Publicado por Penguin Random House, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Publicado por Penguin Random House, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: USED_GOOD. 'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now.' Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, 'the man who invented tomorrow'; now he feels like yesterday's man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a comic common touch which brought him into contact with most of the important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time; his plunge into socialist politics; his belief in free love, and energetic practice of it. Arguing with himself about his conduct, he relives his relationships with two wives and many mistresses, especially the brilliant student Amber Reeves and the gifted writer Rebecca West, both of whom bore him children, with dramatic and long-lasting consequences. Unfolding this astonishing story, David Lodge depicts a man as contradictory as he was talented: a socialist who enjoyed his affluence, an acclaimed novelist who turned against the literary novel; a feminist womaniser, sensual yet incurably romantic, irresistible and exasperating by turns, but always vitally human. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Publicado por Harvill Secker 31/03/2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Reino Unido
Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: USED_GOOD. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.
Publicado por Harvill Secker 31/03/2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Bahamut Media, Reading, Reino Unido
Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
Publicado por Penguin Random House, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, Reino Unido
Condición: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Publicado por Penguin Random House, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY. Overseas customers please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery. Tanning to text. D/j has some rubbing to edges. Tearing to both corners of top edge of spine and lower right edge. Rubbing to corners of d/j. ; 9.4 X 6.1 X 2.0 inches; 576 pages.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: medimops, Berlin, Alemania
Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition.
Publicado por Harville Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Condición: USED_GOOD. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition/1st impression. Without inscription in not price clipped dust jacket, which is now protected by a removable transparent wrapper.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, Sur Africa
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. the jacket is shelf rubbed and bit knocked. a bit marked. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.O.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011. 9781846554964, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, Reino Unido
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1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered lilac cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 565 (from Elizabeth Jane Howard's library with her bookstamp on title page; no inscriptions).
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, Reino Unido
Condición: Very Good. Used, dust jacket has light scratches and outer edges have minor scuffs, book content is in like new condition.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, London, UK, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: James Hulme Books, Stourbridge, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: USED_NEARFINE. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Firmly bound in grey paper covered boards with gilt titling to spine. Corners and spine ends all fine. Text pages and end papers are all clean with no markings. A little toning to closed top edge. Dust jacket is unclipped with just light shelf wear. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: AMADEUSBOOKS, DIBDEN PURLIEU, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Jaycee Books., London, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: USED_NEARFINE. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine, light grey boards & grey end papers, unclipped, embossed gold gilt spine, tanning to fore edge, bubble wrapped, mylar pro: 5* seller. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regents Park hours in 1944, the ailing H.G. Wells looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a comic touch; his plunge into socialist politics; his belief in free love and energetic practice of it.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: USED_NEARFINE. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. A novel set in the later years of H. G. Wells' life. ***Near fine in grey boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases - just slight creasing to the lower corners. Spine tight without any reading creases. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £18.99. The dustwrapper is complete and unmarked externally, and would be near fine, except for some foxing marks on the edges of the back foldover flap. No creases or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. 565 pages. 242mm x165mm. ***'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, "H.G." to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Once he was the most famous writer in the world, "the man who invented tomorrow"; now he feels like yesterday's man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'Lodge's first published novels evoke the atmosphere of post-war England (for example, The Picturegoers (1960)). The theme occurs in later novels, through the childhood memories of certain characters (Paradise News, 1992; Therapy, 1995). The war is covered in Out of the Shelter (1970), while Ginger You're Barmy (1962) draws on Lodge's experience of military service in the 1950s. Lodge was brought up a Catholic and has described himself as an "agnostic Catholic". Many of his characters are Catholic and their Catholicism, particularly the relationship between Catholicism and sexuality, is a major theme. In "The Art of Fiction" (1992), Lodge studied, through examination of extracts from novels, various stylistic devices (repetition, variation in levels of language, etc.) and narrative techniques (varying viewpoints, defamiliarisation, etc.). Lodge self-consciously uses many of these techniques in his own novels. For example, in "Paradise News" (1991) the narration is mostly third-person point of view, but there are also first-person narratives (diary and autobiography, letters, postcards, emails) and various other documents, such as theoretical writings on tourism. In "Therapy" (1995) the bulk of the novel is told through the protagonist's diary, but there are other texts, presented as written by minor characters about the main character. It is eventually revealed that these were all written by the main character, as part of a therapy exercise.' (Wiki) ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original dustwrapper, in nice near fine condition, with just some foxing marks on the back flap of the dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Publicado por London: Harvill, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: GIAQ
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 565p hardback with illustrated dustjacket, excellent copy, unclipped jacket, first edition with gift inscription by the author Language: English.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
First Edition. A novel set in the later years of H.G.Wells' life. Fine in Fine dustjacket.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Original Cloth. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Slight spine lean. Bump to base of spine where there is a tiny nick in the edge of the cloth. Pages clean and unmarked. Jacket has two shadows in the bottom right hand corner of the front panel where 'signed by the author' and a price sticker have been removed. Tiny nick at the top of the spine and slight edge and surface wear. First printing. Heavy book so overseas postage will be more than the standard charge. Signed by Author(s).
Publicado por Harvill Secker, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Zeitgeist Books, Middlesex, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback (hint of toning) in a fine dustjacket (protected by a removable, clear thin mylar sleeve) - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days)- SIGNED & DATED "07/04/11" BY DAVID LODGE - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).
Publicado por Harvill Secker, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Fiction First, Congleton, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: USED_ASNEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. A fine unread 1st impression in a fine dustwrapper. Signed and dated (31/05/11) by the Author on the title page. Signed at the Hay Festival. Signed by Author(s).
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 2.29.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, Canada
Condición: New.
Publicado por Harvill Secker, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846554969 ISBN 13: 9781846554964
Librería: Iridium_Books, DH, SE, España
Condición: Used - Good.