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Diese Serie entführt die Leser in eine Welt voller starker Ambitionen und erbitterter Konkurrenz, in der Charaktere danach streben, den Gipfel ihrer jeweiligen Fachgebiete zu erreichen. Erleben Sie ihre Reisen voller dramatischer Wendungen, persönlicher Opfer und unermüdlicher harter Arbeit auf ihrem Weg zum ultimativen Erfolg. Es ist eine fesselnde Erzählung über das Überwinden von Hindernissen und das Definieren, was es bedeutet, an der Spitze zu triumphieren. Machen Sie sich bereit für spannende Dramen, die die Grenzen menschlicher Ausdauer und Bestrebungen auf die Probe stellen.

John Braine, Room at the top
Room at the Top
Life at the Top

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  • In John Braine's remarkable first novel, Room at the Top (1957), he introduced readers to Joe Lampton, a ruthlessly ambitious young working-class man determined to reach the top at any cost. The book became a defining novel of the decade, selling over a million copies and being adapted for an Oscar-winning film. In Life at the Top (1962), we meet Joe again ten years later, after he has gotten everything he thought he wanted: an upper-class wife, a nice house, a sports car, two children, and a job at the premier firm in town. But despite all his material possessions, Joe's life is strangely empty. His boss treats him with disrespect, his son despises him, and his wife is having an affair. Consumed with a growing anger and discontentment, Joe becomes desperate to escape the life he has created for himself. When he falls in love with the pretty Norah Hauxley, is it a chance to break free and start a new life, or will it prove to be just one more illusory promise of happiness?

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