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9781434000323

Eine schöne Bescherung für Hercule Poirot: Der alte Simeon Lee hat zu Weihnachten den Familien-Clan zusammengerufen - doch das ist alles andere als eine traute Runde. Das ungeliebte Familienoberhaupt bringt mit seinem despotischen und provozierenden Verhalten alle gegen sich auf. Als er am Heiligen Abend mit durchschnittener Kehle aufgefunden wird, bedauert niemand seinen Tod. Ein Motiv hätten alle Anwesenden gehabt. Doch Hercule Poirots kleine graue Zellen arbeiten auf Hochtouren und lassen ihn auch diesmal nicht im Stich...

SUMMARY: The anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats, featuring for the first time the restored text, all the accompanying essays, and newly discovered material from the original manuscript. Welcome to Interzonea?| Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcotics agent in the business. Check yourself into the hospital where Dr Benway works a?? but don't expect adrenalin if you need it (the night porter shot it up for kicks). Meet Dr 'Fingers' Schafer, the Lobotomy Kid, and his greatest creation, 'The Complete American De-anxietized Man', a marvel of invasive psychiatry who has been reduced to nothing but a spinal cord. Told by an Ivy League-educated narcotics addict, a??Naked Luncha?? juxtaposes two journeys: the narrator's physical progress from America to North Africa, via Mexico, and a terrifying descent into his own altered consciousness. In this a??Interzonea??, loosely based on Burroughs' temporary home Tangier, sex, drugs and murder are the most basic of commodities, and the basest desires have become completely banal. Provocative, influential, morbidly fascinating and mordantly funny, a??Naked Luncha?? takes us on an exhilarating ride through the darkest recesses of the human psyche a?? a ride which stunned the literary world when first published in the repressed 1950s, and is still guaranteed to ??pater more than a few bourgeois. Over forty years after first publication, Burroughs scholar Barry Miles and Burroughs' longtime editor James Grauerholz have compiled this definitive restored text, correcting numerous errors that have accumulated over the years, and incorporating all of Burroughs' notes and accompanying essays. Most exciting of all, this edition includes an appendix of newly discovered, never before seen material a?? including alternate drafts from the original manuscript and letters from Burrough's private correspondence.

SUMMARY: First published in a volume that also contained her sister's "Wuthering Heights," Brontė 's daring first novel was hailed as "the most perfect prose narrative in English literature" by famed Irish novelist George Moore. Originally quite scandalous and drawing from the author's own troubled life, this biting social commentary exposes the hardships of a governess's life.

SUMMARY: A Vintage original movie tie-in edition featuring cover art and movie still photos. A brilliant film adaptation of Louis de Bernières’ bestselling novel, shot on location in Corfu and Cephallonia, is releasing in spring 2001, directed byShakespeare in Love’s John Madden, co-produced by UIP, Working Title (Notting Hill,Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Le Studio Canal+. The film is being distributed worldwide by Buena Vista International. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracized by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilized, humorous – and a consummate musician. When the local doctor’s daughter’s letter to her fiancé – and members of the underground – go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender?