wyszukanych pozycji: 62
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: A special edition of the feminist cult classic
ISBN: 9781784878689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780099588115 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves, the author has created a collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves, the author has creat...
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Love
ISBN: 9780099594215 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and lost connections. This revised edition evokes the ebb of the 1960s, and includes an afterword which describes the progress of the survivors into the anguish of middle age.
Charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alien...
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
ISBN: 9780141192390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Angela Carter's 'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman' was first published in 1972, and is a magical, satirical adventure.
Angela Carter's 'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman' was first published in 1972, and is a magical, satirical adventure.
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Black Venus
ISBN: 9780099480716 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from the author's imagination. She also wrote Nights at the Circus, The Magic Toyshop and Shadow Dance.
A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Bo...
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47,10 |
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A Souvenir of Japan
ISBN: 9781529983722 / Angielski / Miękka / 02-07-2026 / 176 str. Książka dostępna od: 02-07-2026 |
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Heroes and Villains
ISBN: 9780140234640 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization while the superstitious Barbarians constantly attack them. The Barbarians are in turn attacked by the deformed and diseased Out People, who struggle to survive in a netherworld of incinerated cities. When Marianne, a Professor's daughter, is kidnapped to become the captive bride of the Barbarian Jewel, a dangerous, erotic love story begins. For as Marianne gives herself over to the exotic life of the jungle, she also begins to discover her own...
After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization whil...
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Saints and Strangers
ISBN: 9780140089738 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "An absolutely unique voice...It would be an impertinence to call these eight delightful concoctions stories...A virtuoso Mendelssohn of fiction." -- The New York Times Book Review Drawing on American history, literary legend, and folk tale, Angela Carter transports us to that shadowy country between fact and myth in this book of short stories. Lizzy Borden, the spinster daughter of a glutton and a compulsive miser, ticks off the hours before a murder. An eighteenth-century whore and pickpocket who runs off to join the Indians tells her story in a voice of bawdy authenticity....
"An absolutely unique voice...It would be an impertinence to call these eight delightful concoctions stories...A virtuoso Mendelssohn of fiction." -- ...
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Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Stories
ISBN: 9780140103717 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Elizabeth Jolley's "The Last Crop," a seemingly guileless woman cons a man out of his land. In Leonora Carrinton's "The Debutante," a young girl sends a hyena to her coming-out ball, with disastrous results. The title character in Frances Towers's "Violet" uses her talent for witchcraft with wicked intention. Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" faces a litany of her mother's strictures and admonishments, and Suniti Namjoshi's bittersweet fables suggest that nothing a woman does will ever be really right. But whether these women are bad or good, evil or benign, guilty or innocent, calculating or...
In Elizabeth Jolley's "The Last Crop," a seemingly guileless woman cons a man out of his land. In Leonora Carrinton's "The Debutante," a young girl se...
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The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780143107613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural's most celebrated book--featuring a new introduction by Kelly Link Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber--which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves--she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales...
For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural's most celebrated book--featuring a new introduc...
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Heroes and Villains
ISBN: 9780141192383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Playful, sensuous, violent and gripping, 'Heroes and Villains' is an ambiguous and deliriously rich blend of post-apocalyptic fiction, gothic fantasy, literary allusion and twisted romance.
Playful, sensuous, violent and gripping, 'Heroes and Villains' is an ambiguous and deliriously rich blend of post-apocalyptic fiction, gothic fantasy,...
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Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
ISBN: 9780140255287 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, citicism, and fiction. But it is in her short stories that her extraordinary talents--as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and weaver of tales--are most penetratingly evident. This volume presents Carter's considerable legacy of short fiction gathered from published books, and includes early and previously unpublished stories. From reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of classic folklore and fairy tales, to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its...
One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, citicism, and fiction. But it is in ...
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Good Morning, Daughter: 31 Days with Daddy Devotional
ISBN: 9780989988827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Shaking A Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings
ISBN: 9780099583073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Features: a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a person with an entirely unpredictable train of thought but whose exuberance, knowledge and insight sweeps you along on.
Features: a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a person with an entirely unp...
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The Passion Of New Eve
ISBN: 9780860683414 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself . . . '
New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve. I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a...
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Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women
ISBN: 9780349008462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. * This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners - reissued in a HB edition as a companion to Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
* This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners - reissued in a HB edition as ...
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Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780860682691 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Angela Carter was also a journalist and critic. 'Nothing Sacred' explores a range of topics as Carter writes about herself, Japan, England and Englishness and literary criticism.
One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Angela Carter was also a journalist and critic. 'Nothing Sacred' explores a range of topics as ...
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Fireworks
ISBN: 9781784872984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. `I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko.
`I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during ...
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Several Perceptions
ISBN: 9781860490941 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a Dionysic revel and spending his days in a mortuary - is the anti-hero at the heart of this novel.
Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a...
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Die blutige Kammer
ISBN: 9783518432419 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Väter, Bestien, Werwölfe - die Frauen in Märchen haben seit jeher kein einfaches Los. In Angela Carters Kult-Nachdichtungen von etwa Blaubart, Der gestiefelte Kater oder Die Schöne und das Biest wird die traditionelle Rollenverteilung nicht nur umgekehrt, sondern in die Luft gejagt. Hier werden Frauen zu Tigerbräuten und Schöne zu Biestern, Erlkönige mit dem eigenen Haar erwürgt und Werwolfsgroßmütter von ihren Enkelinnen erledigt. Die Antiheldinnen und Heldinnen dieser Märchen sinnen in gleichem Maße auf Rache, wie sie nach Liebe streben.... Väter, Bestien, Werwölfe - die Frauen in Märchen haben seit jeher kein einfaches Los. In Angela Carters Kult-Nachdichtungen von etwa Blaubar... |
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