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Ned Halley

    Ned Halley est l'auteur de plusieurs livres pour enfants. Il a contribué à des best-sellers tels que How To Do Just About Anything et How Is It Done ? Ancien directeur de la maison d'édition américaine Rodale Press, Ned écrit maintenant depuis sa maison dans le Somerset, en Angleterre.

    Don Quichotte de la Manche, tome 1
    Richard III
    Anna Karénine
    Farm
    The Beautiful and Damned
    Best Wines in the Supermarket 2022
    • Supermarket wines now win Gold Medals in International Challenge. Best Wines in the Supermarket identifies these superior wines often at bargain prices. It provides the tasting and style notes for readers to use in finding what they enjoy. Now that supermarkets deliver Internet wine orders, you need a guide through the wide range they offer.

      Best Wines in the Supermarket 20242023
    • Supermarket wines now win Gold Medals in International Challenge. Best Wines in the Supermarket identifies these superior wines often at bargain prices. It provides the tasting and style notes for readers to use in finding what they enjoy. Now that supermarkets deliver Internet wine orders, you need a guide through the wide range they offer.

      Best Wines in the Supermarket 20232022
    • Best Wines in the Supermarket 2022

      • 192pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      Supermarket wines now win Gold Medals in International Challenge. Best Wines in the Supermarket identifies these superior wines often at bargain prices. It provides the tasting and style notes for readers to use in finding what they enjoy. Now that supermarkets deliver Internet wine orders, you need a guide through the wide range they offer.

      Best Wines in the Supermarket 20222021
      4,7
    • Classic dog stories

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      From the grit of a frontier man’s dog, from pampered lapdog to wayward mongrel, from faithful guard dog to strong willed pet they’re all here in Classic Dog Stories - the perfect gift for dog lovers everywhere. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. In this beautiful collection, dogs of all kinds are brought to life on the page. Working dogs, dogs who are not treated well by humans, dogs who save lives in many different ways and the funny side of these treasured animals leap and bound on the page from writers such as Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf and Jerome K. Jerome.

      Classic dog stories2020
      3,3
    • A la cour d'Angleterre, Richard, duc de Gloucester, jalouse son frère, le roi Edouard IV. Avide de pouvoir, il le tue et s'empare du trône. C'est le début d'un règne violent : nombreuses seront les victimes de ce roi cruel. Mais bientôt, une révolte éclate : après le crime viendra pour Richard le temps du châtiment... Dernier volet de la tétralogie ouverte avec Henry VI, cette oeuvre est l'une des plus sanglantes de Shakespeare. Drame historique, la pièce donne lieu à tous les excès tandis que se poursuit l'inexorable ascension d'un tyran...

      Richard III2016
      3,9
    • F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned, "marks an advance over This Side of Paradise," Edmund Wilson wrote. "The style is more nearly mature and the subject more nearly unified, and there are scenes that are more convincing than any in his previous fiction." Published in 1922, it chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent.

      The Beautiful and Damned2016
      4,2
    • Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Tales of the Jazz Age features some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and 'novelettes' including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to write The Great Gatsby, and to become one of the enduring icons of American literature. With an afterword by Ned Halley. Stories in this edition: The Jelly-Bean The Camel's Back May Day Porcelain and Pink The Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Tarquin of Cheapside 'O Russet Witch' The Lees of Happiness Mr Icky: The Quintessence of Quaintness in One Act Jemina, the Mountain Girl

      Tales of the Jazz Age2016
      3,9
    • The Good Soldier

      Die allertraurigste Geschichte, englische Ausgabe, Complete & Unabridged

      • 280pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      Set just before World War I the story chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique that formed part of the author's pioneering view of literary impressionism. Ford employs the device of the unreliable narrator to great effect as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is quite different from what the introduction leads the reader to believe.

      The Good Soldier2013
    • Antonio, un riche armateur de Venise, décide d'emprunter trois mille ducats à l'usurier juif Shylock afin d'aider son ami Bassanio à gagner Belmont où il espère faire la conquête de la belle et riche Portia. Comme les autres prétendants, il doit se soumettre à l'épreuve que le père disparu de la jeune femme a imaginée, et choisir entre trois coffrets, d'or, d'argent, et de plomb. Mais, au moment où il l'emporte sur ses rivaux, il apprend qu'Antonio vient d'être jeté en prison pour n'avoir pu rembourser sa dette à Shylock qui exige qu'en verni du contrat une livre de chair soit prélevée sur le corps de son débiteur. Publié en octobre 1600, Le Marchand de Venise entrecroise deux intrigues dont l'une met en scène, à Venise, le monde de l'argent et de la justice, tandis que l'autre, à Belmont, fait place à la musique et l'amour : une double comédie qui ne se referme pas sur une fin heureuse, mais laisse à leur mvstère les figures complexes du juif cruel, et cependant humain, et des chrétiens qui ont su en faire leur victime.

      Le Marchand de Venise2011
      3,8
    • Anna Karénine

      • 980pages
      • 35 heures de lecture

      En gare de Moscou, deux jeunes gens s'aiment au premier regard. Femme d'un haut fonctionnaire, ornement de la société tsariste de son temps, Anna Karénine éblouit le frivole comte Wronsky, par sa grâce, son élégance et sa gaieté. A ce bonheur, à cette passion réciproque porteuse de scandale et de destruction, ils ne résistent pas longtemps. En écho à cette tragédie programmée, on entend toute l'âme d'un peuple et les premiers craquements de l'Empire russe en train de se lézarder. L'inoubliable Anna Karénine, c'est l'apogée du génie littéraire de l'auteur de Guerre et Paix.

      Anna Karénine2010
      4,0