wyszukanych pozycji: 38
Worum es wirklich geht : Stories
ISBN: 9783869151908 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2019 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. "Es sind unsere Geschichten, die uns wiedererschaffen, wenn wir zerrissen, verwundet, ja vernichtet sind." Doris Lessing
"Es sind unsere Geschichten, die uns wiedererschaffen, wenn wir zerrissen, verwundet, ja vernichtet sind." Doris Lessing
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90,30 zł |
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell: A Psychological Thriller
ISBN: 9780307390615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.
Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory... In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amne...
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83,16 zł |
The Golden Notebook
ISBN: 9780008553814 / Miękka / 2022 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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55,83 zł |
Adore
ISBN: 9780062318961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs . . . Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fall in love with each other's teenage sons--taboo-shattering passions that last for years, until the women end them, vowing to have a respectable old age. With Adore, Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, once again proves her unrivaled ability to capture the truth of the human condition. Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs . . . Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretch... |
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54,01 zł |
Shikasta
ISBN: 9780006547198 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The first in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
The first in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary account...
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65,99 zł |
Love Again
ISBN: 9780060927967 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her sanity. Widowed for many years, with grown children, Sarah is a writer who works in the theater in London. During the production of a play, she falls in love with a seductive young actor, the beautiful and androgynous 28-year-old Bill, and then with the more mature 35-year-old director Henry. Finding herself in a state of longing and desire that she had thought was the province of younger women, Sarah is compelled to explore and examine her own personal history of love, from her... Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her sanity. Widowed for many years, with gr... |
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74,80 zł |
Afrikanische Tragödie, 1 Audio-CD, 1 MP3
ISBN: 9783742432094 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In ärmlichen Verhältnissen im Süden Afrikas aufgewachsen, heiratet Mary einen Farmer. Doch das weiße Paar hat sich wenig zu sagen, und der finanzielle Ruin rückt Jahr für Jahr näher. Als ein schwarzer Farmarbeiter als Diener ins Haus geholt wird, wird Mary für ihr rassistisches Verhalten bestraft. »Afrikanische Tragödie« erzählt nicht nur die Geschichte einer missglückten Ehe, sondern demonstriert die erstickende Kraft kolonialer Herrschaft in Rhodesien, dem heutigen Simbabwe. Eva Mattes liest den 1950 erschienenen Debütroman von Doris Lessing, die selbst in Rhodesien aufwuchs...
In ärmlichen Verhältnissen im Süden Afrikas aufgewachsen, heiratet Mary einen Farmer. Doch das weiße Paar hat sich wenig zu sagen, und der finanzi...
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67,73 zł |
Das Leben meiner Mutter, MP3-CD : Lesung mit Katharina Thalbach (1 mp3-CD), Lesung. MP3 Format
ISBN: 9783742402158 / Niemiecki / Audio (mc/cd) / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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67,73 zł |
Ghas Ga Rahi Hai
ISBN: 9788172239190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,16 zł |
The Fifth Child
ISBN: 9780586089033 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.
A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.
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45,68 zł |
The Summer Before the Dark
ISBN: 9780307390622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age.
As the summer begins, Kate Brown--attractive, intelligent, forty-five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children--has no reason to expect that anything will change. But by summer's end the woman she was--living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring--no longer exists. The Summer Before the Dark""takes us along on Kate's journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband... Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth...
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87,32 zł |
Das Leben meiner Mutter
ISBN: 9783803128690 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Es ist die Geschichte einer gegenseitigen Verletzung, die Doris Lessing in diesen Erinnerungen aufgezeichnet hat, nüchtern und konkret, ohne in den Tonfall einer Abrechnung zu verfallen: »Ich versuchte unentwegt, mich dem Verlangen meiner Mutter zu entziehen, ich solle klüger als alle anderen sein.«Die Tochter, die in der Tat klüger werden sollte als viele andere, denkt zurück an den kolonialen Alltag im Rhodesien der dreißiger Jahre, an das Dasein ihrer Mutter und an sich selbst, »das Idealbild einer schwierigen Heranwachsenden«. Sie beschreibt, wie unerträglich ihre Mutter war und...
Es ist die Geschichte einer gegenseitigen Verletzung, die Doris Lessing in diesen Erinnerungen aufgezeichnet hat, nüchtern und konkret, ohne in den T...
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54,18 zł |
African Stories
ISBN: 9781476767154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's best collection of short stories, African Stories--a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer--is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a brilliant portrait of African life. This is Doris Lessing's Africa--where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here in these stories, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of life in Africa. First published in 1965, and out of...
Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's best collection of short stories, African Stories--a central book in the work of a truly bel...
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83,16 zł |
Alfred and Emily
ISBN: 9780060834890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Alfred and Emily is an intimate and revealing book by Doris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, that explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. After beginning with a novella that portrays the happier life her parents would have led had there been no war, Lessing proceeds to tell the story of their marriage as it actually was in this "intriguing work . . . that] shimmers with precisely remembered details." (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)
Alfred and Emily is an intimate and revealing book by Doris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The G...
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62,33 zł |
To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories Volume One
ISBN: 9780007143009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The grande dame of English Literature -- some of her most perceptive, most revelatory stories, beautifully repackaged For more than four decades, Doris Lessing's work has observed the passion and confusion of human relations, holding a mirror up to our selves in her unflinching dissection of the everyday. From the magnificent 'To Room Nineteen', a study of a dry, controlled middle class marriage 'grounded in intelligence', to the shocking 'A Woman on the Roof', where a workman becomes obsessed with a pretty sunbather, this superb collection of stories, written over four decades, from the...
The grande dame of English Literature -- some of her most perceptive, most revelatory stories, beautifully repackaged For more than four decades, Dori...
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76,15 zł |
The Grass is Singing
ISBN: 9780007498802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set in Rhodesia, 'The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm. But after many years, trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny house, the lonely and frightened Mary turns to Moses, the black cook, for kindness and understanding.
Set in Rhodesia, 'The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and v...
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45,68 zł |
The Good Terrorist: A Thriller
ISBN: 9780307389961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpected challenges in their quest to incite social change against complacency and capitalism. With a nuanced sense of the intersections between the personal and the political, Nobel laureate Doris Lessing creates in The Good Terrorist a compelling portrait of domesticity and rebellion.
The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA...
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83,16 zł |
A Ripple from the Storm
ISBN: 9780060976644 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.
A Ripple from the Storm is the third novel in... Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English la...
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70,64 zł |
Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child
ISBN: 9780060934651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultuous search for his people, a reason for his being. How the world receives him, and, he fares in it will horrify and captivate until the novel's dramatic finale. At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his... |
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70,64 zł |
The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches
ISBN: 9780060924171 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expect of Doris Lessing. Most of the piece are set in contemporary London, a city the author loves for its variety, its diversity, its transitoriness, the way it connects the life of animals and birds in the parks to the streets. Lessing's fiction also explores the darker corners of relationships between women and men, as in the rich and emotionally complex title story, in which she uncovers a more parlous reality behind the facade of the most... The stories and sketches in this collection penetrate to the heart of human experience with the passion and intelligence readers have come to expec... |
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70,64 zł |