3 Results for : pleb
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Infamy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 500min
Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? Join the historian Jerry Toner on a detective's hunt to discover the extent of Rome's crimes.From the sexual peccadilloes of Tiberius and Nero to the chances of getting burgled if you left your apartment unguarded (pretty high, especially if the walls were thin enough to knock through) he leaves no stone unturned in his quest to bring the Eternal City to book.Meet a gallery of villains, high and low. Discover the problems that most exercised its long-suffering citizens. Explore the temptations of excess and find out what desperation can make a pleb do. What do we see when we look at Rome? A hideous vision of ancient corruption - or a reflection of our own troubled age? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Perkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052633/bk_adbl_052633_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Memoirs of a Maladjusted Teacher
Memoirs of a Maladjusted Teacher ab 16.99 € als Taschenbuch: From Posh Boy to Pleb. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Belletristik, Briefe & Biografien,- Shop: hugendubel
- Price: 16.99 EUR excl. shipping
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Conman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 941min
Nominated for the prestigious 2010 CWA Gold Dagger award, Conman is the story of young Neil Martin, a kindly family man. A bit geeky, a bit nerdy. If you met him, you would assume he runs a failing comic memorabilia store in London's Soho. Which he does. In order to bail himself out of a huge stock-ruining, poster sopping basement flood, he needs to claim on his insurance. Which he would do - if he'd remembered to pay his premium. Terrified of losing everything - his wife Jane, his daughter, his business, his home - and scared to appear the dumb, working-class pleb that Jane's father always took him for, Neil reluctantly agrees to help Christopher, a passing confidence trickster, use his premises for a big sting. So the con is on and the trap is set. Neil meets Christopher's crew and, as he introduces them to the world of the vintage comic collectable, he is introduced to the life of the grifter. The swaps, swindles and switcheroos. The colourful patter of marks, mitt fitters, cacklebladders and cold pokes. But things are never as they seem in the twilight world of the confidence man. And when Christopher's real target is revealed, Neil finds himself plotting, switching, swapping and scamming for revenge, for redemption. And for his life. Somewhere in the shadows, where High Fidelity meets The Usual Suspects, where David Mamet meets Ben Elton, Conman will keep you laughing, guessing and up all night until the last page is turned and the breathtaking truth is revealed. Richard Asplin is the author of two previous novels, T-Shirt & Genes and Gagged - A Thriller With Jokes. He is a lover of mid-period Woody Allen movies, Richard Dawkins, David Mamet, Elvis Presley, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Texas Hold'em, vintage guitars and his cat. Richard currently lives in London ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Bates. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015941/bk_adbl_015941_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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