Our Man In Havana - formato ePub

En 1946, en un Londres en el que todavía se perciben las heridas de la guerra, Maurice Bendrix se encuentra por casualidad con el diplomático Henry Miles, a quien no veía desde hacía tiempo. Henry está...

Una de las novelas esenciales de Graham Greene y, para muchos lectores, su obra maestra. El comandante de policía Henry Scobie y su mujer Louise viven desde hace años junto a otros funcionarios británicos...

Hirugarren gizona film bat izateko jaio zen, baina Graham Greenek aurretik istorioa idatzi beharra zuen, eta hartara bi arte-lan iritsi zitzaizkigun: filma eta eleberri laburra. Gerra bukatu berritan,...

Un beau et grand roman. Un Greene sur le mode grave qui nous plonge droit dans l'actualité d'un monde troublé. C'est avec Tueur à gages de Graham Greene que naquit en 1947 la collection "Pavillons"....

«No soy un teórico, ni un filósofo. Soy un narrador». Así se autodefinía Graham Greene, escritor dotado de una capacidad única para crear elaboradas e intensas novelas protagonizadas por personajes de...

Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.‘British Intelligence being sent up something rotten’ Daily Telegraph Wormold...

Ultime roman de Graham Greene, Le Capitaine et l'Ennemi forme une sorte de testament littéraire du grand romancier, l'un des plus considérables de la littérature britannique du XXe siècle. Testament dans...

L'île paradisiaque d'Haïti est devenue un enfer sous la coupe de Papa Doc et des tontons macoutes. Quatre personnages y débarquent : les Smith, un couple d'Américains venu prôner le régime végétarien...

" Excitantes par la variété des thèmes traités et de leur style, ces nouvelles constituent une sorte de fidèle échantillonnage de l'oeuvre entière de Graham Greene. " Isabelle D. Philippe Si Graham...

" Quiconque a menti à sa femme, à sa maîtresse ou à son enfant pourra peut-être reconnaître cette corruption privée qui provient d'un secret que l'on ne peut pas révéler. " Graham Greene Une fuite est...

Plus d'un roman de Graham Greene compte au rang des chefs-d'oeuvre de langue anglaise du XXe siècle. Tel est le cas d'Un Américain bien tranquille, de Notre agent à La Havane (chacun citera ses préférés)...

C'est dans ses innombrables et incessants déplacements que Graham Greene, voyageur, homme d'action et d'écriture, a puisé le matériau et l'atmosphère si souvent exotiques de ses romans. Dans Notre agent...

Au début des années 1970, l'Amérique du Sud est livrée à des mouvements révolutionnaires. Pour attirer l'attention, l'un d'eux décide d'enlever l'ambassadeur américain. Mais les guérilleros kidnappent...

""Depuis l'époque où, jeune recrue, il était entré dans la "Boîte', il y avait de cela plus de trente ans, Castle prenait son déjeuner dans un pub situé derrière Saint James's Street, non loin du bureau....

" Je rencontrai ma tante Augusta pour la première fois en plus d'un demi-siècle aux obsèques de ma mère. Ma mère avait près de quatre-vingt-six ans à sa mort ; ma tante était sa cadette de quelque onze...

" Excitantes par la variété des thèmes traités et de leur style, ces nouvelles constituent une sorte de fidèle échantillonnage de l'oeuvre entière de Graham Greene. " Isabelle D. Philippe Si Graham...

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Three very different men struggle with thoughts of belonging, loss, identity and love as they attempt to find a place for themselves in Britain. The Magistrate tries to create new memories and roots,...

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He was old, lonely, and had been harbouring dark secrets for the last forty years. Now, thinking that his days were numbered, had decided to tell his story - and what a story!

Having collected, among other things, cocktail sticks, electoral campaign badges, paintings of moored ships, rabbits' feet, noises at five in the morning, Croatian maxims, staircase ornaments, the first...

An epic and unforgettable love story begins in Binding 13, the first in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of first love...

An epic and unforgettable love story continues in Keeping 13, the second book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of...

The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg...

The Duke and I is a 2000 historical romance novel written by Julia Quinn, first published by Avon. It is the first novel of Quinn's series of Regency romances about the Bridgerton siblings and tells the...

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education,...

A Hunger Artist is a short story by Franz Kafka. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is an archetypical creation of Kafka: an individual marginalized...

For Emma Trinket, life is a delicate balancing act between loving her family and pursuing interests they don't understand. When the opportunity arises to finally impress them with her job as a computer...

The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world that people would rather burn...

"Having received my commission, which was dated the S5th of May, I768, I went on board on the 7th, hoisted the pennant, and took charge of the sliip, which then lay in the basin in Deptford Yard." - this...

The night the Prince of the East razed her village, Raina Bloodgood's life changed forever. Forced into someone else's war—and into the arms of the Witch Collector, Alexus Thibault—Raina discovered that...

Since the night Inspector Haritos had the brilliant idea to offer his chest as a shield in order to save Elena Kousta from a bullet fired by her stepson, his life has changed radically. Haritos' long...

A thrilling,swashbuckling adventure series starring the Spanish D'ArtagnanCaptain Alatriste is a swordsman for hire in Spain at a timewhen Court intrigue is high and the decadent young king has dragged...

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Kate Mosse's internationally bestselling Languedoc Trilogy - now in a single eBook format.LABYRINTH1209. Seventeen-year-old Alaïs Pelletier is given a mysterious book by her father, which he claims contains...

For the first time, read the entire Soldier Son trilogy as one ebook … at a special price!In Book One, Shaman's Crossing, Nevare Burvelle was destined from birth to be a soldier. The second son of a newly...

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate...

Almost 300 years ago this fascinating novel was published with probably the most long title: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty...

El príncipe (en el original en italiano, Il principe) es un tratado político del siglo XVI del diplomático y teórico político italiano Nicolás Maquiavelo. Según la correspondencia de Maquiavelo, una versión...

Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg,...

Cosamian Dastou is the last living Saint. His immunity to the Social Cypher, a system of mass-hypnotism that regulates and controls modern life, means that some people worship him, and many more think...

Alix falls in love with a perfect stranger: Gerald Martin; and despite the opposition of her friend Dick Windyford, she marries him. The couple decides to buy and live at Philomel Cottage; a nice cabin...

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