Our Man In Havana - formato ePub

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...

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...

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"....

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...

""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...

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...

" 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...

" 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...

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)...

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...

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...

Mais qui est donc l'étrange docteur Fischer, cet homme qui organise dans sa somptueuse demeure genevoise des réceptions pour lesquelles plus d'un hôte serait prêt à se damner ? C'est qu'il est riche,...

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...

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Tales From the Tomes: Vol. 1 is a collection of four mystical stories of magic and science. Lance Kehisato weaves the future and the past together, creating a string of four stories in different worlds,...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

MYTH: ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH. "Unchecked by external truth, the mind of man has a fatal facility for ensnaring, entrapping, and entangling itself. But, happily, happily for the human race, some fragment...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

he Brothers Karamazov, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger...

In offering this study to a public accustomed only to the unquestioning acceptance of the home as something perfect, holy, quite above discussion, a word of explanation is needed. First, let it be clearly...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

"Hast thou seen that lordly castle,That castle by the sea?Golden and red above itThe clouds float gorgeously."Do you remember GratianGratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at...

This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

Then came a glimmer of daylight that grew and grew, and presently ended in another arch that looked out over a scene so like a picture out of a book about Italy that everyone's breath was taken away,...

In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...