Kirjojen hintavertailu. Mukana 11 241 044 kirjaa ja 12 kauppaa.
Kirja.info

Kirjahaku

Etsi kirjoja tekijän nimen, kirjan nimen tai ISBN:n perusteella.

1000 tulosta hakusanalla Roderick Beaton

The Adventures of Roderick Random

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Tobias Smollett

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
nidottu
Of all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and universally improving, as that which is introduced, as it were occasionally, in the course of an interesting story, which brings every incident home to life, and by representing familiar scenes in an uncommon and amusing point of view, invests them with all the graces of novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The reader gratifies his curiosity in pursuing the adventures of a person in whose favour he is prepossessed; he espouses his cause, he sympathises with him in his distress, his indignation is heated against the authors of his calamity: the humane passions are inflamed; the contrast between dejected virtue and insulting vice appears with greater aggravation, and every impression having a double force on the imagination, the memory retains the circumstance, and the heart improves by the example. The attention is not tired with a bare catalogue of characters, but agreeably diverted with all the variety of invention; and the vicissitudes of life appear in their peculiar circumstances, opening an ample field for wit and humour.
Vertaile hintoja
The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias Smollett

The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
nidottu
The Adventures of Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett, first published in 1748. It is partially based on Smollett's experience as a naval-surgeon's mate in the British Navy, especially during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741. In the preface, Smollett acknowledges the connections of his novel to the two satirical picaresque works he translated into English: Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605-15) and Alain-Ren Lesage's Gil Blas (1715-47)
Vertaile hintoja
The Adventures of Roderick Random Lib/E

The Adventures of Roderick Random Lib/E

Tobias Smollett

Naxos
2021
cd
Tobias Smollett, in his creation of the Scot Roderick Random, exposes the sheer incompetence and injustice of the Royal Navy, as well as the snobbery and hypocrisy prevalent in English middle-class society at the time. Set in the mid-18th century, this picaresque novel follows the life and adventures of Roderick, the eponymous hero who has been shunned by his gentleman father's family on the basis of the lowliness of his mother's family. Expelled from school, Roderick falls back on his natural wit and the support of his maternal uncle. Embarking on a global voyage, hindered by his naivete and with only a few friends to help him, he pursues the rich ladies of the world in order to rise into the high society from which he was rudely ejected. He ends up twice serving on British ships, latterly a warship onto which he is press-ganged. Where will his travels take him?
Vertaile hintoja
The Adventures of Roderick Random

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Tobias Smollett

Naxos
2021
cd
Tobias Smollett, in his creation of the Scot Roderick Random, exposes the sheer incompetence and injustice of the Royal Navy, as well as the snobbery and hypocrisy prevalent in English middle-class society at the time. Set in the mid-18th century, this picaresque novel follows the life and adventures of Roderick, the eponymous hero who has been shunned by his gentleman father's family on the basis of the lowliness of his mother's family. Expelled from school, Roderick falls back on his natural wit and the support of his maternal uncle. Embarking on a global voyage, hindered by his naivete and with only a few friends to help him, he pursues the rich ladies of the world in order to rise into the high society from which he was rudely ejected. He ends up twice serving on British ships, latterly a warship onto which he is press-ganged. Where will his travels take him?
Vertaile hintoja
The Adventures of Roderick Random

The Adventures of Roderick Random

Tobias Smollett

Naxos
2021
mp3 cd-levyllä
Tobias Smollett, in his creation of the Scot Roderick Random, exposes the sheer incompetence and injustice of the Royal Navy, as well as the snobbery and hypocrisy prevalent in English middle-class society at the time. Set in the mid-18th century, this picaresque novel follows the life and adventures of Roderick, the eponymous hero who has been shunned by his gentleman father's family on the basis of the lowliness of his mother's family. Expelled from school, Roderick falls back on his natural wit and the support of his maternal uncle. Embarking on a global voyage, hindered by his naivete and with only a few friends to help him, he pursues the rich ladies of the world in order to rise into the high society from which he was rudely ejected. He ends up twice serving on British ships, latterly a warship onto which he is press-ganged. Where will his travels take him?
Vertaile hintoja
The Adeventures of Roderick Random

The Adeventures of Roderick Random

Tobias Smollett

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
nidottu
The novel is set in the 1730s and 1740s and tells the life story (in the first person) of Roderick "Rory" Random, who was born to a Scottish gentleman and a lower-class woman and is thus shunned by his father's family. His mother dies soon after giving birth and his father is driven mad with grief. Random's paternal grandfather coerces a local school master into providing free education for the boy, who becomes popular with his classmates (some of whom he encounters again in subsequent adventures) and learns Latin, French, Italian and ancient Greek. The language accomplishments are despite, rather than because of, the abusive tutor who oppresses Random at every opportunity. Finally Random is cast out after the tutor exacts revenge for one of Random's escapades and denounces him to his grandfather. With none of his paternal family willing to assist him in any way, Random relies on his wits and the occasional support of his maternal uncle, Tom Bowling.
Vertaile hintoja
The Book of Roderick

The Book of Roderick

Eric Falvey

Independently Published
2019
pokkari
Imagine TV's Family guy, Game of Thrones, Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure, and Harry Potter all had a group gang-bang. The Book of Roderick would be the offspring created by that shameful night. Roderick and his best friend Horace discover a magical book left for Roderick by his father. Upon reading the book out loud, the moronic misfits are transported back to medieval times to the fictional location in the book; Candiace Kingdom. Despite possessing the combined IQ of a functionally average man, Roderick and Horace are forced to navigate through an impending war, and a population ripe with lies, treachery, seduction, and danger in order to find their way back home. Easily the most ridiculous, offensive book ever written, The book of Roderick: Medieval Mayhem is book one of a series by upcoming author Eric Falvey. With pages full of punchlines, and all the ridiculous, perverted, beer soaked, hilarious shenanigans you could ever want, this is book is sure to delight anyone who enjoys envelope pushing hilarity, and or partakes in the Devil's Lettuce.
Vertaile hintoja
The Complete Roderick

The Complete Roderick

John Sladek

Gollancz
2001
nidottu
Roderick is a robot and this is his autobiography. Sladek conveys, with great sensitivity and insight the innocence of an artificial intelligence and asks profound questions about mankind's right to manipulate others. It also portrays how a numerological mind might structure a narrative.Inventive, funny yet melancholy this is one of SF's greatest creative geniuses writing at his thought-provoking best.
Vertaile hintoja
The Adventures of Roderick Langham

The Adventures of Roderick Langham

Rafe McGregor

THEAKER'S PAPERBACK LIBRARY
2017
nidottu
Roderick Langham is a retired soldier, disgraced police inspector, and reluctant occult detective. He inhabits the world of Sherlock Holmes, investigates cases with John Watson and Sebastian Moran, and is able to perceive the reality concealed by the illusion of everyday appearances. These nine stories follow Langham from his first encounter with the inexplicable in the Himalayan hills to his investigation of the wreck of the Demeter and his growing realisation that the dales, moors, and wolds which surround his Yorkshire refuge are home to an evil far older than the honeycomb of medieval monasteries and Roman ruins suggests. Praise for Rafe McGregor's The Architect of Murder: "Arthur Conan Doyle is alive and well, and writing under the name Rafe McGregor." - Tess Gerritsen "Rafe McGregor is the architect of murderously good historical fiction." - Gyles Brandreth "...a fascinating marriage of investigative mayhem with keen attention to historical detail..." - Graham Hurley "There's some dandy police procedure...and plenty of interesting characters to carry the story along." - Bill Crider "...an exciting read, giving a very authentic flavour of the period..." - Bernard Knight
Vertaile hintoja
1...678910...50