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Veterano di guerra, bandito di strada, Jack Audley ha condotto finora un'esistenza spensierata quanto spericolata. Di sicuro non lo stile di vita che ci si aspetterebbe da un pari del regno, discendente di un antico lignaggio e responsabile del sostentamento di centinaia di famiglie. Ma è costretto a cambiare totalmente abitudini quando viene riconosciuto come l'erede perduto della casata di Wyndham. Assumere il titolo di duca di Wyndham, con tutti gli onori e soprattutto gli oneri che ciò comporta, è però l'ultima cosa che desidera. Anche se potrebbe essere il modo migliore per stare vicino a Grace Eversleigh. Quest'ultima è da cinque anni la dama di compagnia della duchessa madre di Wyndham. Un lavoro poco piacevole, che offre ben scarse distrazioni… almeno fino all'arrivo di Jack Audley, con i suoi sorrisi accattivanti e il suo fascino scanzonato. Jack non è tipo da accettare un rifiuto come risposta; e quando si ritrova tra le sue braccia, Grace non ha alcuna intenzione di dirgli «no». Ma se è proprio lui il vero duca, allora è l'unico uomo che lei non potrà mai avere.

Veterano di guerra, bandito di strada, Jack Audley ha condotto finora un'esistenza spensierata quanto spericolata. Di sicuro non lo stile di vita che ci si aspetterebbe da un pari del regno, discendente di un antico lignaggio e responsabile del sostentamento di centinaia di famiglie. Ma è costretto a cambiare totalmente abitudini quando viene riconosciuto come l'erede perduto della casata di Wyndham. Assumere il titolo di duca di Wyndham, con tutti gli onori e soprattutto gli oneri che ciò comporta, è però l'ultima cosa che desidera. Anche se potrebbe essere il modo migliore per stare vicino a Grace Eversleigh. Quest'ultima è da cinque anni la dama di compagnia della duchessa madre di Wyndham. Un lavoro poco piacevole, che offre ben scarse distrazioni… almeno fino all'arrivo di Jack Audley, con i suoi sorrisi accattivanti e il suo fascino scanzonato. Jack non è tipo da accettare un rifiuto come risposta; e quando si ritrova tra le sue braccia, Grace non ha alcuna intenzione di dirgli «no». Ma se è proprio lui il vero duca, allora è l'unico uomo che lei non potrà mai avere.

Il Duca Di Wyndham. The Two Dukes Of Wyndham . Vol. 1 - Quinn Julia - Mondadori

'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.'\n\nTarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War - the English enfant terrible Frederick Tarr, and the middle-aged German Otto Kreisler, a failed painter who finds himself in a widening spiral of militaristic self-destruction. When both become interested in the same two women - Bertha Lunken, a conventional German, and Anastasya Vasek, the ultra-modern international devotee of 'swagger sex' - Wyndham Lewis sets the stage for a scathing satire of national and social pretensions, the fraught relationship between men and women, and the incompatibilities of art and life. \n\nIn his introduction and notes Scott W. Klein explores Lewis's stylistic experimentation within the context of avant-garde movements in painting, and offers new insights into Tarr as a work of mordent wit and enduringly ferocious irony. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.'\n\nTarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War - the English enfant terrible Frederick Tarr, and the middle-aged German Otto Kreisler, a failed painter who finds himself in a widening spiral of militaristic self-destruction. When both become interested in the same two women - Bertha Lunken, a conventional German, and Anastasya Vasek, the ultra-modern international devotee of 'swagger sex' - Wyndham Lewis sets the stage for a scathing satire of national and social pretensions, the fraught relationship between men and women, and the incompatibilities of art and life. \n\nIn his introduction and notes Scott W. Klein explores Lewis's stylistic experimentation within the context of avant-garde movements in painting, and offers new insights into Tarr as a work of mordent wit and enduringly ferocious irony. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy?

Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy?

A stunning new clothbound edition of one of the most famous science-fiction novels of the twentieth century, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. \n\nWhen Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, large-rooted plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their day...

The most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.\n\n'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.'\n\nWhen a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen - one of the lucky few to keep his sight - finds himself trapped in a London jammed with sightless mobs who prey on those who can still see. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike. With nobody to stop them the Triffids - walking carnivorous plants with lethal stingers - rise up as humanity stumbles and falls . . .

When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, large-rooted plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their day. \n\nThe Day of the Triffids, published in 1951, expresses many of the political concerns of its time: the Cold War, the fear of biological experimentation and the man-made apocalypse. However, with its terrifyingly believable insights into the genetic modification of plants, the book is more relevant today than ever before.\n\nJohn Wyndham was born in 1903. After a wide experience of the English preparatory school he was at Bedales from 1918 to 1921. Careers which he tried included farming, law, commercial art, and advertising, and he first started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. During the war he was in the Civil Service and afterwards in the Army. In 1946 he began writing his major science fiction novels including \"The Kraken Wakes\", \"The Chrysalids\" and \"The Midwich Cuckoos\".

A stunning new clothbound edition of one of the most famous science-fiction novels of the twentieth century, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. \n\nWhen Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, large-rooted plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their day...

When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, large-rooted plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their day. \n\nThe Day of the Triffids, published in 1951, expresses many of the political concerns of its time: the Cold War, the fear of biological experimentation and the man-made apocalypse. However, with its terrifyingly believable insights into the genetic modification of plants, the book is more relevant today than ever before.\n\nJohn Wyndham was born in 1903. After a wide experience of the English preparatory school he was at Bedales from 1918 to 1921. Careers which he tried included farming, law, commercial art, and advertising, and he first started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. During the war he was in the Civil Service and afterwards in the Army. In 1946 he began writing his major science fiction novels including \"The Kraken Wakes\", \"The Chrysalids\" and \"The Midwich Cuckoos\".

The most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.\n\n'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.'\n\nWhen a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen - one of the lucky few to keep his sight - finds himself trapped in a London jammed with sightless mobs who prey on those who can still see. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike. With nobody to stop them the Triffids - walking carnivorous plants with lethal stingers - rise up as humanity stumbles and falls . . .

The 'outward urge' was a factor in the Troon inheritance. Successive generations of Troons, looking up at the stars, heard the siren voices that called them out into Space. And, as the frontiers of Space receded, there was usually one Troon, if not more, out there, helping to push them back.\n\nIn an age in which what goes up need not necessarily come down, the likely adventures of the Conquistadors of Space are every bit as exciting as any world menaced by triffids. This coming-of-age classic from the author of The Midwich Cuckoos shows Wyndham's mastery across genres.