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Curiosity
ISBN: 9780300219807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker
Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the... An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinke...
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66,70 zł |
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Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
ISBN: 9780300244526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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61,56 zł |
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Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru
ISBN: 9781780601571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Ronald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics and monuments of the indigenous Andean cultures of South America, in a way that no other travel writer has yet managed.
Ronald Wright has created the best travel book about Peru, for he has immersed himself in the music and language, as well as the history, politics and...
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65,53 zł |
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With Borges
ISBN: 9781846590054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."--Mahmoud Darwish "Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex."--"Scotland on Sunday" "His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry."--"The Toronto Star" Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou-Charentes. In 1964, in Buenos Aires, a blind writer in his sixties approached a sixteen-year-old bookstore clerk and asked if he would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, one of the world's finest... "This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."--Mahmoud Darwish "Alberto Manguel is to... |
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35,89 zł |
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Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
ISBN: 9780300255355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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71,83 zł |
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Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey
ISBN: 9780802143822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) While it is unknown if there ever was a man named Homer, there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Western literature, feeding our imagination for over two and a half millennia. "The Iliad and The Odyssey," with their tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Ulysses and Penelope, the Sirens, the Cyclops, Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods, are familiar to most readers because they are so pervasive. From Plato to Virgil, Pope to Joyce, the poems have been told and retold, interpreted and embellished. In this graceful and sweeping book, Alberto Manguel...
While it is unknown if there ever was a man named Homer, there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name form the cornerstone of Wester...
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53,80 zł |
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Maimonides: Faith in Reason
ISBN: 9780300217896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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87,23 zł |
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Reader on Reading
ISBN: 9780300172089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. "We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything," writes Manguel, "landscape, the skies, the faces of others, the images and words that our species create." Reading our own lives and those of others, reading the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders, reading the worlds that lie between the covers of a book are the essence of A Reader on Reading.... In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of read... |
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102,64 zł |
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By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp
ISBN: 9780306459924 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over three dozenworks from the past three centuries.
This book represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over three dozenworks from the past three centuries.
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106,48 zł |
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Reading Pictures: What We Think about When We Look at Art
ISBN: 9780375759222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and minds to its astonishing riches. The language in which we speak about art has become steadily more abstruse, a jargon that only art critics and con-artists can understand, though for thousands of years this was not the case. Today, we live in a kaleidoscopic new world of images: Is there a vocabulary we can learn in order to read these images? Is there something we can do so as not to remain passive when we flip through an illustrated book, or...
This profoundly illuminating, entertaining book could well change the way we "read" the visual world around us, and certainly help open our eyes and m...
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73,02 zł |
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Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey": A Biography
ISBN: 9780300272475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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76,86 zł |
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A History of Reading
ISBN: 9780006546818 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands and expectations of the reader, acting alongside the creative will of the writer, that is the evolutionary motor of literary forms and genres. From man's first use of the written word simply as a form of reference, to the emergence of the first holy or devotional texts, and onto the development of fictions,...
This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invent...
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85,71 zł |
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Into the Looking Glass Wood: Essays on Words and the World
ISBN: 9780747545934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Includes essays that discuss the nature of books and literature as a moral imperative and explore the consequences of society's betrayal of its readers and writers. This title covers writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar and G K Chesterton, as well as Che Guevara and Goethe.
Includes essays that discuss the nature of books and literature as a moral imperative and explore the consequences of society's betrayal of its reader...
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41,02 zł |
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The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm : The Reader as Metaphor
ISBN: 9780812245233 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may be travelers, advancing through its pages like pilgrims heading toward enlightenment. We may be recluses, withdrawing through our reading into our own ivory towers. Or we may devour our books like burrowing worms, not to benefit from the wisdom they contain but merely to stuff ourselves with countless words. With consummate grace and extraordinary breadth, the best-selling author of "A History of Reading "and... As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of... |
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117,02 zł |
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Oriental Tales: Stories
ISBN: 9780374519971 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of the Swallows, Aphrodissia; the Widow, Kali Beheaded, The End of Marko Kraljevic, The Sadness of Cornelius Berg, and a Postscript by the Author. "From China to Japan, the Balkans to India, Oriental Tales addresses love, conquest, betrayal, murder, religion, and passion in an eloquent and exquisite telling."--Kirkus Reviews. This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, ... |
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61,49 zł |
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Słownik miejsc wyobrażonych
ISBN: 9788306033984 / Polski / Twarda / 2019 / 1001 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Oto prawdziwa uczta dla miłośników literatury i nieskrępowanej wyobraźni. Podróż do Zamku Kafki, na wyspę Robinsona Crusoe, do Krainy Czarów Lewisa Carrolla, Hogwartu i Doliny Muminków, niewidzialnych miast Itala Calvina, Márquezowskiego Macondo, na Wyspę Bezkształtną Alfreda Jarry’ego, w głąb Tolkienowskiego Śródziemia czy Ziemiomorza Ursuli Le Guin. Mają tu swoje miejsce satyryk Swift i historyk Strabon, E.T.A. Hoffmann i Coleridge, Raymond Roussel i Rabelais, na wpół brukowy Rider Haggard i fizyk George Gamow, Casanova i Bruno Schulz. Na potrzeby naszej edycji...
Oto prawdziwa uczta dla miłośników literatury i nieskrępowanej wyobraźni. Podróż do Zamku Kafki, na wyspę Robinsona Crusoe, do Krainy Czarów ...
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149,00 zł |
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Fog
ISBN: 9780810135369 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Fog is a fresh new translation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla, first published in 1914. An early example of modernism's challenge to the conventions of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Fog shocked critics but delighted readers with its formal experimentation and existential themes. This revolutionary novel anticipates the work of Sartre, Borges, Pirandello, Nabokov, Calvino, and Vonnegut. The novel's central character, Augusto, is a pampered, aimless young man who falls in love with Eugenia, a woman he randomly spots on the street. Augusto's...
Fog is a fresh new translation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla, first published in 1914. An early example of modernism'...
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77,99 zł |
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Melancholy
ISBN: 9780300167481 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history
Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer Laszlo Foldenyi as "one of the most brilliant essayists of our time." Foldenyi's extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy's ambiguities. Along the way Foldenyi discovers the... A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history
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166,88 zł |
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Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space
ISBN: 9780156035354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Since his first voyage, as a sailor earning his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped traveling.Now his best travel pieces are gathered in this collection of immense range and depth, informed throughout by the author's humanity and gentle humor. From exotic places such as Isfahan, Gambia, and Mali to seemingly domesticated places such as Australia and Munich, Nooteboom shares his view of the world, showing us the strangeness in places we thought we knew and the familiarity of places most of us will probably never see.
His phenomenal gifts as an... Since his first voyage, as a sailor earning his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped traveling.Now his b...
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65,29 zł |
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The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic
ISBN: 9780156008723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 776 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From Atlantis to Xanadu and beyond, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 realms invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own. Here you will find Shangri-La and El Dorado; Utopia and Middle Earth; Wonderland and Freedonia. Here too are Jurassic Park, Salman Rushdie's Sea of Stories, and the fabulous world of Harry Potter. The history and behavior of the inhabitants of these lands are described in loving detail, and are supplemented by more than 200 maps and illustrations that depict the lay of the land in a host of elsewheres. A must-have for the...
From Atlantis to Xanadu and beyond, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 realms invented by storytellers from Home...
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115,25 zł |
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