wyszukanych pozycji: 57
A Meeting by the River
ISBN: 9780099561095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Two English brothers meet, after a long separation, in India. Oliver prepares to take his final vows as a Hindu monk. Patrick has publicly admired his brother's convictions while privately criticizing his choices.
Two English brothers meet, after a long separation, in India. Oliver prepares to take his final vows as a Hindu monk. Patrick has publicly admired his...
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50,87 zł |
Goodbye to Berlin
ISBN: 9781784878108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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45,78 zł |
Die Welt am Abend : Roman
ISBN: 9783455405828 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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108,61 zł |
A Single Man
ISBN: 9780099548829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Christopher Isherwood explores the character of a middle-aged Englishman living in California: a professor alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality and from the rest of society by his homosexuality.
Christopher Isherwood explores the character of a middle-aged Englishman living in California: a professor alienated from his students by differences ...
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50,87 zł |
Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family
ISBN: 9780374180973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the last decades before World War I It is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents, the winsome and lively daughter of a successful wine merchant and the reticent, artistically gifted soldier-son of a country squire. They met in 1895 outside a music rehearsal in an army camp and married in 1903 after Christopher's father returned from the Boer War. Frank was killed in an assault near Ypres in 1915; Kathleen remained a widow for the rest of her life. Their story is told through... Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the last decades before World War I It is the ... |
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84,89 zł |
The Berlin Novels
ISBN: 9780749397029 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Piquant, witty and oblique, Christopher Isherwood's 'Berlin' novels vividly evoke the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin whilst forcefully conveying an ironic political parable. This volume features 'Mr Norris Changes Trains' and 'Goodbye to Berlin'.
Piquant, witty and oblique, Christopher Isherwood's 'Berlin' novels vividly evoke the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin whilst forcefully conveying an iron...
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76,32 zł |
My Guru and His Disciple
ISBN: 9780099561231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. This title tells his story.
In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed...
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66,14 zł |
Prater Violet
ISBN: 9780099561132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood's job is to rescue the script of a sentimental love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called "Prater Violet".
An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. I...
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50,87 zł |
Mein Guru und sein Schüler
ISBN: 9783455016543 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Isherwoods letztes und persönlichstes Buch: Am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs reist der überzeugte Pazifist Isherwood nach Kalifornien, um die überkommenen linksintellektuellen Ãœberzeugungen, die die Welt an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt haben, hinter sich zu lassen und ein neues Mindset zu finden. Er trifft auf Swami Prabhavananda, einen hinduistischen Mönch, der von nun an sein spiritueller Begleiter sein wird. Es folgt ein Leben zwischen den Extremen: Nächtliche Trinkgelage, freie Liebe und Hollywoods Glamour-Welt wechseln sich ab mit Meditation und Abstinenz - ein beständiges... Isherwoods letztes und persönlichstes Buch: Am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs reist der überzeugte Pazifist Isherwood nach Kalifornien, um die Ã... |
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126,71 zł |
Isherwood on Writing: The Complete Lectures in California
ISBN: 9781517914318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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123,24 zł |
All the Conspirators
ISBN: 9780099561064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary.
Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by wh...
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50,87 zł |
Lauter gute Absichten : Roman
ISBN: 9783455405835 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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99,56 zł |
Liberation : Diaries Vol 3
ISBN: 9780099575474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, the author journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the Grand Old Man of Gay Liberation. This title unearths the family demons that haunted his fugitive youth.
'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, the author journeyed and changed with his century, until, by t...
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102,69 zł |
Down There on a Visit
ISBN: 9780099561088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Interweaving semi-autobiography with fiction, and taking the reader through relationships with 4 very different men, from 1930s Germany and prewar Greece to decadent Hollywood, Isherwood provides a black and witty portrait of the writer abroad.
Interweaving semi-autobiography with fiction, and taking the reader through relationships with 4 very different men, from 1930s Germany and prewar Gre...
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55,97 zł |
Nur zu Besuch
ISBN: 9783455405859 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2021 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Isherwoods bester Roman. Ein unwiderstehliches Buch. New York Times Isherwoods bester Roman. Ein unwiderstehliches Buch. New York Times |
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131,24 zł |
Liberation Diaries, Volume Three: 1970-1983
ISBN: 9780062084767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the period of his life when he wrote Kathleen and Frank, his first intensely personal book, Liberation: Diaries 1970-1983 intimately and wittily records Isherwood's immersion in the 1970s art scene in Los Angeles, New York, and London--a world peopled by the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and David Hockney, as well as his Broadway writing career, which brought him in touch with John Huston, Merchant and Ivory,... Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the p... |
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80,81 zł |
The Memorial: Portrait of a Family
ISBN: 9780374533465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood, the Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy of his father's roguish friend who survived the war and afterward threw himself into gay life. Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the novel in which a... Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tr... |
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80,85 zł |
Praterveilchen : Roman
ISBN: 9783455405316 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2015 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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81,46 zł |
Prater Violet
ISBN: 9780374535247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. ""Prater Violet" is the most charming novel I have read in a long time." Diana Trilling ""Prater Violet" is the most charming novel I have read in a long time." Diana Trilling |
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88,94 zł |
Goodbye to Berlin
ISBN: 9780749390549 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of a series of individuals.
Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of ...
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50,87 zł |