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Das Geheimnis der verlorenen Zeit" ist einer der megalomanischsten Romane der jüngeren amerikanischen Literaturgeschichte: ein gewitzter, raffinierter Mix aus Wissenschaft, Philosophie, Pop und Unterhaltung. Ein wilder Abenteuertrip, vom Wien der Jahrhundertwende bis ins Manhattan der Gegenwart, von der ersten Dimension in die vierte. Eingeschlossen in einer Blase angehaltener Zeit sitzt der junge Waldemar Tolliver in einem vermüllten Apartmen...

A novel of time travel through the great upheavals of the 20th century - from Einstein's new theory to the death camps of WWII. 'A science fiction novel about time-travel, filled with unabashedly zany characters... a highly enjoyable book' "The Sunday Times

EINE REISE IN DEN UNTERGRUND. EINE REISE IN DEN WAHNSINN.Will Heller oder Lowboy, wie er sich nennt, ist schizophren und gefährlich. Nun ist er aus der Anstalt ausgebrochen, die Cops sind hinter ihm her mitsamt seiner Mutter. Lowboy macht sich auf die Flucht durch die Tunnel und Katakomben der New Yorker U-Bahn, denn er weiß: Nur er kann die Welt vor dem Untergang bewahren.«JOHN WRAYS ROMAN HAT DAS ZEUG ZUM KLASSIKER.»FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZE...

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Bir kasim sabahi, 16 yasindaki William Heller New York metro sistemine girdi. William trenlere tutkundu, özellikle metro trenlerine. Metro istasyonlarini, yeryüzüne ve kendisine dayatilan gerceklige tercih ettigi icin ona Dipteki Cocuk denmisti. William da artik kendisi olabilmek istiyordu, korkmadan. Bunun icin kaldigi özel okuldan kacti, ilaclarini almayi birakti ve dünyayi kurtarmak icin, Manhattanin altinda kuruldugu söylenen o mitolojik s...

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Excerpt from History of the Twenty Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Birney's Zouaves: Three Months and Three Years Service, Civil War, 1861-1865HE War of the Rebellion was formally opened by the attack of the rebels in firing upon Fort Sumter, Charles ton harbor, South Carolina, April 12, 1861. After two days'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comT...

Set in the American South in the years before and during the Civil War, John Wray's hypnotic new novel is at once a crime story, a bravura work of historical fiction, and a fire-and-brimstone meditation on American credulity and corruption.Thaddeus Morelle's followers call him "the Redeemer." Over the years he has led the Island 37 Gang from stealing horses to stealing slaves in an enterprise so nefarious that both the Union and Confederacy ha...

This extraordinary debut novel from Whiting Writers' Award winner John Wray is a poetic portrait of a life redeemed at one of the darkest moments in world history.Twenty years after deserting the army in the first world war, Oskar Voxlauer returns to the village of his youth. Haunted by his past, he finds an uneasy peace in the mountains-but it is 1938 and Oskar cannot escape from the rising tide of Nazi influence in town. He attempts to retre...

In his ambitious and fiercely inventive The Lost Time Accidents, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumors about Einstein's radical new theory to the death camps of World War Two, from the golden age of postwar pulp science fiction to a startling discovery in a Manhattan apartment packed to the ceiling with artifacts of modern life.Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar...

Excerpt from Dangers of an Entire Repeal of the Bank Restriction Act and a Plan Suggested for Obviating ThemThe establishment of an efficient paper currency maintaining an unimpaired value, during a period of more than twenty years, exhibits to the political economist the import ant fact, not previously supposed to be pos sible, that the intervention of a metallic cur reney for the circulation of every species of exchangeable commodities, may ...

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Wray's captivating third novel tells the story of Will Heller, a 16-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, who journeys through New York's tunnels, back alleys, and streets in search of the one person who, he believes, can help him.

Early one morning, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, takes off on a fantastic quest to save the world. His frantic mother joins up with a missing persons specialist to find her son before psychosis claims him completely.

Early one morning, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, takes off on a fantastic quest to save the world. His frantic mother joins up with a missing persons specialist to find her son before psychosis claims him completely.

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In the tunnels beneath New York a young man is missing. With each passing minute he heads deeper underground, further from the world of light and reason and closer to the moment of his great surrender. Above ground Ali Lateef of the NYPD is assigned the case. The boy's mother Violet is reluctant to help and Emily, LOWBOYs girlfriend and only confidante, appears to have vanished too. Can Lateef find LOWBOY before it's too late?

A discussion of the role these plant proteins play in the metabolism of cells.