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Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb  collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the  Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.

A special two-in-one edition of Irwin Shaw’s enthralling novels following the Jordache family’s struggle with the forces of change in mid-century America.

In , siblings Rudy, Tom, and Gretchen Jordache grow up in a small town on the Hudson River. They’re in their teens in the 1940s, too young to go to war but marked by it nevertheless. Their father is the local baker, and nothing suggests they will live storied lives. Yet, in this sprawling saga, each member of the family pushes against the grain of history and confronts the perils and pleasures of a world devastated by conflict and transformed by American commerce and culture.

In the sequel, , the Jordache family reunites after a terrible act of violence. Wesley never really knew his father, Tom, the black sheep of the Jordache family. Driven by his sorrow and a need for justice, Wesley uncovers surprising truths about his estranged family’s complicated past.

Nova York, um hotel decadente, uma noite de inverno. No corredor do 6º andar, um cadáver nu com um canudo de papelão nas mãos… Assim começam as aventuras de Douglas Grimes, o vigia noturno do Hotel St. Ausgustine, um piloto fracassado e sem ilusões, que repentinamente se apodera de uma fortuna de 100 mil dólares. Na fuga para a Europa, o dinheiro desaparece e Douglas inicia a caçada ao “ladrão”. St. Moritz, Davos, Florença, Paris… no final do caminho Miles Fabian, um sofisticado playboy, refinado, culto e inescrupuloso, que se encarregará de introduzir Douglas Grimes no ofuscante mundo dos milionários.

Analiza następstw zdrady małżeńskiej w słynnej psychologiczno-obyczajowej powieści autora Pogody dla bogaczy. Lucy i Oliver Crown są wzorowym szczęśliwym małżeństwem, dbającym o dobro trzynastoletniego jedynaka, któremu starają się zapewnić jak najlepsze warunki rekonwalescencji po ciężkiej chorobie. Podczas wakacji Lucy, zdominowana przez władczego męża, nawiązuje przelotny romans z korepetytorem syna. Następstwa tego kroku odczują wszyscy, a rodzina Crownów odtąd istnieć będzie tylko formalnie. Najboleśniej wszakże dotknie to samą Lucy…

In Rich Man, Poor Man, siblings Rudy, Tom, and Gretchen Jordache grow up in a small town on the Hudson River. They’re in their teens in the 1940s, too young to go to war but marked by it nevertheless. Their father is the local baker, and nothing suggests they will live storied lives. Yet, in this sprawling saga, each member of the family pushes against the grain of history and confronts the perils and pleasures of a world devastated by conflict and transformed by American commerce and culture.

The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.

Douglas Grimes, penniless ex-pilot, is waiting for the future to start living again. A fortune in cash by a dead body in New York City brings opportunity. Miles Fabian, debonair, jet-set con-man, shows the way… Fast cars, fancy hotels, fancier woman. St Moritz, Paris, Florence, Rome Racehorses, blue movies, gambling, gold. Wild and woolly schemes, all wonderfully profitable. But the day of reckoning must dawn. Who will appear to claim the stolen money? And when?