wyszukanych pozycji: 31
Brodie's Report
ISBN: 9780143039259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including Unworthy and The Other Duel, are set in the macho Argentinean underworld, and even the rivalries between artists are suffused with suppressed violence. Throughout, opposing themes of fate and free will, loyalty and betrayal, time and memory flicker in the recesses of these compelling stories, among the best...
At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie s Report, he returned...
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76,92 zł |
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
ISBN: 9780143105299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The acclaimed translation of Borges's valedictory stories, in its first stand-alone edition
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life. Brilliantly translated, these stories combine a direct and at times almost colloquial style coupled with Borges's signature fantastic inventiveness. Containing such marvelous tales as "The Congress," "Undr," "The Mirror and the Mask," and "The Rose of... The acclaimed translation of Borges's valedictory stories, in its first stand-alone edition
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68,38 zł |
The Assault
ISBN: 9780140157185 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A passionate, epic writer, the author of Before Night Falls, concludes his five-novel sequence--a "secret history of Cuba" and a writer's autobiography--with this allegorical satire. Arenas paints a harrowing yet boldly entertaining Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people and the despair of an observer/narrator clinging to sanity.
A passionate, epic writer, the author of Before Night Falls, concludes his five-novel sequence--a "secret history of Cuba" and a writer's autobiograph...
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94,02 zł |
Islam in Spanish Literature: From the Middle Ages to the Present
ISBN: 9789004094604 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Islam in Spanish Literature is a sweeping reinterpretation of Spanish literature, taking as its given the enormous debt to Arab culture that Spain incurred through the eight centuries of Islamic presence on the Iberian Peninsula. This volume takes up the thread of the work of the Arabist Miguel Asin Palacios, the first to comment extensively upon the marked Islamic features in many Spanish classics. After an initial survey of the presence of Islam and Judaism in Spanish history and culture, succeeding chapters explore the Muslim context of Juan Ruiz, the author of the Libro de buen...
Islam in Spanish Literature is a sweeping reinterpretation of Spanish literature, taking as its given the enormous debt to Arab culture that Sp...
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980,90 zł |
Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements
ISBN: 9781032084145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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207,43 zł |
Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements
ISBN: 9780367421595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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700,25 zł |
Selected Writings (Dario, Ruben)
ISBN: 9780143039365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Born in Nicaragua, Ruben Dario is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Seeking a language and a style that would distinguish the newly emergent nations from the old imperial power of Spain, Dario's writing offered a refreshingly new vision of the world--an artistic sensibility at once cosmopolitan and connected to the rhythms of nature. The first part of this collection presents Dario's most significant poems in a bilingual format and organized thematically in the way...
Born in Nicaragua, Ruben Dario is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to ...
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115,38 zł |
Legacies: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780374517366 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Legacies is the author's own selection from his work, and represents the many facets of Padilla's art: his lyrical love poems, his almost Audenesque meditations on other poets, his deceptively simple verses about history. Legacies is the author's own selection from his work, and represents the many facets of Padilla's art: his lyrical love poems, his almost Audenesqu... |
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76,92 zł |
Hallucinations: Or, the Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
ISBN: 9780142000199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunderstood prophet, prisoner, and consummate escape artist wanders among the vice-ridden populations of eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas, fleeing dungeons, a marriage-minded woman, a slave ship captain, and the Inquisition. Whether by burro, by boat, or by the back of a whale, Fray Servando s journey is at once funny and...
In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern mast...
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106,84 zł |
Collected Fictions
ISBN: 9780140286809 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century collected in a single volume For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century collected i... |
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119,66 zł |
Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories
ISBN: 9781910463734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories. Eight authors were given after hours freedom at their chosen English heritage site. Immersed in the history, atmosphere and rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories.
Rooted in place, slipping between worlds - a rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories. Eight authors were given after hours freedom ...
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80,99 zł |