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Heroes and Villains
ISBN: 9780140234640 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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American Ghosts & Old World Wonders
ISBN: 9780099133711 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; and a transfigured Mary Magdalene steps out of the canvases of Donatello and de la Tour.
A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pi...
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Nights at the Circus
ISBN: 9781529955606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Grace for the Journey: Lessons from the Lives of Missionary Wives
ISBN: 9798308050315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Expletives Deleted : Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780099222811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Presenting a selection of her writing, Angela Carter covers more than a decade of her thought, which ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a measure of the focus of her interests.
Presenting a selection of her writing, Angela Carter covers more than a decade of her thought, which ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a meas...
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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 (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Wise Children
ISBN: 9780099981107 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This is the comic tale of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. The novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
This is the comic tale of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. The novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identi...
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The Magic Toyshop
ISBN: 9780860681908 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Melanie walks in the midnight garden, wearing her mother's wedding dress. Omens of disaster transport her from rural comfort to London, to the Magic Toyshop, the dancing Finn and the mysterious ruins of the pleasure garden.
Melanie walks in the midnight garden, wearing her mother's wedding dress. Omens of disaster transport her from rural comfort to London, to the Magic T...
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Nights at the Circus
ISBN: 9780099388616 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "Raunchy, raucous... a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety."
--The Times Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan... or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but... "Raunchy, raucous... a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety." --The Times |
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The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History
ISBN: 9781844083770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields.
But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of his extreme imagination, and transforms them into symbols of our time - the Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters,... Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by m...
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Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories
ISBN: 9780099592914 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers. Suitable for Angela Carter aficionados, this title gathers together her work.
As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several antholo...
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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. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Nights at the Circus
ISBN: 9780140077032 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swan Sophi Fevvers--the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec--is an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover Fevvers's true identity: Is she part swan or all fake?... Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody C... |
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
ISBN: 9780140235197 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to question the living, and profound anxiety drives hundreds to suicide.
Behind it all stands Doctor Hoffman, whose gigantic generators crack the immutable surfaces of time and space and plunge civilization into a world without the chains - or structures - of reason. Only Desiderio, immune to... The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and ...
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The Passion Of New Eve
ISBN: 9780860683414 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) * 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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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780099588115 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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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Fireworks
ISBN: 9781784872984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) `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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