ilość książek w kategorii: 52773
Golden Country
ISBN: 9780156034371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. **DEBUT FICTION**
Golden Country vividly brings to life the intertwining stories of three immigrants seeking their fortunes: the handsome and ambitious Seymour, a salesman turned gangster turned Broadway producer; the gentle and pragmatic Joseph, a door-to-door salesman who is driven to invent a cleanser effective enough to wipe away the shame of his brother's mob connections; and the irresistible Frances Gold, who grows up in Brooklyn, stars in Seymour's first show, and marries the man who invents television. Their three families, though inextricably connected for years, are brought... **DEBUT FICTION**
Golden Country vividly brings to life the intertwining stories of three immigrants seeking their fortunes: the handsome and ambi... |
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77,26 zł |
Sepharad
ISBN: 9780156034746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From one of Spain's most celebrated writers comes an extraordinary, inspired book--at once fiction, history, and memoir--that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a 20th-century story.
From one of Spain's most celebrated writers comes an extraordinary, inspired book--at once fiction, history, and memoir--that draws on the Sephardic d...
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94,27 zł |
The Delight Makers: A Novel of Prehistoric Pueblo Indians
ISBN: 9780156252645 / Angielski / Miękka / 1971 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The author, an archaeologist who spent eight years among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, provides in fictional form an invaluable reconstruction of prehistoric Indian culture of the Southwest. Introduction by Stefan Jovanovich.
The author, an archaeologist who spent eight years among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, provides in fictional form an invaluable reconstruction of p...
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139,58 zł |
Season in Purgatory
ISBN: 9780156798501 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During World War II, David Pelham, a young British surgeon, parachutes into Yugoslavia and sets up a hospital to aid Tito's army. There he meets-and loves-the fiery Moja Javich, a resourceful partisan. Their love gives Pelham the strength to endure the atrocities of war as he seeks to avoid capture. Keneally has vigorously fleshed out "a bloody good novel" (Washington Post).
During World War II, David Pelham, a young British surgeon, parachutes into Yugoslavia and sets up a hospital to aid Tito's army. There he meets-and l...
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72,80 zł |
Tidewater Dynasty: A Biographical Novel of the Lees of Stratford Hall
ISBN: 9780156903363 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Tom Lee to Robert E. Lee, who made the fateful decision to turn from the nation he loved to defend the state he loved more, the Lees of Virginia dominated both their local and our national landscape.
From Tom Lee to Robert E. Lee, who made the fateful decision to turn from the nation he loved to defend the state he loved more, the Lees of Virginia ...
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81,55 zł |
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
ISBN: 9780156996938 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.
The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis,...
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72,96 zł |
Juan de la Rosa: Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement
ISBN: 9780195113280 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation.
Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and... Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivi...
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107,46 zł |
The Battle of Tomochic: Memoirs of a Second Lieutenant
ISBN: 9780195117431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tomochic is a controversial and celebrated example of Mexican fiction. Tomochic is the fictional narration of the 1892 military campaign that resulted in the massacre of the small village of Tomochic, located in the Tarahumara mountains and ordered by the dictatorial regime of Porfirio Diaz. The work is narrated by an eyewitness, the then second lieutenant, Heriberto Frias, and written by him in collaboration with Joaquin Clausell, editor of the newspaper which published it in serial form between March and April of 1893. For a period after the series' publication, the author chose to maintain...
Tomochic is a controversial and celebrated example of Mexican fiction. Tomochic is the fictional narration of the 1892 military campaign that resulted...
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73,72 zł |
The Curse of Caste; Or the Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel by Julia C. Collins
ISBN: 9780195301601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The first novel ever published by a black American woman, it is set in antebellum Louisiana and Connecticut, and focuses on the lives of a beautiful mixed-race mother and daughter whose opportunities for fulfillment through love and marriage are threatened by slavery and caste prejudice. The text shares much with popular...
In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, ...
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73,72 zł |
Rangbhumi
ISBN: 9780195667127 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Premchand is one of the most outstanding figures in twentieth-century Hindi literature. The inhumanity of caste hierarchies and the plight of women stirred his indignation and remained constant themes throughout his works. Of his many novels, Rangbhumi depicts most graphically the devastation of peasant society and agriculture under colonial rule.
Premchand is one of the most outstanding figures in twentieth-century Hindi literature. The inhumanity of caste hierarchies and the plight of women st...
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228,19 zł |
The Rustlers of Pecos County
ISBN: 9781517257514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Texas. They took the most contrary bunch of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists rascals, and politicians, jumbled them together, and somehow formed a state. They called it Texas, but for defenseless women and children, it was hell. Texas Rangers. Although they were outnumbered a thousand to one, the Texas Rangers fought a holding action against the complete breakdown of law and order, often paying for peace with their lives. But one county held out against attack after attack, a place so mean that a saint would have turned bad. Into this valley of death...
Texas. They took the most contrary bunch of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists rascals, and politicians, jumb...
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49,51 zł |
The Memory of Elephants
ISBN: 9780226143811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Spurned by his first love, Homi Seervai, the Parsi genius from Bombay, creates a machine that lets him scan his brain for memories of the time he spent with her. The machine malfunctions, propelling him instead into his collective unconscious where he encounters ancestors and relatives, both dead and alive. In this wildly inventive book available for the first time in the United States Homi, blessed with the memory of elephants, discovers the splendor of his heritage as well as hope for the future.
" Spurned by his first love, Homi Seervai, the Parsi genius from Bombay, creates a machine that lets him scan his brain for memories of the time he spen...
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128,52 zł |
Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
ISBN: 9780226310985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2004 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Seems Like Murder Here offers a revealing new account of the blues tradition. Far from mere laments about lost loves and hard times, the blues emerge in this provocative study as vital responses to spectacle lynchings and the violent realities of African American life in the Jim Crow South. With brilliant interpretations of both classic songs and literary works, from the autobiographies of W. C. Handy, David Honeyboy Edwards, and B. B. King to the poetry of Langston Hughes and the novels...
Winner of the 2004 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Seems Like Murder Here offers a revealing n...
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171,36 zł |
Loving Little Egypt
ISBN: 9780226561097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In the early 1920s, nearly blind physics prodigy Mourly Vold finds out how to tap into the nation's long distance telephone lines. With the help of Alexander Graham Bell, Vold tries to warn the phone companies that would-be saboteurs could do the same thing, but they ignore him. Unfortunately, his taps do catch the notice of William Randolph Hearst, who hires Thomas Edison to get to the bottom of them and the chase is on
" In the early 1920s, nearly blind physics prodigy Mourly Vold finds out how to tap into the nation's long distance telephone lines. With the help of Al...
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128,52 zł |
Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry
ISBN: 9780226561103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. What was life like for the scientists working at Los Alamos? Thomas McMahon imagines this life through the wide eyes of young Tim MacLaurin, the thirteen-year-old son of an MIT physicist who, inspired by a young woman named Maryann, worked on the project. Filled with the sensuous excitement of scientific discovery and the outrageous behavior of people pushed beyond their limits, "Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry" is a beautifully written coming-of-age story that explores the mysterious connections between love and work, inspiration and history.
What was life like for the scientists working at Los Alamos? Thomas McMahon imagines this life through the wide eyes of young Tim MacLaurin, the thirt...
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128,52 zł |
McKay's Bees
ISBN: 9780226561110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855 with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees-undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly-minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war.
Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855 with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising...
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123,17 zł |
Scanderbeide: The Heroic Deeds of George Scanderbeg, King of Epirus
ISBN: 9780226735085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The first historical heroic epic authored by a woman, "Scanderbeide" recounts the exploits of fifteenth-century Albanian warrior-prince George Scanderbeg and his war of resistance against the Ottoman sultanate. Filled with scenes of intense and suspenseful battles contrasted with romantic episodes, "Scanderbeide" combines the action and fantasy characteristic of the genre with analysis of its characters motivations. In selecting a military campaign as her material and epic poetry as her medium, Margherita Sarrocchi (1560? 1617) not only engages in the masculine subjects of political conflict...
The first historical heroic epic authored by a woman, "Scanderbeide" recounts the exploits of fifteenth-century Albanian warrior-prince George Scander...
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171,36 zł |
Six Days in Marapore
ISBN: 9780226743196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this swiftly paced and lyrical novel about British expatriates at the time of Indian independence, Paul Scott grapples with the themes of race, possession, and history that dominate all four novels of his masterpiece, "The Raj Quartet," especially "The Jewel in the Crown." As always, Scott fills his book with vivid characters: the seductive, bigoted war widow; the sophisticated, wily Hindu politician; and the athletic young American who only gradually begins to understand the legacy of pain and hatred veiling the woman he has come to rescue. Set against the backdrop of a nation in violent...
In this swiftly paced and lyrical novel about British expatriates at the time of Indian independence, Paul Scott grapples with the themes of race, pos...
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61,58 zł |
The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown Volume 1
ISBN: 9780226743400 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. No set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule--"two nations locked in an imperial embrace"--as Paul Scott's historical tour de force, The Raj Quartet. The Jewel in the Crown opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for independence. On the night after the Indian Congress Party votes to support Ghandi, riots break out and an ambitious police sargeant arrests a young Indian for the alleged rape of the woman they both love.
No set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule--"two nations locked in an imperial embrace"--as Paul Scott's historica...
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80,33 zł |
Staying On
ISBN: 9780226743493 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj and give voice to the loneliness, rage, and stubborn affection in their marriage. Staying On won the Booker Prize in 1977 and was made into a motion picture starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in 1979.
"Staying On... In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives the...
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69,62 zł |