wyszukanych pozycji: 72
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Possession: A Romance
ISBN: 9781784879990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
96,46 |
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The Winds of Heaven
ISBN: 9781903155806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A novel about a 60-year-old widow who is shunted from one to the other of her more or less unwilling daughters on perpetual uneasy visits, 'The Winds of Heaven' addresses the more awkward aspects of family relationships.
A novel about a 60-year-old widow who is shunted from one to the other of her more or less unwilling daughters on perpetual uneasy visits, 'The Winds ...
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100,74 |
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Still Life
ISBN: 9780099479918 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Federica Potter plunges into Cambridge university life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister has abandoned academe for the cosy frustration of the family. This is the second novel in the Federica Potter quartet.
Federica Potter plunges into Cambridge university life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her sister has abandoned academe for the cosy ...
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cena:
98,90 |
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The Children's Book
ISBN: 9780099535454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A panoramic novel of family secrets, set against a backdrop of a bohemian, artistic late Victorian and Edwardian world, and with real commercial as well as literary potential, about the damage wrought by writers of children's books on their children - about predators and innocents, war and peace, art and society.
A panoramic novel of family secrets, set against a backdrop of a bohemian, artistic late Victorian and Edwardian world, and with real commercial as we...
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cena:
55,83 |
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The Shadow of the Sun: A Novel
ISBN: 9780099889601 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tells the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of seventeen to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famous English novelist.
Tells the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of seventeen to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famou...
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cena:
88,48 |
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Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780679736783 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction, Byatt manages to be challenging, entertaining, and unflinchingly committed to the alliance of literature and life.
Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch ...
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cena:
78,75 |
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Babel Tower
ISBN: 9780099839408 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In "Babel Tower" a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life") now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo from a violent husband; her urge towards freedom later leads to an angry, humiliating divorce case. Hers is not the only struggle; her friend Jude writes a novel, "Babbletower," which is tried for obscenity; her broth in law Daniel becomes involved in new movements for London's poor and...
In "Babel Tower" a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of ...
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cena:
76,15 |
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Angels And Insects
ISBN: 9780099224310 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts. A.S. Byatt's other books include "Possession," winner of the 1990 Booker Prize.
A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts. A.S. Byatt's other books include "Possession," ...
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cena:
55,83 |
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Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court: Politics, Patronage and Service in Sixteenth-Century Italy
ISBN: 9780367464431 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
841,09 |
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Besessen : Roman. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Booker Prize 1990
ISBN: 9783458357582 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 631 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
cena:
54,18 |
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Niccol? Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court: Politics, Patronage and Service in Sixteenth-Century Italy
ISBN: 9781032323947 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
207,75 |
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Der verliebte Dschinn
ISBN: 9783458682943 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die Märchenforscherin Gillian Perholt entdeckt in einem Basar in Istanbul eine geheimnisvolle verstaubte Flasche. Als sie sie gründlich reinigt, kommt nicht nur eine wundervolle blaue Farbe zum Vorschein, sondern auch ein Geist. Mühsam entwindet sich ein Dschinn dem engen Behältnis. Seit über 3000 Jahren, seit den Zeiten der Königin von Saba, war er eingeschlossen. Und ganz wie im Märchen bietet er Gillian drei Wünsche an im Tausch gegen seine Freiheit ... Während Gillian ihre Wünsche überlegt, erzählt der Dschinn von seinem Leben in längst vergangenen Zeiten, von... Die Märchenforscherin Gillian Perholt entdeckt in einem Basar in Istanbul eine geheimnisvolle verstaubte Flasche. Als sie sie gründlich reinigt, ... |
cena:
49,67 |
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Bea by the Sea
ISBN: 9781786286222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bea loves lions and knows everything there is to know about them. She lives by the beach, but she doesn’t like sand one little bit! One day, her mother persuades her to visit the beach, where she meets a sand sculpture of a lion who is afraid of water. Their developing friendship helps each of them to overcome their anxieties, but the next day the lion has disappeared! How will Bea cope? A funny and tender book about the mutual support of friendship, the acceptance of loss, and the resilience needed to accept change.
Bea loves lions and knows everything there is to know about them. She lives by the beach, but she doesn’t like sand one little bit! One day, her mot...
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cena:
39,33 |
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Bea en el mar/Bea by the Sea 8x8 edition
ISBN: 9781786286345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Spanish/English bilingual edition. Bea loves lions and knows everything there is to know about them. She lives by the beach, but she doesn’t like sand one little bit! One day, her mother persuades her to visit the beach, where she meets a sand sculpture of a lion who is afraid of water. Their developing friendship helps each of them to overcome their anxieties, but the next day the lion has disappeared! How will Bea cope? A funny and tender book about the mutual support of friendship, the acceptance of loss, and the resilience needed to accept change.
Spanish/English bilingual edition. Bea loves lions and knows everything there is to know about them. She lives by the beach, but she doesn’t like sa...
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cena:
27,52 |
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Sing-Along the Wheels on the Bus
ISBN: 9781787006867 / Angielski / Kartonowa (Board Books) / 2025 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
39,33 |
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Busy Fire Station
ISBN: 9781035016006 / Angielski / Kartonowa (Board Books) / 2023 / 10 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
35,40 |
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Degrees of Freedom : The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch
ISBN: 9780099302247 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Legal scripts and newspaper quotes form this backbone of this account of New York City governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's investigation into the corrupt city government of the high-living Night Mayor of New York City, Jimmy Walker. The crackdown, the largest ever in US history, dethroned Walker, paved the way for Roosevelt's career as president after almost ruining his chances, and brought the roaring Jazz Age to an end.
Legal scripts and newspaper quotes form this backbone of this account of New York City governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's investigation into the corrupt...
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cena:
83,28 |
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On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780674008335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri Lanka command our attention, Salman Rushdie can state confidently that English fiction was moribund until the Empire wrote back, and few, even among the British, demur. A. S. Byatt does, and her case is persuasive. In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing, and remembering, the gifted novelist and critic sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time. Whether writing about the renaissance of the historical novel, discussing... As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri Lanka command our attention, Salman Rushdie can state confidently that English fiction was mor... |
cena:
141,12 |
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Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work
ISBN: 9781784740801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An alluring and atmospheric enquiry into the creative impulse -- as seen through the work and lives of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris -- by one of our greatest novelists.
This ravishing little book, glowing with colour and generously illustrated throughout, opens a window on to the lives, passions and designs of two great artists a generation apart, William Morris and Mariano Fortuny. Inspired by a vision of the aquamarine light of Venice balancing Morris's green English countryside, A.S. Byatt delves into the world-transforming magic of their art, asking what fired them, how... An alluring and atmospheric enquiry into the creative impulse -- as seen through the work and lives of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris -- by one...
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cena:
86,31 |