greene graham brighton rock
Greene Graham Brighton Rock
Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things.' In this gripping, terrifying, and unputdownable read, discover Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie. 'Brighton Rock when I was about thirteen. One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas' Ian McEwan
2417 Руб.
Greene Graham Brighton Rock
Graham Greene's classic study in the banality of evil is set in the unforgettably evoked underworld of pre-war Brighton where Pinkie, a small-time ganster, meets his nemesis at the hands of Ida, the girl he betrays, Published in 1938, Greene's most celebrated novel signalled the beginning of the long series of masterpieces produced between then and his death in 1991.
4096 Руб.
Greene Graham Brighton Rock
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Graham Greene's gripping thriller was adapted into a British film noir in 1947 starring Richard Attenborough as the razor-wielding Pinkie.
1027 Руб.
Greene Graham Brighton Rock
Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder - but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, has made it her mission to bring about justice and redemption. Set among the seaside amusements and dilapidated boarding houses of Brighton's pre-war underworld, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene is both a gritty thriller and a study of a soul in torment. A classic of modern literature, it maps out the strange border between piety and savagery. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Brighton Rock features an introduction by the poet, biographer and editor, Professor Richard Greene. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
2917 Руб.
Greene G. Brighton Rock
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles.Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder – but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, has made it her mission to bring about justice and redemption.Set among the seaside amusements and dilapidated boarding houses of Brighton’s pre-war underworld, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene is both a gritty thriller and a study of a soul in torment. A classic of modern literature, it maps out the strange border between piety and savagery.This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Brighton Rock features an introduction by the poet, biographer and editor, Professor Richard Greene. .
949 Руб.
Greene G. Brighton Rock
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles.Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder – but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, has made it her mission to bring about justice and redemption.Set among the seaside amusements and dilapidated boarding houses of Brighton’s pre-war underworld, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene is both a gritty thriller and a study of a soul in torment. A classic of modern literature, it maps out the strange border between piety and savagery.This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Brighton Rock features an introduction by the poet, biographer and editor, Professor Richard Greene. .
949 Руб.
Виниловая пластинка John Cale - Paris 1919 - 180 gram Vinyl. 1 LP
Треклист: A1. Child's Christmas In Wales A2. Hanky Panky Nohow A3. The Endless Plain Of Fortune A4. Andalucia A5. Macbeth B1. Paris 1919 B2. Graham Greene B3. Half Past France B4. Antarctica Starts Here
42099 Руб.
Духи Miller Harris Brighton Rock
Духи Miller Harris Brighton Rock 100% оригинальная продукция
13255 Руб.
Greene Graham Monsignor Quixote
'A deliciously funny novel and an affectionate offering to all that is noblest and least changing in the people and life of Spain' The Times Driven away from his parish by a censorious bishop, Monsignor Quixote sets off across Spain accompanied by a deposed renegade mayor as his own Sancho Panza, and his noble steed Rocinante – a faithful but antiquated SEAT 600. Like Cervantes’s classic, this comic, picaresque fable offers enduring insights into our life and times.
1677 Руб.
Greene Graham Stamboul Train
A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene ‘One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction’ Daily Telegraph Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naive English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a web of espionage, murder and lies.
2384 Руб.
Greene Graham The Comedians
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's title. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...
1915 Руб.
Maugham William Somerset Short Stories
The definitive selection of Maugham's best short stories - gorgeously rejacketed in our new series style "The modern writer who has influenced me the most." - George Orwell "One of my favourite writers." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez "A writer of great dedication." - Graham Greene
2670 Руб.
Maugham W. Short Stories
"Short Stories" .The definitive selection of Maugham's best Short Stories - gorgeously rejacketed in our new series style ."The modern writer who has influenced me the most." - George Orwell ."One of my favourite writers." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ."A writer of great dedication." - Graham Greene
1291 Руб.
Maugham W. Short Stories
"Short Stories" .The definitive selection of Maugham's best Short Stories - gorgeously rejacketed in our new series style ."The modern writer who has influenced me the most." - George Orwell ."One of my favourite writers." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ."A writer of great dedication." - Graham Greene
1291 Руб.
Greene Graham Journey without Maps
Graham Greene's incredible journey to an unchartered land. The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa. Leaving Europe for the first time in his life, Graham Greene set out in 1935 to discover Liberia, then a virtually unmapped republic on the shores of West Africa. This captivating account of his arduous 350-mile journey on foot - a great adventure which took him from the border with Sierra Leone to the Atlantic coast at Grand Bassa - is as much a record of one young man's self-discovery as it is a striking insight into one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation. Journey Without Maps is regarded as a masterclass in travel writing. With a Foreword by Tim Butcher and an Introduction by Paul Theroux 'One of the best travel books this century' Independent
2419 Руб.
Greene Graham The Tenth Man
'A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect' - Sunday Times With an introduction by the author In a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Louis Chavel, a rich lawyer, draws the short straw and barters everything he owns to exchange places with another man and survive. Destitute but free, Chavel later returns to the house that he sold for his life, where he must face the consequences of his cowardice and seek redemption.
1346 Руб.