wyszukanych pozycji: 81
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Four Stories
ISBN: 9781861978196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Includes four stories: "Father! Father! Burning Bright" is a satire on a dying man's family reaction; "The Clothes They Stood Up In" is a painful story of an elderly couple; "The Laying on of Hands" is a memorial service for a masseur; and "The Lady in the
Includes four stories: "Father! Father! Burning Bright" is a satire on a dying man's family reaction; "The Clothes They Stood Up In" is a painful stor...
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51,82 zł |
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Talking Heads
ISBN: 9781846072598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as an acute observer of British life with a series of six monologues. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, these modern-day classics invite us to explore 12 very different but very real characters and their lives.
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as an acute observer of British life with a series of six monologues. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and...
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55,97 zł |
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Writing Home
ISBN: 9780571315727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Writing Home' is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Bringing together his diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews, the diary he kept during the production of his very first play, together with hilarious accounts of his many television plays. From his now-legendary address at Russell Harty's memorial service to recollections of growing up in Leeds, 'Writing Home' gives us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights.
'Writing Home' is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Bringing together his diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscen...
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86,51 zł |
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Getting on
ISBN: 9780573011337 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A British Labour M.P., ten years into his second marriage, feels tethered in a time of change. He is distrustful on the one hand of the "mawkish mentality" of the young and, on the other, of the encroaching motorway life of the middle aged who can look forward to nothing more than the fairly imminent end of a not so very interesting road. "The play is a small jewel of bewilderment and regret." - London Sunday Times
A British Labour M.P., ten years into his second marriage, feels tethered in a time of change. He is distrustful on the one hand of the "mawkish menta...
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97,74 zł |
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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett
ISBN: 9780571321100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. In this personal anthology, the author has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote, shrewd appraisal and spare but telling biographical detail.
Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. In this personal anthology, the author has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved...
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55,97 zł |
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Writing Home
ISBN: 9780312422578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van," his unforgettable account of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who lived in a van in Bennett's garden for more than twenty years. This revised and updated edition includes new material from the author, including more recent diaries and his introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George. A chronicle... Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home in... |
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173,37 zł |
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House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries
ISBN: 9781800811928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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45,78 zł |
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The History Boys
ISBN: 9780571224647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. "A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." --The Daily Telegraph An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at a good university, generally in that order. In all their efforts, they are helped and hindered, enlightened and bemused, by a maverick English teacher who seeks to broaden their horizons in sometimes undefined ways, and a young history teacher who questions the methods, as well as the aim,... "A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny." --The Daily Telegraph ... |
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55,97 zł |
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The Choral
ISBN: 9780571396283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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66,14 zł |
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The Clothes They Stood Up in and the Lady and the Van
ISBN: 9780812969658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George, come two stories about the strange nature of possessions...or the lack of them. In the nationally bestselling novel The Clothes They Stood Up In, the staid Ransomes return from the opera to find their Regent's Park flat stripped bare--right down to the toilet-paper roll. Free of all their earthly belongings, the couple faces a perplexing question: Who are they without the things they've spent a lifetime accumulating? Suddenly a world of unlimited, frightening possibility opens up before them. In "The Lady in the...
From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George, come two stories about the strange nature of possessions...or the lack of them. In...
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69,36 zł |
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Drei daneben
ISBN: 9783803113658 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2022 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Alan Bennett erfindet kuriose Welten, die nach eigenen Regeln funktionieren: Er beschreibt vermeintlich ganz normale Menschen mit kleinbürgerlichen Moralvorstellungen, die vornehm sein möchten und doch ihren eigenen Begierden unterworfen sind.Da ist die Witwe Lorna, die an der Stelle, wo ihr Mann mit seinem Motorrad verunglückte, eine Art Schrein mit immer ausladenderer Gedenkstätte errichtet und Stück für Stück die Hintergründe des Unfalls aufdeckt. Oder die 42-jährige Mutter, die von der Erkenntnis überrascht wird, dass sie sich allmählich in ihren heranwachsenden Sohn...
Alan Bennett erfindet kuriose Welten, die nach eigenen Regeln funktionieren: Er beschreibt vermeintlich ganz normale Menschen mit kleinbürgerlichen M...
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90,51 zł |
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Keeping on Keeping on
ISBN: 9780571335817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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1037,40 zł |
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Enjoy - A Play
ISBN: 9780573111297 / Miękka / 1989 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Dad thinks everything will be better when the family moves. The social worker who calls to observe their lives turns out to be absent son Terry, idolized by Mam, in drag. Secretary daughter Linda, in reality a prostitute, breezes in, shattering Dads illusions. The house is dismantled around them to be rebuilt in a park preserving the ideals of family life. Mam will be in a showcase whilst Dad is carted off to the geriatric ward.
Dad thinks everything will be better when the family moves. The social worker who calls to observe their lives turns out to be absent son Terry, idoli...
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81,56 zł |
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A Woman of No Importance - A monolgue from Talking Heads
ISBN: 9780573033902 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At work Peggy has carved herself a comfortable niche. Once in hospital, she loses no time in establishing herself as Queen Bee, taking on several responsibilities. Persistently cheerful, blind to the feelings of others and, at heart, terribly lonely, Peggy is at once a richly comic and desperately moving creation, providing a rewarding challenge for a mature actress.
At work Peggy has carved herself a comfortable niche. Once in hospital, she loses no time in establishing herself as Queen Bee, taking on several resp...
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70,77 zł |
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The Lady in the Van
ISBN: 9781861971227 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A work of non-fiction that follows the author's other little blockbuster The Clothes They Stood Up In.
A work of non-fiction that follows the author's other little blockbuster The Clothes They Stood Up In.
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30,50 zł |
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Killing Time: A Sunday Times Bestselling 'pitch-perfect' (Observer) treat for winter.
ISBN: 9780571394821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. We have a choir and on special occasions a glass of dry sherry. It's less of a home and more of a club and very much a community. Presided over by the lofty Mrs McBryde, Hill Topp House is a superior council home for the elderly. Among the unforgettable cast of staff and residents there's Mr Peckover the deluded archaeologist, Phyllis the knitter, Mr Cresswell the ex-cruise ship hairdresser, the enterprising Mrs Foss and Mr Jimson the chiropodist. Covid is the cause of fatalities and the source of darkly comic confusion, but it's also the key to liberation. As staff are hospitalised,...
We have a choir and on special occasions a glass of dry sherry. It's less of a home and more of a club and very much a community. Presided over by th...
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45,78 zł |
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The Madness of George III
ISBN: 9780571167494 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. George III's behaviour was often odd, but now he is deranged rumoured to have even addressed a tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent takes over. This play explores the court of the mad king.
George III's behaviour was often odd, but now he is deranged rumoured to have even addressed a tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, th...
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55,97 zł |
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The Laying on of Hands: Stories
ISBN: 9780312422257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Alan Bennett's extraordinary ear for dialogue and sharpness of perception have made him a master storyteller. In "Father Father Burning Bright" he writes with tragicomic insight about a son's vigil at his father's deathbed where their lifelong battle continues to the end. "The Laying on of Hands," a brilliantly funny satire, describes a society memorial service for a rather special masseur who died tragically young; and in "Miss Fozzard Finds her Feet," a lonely, unmarried department store clerk discovers there's more to life than looking after her brother through her only indulgence,... Alan Bennett's extraordinary ear for dialogue and sharpness of perception have made him a master storyteller. In "Father Father Burning Bright" h... |
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73,22 zł |
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See you later
ISBN: 9783803113887 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2025 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die Seniorenresidenz Hill Topp hat wahnsinnig viel zu bieten: einmal die Woche trockenen Sherry, Ausflüge zum Flamingo auf dem lokalen Bauernhof und einen Hausmeister, der nicht nur Fenster putzt, sondern auch sexuelle Dienste für alle Geschlechter anbietet. Zähne, Perücken und Gesprächsfäden gehen regelmäßig verloren oder werden in wilde Tauschgeschäfte verwickelt. Dann greift plötzlich das Coronavirus um sich und befördert als Erstes das Personal ins Krankenhaus. Im unbeaufsichtigten Domizil bricht die Anarchie aus - und wenn es die Arthritis zulässt, wird heftig gehüpft und so...
Die Seniorenresidenz Hill Topp hat wahnsinnig viel zu bieten: einmal die Woche trockenen Sherry, Ausflüge zum Flamingo auf dem lokalen Bauernhof und ...
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90,51 zł |
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Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads
ISBN: 9780571365869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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40,69 zł |