsily discuss the inadequacy of men, deciding that women have much more to offer each other by way of variety in sexual love. Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours, this collection contains some of the author's saddest observations on the hilarity of sex.
A widow and a divorcee tipsily discuss the inadequacy of men, deciding that women have much more to offer each other by way of variety in sexual love....
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The Collected Plays
ISBN: 9780099286257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes and No. For Whom the Bell Chimes In these eight plays Graham Greene, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, demonstrates his considerable skills as a dramatist. Each of them explores themes that were of fundamental importance to Greene, and together they exhibit a daring wit and an exhilarating sense of experiment.
The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes and No. For Whom the Be...
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In Search Of a Character : Two African Journals: Congo Journey and Convoy to West Africa
ISBN: 9780099529026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'In Search of Character' contains two African notebooks. 'Congo Journal' records Graham Greene's travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper colony in the jungle which inspired the story for A Burnt-Out Case. 'Convoy to West Africa' describes Greene's voyage in a cargo boat during the Second World War.
'In Search of Character' contains two African notebooks. 'Congo Journal' records Graham Greene's travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper colo...
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The Man Within
ISBN: 9780099286158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'The Man Within' tells the story of a man who betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in a woman's house who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices.
'The Man Within' tells the story of a man who betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salv...
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Lidský faktor - audiobook
ISBN: 8590236093027 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2018 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Rozhlasová dramatizace špionážního románu. Nahrávka z roku 1993 v režii Jana Bergera. V hlavních rolích: Jiří Adamíra a Hana MaciuchováDále hrají: Jan Novotný, Vladimír Ráž, Luděk Munzar, Jiří Zahajský, Veronika Freimanová, Jiří Hromada a další.
Rozhlasová dramatizace špionážního románu. Nahrávka z roku 1993 v režii Jana Bergera. V hlavních rolích: Jiří Adamíra a Hana MaciuchováD...
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Mornings in the Dark: The Graham Greene Film Reader
ISBN: 9781784109998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 776 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Carcanet's Graham Greene Film Reader reissued as a Carcanet Classic, the only book to collect his written contributions to the world of cinema.
Carcanet's Graham Greene Film Reader reissued as a Carcanet Classic, the only book to collect his written contributions to the world of cinema.
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Brighton Rock: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780142437971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..."
Graham Greene's chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind.Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed mob boss Kite and also for the death of Hale, a reporter who threatened the livelihood of the mob, Pinkie is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, Pinkie is convinced that his... "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..."
Graham Greene's chilling expose of violence and g... |
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The Ministry of Fear
ISBN: 9780099286189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. For Arthur Rowe, the charity fair was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder.
For Arthur Rowe, the charity fair was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty yea...
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Our Man in Havana
ISBN: 9780142438008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true... First published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene's most widely read novels. It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence that still...
MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bo...
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Die Reisen mit meiner Tante : Roman
ISBN: 9783423141796 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Brighton Rock
ISBN: 9780099478478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With a new introduction by J.M. Coetzee
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death. With a new introduction by J.M. Coetzee
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a ma... |
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Complete Short Stories
ISBN: 9780143039105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction
Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete edition reveals Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each of these forty-nine stories confirms V. S. Pritchett s declaration that Greene is a master of storytelling. This Penguin Classics edition features an... The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction
Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and viole... |
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Stamboul Train
ISBN: 9780099478362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Centenary edition with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens: a gripping spy thriller, which unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople, weaving a web of subterfuge, murder, politics and passion along the way.
Centenary edition with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens: a gripping spy thriller, which unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosse...
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