Télécharger le livre :  Two Sisters
Two Sisters is Gore Vidal's fictional memoir of a love affair with a beautiful set of twins in post-war Paris - a story skilfully interwoven with notebooks, diaries and the vivid fragment of a screenplay set in ancient Greece. In seductive settings from a brothel in a...

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Télécharger le livre :  In A Yellow Wood
By night the glittering world of Times Square, cinemas, clubs and the brittle, played-out demi-monde . . . by day a wasteland of hollow men, lonely apartments and empty morning coffee stands . . . Robert Holton has just returned from the torment and strife of war in...

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Télécharger le livre :  Dark Green, Bright Red
In the tiny Central American republic of Tenango, a place of orchid--scented jungle, crumbling palaces and baroque cathedrals, the rainy season is over and the dusty days of winter have begun. It is time for revolution.In an old plantation house the conspirators meet:...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Thirsty Evil
From the poignant realisation as an adult of the cruel brutality of childhood in 'The Robin', man then comes face to face with himself as a boy in 'A Moment of Green Laurel': both stories combining the nostalgia and fear that haunt us all in old age. Meanwhile, in...

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Télécharger le livre :  Wise
We are living longer and our lifespan after the middle years continues to extend due to medical advances. But how do you age wisely? How do you remain psychologically healthy and fully engaged given the immense and daunting challenges of later life - accumulated...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Colour of Home
'Run, Paki, Run.'The words ricocheted off the walls of the Rochdale underpass that connected Sajid Javid's home and primary school. Even as a five-year-old boy, he had learned that 70s Britain could be a cruel and violent place for those seen as outsiders.Leaving behind...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Smithsonian Institution
Good Friday, 1939, and T., a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in, and it would appear that somehow, he is expected. An old man, Bentsen, shows him around, and T. realises that...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Search For The King
Kidnapped and held to ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria after the Third Crusade, Richard the Lion Heart, it is said, was found by his faithful troubadour Blondel de Neel. But how? And what trials did the faithful and long-suffering lyricist have to overcome to find his...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Judgement Of Paris
The fast and furious hedonistic world of the jet-set commuting between the glamour centres of Europe is the setting for this famous novel by one of the twentieth century's most remarkable writers.Philip Warren is a personable young American who moves amongst the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Great Gambon
Sir Michael Gambon was one of the greatest actors of the last 50 years, with a career that began as second spear carrier in Hamlet, alongside Anthony Hopkins (he had to lift Peter O'Toole - Hamlet - out of Ophelia's grave and was told he would never work again if he...

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Télécharger le livre :  Season Of Comfort
By the bestselling and celebrated Gore Vidal, a novel about a brilliant and precocious schoolboy whose parents separate when he is young, and whose mother is portrayed as a 'monster'A novel based on the emotional conflict centered around a son's urge to sever the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Flat Earth
*A book of the year in the Daily Mail and the New Statesman*'Hypnotic' Financial Times'Captivating' Daily Mail'Visionary' Chris KrausAvery is flailing financially and emotionally. Struggling with graduate school and the collection of cultural reports she is supposed to...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Faithfuls
INNOCENT BUT ANNOYING STRANGERS ARE BEING MURDERED ONE BY ONEWelcome to a medieval castle in the wilds of Scotland. Arriving here are contestants in the world's most popular new TV Reality show: two dozen ordinary (and painstakingly diverse) individuals from every...

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Télécharger le livre :  Julian
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novelsJulian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The City And The Pillar
A literary cause célèbre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experienceJim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door, is haunted by the memory of a romantic adolescent...

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Télécharger le livre :  Palimpsest: A Memoir
Vidal onVidal - a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subjectPalimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist, dramatist, critic, political activist and candidate, screenwriter,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Myra Breckinridge And Myron
Everyone is talking about Myra Breckinridge - and everything you have heard about her is true'I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess.'So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Colour of Injustice
Lee Lawrence was just eleven when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot by police during a raid on the family's south London home. It was an event that would spark a violent uprising and dominate his life for the next 30 years as he fought for justice and for the police to...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Arrogant Ape
Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking persuades us to exploit the earth at the expense of...

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Parution : 2025-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Time of Five Pumpkins
Book 26 in the multi-million copy bestselling and perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency seriesThe rains are coming, but not just yet. When they do, there will be green shoots of growth throughout Botswana. Pumpkins will flourish - particularly those of Mma...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-09-04
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