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Eradication

A Fable

de Jonathan Miles ...

**A blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island, where a conservation assignment becomes a moral reckoning.“An instant classic.” —The Washington Post • “Excellent ” —The New York Times • “Urgent and lyrical.” —NPR“Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected — a story for our times.”—Kevin Barry, author of The Heart in Winter**Reeling from ... Leer más

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**A blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island, where a conservation assignment becomes a moral reckoning.“An instant classic.” —The Washington Post • “Excellent ” —The New York Times • “Urgent and lyrical.” —NPR“Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected — a story for our times.”—Kevin Barry, author of The Heart in Winter**Reeling from
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Disponible también en: Audiolibro
Scarti

de Jonathan Miles ...

Traducido por Assunta Martinese ...

Series series Sotterranei
Talmadge e Micah abitano abusivamente in un appartamento di Manhattan, vivendo serenamente degli avanzi che trovano nei cassonetti, ma il loro equilibrio subisce una scossa quando devono ospitare un vecchio compagno universitario. Elwin, un linguista di mezza età lasciato dalla moglie, deve fare i conti con un padre malato che va perdendo la memoria. Sara, un'avvenente vedova dell'11 settembre, ... Leer más

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Talmadge e Micah abitano abusivamente in un appartamento di Manhattan, vivendo serenamente degli avanzi che trovano nei cassonetti, ma il loro equilibrio subisce una scossa quando devono ospitare un vecchio compagno universitario. Elwin, un linguista di mezza età lasciato dalla moglie, deve fare i conti con un padre malato che va perdendo la memoria. Sara, un'avvenente vedova dell'11 settembre,
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The Once Upon a Time World

The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera

de Jonathan Miles ...

Narrado por Jonathan Miles ...

Completo

17 hora 20 minutos

1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the 185 years between, the stretch of seaboard from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size.A mere handful ... Leer más

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1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the 185 years between, the stretch of seaboard from the red mountains of the Esterel to the Italian border hosted a cultural phenomenon well in excess of its tiny size.A mere handful
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
The Wreck of the Medusa

de Jonathan Miles ...

A "thrilling . . . captivating" account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic—a tragedy that inspired an unforgettable masterpiece of Western art ( The Boston Globe).In June 1816, the Medusa set sail. Commanded by an incompetent captain, the frigate ran aground off the desolate West African coast. During the chaotic evacuation a privileged few claimed the lifeboats, while 147 men and one ... Leer más

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A "thrilling . . . captivating" account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic—a tragedy that inspired an unforgettable masterpiece of Western art ( The Boston Globe).In June 1816, the Medusa set sail. Commanded by an incompetent captain, the frigate ran aground off the desolate West African coast. During the chaotic evacuation a privileged few claimed the lifeboats, while 147 men and one
... Leer más
Want Not

de Jonathan Miles ...

A " shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating" novel about the things we desire and the things we throw away ( Entertainment Weekly).A New York Times Notable BookA highly inventive, corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair—a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by ... Leer más

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A " shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating" novel about the things we desire and the things we throw away ( Entertainment Weekly).A New York Times Notable BookA highly inventive, corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair—a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by
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Anatomy of a Miracle

A Novel*

de Jonathan Miles ...

**“Funny, bighearted...Miles specializes in giving fully rounded humanity to characters who might elsewhere be treated as stock figures...pitch-perfect.”— New York Times Book Review"Miles is a writer so virtuosic that readers will feel themselves becoming better, more observant people from reading him."— Los Angeles Review of BooksA profound new novel about a paralyzed young man’s unexplainable ... Leer más

$5.99 USD

**“Funny, bighearted...Miles specializes in giving fully rounded humanity to characters who might elsewhere be treated as stock figures...pitch-perfect.”— New York Times Book Review"Miles is a writer so virtuosic that readers will feel themselves becoming better, more observant people from reading him."— Los Angeles Review of BooksA profound new novel about a paralyzed young man’s unexplainable
... Leer más
The Once Upon a Time World

The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera

de Jonathan Miles ...

Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James Baldwin.1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

Disponible también en: Audiolibro

Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James Baldwin.1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from
... Leer más

Disponible también en: Audiolibro
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Eradication

A Fable

de Jonathan Miles ...

Narrado por Tom Alexander ...

Completo

3 hora 56 minutos

**A blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island, where a conservation assignment becomes a moral reckoning.“An instant classic.” —The Washington Post • “Excellent ” —The New York Times • “Urgent and lyrical.” —NPR“Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected — a story for our times.”—Kevin Barry, author of The Heart in Winter**Reeling from ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

Disponible también en: eBook

**A blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island, where a conservation assignment becomes a moral reckoning.“An instant classic.” —The Washington Post • “Excellent ” —The New York Times • “Urgent and lyrical.” —NPR“Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected — a story for our times.”—Kevin Barry, author of The Heart in Winter**Reeling from
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
Dear American Airlines

A Novel

de Jonathan Miles ...

Sometimes the planes don’t fly on time.Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet turned translator, is traveling to his estranged daughter’s wedding when his flight is canceled. Stuck with thousands of fuming passengers in the purgatory of O’Hare airport, he watches the clock tick and realizes that he will miss the ceremony. Frustrated, irate, and helpless, Bennie does the only thing he can: ... Leer más

$10.49 USD

Sometimes the planes don’t fly on time.Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet turned translator, is traveling to his estranged daughter’s wedding when his flight is canceled. Stuck with thousands of fuming passengers in the purgatory of O’Hare airport, he watches the clock tick and realizes that he will miss the ceremony. Frustrated, irate, and helpless, Bennie does the only thing he can:
... Leer más
Das Ziegenproblem

Roman | Eine tragikomische Parabel auf die Zerstörung der Natur durch die Menschen

de Jonathan Miles ...

Traducido por Bernhard Robben ...

RETTET DIE WELT, TÖTET DIE ZIEGEN!Nach einem Schicksalsschlag bewirbt sich Adi auf eine Stelle, die verspricht, einen Teil zur Rettung der Welt beizutragen. Was die Anzeige verschweigt: die "Rettung der Welt" besteht in diesem Fall im Töten von Tausenden Ziegen, die von Walfängern auf der kleinen Insel Santa Flora irgendwo im Pazifik angesiedelt wurden, und nun die heimische Flora und Fauna ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

PEDIDO ANTICIPADO

RETTET DIE WELT, TÖTET DIE ZIEGEN!Nach einem Schicksalsschlag bewirbt sich Adi auf eine Stelle, die verspricht, einen Teil zur Rettung der Welt beizutragen. Was die Anzeige verschweigt: die "Rettung der Welt" besteht in diesem Fall im Töten von Tausenden Ziegen, die von Walfängern auf der kleinen Insel Santa Flora irgendwo im Pazifik angesiedelt wurden, und nun die heimische Flora und Fauna
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Weird Tales Magazine No. 371

The Undead Issue

de Jonathan Maberry, Stephen Graham Jones3, James Roday Rodriguez4, Geneve Flynn5, Todd Keisling6, David R. Slayton7, Colin Harvey8, Chris Ryall9, Greg Cox0, Maxwell I Gold1, Scott Sigler2, L. Marie Wood3, Linda D. Addison4, David Wellington5, various authors6, Keith R.A. DeCandido8 ...

Narrado por Ray Porter, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Natalie Naudus, Charlotte Moore-Lambert, Sam Stark, Mike Cooper, Charles Linshaw, Jenn Lee, Tim Lounibos0, Robin Miles1, Joel Froomkin2, various narrators7, Keith R.A. DeCandido9 ...

Series Audiolibro 371 - Weird Tales Magazine
Completo

5 hora 11 minutos

This issue of Weird Tales presents a batch of entirely new short stories, flash fiction, poems, and an essay dealing with monsters who defy death, including zombies, vampires, mummies, and various and assorted revenants. There are some real heavy hitters here—bestsellers and names listeners might not yet know … but should. And will.Like Weird Tales itself—the magazine that never dies—these ... Leer más

$19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This issue of Weird Tales presents a batch of entirely new short stories, flash fiction, poems, and an essay dealing with monsters who defy death, including zombies, vampires, mummies, and various and assorted revenants. There are some real heavy hitters here—bestsellers and names listeners might not yet know … but should. And will.Like Weird Tales itself—the magazine that never dies—these
... Leer más
The Everlasting Masterpieces of World Literature in One Edition (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Romeo and Juliet, Notre Dame, Anna Karenina, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Tao Te Ching, Odyssey…

de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, Plato, Honoré de Balzac, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe0, Rabindranath Tagore1, Fyodor Dostoyevsky2, Walt Whitman3, Niccolò Machiavelli4, Oscar Wilde5, Robert Louis Stevenson6, James Fenimore Cooper7, Edgar Allan Poe8, William Shakespeare9, Giovanni Boccaccio0, Confucius1, George MacDonald2, Bram Stoker3, Charlotte Brontë4, Emily Brontë5, Henry David Thoreau6, Jack London7, Henry James8, Louisa May Alcott9, Victor Hugo0, Arthur Conan Doyle1, Frances Hodgson Burnett2, Joseph Conrad3, Jane Austen4, Herman Melville5, George Eliot6, Laurence Sterne7, Thomas Hardy8, Jonathan Swift9, Edith Wharton0, Benito Pérez Galdós1, Daniel Defoe2, Henry Fielding3, Alexandre Dumas4, Kalidasa5, Kenneth Grahame6, Marcel Proust7, Willa Cather8, Nathaniel Hawthorne9, Homer0, Gaston Leroux1, Charles Baudelaire2, Wilkie Collins3, William Makepeace Thackeray4, Voltaire5, Kate Chopin6, Apuleius7, John Milton8, Frederick Douglass9, Laozi0, John Keats1, James Joyce2, Ann Ward Radcliffe3, Kahlil Gibran4, Kakuzo Okakura5, Soseki Natsume6, Princess Der Ling7, H. G. Wells8, W. B. Yeats9, J. M. Barrie0, G. K. Chesterton1, T. S. Eliot2, L. M. Montgomery3, C. S. Lewis4, D. H. Lawrence5, E. M. Forster6, H. P. Lovecraft7, Marcus Aurelius8, Friedrich Nietzsche9, Lewis Wallace0, Ivan Turgenev1, Anton Chekhov2, Leo Tolstoy3, Nikolai Gogol4, Sir Walter Scott5, George Bernard Shaw6, Miguel de Cervantes7, Mary Shelley8, Cao Xueqin9, Emile Zola0, Válmíki1, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee2, P. B. Shelley3, Elizabeth von Arnim4, Herman Hesse5, Dante6, Pedro Calderon de la Barca7, Sun Tzu8, Inazo Nitobé9, George Weedon Grossmith00, Miles Kelmere03 ...

The Everlasting Masterpieces of World Literature in One Edition gathers epic, drama, novel, tale, lyric, philosophy, and political reflection into a sweeping archive of the literary imagination. From ancient wisdom and classical myth to Gothic terror, realism, romance, satire, modernist experiment, and speculative fiction, the volume traces enduring questions of freedom, desire, conscience, power, ... Leer más

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The Everlasting Masterpieces of World Literature in One Edition gathers epic, drama, novel, tale, lyric, philosophy, and political reflection into a sweeping archive of the literary imagination. From ancient wisdom and classical myth to Gothic terror, realism, romance, satire, modernist experiment, and speculative fiction, the volume traces enduring questions of freedom, desire, conscience, power,
... Leer más