Skip to main content

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...
  • Morse Code Wrens of Station X

    Bletchley's Outer Circle

    Series Libro 1 - Amphora Press
    Anne Glyn-Jones opens up the secret world of the interceptors of German Morse Code signals during World War II. Leaving her girls' boarding school with romantic ideas about joining the navy as a Wren, Anne had no idea that she would be working for the mysterious 'Station X', which we now know to be Bletchley Park. Round the clock shifts, bed bugs, rats and poor diet took its toll, as well as the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Island of Apples

    de Glyn Jones ...
    The Island of Apples is a brilliant study of a pre-adolescent boy's romantic imagination and dangerous enthralment, set vividly in the south Wales of Methyr Tydfil and Carmarthen in the early twentieth century. ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Dragon Has Two Tongues

    Essays on Anglo-Welsh Writers and Writing

    First published in 1968, The Dragon Has Two Tongues was the first book-length study of the English-language literature of Wales. Glyn Jones (1905–95) was one of Wales’s major English-language writers of fiction and poetry, and the book includes chapters dealing with the work of Dylan Thomas, Caradoc Evans, Jack Jones, Gwyn Thomas and Idris Davies, all of whom the author knew personally.This first ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Valley, the City, the Village

    de Glyn Jones ...
    Series series Library of Wales
    A rich depiction of the conflicting cultural, social, and political values in Wales in the 1900s, this powerful and exceptional narrative follows Trystan Morgan as he comes of age. An artist at heart, Trystan abandons his dreams of painting the Welsh countryside to instead fulfill a pledge to his grandmother to attend university and become a preacher. Initially revolted by the social posturing ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Ritual

    How To Live Longer, Look Younger, Be Healthier

    I am living in a time of wonders.Beliefs about the limits of human potential are changing. Fifty years ago when I was a young man I doubt if I would have had the ability to write this book. I could not have worked out for myself the miracle of what it is to be human, the unlimited nature of our gifts, the power that is within each of us to take control of our lives, our health, the rate at which ... Leer más

    $6.13 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Musicians

    This is a new translation by W. Glyn Jones of William Heinesen’s masterpiece and one of the most important Scandinavian novels of the 20th century. Music is at the heart of this book. The devotion to it of a group of amateur musicians forming the Boman Quartet prevents a series of dramatic events from turning into heart-rending tragedy. Music enables each of the musicians to rise above his own ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Women Who Kill

    Series Libro 262 - Mammoth Books
    From the Florida roadside prostitute and first convicted serial killer Aileen Wuornos to the Empress poisoner of ancient Rome, this is the biggest collection of the world's most dangerous women newly revised and expanded, including: Ruth Snyder, the last woman in the US to go to the electric chair; the English multiple murderess who chopped up the bodies of children and scattered them from a plane ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Denmark

    A Modern History

    de W Glyn Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, Denmark seeks to show the way in which modern Denmark, with its high standard of living, its sense of an orderly society, and its tolerance, had emerged and been shaped since the beginning of the 19th century. It traces its political history, the emergence of political parties and the protracted struggle for parliamentary democracy in the face of a king determined to ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • As Trains Pass By

    Katinka

    de Herman Bang ...
    Monsieur Bang, you are the first impressionist author in the world." Claude Monet. Katinka is the stationmaster's wife in a sleepy Danish provincial town and her domestic languor is disrupted by the arrival of Huus, the new foreman on a nearby farm. Unlike her boorish husband Huus is attentive and sensitive and despite her best efforts Katinka falls in love with him. Her whole life is turned ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Barbara

    Barbara is a woman of insatiable sexual desire which leads her from one man to another in search of sexual gratification. There is a highly successful Danish feature film of the novel. 'Barbara is the only novel by Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen. Set in the 1700s and originally written in Danish, the manuscript was left behind on his death in 1938. This excellent translation by W. Glyn Jones was published ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • My Fairy-Tale Life

    Hans Christian Andersen had every right to think of his life as a fairy tale. He came from the lowest strata of society in the then little provincial town of Odense, went to Copenhagen at the age of 14, made his own way there and rose to the highest levels of European society as the friend of kings and princes. In his autobiography, the story of his “fairy-tale lifeâ€, he gives a vivid account ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Tower at the Edge of the World

    The Tower at the Edge of the World is William Heinesen's last novel written when he was 76, and is the summation of all of his work. He is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Nordic author of the twentieth century. William Heinesen describes The Tower at the Edge of the World as a poetic mosaic novel about earliest childhood. There is the perspective of both the child and the old man looking ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD