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  • Wicked Little Joe

    de Joseph Hone ...
    In the summer of 1939, as a two-year-old in London, I was given away by my parents to a Chelsea friend and taken on the Irish Mail to Dublin. Thus begins this extraordinary memoir by travel writer and novelist Joseph Hone, one of eight children farmed out by impecunious and inebriate parents, who was raised at Maidenhall in County Kilkenny by the historian and essayist Hubert Butler and his wife ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Goodbye Again

    de Joseph Hone ...
    Ben Contini, a disenchanted painter of considerable talent, has just buried his mother. Rifling through the attic of her Kilkenny house he stumbles across a Modigliani nude, worth millions. Determined to learn the provenance of the painting, he and Elsa, a disturbed and secretive woman who accosts him at the funeral, become embroiled in the sinister world of Nazi art theft. But they are not the ... Leer más

    $12.49 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Private Sector

    de Joseph Hone ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Peter Marlow Mysteries
    To find an old friend, a past-his-prime spy steps into a war zoneWhen Henry Edwards recruited him to work as an intelligence officer, Peter Marlow was young enough that espionage seemed romantic. They were in Cairo during the Suez Crisis, two young spies haunting dinner parties and back alleys in search of morsels of information that were never as important as they seemed. A decade later, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Wicked Little Joe

    de Joseph Hone ...
    In the summer of 1939, as a two-year-old in London, I was given away by my parents to a Chelsea friend and taken on the Irish Mail to Dublin. Thus begins this extraordinary memoir by travel writer and novelist Joseph Hone, one of eight children farmed out by impecunious and inebriate parents, who was raised at Maidenhall in County Kilkenny by the historian and essayist Hubert Butler and his wife ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Goodbye Again

    de Joseph Hone ...
    Ben Contini, a disenchanted painter of considerable talent, has just buried his mother. Rifling through the attic of her Kilkenny house he stumbles across a Modigliani nude, worth millions. Determined to learn the provenance of the painting, he and Elsa, a disturbed and secretive woman who accosts him at the funeral, become embroiled in the sinister world of Nazi art theft. But they are not the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Paris Trap

    de Joseph Hone ...
    Joseph Hone's The Paris Trap, first published in 1977, saw him step aside from his sequence of 'Peter Marlow' novels to offer a different kind of political thriller.Jim Hackett and Harry Tyson first met in Paris, in days of hope - Hackett a promising actor, Tyson a budding writer. Twenty years later, their dreams soured, they are reunited in Paris for a substantive project: Hackett, now a movie ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Jonathan Swift in Context

    Edición de Joseph Hone, Pat Rogers ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Jonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub, in addition to vast numbers of political pamphlets, satirical verses, sermons, and other kinds of text, Swift is one of the most versatile writers in the literary canon. His writings were always closely intertwined with the English ... Leer más

    $90.99 USD

  • The Sixth Directorate

    de Joseph Hone ...
    Series Libro 2 - The Peter Marlow Mysteries
    Peter Marlow goes undercover to infiltrate the KGBThe Soviet intelligence agency's worst nightmare has come true: Besides the five directorates that oversee its operations, there lurks a sixth—a shadow directorate that may be plotting a coup against the Communist Party. Disruption of the KGB might spell trouble for Moscow, but for the British Intelligence, chaos in the Soviet Union means a chance ... Leer más

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  • Alexander Pope in the Making

    de Joseph Hone ...
    How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century? Modern scholarship has typically taken Pope's rise to greatness and subsequent remoteness from lesser authors for granted. As a major poet he is treated as the successor of Milton and Dryden or the precursor of Wordsworth. Drawing on previously neglected texts and overlooked archival materials, Alexander Pope in the Making ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD

  • Goodbye Again

    de Joseph Hone ...
    A discovery in his mother's attic leads a painter into the dark world of underground art dealingsSince childhood, Ben Contini has been enchanted by nudes. The first painting ever to move him was a Modigliani, a portrait of a naked and beautiful reclining woman. Though it scandalized his mother at the time, it inspired him to become an artist; he specializes in portraits but paints nudes whenever ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Children of the Country

    Coast to Coast Across Africa

    de Joseph Hone ...
    'Joseph Hone went to Zaire for the BBC. His aim was a series of talks about crossing Africa from coast to coast, as Stanley had done. That intention began, and ended, in Kinshasha... Having fallen in love in boyhood with the idea of Africa, he had looked for 'great liberating spaces', and found himself in a city from which there was no escape without a private plane.' Guardian'For those who like ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne

    de Joseph Hone ...
    Series series Oxford English Monographs
    Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and political culture of the early eighteenth century. Using previously neglected, misunderstood, and newly discovered material, Joseph Hone shows that arguments about ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD