LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john wain

9 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john wain

john wain Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Hurry on Down (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    John Wain
    The hero of John Wain’s classic novel is Charles Lumley, a young man fresh out of university and wondering what to do with the rest of his life. Feeling as though he has been born in captivity—the captivity of his bourgeois upbringing—Charles decides to escape by setting off on a picaresque and hilarious tour of 1950s England. He undergoes a string of comic misadventures as he ...
    Disponible

    25,17 €

  • The Contenders
    John Wain
    The lost classic 'Angry Young Man' novel.A clash of two temperaments. An artist and an industrialist grow up in the same smoky town and attend the same local school. In adult life each drives fiercely towards success in his own sphere, as much with an eye to outdoing the other as for any other reason. The struggle is watched through the tolerant eye of a non-competitive...
    Disponible

    18,61 €

  • Strike The Father Dead
    John Wain
    The lost classic novel of a young man's rebellion against his father, set against a backdrop of Jazz in 1940s London.A young man rebels against the stuffy future envisaged for him by his father, an upright Professor of Classics in a 'red-brick' university. He runs away from school at the age of seventeen and becomes a jazz pianist in a low dive club in one of the se...
    Disponible

    18,16 €

  • Young Shoulders
    John Wain
    The lost novel, winner of the 1982 Whitbread Prize.New life flowering from death, new perspectives arising from suffering, a new peace that comes from being tested to the uttermost. To 17 year old Paul Waterford life is beginning to seem a sour business, full of unsolved problems, unhappiness and general stress. Why did his young sister have to die in an air disaster? Why is hi...
    Disponible

    18,74 €

  • A Winter in the Hills
    John Wain
    ’[A] triumph of mature observation and art.’ - Daily Telegraph’A winter’s tale of light and laughter.’ - Sunday Times’What is especially enjoyable is the rough-edged tenderness and kindness of Mr Wain’s concern ... probably his most substantial achievement to date.’ - Robert Nye, Saturday Times Review’[S]ubstantial and serious ... sustains a vigorous narrative line - he has alw...
    Disponible

    29,71 €

  • The Smaller Sky
    John Wain
    ’A classic.’ - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black and I’m King of the Castle’John Wain’s best novel in a long time . . . an interesting story . . . stunning.’ - The Observer’John Wain’s contribution to the gathering army of lone, upset figures is a notable one.’ - William Trevor, Books and Bookmen’Harrowing but deeply compassionate . . . marks a new and impressive develop...
    Disponible

    20,36 €

  • Three Scientists of the Ancient World
    John Wain / Laszlo Solymar
    These plays cover one thousand years of the ancient world from the golden age of Athens to 5th century Alexandria. The protagonists are Anaxagoras, Archimedes and Hypatia, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers. All three of them came into conflict with the prevalent views of the time. Anaxagoras maintained that the sun was a big burning rock of the size of the Peleponnesus. ...
    Disponible

    18,00 €

  • Shakespeare
    John Wain
    ...
    Disponible

    50,87 €

  • Shakespeare
    John Wain
    ...
    Disponible

    52,46 €