LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john jansen

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  • Budworth and the Phantom Menace
    John Jansen
    In 1930’s England, Teddy Aston, nephew of Lord Alpington, and his butler, Budworth, lead a life of indolent frivolity. But Teddy yearns for a new challenge; insect hunting in the jungle, perhaps, or gathering information for the Authorities, perhaps, on those with divided loyalties as events on the Continent divide opinion. Would being a spy impress the divine Lucinda? However,...
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    10,58 €

  • The Bank That Time Forgot and Other Short Stories
    John Jansen
    Jim loved his old Land Rover. He also had a passing fancy for Beryl Marsh. Could he win her away from Roger, her drunkard of a husband? When Phillip visited the house of his recently deceased and formerly estranged father, he only wanted a figurine to remind him of his childhood home. How could he have known that it would lead to the solving of a family mystery? When Maureen ...
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    12,48 €

  • Edward VIII - a Play
    John Jansen
    Was Prince Edward, known within the Royal Family as David, predisposed to reject his destiny as Heir to the Throne? Did Wallis Simpson merely provide him with an escape route or was she, uniquely amongst his circle, free from sycophancy and therefore the companion for whom he had longed? As history played out across two continents and two world wars, two people struggled to lea...
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    13,20 €

  • The Honeysuckle Veranda
    John Jansen
    This book of short stories by John Jansen, who leads a U3A creative writing group in Cornwall, England, seeks to explore just how short a short story can be. The essential elements of characterisation, intriguing situations, multiple possibilities and an unexpected resolution, can be fitted into a bite-sized tale. Nonsense verse revels in the joy of language, tortured rhymes an...
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    12,93 €

  • Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan
    John Whitney Hall / Marius B. Jansen / Marius BJansen
    This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment and the opening of Japan to the West. The general thrust of these papers is to show that in many insti...
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    89,41 €

  • Backpack, Barbed Wire and Bethlehem - On the Road in Seventies Israel/Palestine
    John Jansen
    Driven by a fascination with the concept of an ancient nation reborn in my life time, I set out to explore Israel/Palestine, ancient and modern. After wintering on a kibbutz, I set out, firstly south to Eilat, then into occupied Sinai and the fledgling resort of Sharm el Sheik before turning north to the Sea of Galilee, Haifa and the Golan Heights. This being 1973, I witnessed ...
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    15,63 €

  • Budworth and the Safe Bet
    John Jansen
    These humorous adventures, inspired by the writings of P. G. Wodehouse, tell how Teddy Aston, the nephew of Lord and Lady Alpington, leads a life of luxurious idleness, ably supported by his valet, Budworth, in between-the-wars England. Betting, country house weekends, avoiding marriage and indoor rugby at the infamous Sloths Club are his main activities. But why is his fears...
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    12,96 €