wyszukanych pozycji: 16
Ulverton
ISBN: 9780099573449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The reissue in Vintage Classics marks the 20th anniversary of first publication. The reissue in Vintage Classics marks the 20th anniversary of first publication. |
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51,82 zł |
Nineteen Twenty-One
ISBN: 9780099272984 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him from his purpose, and love intervenes.
It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in th...
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49,09 zł |
On Silbury Hill
ISBN: 9781908213365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Silbury Hill, the largest pre-historic mound in Europe, like Stonehenge, has inspired and perplexed people for generations. Adam Thorpe, author of the highly influential book Ulverton, reflects on what Silbury Hill has meant to him throughout his life. Silbury Hill, the largest pre-historic mound in Europe, like Stonehenge, has inspired and perplexed people for generations. Adam Thorpe, author of ... |
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72,65 zł |
Birds With A Broken Wing
ISBN: 9780224079440 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Adam Thorpe's fifth collection of poetry coincides with the publication of his novel Between Each Breath. His poems find purpose in the discarded, the secretive, the failed. They remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, history and ourselves.
Adam Thorpe's fifth collection of poetry coincides with the publication of his novel Between Each Breath. His poems find purpose in the discarded, the...
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49,14 zł |
Nine Lessons from the Dark
ISBN: 9780224063852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This powerful, fourth poetry collection from the author of Ulverton continues the poet s engagement with history -- the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past."
This powerful, fourth poetry collection from the author of Ulverton continues the poet s engagement with history -- the living continuum that connects...
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49,14 zł |
Missing Fay
ISBN: 9780099584124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the YearA spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. The story of her last few days before she vanishes is interwoven with the varied lives of six locals - all touched in life-changing ways.
'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the YearA spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from...
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54,55 zł |
Words From the Wall
ISBN: 9781787330993 / Miękka / 2019 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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54,60 zł |
Notes from the Cevennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France
ISBN: 9781472966315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cevennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cevenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic. In more recent writing Thorpe has explored the Cevennes, drawing on the legends, history and above all the people of this part of France for his inspiration. In his charming journal, Notes from the Cevennes, Thorpe takes up these themes, writing about his surroundings, the village and his house at...
Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cevennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an anc...
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54,55 zł |
Voluntary
ISBN: 9780224094177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of poems that takes us on a journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging. It explores our chances, records our traces - in the marks on skin, home movies, stone walls, the pressure of our blood, or the clearing of a dying father's study: foraging backwards until something is revealed, however tentative.
A collection of poems that takes us on a journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging. It explores our chances, records our trace...
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54,60 zł |
The Rules of Perspective
ISBN: 9780312426583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On April 3, 1945, the advancing American army shells the historic town of Lohenfelde, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm museum. Within the museum's vaults, Heinrich Hoffer is hiding from the bombardment, and trying to keep a priceless Van Gogh from falling into the hands of a rogue Nazi. After the shelling, an American corporal, Neal Parry, finds a beautiful eighteenth-century oil painting in the rubble, and must confront both its beauty, and the morality of stealing it. The stories of Herr Hoffer, Parry, and their paintings unfold simultaneously in this gripping, brilliantly structured novel about... On April 3, 1945, the advancing American army shells the historic town of Lohenfelde, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm museum. Within the museum's vaults, He... |
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98,29 zł |
The Lost Treasure of Talus Scree
ISBN: 9781986817387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,36 zł |
Madame Bovary
ISBN: 9780812985207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A new translation by Adam Thorpe Gustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." In this acclaimed new translation, Adam Thorpe brings readers closer than ever before to Flaubert's peerless text and, by extension, the author himself. Emma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is ready for her life to take off when she marries the decent, dull Dr. Charles Bovary. Marriage, however, fails to live up to her expectations, which are fueled by sentimental novels, and she turns disastrously to love affairs. The story of Emma's adultery...
A new translation by Adam Thorpe Gustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." In this acclaimed new translation, A...
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64,10 zł |
The Amulet of Komondor
ISBN: 9781986821223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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35,86 zł |