Dolf Koning Knihy

An account of the bitter 1948 dispute between the Arabs and Jews over Jerusalem, highlights the role of the British as well as prominent individuals in the struggle.

Rich Man, Poor Man is the story of two brothers whose contrasting natures reflect the turmoil of post-war America. Rudy is the rich man - a romantic who would let no one stand between him and success. Tom is the poor man - the black sheep of the family on the run from his violent past.

Robert Ruark vo svojom poslednom a najúspešnejšom románe Medárky (1965) stvárnil skúsenosti z vlastnej novinárskej praxe, zážitky z ciest po Afrike a z vojenskej služby v námorníctve počas druhej svetovej vojny. Prináša životný príbeh úspešného amerického spisovateľa a novinára Aleca Barra, ktorý za pracovné úspechy draho platí – dvoma stroskotanými manželstvami, nenaplnenou láskou a napokon zákernou nevyliečiteľnou chorobou.

The Queen's Bench Courtroom Number VII of the London Law Courts is the setting for a libel action brought by a distinguished Polish doctor, Sir Adam Kelno. Abraham Cady, a successful novelist, had referred in his bestseller, The Holocaust, to Kelno's activities in a concentration camp during the last war....

On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable ... This is their story -- one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century.

Giles Denison's life is turned upside down when he awakes to find himself in a luxurious hotel in Oslo and, peering into the bathroom mirror, discovers the face of another man! He has been kidnapped from his flat in London and transformed into famous Finnish scientist, Dr Harold Feltham Meyrick. Compelled to adjust to his new persona (including meeting his daughter) and to play out the role assigned to him by his captors, he embarks on a dangerous escapade from Norway to Finland and across the border into Soviet Russia.

In Praise of Older Women is as singular as a lemon tree or a giraffe or a ripe pear. In a voice free of vanity and subterfuge, the writer tells a story of the worst of times, and the ever-shifting truths about girls and youths, men and women and their sexual connections — and mis-connections — in a way that is always luminous and enlightening.

Art collector and freelance assassin Jonathan Hemlock is plunged into terror and violence when he attempts to secure provocative films that incriminate high-ranking British officials and that are being used as part of a chilling conspiracy of blackmail and political assassination with ties to the most exclusive levels of the London art world. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

From all over Europe - even from behind the Iron Curtain - the gypsies make their annual pilgrimage to Provence. The Duc de Croytor, distinguished folklorist and gastronome, is there, and so is Englishman Neil Bowman. But something is different about this year's gathering... What is the secret the gypsies are so determined to hide? Bowman comes too close to it for safety, and before long he is running for his life. From the dizzy ramparts of Les Baux to the vast limestone caverns beneath, from fiesta in Arles to the flat, salty plains of the Camargue, from the terror of the bull-ring to collisions at sea, the pace never falters.

A dozen years had passed since Mark Fraser and his family had fled to Ganymede, hoping to find the peace and freedom which had eluded them on Earth. Now violence and terror had pursued them to their new-found home: Captain Swayne and his battleship Vega had made landfall on Ganymede and were using its resources to build missiles with which to hold Planet Earth to ransom. For the second time, Mark Fraser was a marked man, running for his life. His only chance of escape was to a third planet: Jupiter. But as Fraser knew only too well, Jupiter itself was the scene of conflict and carnage. And so far no human being had ever breathed its atmosphere and lived to tell the tale!

Reissue of the classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.

Voorjaar in Cannes. De stad, het decor van het vermaarde filmfestival, wordt overspoeld door filmsterren, regisseurs, producenten en journalisten. Maar Cannes is ook het decor van de vergeten idolen ... Een van hen is Jesse Craig, eens een gevierd filmproducent, maar nu al jaren op een zijspoor gezet. Gail McGrinnon, een jonge brutale journaliste, toont als enige nog belangstelling voor hem. Zij confronteert hem met zijn verleden: successen op Broadway, een stukgelopen huwelijk en de liaison met de betoverende Constance in Parijs. Door deze confrontatie met zijn verleden beseft Craig geen verliezer te willen zijn; hij besluit aan zijn come-back te werken en zijn plaats aan de top te heroveren...

The Oasis , McCarthy's second novel, won a contest organized by Cyril Connelly, the British critic and editor of the prestigious literary magazine Horizon , and was first published as the February 1949 edition of that magazine. Connelly called the book "brilliant and true and funny and beautifully written and intelligently thought and felt." The Oasis is a wickedly satiric roman a clef about a group of urban American intellectuals who try unsuccessfully to establish a rural utopian colony just as the Cold War is setting in and fear of the atomic bomb is reaching panic proportions. At its appearance a few months later in the U.S., the novel caused a scandal, alienating a number of McCarthy's friends. One of her former lovers, the critic Philip Rahv, was so upset at the character based on him that he tried to stop its publication. At the same time, a then relatively new acquaintance who later became McCarthy's closest friend, Hannah Arendt, wrote her: "I just read The Oasis and must tell you that it was pure delight. You have written a veritable little masterpiece."

Levensbeschrijving van de nationaal-socialistische dictator (1889-1945).

Een groepje Duitse parachutisten wordt in de Tweede Wereldoorlog naar Engeland gezonden om Churchill te kidnappen.