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Hop-Frog - Edgar Allan Poe - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Frog Princess - Angie Beasley - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Frog Princess - Angie Beasley - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Frog Princess is the story of Angie Beasley''s transformation from ugly duckling to beauty queen. With few jobs around, bland food and cold weather, the best that Angie could hope for was a job at the local Findus factory. Her family didn''t have it easy. Her baby brother was a cot death and the tragedy caused her mother to turn to the Jehovah''s Witness faith. Their poverty, now combined with an austere belief system, meant no Christmas, no birthdays and little joy. But aged 16, Angie decided that she was destined for bigger things. After seeing a TV advertisement she entered a beauty pageant. And won. She went on to take 25 titles, including Miss Leeds, and her home town title Miss Cleethorpes, giving her the opportunity to model while travelling the world. Just as Angie felt that life couldn''t get any better, she got engaged to a man who trapped her in a terrifying cycle of domestic violence. When she eventually escaped him, she had lost all of her money and self-esteem. She was on the bottom rung of the ladder yet again. But Angie picked herself up, turned her talents to event management and grafted her way to becoming Director of Miss England. Evoking the magical, lost world of the 1970s beauty pageant, The Frog Princess is Angie Beasley''s real life fairytale.The eldest of six children, Angie Beasley (nee Chapman) was born in 1963 in Grimsby. With few prospects in life beyond the local fish factories, she decided to enter Miss Yorkshire Television at the age of 16. Within eight years, Angie had gone on to win twenty-five beauty titles, leading to work in the entertainment industry. She is now the Director of Miss England Limited, and lives in Leicester with her son.

DKK 161.00
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Frog - Mo Yan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

On Love and Barley - Matsuo Basho - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Selected Tales - Jacob Grimm - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Selected Tales - Jacob Grimm - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Selected Tales contains some of the most timeless and enchanting folk and fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, translated with an introduction by David Luke in Penguin Classics.These folktales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are among the most memorable stories in European culture - conjuring up a world of spells and bewitchment, outwitted villains and cruel stepmothers, animal bridegrooms and enchanted princesses. Tales such as ''Hansel and Gretel'', ''Little Red Cape'' and ''The Robber Bridegroom'' depict the dangers lurking in dark forests, and others, including ''Briar-Rose'' and ''Snow White'' show young beauties punished by unforgiving sorceresses. Other tales include ''Thickasathumb'', which portrays a childless young couple whose wish for a baby is granted in an unexpected way, while ''The Frog King'' tells of a rash promise made by a haughty princess to share her bed with a frog, and a fortune is won in ''The Blue Lamp'', when a soldier gains a kingdom with the help of a magic lamp.David Luke''s vibrant translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing the key themes of the tales and the literary background of the Brothers Grimm. This edition also includes new further reading and a chronology, with notes and a glossary.Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) are nowadays simply known as ''the brothers Grimm''. Both brothers were state-appointed librarians in Kassel, and later members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Berlin, where Frederick William IV of Prussia had invited them to settle. Two of Germany''s greatest scholars, Jacob is regarded as the founder of the scientific study of the German language, and with his brother Wilhelm initiated the Deutsches Wörterbuch , a dictionary of all words in modern High German since 1450.If you enjoyed the Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm, you might like Hans Christian Andersen''s Fairy Tales, also available in Penguin Classics.

DKK 141.00
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So To Speak - Terrance Hayes - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis - Kasia Boddy - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis - Kasia Boddy - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a richly diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldiers and salesmen, witches and ghosts, families and lovers. Their stories are told by some of America''s most celebrated writers (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Raymond Carver) and a few, like Fanny Fern or Charles W. Chestnutt, who may be less familiar. The collection offers a stimulating combination of acknowledged classics, including Mark Twain''s hilarious ''Jim Smiley''s Jumping Frog'' and Edgar Allan Poe''s chilling ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', and some remarkable pieces that deserve a wider audience, such as Ernest Hemingway''s story of miscommunication, ''Out of Season'', or Lorrie Moore''s tale of modern love and wit, ''Starving Again''.Kasia Boddy''s introduction traces the history of the American short story and explores the changes and continuities in its forms and preoccupations. This edition also contains a chronology, explanatory and biographical notes and suggestions for further reading. Table of contents Washington Irving - The Little Man in Black (1807)Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown (1835)Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)Fanny Fern - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony (1851)Mark Twain - Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog (1865)Joel Chandler Harris - The Tar Baby Story (1880)Mary Wilkins Freeman - Two Friends (1887)Charles W. Chesnutt - The Wife of his Youth (1898)Henry James - The Real Right Thing (1899)Stephen Crane - An Episode of War (1899)O. Henry - Hearts and Hands (1903)Sherwood Anderson - The Untold Lie (1917)Ernest HemingwayOut of Season (1923)Edith Wharton - Atrophy (1927)Dorothy Parker - New York to Detroit (1928)Eudora Welty - The Whistle (1938)William Faulkner - Barn Burning (1939)F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Lost Decade (1939)Zora Neale Hurston - Now You Cookin'' with Gas (1942)Bernard Malamud - The First Seven Years (1950)Flannery O''Connor - A Late Encounter with the Enemy (1953)John Updike - Sunday Teasing (1956)John Cheever - Reunion (1962)Grace Paley - Wants (1971)Alice Walker - The Flowers (1973)Donald Barthelme - I Bought a Little City (1974)Raymond Carver - Collectors (1975)Richard Ford - Communist (1985)Lorrie Moore - Starving Again (1990)Jhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent (1999)Lydia Davis - The Caterpillar (2006)

DKK 120.00
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The Stinky Cheese Man - Jon Scieszka - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

So to Speak - Terrance Hayes - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Super Thinking - Gabriel Weinberg - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Super Thinking - Gabriel Weinberg - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''An invaluable resource for making sense of the world, making good decisions, and placing smart bets. A fast-paced and fun read jam-packed with useful information on every page. '' Annie Duke, author of Thinking in Bets ________________­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ Turn yourself into a superthinker and make the right decisions every time. You want to make better decisions. You want to be right more of the time professionally and personally. However, being more right consistently is a hard problem because the world is such a complex, evolving place. How do you navigate this complexity? Mental models are decision-making tools that guide our perception of the world and our behaviour in it. They help us understand life, make decisions and solve problems. The best models help us make intelligent investments, develop ground-breaking technologies and even travel to outer space. - Note your frame of reference before debating someone with different political views. If you understand how your perspective contrasts with someone else''s you can prevent the conversation from getting hostile. - Apply the sunk cost fallacy to the end of a doomed project. Just because you''ve put a lot of hours into it doesn''t mean that you have to keep going. - Before blaming someone, consider Hanlon''s Razor, ''Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by carelessness''. - Try to solve mysteries with Occam''s Razor , ''Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected''. When you hear hoof beats, think of horses not zebras. Building on our knowledge of well-known models such as the Bandwagon Effect or Paradigm Shift and introducing us to the lesser known like the Eisenhower Matrix or the Boiling Frog Symbol, this indispensable book distils the most effective mental models into a single, digestible volume. It will make even the most complex models accessible and engaging to enable you to make better, more informed decisions in every part of your life. ________________ ''Internalizing these mental models will help you understand the world around you. Once you can spot them, you can change your own behavior to avoid common traps, adjust how you interact with people to get better results, and maybe even articulate new mental models of the world that have yet to be discovered.'' Brian Armstrong, co-founder and CEO, Coinbase ''You can''t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts. If the facts don''t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don''t have them in a usable form. You''ve got to have models in your head.'' Charlie Munger, vice chairman, Berkshire Hathaway

DKK 166.00
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