wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Seeing Ourselves: Great Stories from America's Past 1819-1918
ISBN: 9781557090904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of twenty American short stories, organized chronologically from the 19th century through World War I, helps tell the story of how we came to be who and what we are. Selected by NPR writer and reviewer Alan Cheuse, this is a new variety of anthology, one that starts as a compilation of wonderful literature but, by means of Cheuse's selection and commentary, becomes a social history of our nation. It includes Washington Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,"" Mark Twain's ""The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,"" and Theodore Dreiser's ""Free.""
This collection of twenty American short stories, organized chronologically from the 19th century through World War I, helps tell the story of how we ...
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64,06 zł |
An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781939650092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,36 zł |
The Fires
ISBN: 9780977679911 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these twonovellas are linked so skillfullythattheyachieve the intensity ofa single novel in which some characters succeed and others failonseparate but equally compelling quests. In "The Fires," Gina Morgan makes a pilgrimage to Uzbekistan to carry out her husband's final wishto be crematedonly to find herself entirelyat sea in the strange new reality of the former Soviet republic, while in "The Exorcism,"Tom Swanson begins to make sense of his lifewhen he retrieves his angry daughter from her exclusive New England college after her expulsion for...
Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these twonovellas are linked so skillfullythattheyachieve the intensity ofa single novel in which some char...
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43,58 zł |
Listening to the Page: Adventures in Reading and Writing
ISBN: 9780231122719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews, and taught alongside John Gardner and Bernard Malamud at Bennington College for nearly a decade. Soon after the New Yorker story appeared, Cheuse wrote a freelance magazine piece about a new, publicly funded broadcast network called National Public Radio, and a relationship of reviewer and...
When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under...
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153,17 zł |
Literary Washington, D.C.
ISBN: 9781595340788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,86 zł |