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Modern American Women Writers
ISBN: 9780020820253 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Modern American Women Writers" is a rich examination of how the lives of thirty-two of America's leading writers shaped the literature they produced. The essays in this book are by the best scholars in the field of women's studies and combine illuminating biographical detail with thoughtful discussions of each author's work. Based on the acclaimed hardcover, this concise edition of "Modern American Women Writers" is a unique look at a century of women's contributions to the American literary tradition. As the distinguished feminist critic Elaine Showalter says in the introduction, "Women...
"Modern American Women Writers" is a rich examination of how the lives of thirty-two of America's leading writers shaped the literature they produced....
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130,60 zł |
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Dark Symphony
ISBN: 9780029095409 / Angielski / Miękka / 1968 / 628 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ninety-one selections from major Negro writings of the 19th and 20th centuries prefaced by an introduction to each author.
Ninety-one selections from major Negro writings of the 19th and 20th centuries prefaced by an introduction to each author.
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130,83 zł |
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Twenties
ISBN: 9780029147801 / Angielski / Miękka / 1965 / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Synopsis coming soon.......
Synopsis coming soon.......
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125,34 zł |
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Theory of the Novel
ISBN: 9780029314906 / Angielski / Miękka / 1967 / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A definitive study compiled from essays written by many noted authors on the various facets of the art of the novel.
A definitive study compiled from essays written by many noted authors on the various facets of the art of the novel.
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114,87 zł |
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The Centre of Things : Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present
ISBN: 9780044455929 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review
This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review
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94,06 zł |
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The Centre of Things : Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present
ISBN: 9780044455936 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review
This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review
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193,70 zł |
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Agnes's Final Afternoon: An Essay on the Work of Milan Kundera
ISBN: 9780060005658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Agnes's Final Afternoon imitates the protagonist of Milan Kundera's novel Immortality on the last afternoon of her life. Like all readers of fiction, Agnes steps out of the world of planned routes, responsibilities, and social self and gives herself up to the discovery of a new landscape, an experience that will transform her. Francois Ricard's essay enters into the writings of Milan Kundera in much the same way. The landscape he explores includes a chain of ten novels, composed between 1959 and 1999, and two books containing one of the most lucid reflections on the... Agnes's Final Afternoon imitates the protagonist of Milan Kundera's novel Immortality on the last afternoon of her life. Like all... |
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78,45 zł |
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Practical Virtues: Readings, Sermons, Prayers, and Hymns for the African American Family
ISBN: 9780060090616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As pastors of one of New York City's largest churches, Reverend Floyd Flake and his wife, Reverend M. Elaine McCollins Flake, are frequently sought after by those in need of guidance. Throughout their ministry, the Flakes have drawn from a distinguished array of stories, letters, hymns, narratives, and poems -- from James Baldwin and Maya Angelou to Arthur Ashe and Colin Powell -- to inspire families to live ethically in an often unethical world. Now, with Practical Virtues, they've gathered their favorites into a single, indispensable collection, paired with spiritual exercises... As pastors of one of New York City's largest churches, Reverend Floyd Flake and his wife, Reverend M. Elaine McCollins Flake, are frequently sought... |
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78,45 zł |
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Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings
ISBN: 9780060512767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin's writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson to Emily Dickinson to James Wright and Joyce Carol Oates -- including such unexpected figures as Lincoln, William James, and Thorstein Veblen. This son of Russian Jews wrote out of the tensions of the outsider and the astute, outspoken leftist -- or, as he put it, "the bitter patriotism of loving what one knows." Editor Ted Solotaroff hasselected material from Kazin's three classic memoirs to accompany his critical writings. Alfred Kazin's America... Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin's writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson to Emily Dickinson ... |
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84,06 zł |
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Read 'em and Weep: A Bedside Poker Companion
ISBN: 9780060559595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Poker is much more than just a popular game. It is a world unto itself, populated with a multitude of colorful characters: professionals and amateurs, hustlers and dreamers. This royal flush of a collection brings together short stories, essays, poems, and excerpts from novels by a host of renowned writers -- from the Wild West to present day -- who have mined their personal experience of the game. Entertaining and enlightening, you'll want to ante up for Read 'Em and Weep. With pieces by ... Nelson Algren Poker is much more than just a popular game. It is a world unto itself, populated with a multitude of colorful characters: professionals and amateu... |
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65,18 zł |
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Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities
ISBN: 9780060562083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemaking, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new millennium. Her novels are read and adored by millions around the world, and with Under the Duvet, Marian Keyes tackles the world of nonfiction. These are her collected pieces: regular bulletins from the woman writing under the covers. Marian loves shoes and her LTFs (Long-Term Friends), hates realtors and lost luggage, and... From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writin... |
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74,72 zł |
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Beowulf: An Updated Verse Translation
ISBN: 9780060573782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A verse translation of the first great narrative poem in the English language that captures the feeling and tone of the original. A verse translation of the first great narrative poem in the English language that captures the feeling and tone of the original. |
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46,68 zł |
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Every Book Its Reader : The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
ISBN: 9780060593247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have -made things happen- in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of countless influential people. In his fifth work to examine a specific aspect of book culture, Basbanes also asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass,... Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas... |
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74,72 zł |
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The Art of Reading Poetry
ISBN: 9780060769666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A paperback original, Bloom's stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom's poetry anthology The Best Poems English Language is his lengthy introductory essay, here reprinted as a separate book. For the first time Bloom gives his readers an elegant guide to reading poetry--a master critic's distillation of a lifetime of teaching and criticism. He tackles such subjects as poetic voice, the nature of metaphor and allusion, and the nature of poetic value itself. Bloom writes -the work of great poetry is to aid... A paperback original, Bloom's stand-alone introduction to The Best Poems of the English Language. A notable feature of Harold Bloom... |
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46,68 zł |
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Reading Like a Writer : A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
ISBN: 9780060777050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading Like a Writer, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers—Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov—and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of... Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors a... |
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79,39 zł |
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No Other Book: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780060956387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's leading American men of letters. Although he saw himself chiefly as a poet, publishing a number of books of poetry, he also left behind a sparkling comic novel, four children's books, numerous translations, haunting letters, and four collections of essays. Edited by Brad Leithauser, No Other Bookdraws from these four essay collections, reminding us that Jarell the poet was also, in the words of Robert Lowell, "a critic of genius."
Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's ...
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88,70 zł |
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The Truth Will Out
ISBN: 9780061146497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For more than 150 years, academics have questioned how William Shakespeare of Stratford--a man with limited schooling who apparently never traveled abroad--wrote such a rich body of work said to draw on the largest vocabulary of any writer in the English language. Motivated by scholarship, Shakespeare historian Brenda James set out to uncover the truth behind literature's greatest mystery. The Truth Will Out is the culmination of James's search, a book five years in the making that details the intensive research, painstaking deciphering, and remarkable historical detection... For more than 150 years, academics have questioned how William Shakespeare of Stratford--a man with limited schooling who apparently never traveled... |
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79,20 zł |
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Damage Control: Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies
ISBN: 9780061175350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Traditionally, women share their secrets with their hairdressers. But what about their manicurists, masseurs, chi gong teachers, and tattoo artists? In Damage Control, women wax poetic about the experts and gurus who help them love themselves, sharing stories of everything from friendships born in the make-up chair to the utter dismay of a truly horrible haircut. Minnie Driver finally meets a Frenchman who understands her hair . . . and tries to teach her not to hate it. Marian Keyes remembers the blow-dry that pushed her over the edge. Francesca Lia Block tells... Traditionally, women share their secrets with their hairdressers. But what about their manicurists, masseurs, chi gong teachers, and tattoo artists... |
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65,18 zł |
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The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler: And English Summer: A Gothic Romance
ISBN: 9780061227448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. During a period of twenty years--from his start as a young writer for H. L. Mencken's classic pulp magazine The Black Mask in the early 1930s, through the publication of his novels The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely, to his career as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s--Raymond Chandler kept a series of private notebooks. Drawn from those journals, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler offers an intimate view of the writer at work, revealing early ideas, descriptions, and anecdotes that would later be used in The Long Goodbye, The Blue... During a period of twenty years--from his start as a young writer for H. L. Mencken's classic pulp magazine The Black Mask in the early 19... |
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79,39 zł |
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The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach
ISBN: 9780062730244 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A distinctive collection of more than 90 effective poetry-writing exercises combined with corresponding essays to inspire writers of all levels. A distinctive collection of more than 90 effective poetry-writing exercises combined with corresponding essays to inspire writers of all levels. |
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79,39 zł |