wyszukanych pozycji: 31
Universal History of Iniquity
ISBN: 9780142437896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge. Sparkling with the sheer exuberant pleasure of story-telling, this collection marked the emergence of an utterly distinctive literary voice. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With...
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful...
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91,25 zł |
The Aleph and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780142437889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father s killer, and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his...
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny in...
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74,66 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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91,25 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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958,56 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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676,01 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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200,25 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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103,69 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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124,43 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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74,66 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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116,13 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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78,59 zł |