wyszukanych pozycji: 56
Alfred Hitchcock
ISBN: 9780099287667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Peter Ackroyd turns his gimlet eye to one of the twentieth century's most revered directors. Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century?As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of himself, drawing... Peter Ackroyd turns his gimlet eye to one of the twentieth century's most revered directors. Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, ... |
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79,17 zł |
Exile and Restoration: A Commentary
ISBN: 9780664223199 / Angielski / Miękka / 1968 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This study of sixth-century Hebrew thought, a part of the Old Testament Library series, grew out of Peter Ackroyd's influential Hulsean Lectures on the same topic. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing. This study of sixth-century Hebrew thought, a part of the Old Testament Library series, grew out of Peter Ackroyd's influential Hulsean Lectures on... |
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241,16 zł |
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time
ISBN: 9780099287575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An enormously enjoyable spooky collection of ghost-sightings over the centuries, full of the spirit of place, in true Ackroyd style.
The English, Peter Ackroyd tells us in this fascinating collection, see more ghosts than any other nation. Each region has its own particular spirits, from the Celtic ghosts of Cornwall to the dobies and boggarts of the north. Some speak and some are silent, some smell of old leather, others of fragrant thyme. From medieval times to today stories have been told and apparitions seen -- ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace, spooks who just... An enormously enjoyable spooky collection of ghost-sightings over the centuries, full of the spirit of place, in true Ackroyd style.
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65,99 zł |
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI
ISBN: 9781250861139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,43 zł |
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
ISBN: 9780099592945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population.
Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population.
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65,99 zł |
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
ISBN: 9780385497732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and...
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart ...
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91,48 zł |
Foundation: The History of England Volume I
ISBN: 9780330544283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The first volume in Peter Ackroyd's stunning new six-part history of England, taking us from Stonehenge to the death of Henry VII
The first volume in Peter Ackroyd's stunning new six-part history of England, taking us from Stonehenge to the death of Henry VII
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86,31 zł |
Venice
ISBN: 9780099422563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial -- a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice. In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lagoon. His account is at once romantic and packed with facts, conjuring up the atmosphere of the canals, bridges and sunlit squares, the churches and the markets, the fiestas and the flowers. He leads us through the history of the city, from the first...
Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial -- a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice. In this sumptuous visi...
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96,46 zł |
Hawksmoor
ISBN: 9780141042015 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . ....
'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with...
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50,76 zł |
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI
ISBN: 9781509896738 / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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86,31 zł |
Dominion: The History of England Volume V
ISBN: 9781509881321 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901. In it, Ackroyd takes us from the accession of the profligate George IV whose government was steered by Lord Liverpool, who was firmly set against reform, to the reign of his brother, William IV, the 'Sailor King', whose reign saw the...
'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England ...
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86,31 zł |
Shakespeare: The Biography
ISBN: 9780749386559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Peter Ackroyd s marvelous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare. He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary, meeting Shakespeare on his own ground. Written with intuition and imagination unique to Peter Ackroyd, this is a book by a writer about a writer, and a fascinating and detailed depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited."
Peter Ackroyd s marvelous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare. He creates an intimate and immediate connection with h...
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86,31 zł |
London: The Concise Biography
ISBN: 9780099570387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London, published to coincide with the London Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee. Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcast, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey -- historical, geographical and imaginative -- through the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence, fire and floods, crime and punishment, and sex and theatre. He brings the ever changing streets alive for the reader and shows us what lies beneath our feet and above...
An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London, published to coincide with the London Olympics and the Diamond Jub...
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105,63 zł |
The Chronicler in His Age
ISBN: 9780567001320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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175,56 zł |
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI
ISBN: 9780230706446 / Twarda / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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158,45 zł |
Revolution: The History of England Volume IV
ISBN: 9781509811472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The fourth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's History of England series.
The fourth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's History of England series.
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86,31 zł |
London: The Biography
ISBN: 9780385497718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Here are two thousand years of London s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all times of day and night, and in all kinds of weather. In well-chosen anecdotes, keen observations, and the words of hundreds of its citizens and visitors, Ackroyd reveals the... A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Here are two thousand years of London s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and pla... |
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116,42 zł |
Tudors: The History of England Volume II
ISBN: 9781447236818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England: the Tudors
The second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England: the Tudors
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86,31 zł |
Thames: Sacred River
ISBN: 9780099422556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Displaying the same qualities as London: The Biography scholarship, wit, anecdotes, spirit of place, narrative and character this hugely enjoyable book will be another mammoth bestseller.
Thames: Sacred River is a history of the river from source to sea from prehistoric times to the present. It covers the flora and fauna of the river, paintings and photographs inspired by the Thames, its geology, smells and colours, its literature, laws and landscape, its magic and myths, architecture, trade and weather. The reader learns about the fishes that swim in the river and the boats that ply... Displaying the same qualities as London: The Biography scholarship, wit, anecdotes, spirit of place, narrative and character this hugely enjoyable boo...
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132,04 zł |
Venedig
ISBN: 9783570554616 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2022 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die großartig erzählte Biografie eines einmaligen Sehnsuchtsorts
Alles an Venedig ist einmalig: die Lage, die Geschichte, die Bedeutung. Peter Ackroyd, der vielfach ausgezeichnete britische Schriftsteller, greift in seiner großartigen Biografie die mit dieser Stadt verbundenen Bilder und Emotionen auf und unterlegt sie mit zahllosen Fakten und überraschenden Informationen. Dabei spannt er den Bogen über sechzehn Jahrhunderte, von den ersten Bewohnern, die in der Lagune Zuflucht suchten, bis zu den Touristenströmen, die heute die Stadt überfluten. Alle beschwört er... Die großartig erzählte Biografie eines einmaligen Sehnsuchtsorts
Alles an Venedig ist einmalig: die Lage, die Geschichte, die Bedeutun... |
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90,30 zł |