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Paul Theroux

Autor(a) de The Great Railway Bazaar

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About the Author

Paul Edward Theroux was born on April 10, 1941 in Medford, Massachusetts and is an acclaimed travel writer. After attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst he joined the Peace Corps and taught in Malawi from 1963 to 1965. He also taught in Uganda at Makerere University and in Singapore at mostrar mais the University of Singapore. Although Theroux has also written travel books in general and about various modes of transport, his name is synonymous with the literature of train travel. Theroux's 1975 best-seller, The Great Railway Bazaar, takes the reader through Asia, while his second book about train travel, The Old Patagonian Express (1979), describes his trip from Boston to the tip of South America. His third contribution to the railway travel genre, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, won the Thomas Cook Prize for best literary travel book in 1989. His literary output also includes novels, books for children, short stories, articles, and poetry. His novels include Picture Palace (1978), which won the Whitbread Award and The Mosquito Coast (1981), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Theroux is a fellow of both the British Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographic Society. His title Lower River made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Currently his 2015 book, Deep South , is a bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) Paul Theroux is the distinguished author of numerous award-winning books, including "The Mosquito Coast," "Kowloon Tong," & "Half Moon Street." (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos
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Obras por Paul Theroux

The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) 2,826 exemplares
The Mosquito Coast (1980) 2,244 exemplares
Riding the Iron Rooster (1989) 1,845 exemplares
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (1979) — Autor — 1,845 exemplares
The Pillars of Hercules (1995) 1,340 exemplares
My Secret History (1989) 656 exemplares
Hotel Honolulu (2001) 622 exemplares
O-Zone (1986) 574 exemplares
Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings (2000) — Autor — 535 exemplares
Kowloon Tong (1997) 527 exemplares
My Other Life (1996) 452 exemplares
The Lower River (2012) 353 exemplares
The Family Arsenal (1976) 320 exemplares
To the Ends of the Earth (1990) 318 exemplares
Millroy the Magician (1993) 306 exemplares
Chicago Loop (1991) 281 exemplares
Blinding Light (2005) 280 exemplares
The London Embassy (1982) 274 exemplares
A Dead Hand (2009) 273 exemplares
Picture Palace (1978) 270 exemplares
Saint Jack (1973) 267 exemplares
The Consul's File (1977) 254 exemplares
The Best American Travel Writing 2001 (2001) — Editor — 236 exemplares
The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro (2004) 235 exemplares
Half Moon Street: Two Short Novels (1984) 220 exemplares
Patagonia Revisited (1986) 209 exemplares
Theroux: Collected Stories (1997) 189 exemplares
World's End and Other Stories (1980) 153 exemplares
Mother Land (2017) 142 exemplares
The Black House (1974) 135 exemplares
The Imperial Way : By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong (1985) — Autor — 134 exemplares
Down the Yangtze (1995) 112 exemplares
Doctor Slaughter (1984) 110 exemplares
Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories (2014) 106 exemplares
Jungle Lovers (1971) — Autor — 104 exemplares
Sinning with Annie (1972) 98 exemplares
The Greenest Island (1995) 98 exemplares
Sailing Through China (1983) 97 exemplares
Girls at Play (1969) 90 exemplares
Under the Wave at Waimea (2021) 86 exemplares
A Christmas Card (1978) 83 exemplares
Fong and the Indians (1968) — Autor — 81 exemplares
Two Stars : (Pocket Penguins) (2005) 62 exemplares
The Bad Angel Brothers: A Novel (2022) 60 exemplares
The Mosquito Coast [1986 film] (1986) — Original Author — 60 exemplares
Murder in Mount Holly (2011) 57 exemplares
Burma Sahib (2024) 48 exemplares
London snow : a Christmas story (1980) 47 exemplares
Waldo (1967) 46 exemplares
Dr. Demarr (1990) 36 exemplares
Travelers' Tales GREECE : True Stories (2000) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Slow Trains to Simla (1996) 29 exemplares
The Collected Short Novels (1998) 25 exemplares
The Cold World 11 exemplares
Poems for Travellers (2019) 9 exemplares
Dispatches D1: In America (1656) 5 exemplares
Theroux Travel Mix 'n' Match 2 (1996) 4 exemplares
The White Man's Burden (1987) 4 exemplares
Action 3 exemplares
Grenzeloos (1999) 3 exemplares
O Outro Lado do Paraíso (2015) 3 exemplares
El arsenal de la familia (1979) 2 exemplares
The Widow 1 exemplar
Debaixo da Onda em Waimea (2023) 1 exemplar
Vakantieverhalen — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
VolPension 1 exemplar
China Passage 1 exemplar
A Game of Dice 1 exemplar
Camp Echo (2019) 1 exemplar
Leper Colony 1 exemplar
The Ozone 1 exemplar
El geólogo (2023) 1 exemplar
De benederivier 1 exemplar
The Wicked Coast 1 exemplar
The Furies 1 exemplar
The Consul's Files 1 exemplar

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The Secret Agent (1907) — Introdução, algumas edições6,531 exemplares
The Sheltering Sky (1949) — Introdução, algumas edições4,293 exemplares
The Comedians (1966) — Introdução, algumas edições2,681 exemplares
What Maisie Knew (1897) — Editor, algumas edições2,108 exemplares
The Worst Journey in the World (1922) — Introdução, algumas edições1,899 exemplares
Ali and Nino (1937) — Posfácio, algumas edições950 exemplares
The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897) — Introdução, algumas edições917 exemplares
Cape Cod (1865) — Introdução, algumas edições775 exemplares
Birthday Stories (2002) — Contribuidor — 454 exemplares
Telling Tales (2004) — Contribuidor — 344 exemplares
Bad Trips (1991) — Contribuidor — 232 exemplares
Granta 84: Over There: How America Sees the World (2004) — Contribuidor — 228 exemplares
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 213 exemplares
The Best American Travel Writing 2008 (2008) — Contribuidor — 211 exemplares
The Best American Essays 1994 (1994) — Contribuidor — 180 exemplares
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 175 exemplares
Granta 88: Mothers (2004) — Contribuidor — 163 exemplares
Granta 29: New World (1989) — Contribuidor — 151 exemplares
Granta 61: The Sea (1998) — Contribuidor — 148 exemplares
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Contribuidor — 147 exemplares
Granta 80: The Group (2002) — Contribuidor — 146 exemplares
Granta 48: Africa (1994) — Contribuidor — 143 exemplares
Granta 69: The Assassin (2000) — Contribuidor — 126 exemplares
Granta 44: The Last Place on Earth (1993) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares
Granta 53: News (1996) — Contribuidor — 124 exemplares
Granta 75: Brief Encounters (2001) — Contribuidor — 124 exemplares
The Best American Travel Writing 2012 (2012) — Contribuidor — 115 exemplares
Granta 40: The Womanizer (1992) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
The Norton Book of Travel (1987) — Contribuidor — 110 exemplares
Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places (1994) — Contribuidor — 105 exemplares
The Best American Travel Writing 2016 (2016) — Contribuidor — 98 exemplares
Granta 114: Aliens (2011) — Contribuidor — 94 exemplares
Granta 10: Travel Writing (1984) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 74 exemplares
Great American Mystery Stories of the 20th Century (1989) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
Anonymous Sex (2022) — Contribuidor — 61 exemplares
The Best American Magazine Writing 2007 (2007) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
Oxtravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (2011) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
Too Late to Turn Back (1938) — Introdução, algumas edições56 exemplares
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Realms of Darkness (1985) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
The Best American Magazine Writing 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Oxford Book of English Love Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
National Geographic Magazine 1984 v165 #6 June (1984) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Edge (2004) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Exotic Postcards: The Lure of Distant Lands (2007) — Introdução — 30 exemplares
National Geographic Magazine 1989 v176 #3 September (1989) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
National Geographic Magazine 1988 v173 #3 March (1988) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Sail Away: Stories of Escaping to Sea (2001) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Italie reisverhalen (2001) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Naar huis (1994) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Travelers' Tales CENTRAL AMERICA : True Stories (2002) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Fodor's railways of the world (1977) 13 exemplares
Visions of America (1600) — Prefácio, algumas edições13 exemplares
The Playboy Book of Short Stories (1995) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Reiskoorts : bekende schrijvers over de kunst van het reizen (1986) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Best Detective Stories of the Year - 1978 (1978) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Op reis met... — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Bruin's Midnight Reader (2021) — Contribuidor, algumas edições3 exemplares
Best Detective Stories 1980 (1980) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Mexico reisverhalen — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The best of Playboy fiction, Volume 7 (1997) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Thoroughly enjoyable: well written and insightful.
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sfj2 | 29 outras críticas | Mar 17, 2024 |
I found this novel less compelling than Theroux's travel writing.
 
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sfj2 | 39 outras críticas | Mar 10, 2024 |
This book only exists in Dutch; it is a compilation of short stories by Theroux. Travel stories obviously, as that is his genre most of the time. The stories come from two different volumes in English, ‘World’s End and Other Stories’ and ‘Sinning with Annie and Other Stories’.

Most stories seem to follow a similar pattern. Someone working abroad (journalist, aid workers, teachers) trying to find a life in a strange country. This is not easy, broken marriages and lonely people are the logical result.

I like reading Theroux, though I prefer his novels, where his characters get more depth.
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privaterevolution | Mar 4, 2024 |
Penguin 60’s. Nice little books to celebrate that Penguin has been around for 60 years, selling them for only 60 pence. Easily tempted as I am, obviously I bought a few of the 60 they offered. This was one of them. The main disadvantage of the few books in this series I have read, is the fact that the stories are almost never new. Mostly some old stories have been republished or chapters from books, now given their own ISBN.

Unfortunately this book was also familiar territory for me, if I remember well, straight from the Great Railway Bazaar. Luckily that book is a travel classic and it certainly isn’t a punishment to reread some of these stories. 3 short ones in this tiny book, my favourite the first one where Theroux is trying to find some diversion in Karachi.

Nice to read in the train.
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privaterevolution | 1 outra crítica | Mar 4, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
127
Also by
69
Membros
29,405
Popularidade
#681
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
604
ISBN
1,036
Línguas
21
Marcado como favorito
91

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