wyszukanych pozycji: 37
The Loom of Youth
ISBN: 9781448200528 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This semi-autobiographical work tells the story of Gordon Caruthers' schooldays at the English public school, Fenhurst. From his confusion and isolation, through rebellious school escapades and relationships with fellow students, Alec Waugh reveals his own deep criticism of a system forcing pupils to conform to flawed ideals, and the inevitable consequences of thrusting thirteen year old children and eighteen year old adolescents together. The book caused a storm of controversy at the time and was banned in many schools. Today it can be rightly seen as a controversial comment on public... This semi-autobiographical work tells the story of Gordon Caruthers' schooldays at the English public school, Fenhurst. From his confusion and isol... |
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82,01 zł |
Hot Countries: A Travel Book
ISBN: 9781448200092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. First published in 1930, this discursive and absorbing travel-book offers, as the author says in his new Foreword, "a picture of a way of living that exists no longer." Hot Countries tells of a series of journeys in the Far East, the West Indies and the South Sea Islands when he was a young and light-hearted novelist seeking colour, romance and adventure. First published in 1930, this discursive and absorbing travel-book offers, as the author says in his new Foreword, "a picture of a way of living th... |
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76,53 zł |
Brief Encounter
ISBN: 9781448200818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. First published in 1975, this story tells of how a chance meeting in a cafe, a piece of grit delicately removed by a gentleman from a lady's eye give birth to an affair... a brief yet unrelenting emotional tug-of-war between two people whose spontaneous desire clashes head-on with the 'facts' of their existence. There is Anna, married to Graham and happily content with her home life and two children. There is Alec, trapped in a loveless marriage to cool, uninvolved Melanie, looking to his work as a doctor for fulfillment. Between them a flame is kindled that splendidly ignites... First published in 1975, this story tells of how a chance meeting in a cafe, a piece of grit delicately removed by a gentleman from a lady's eye gi... |
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71,06 zł |
The Loom of Youth (Esprios Classics)
ISBN: 9781034412564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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135,44 zł |
The Loom of Youth
ISBN: 9781544709956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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59,88 zł |
Kept: A Story of Post-War London
ISBN: 9781448201303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A rich tale centred around the lives of Marjorie Fairfield, a beautiful and penniless young woman who is the mistress of a wealthy business man; and the symbolically named Ransom Heritage, one of the many young men who were cast adrift after the First World War ended and who has been abruptly deprived of a sense of purpose, ambition and hope. Around these young people and their circle whirls the carefree society of fashionable post-war London - a raucous, glamorous and perhaps slightly shrill world of cocktails and nightclubs, tea dances and illicit tete-a-tetes. Waugh... A rich tale centred around the lives of Marjorie Fairfield, a beautiful and penniless young woman who is the mistress of a wealthy business man; an... |
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82,01 zł |
My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles
ISBN: 9781448201181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Author, publisher, traveller, cricketer, lover of wine: Alec Waugh has been all these in the course of a life which has brought him a host of friends around the world. He is a warm person who knows a good friend when he sees one and is revered by all those with whom there has been mutual acceptance. This book contains his memories of many famous writers and some figures no longer so well remembered in the period between the wars. The section which will, no doubt, command the most attention is that devoted to the youth of his younger brother Evelyn. This throws invaluable... Author, publisher, traveller, cricketer, lover of wine: Alec Waugh has been all these in the course of a life which has brought him a host of frien... |
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82,01 zł |
The Mule on the Minaret: A Novel about the Middle East
ISBN: 9781448200757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 706 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Based on the author's own experience as an officer in the British Intelligence and packed with the most closely observed detail of the people, places and costumes of the Levant, The Mule on the Minaret is a long, colourful, fascinating story of wartime intelligence centred on Beirut and Baghdad. It is the story, primarily, of Noel Reid, a professor of History and Philosophy, (married, but not very happily) who is posted in 1941 to the Intelligence unit operating in the Lebanon. Here, he joins forces with Nigel Farrar, boss of MI5 in Beirut, and is soon involved in complex plans to... Based on the author's own experience as an officer in the British Intelligence and packed with the most closely observed detail of the people, plac... |
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109,36 zł |
Unclouded Summer
ISBN: 9781448200375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The bright summer sun faded into the shimmering Mediterranean as the young American painter began what was to be the five most perfect hours of his lifetime. It would be more than just an affair, a passionate encounter, and yet it would come to nothing. It would be a period of total enchantment that would remain to haunt him for the rest of his life, affecting his career, his code of behaviour, his entire existence. He sensed all this and yet he went to her, this woman he loved, this woman who could never be his... The bright summer sun faded into the shimmering Mediterranean as the young American painter began what was to be the five most perfect hours of his... |
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82,01 zł |
The Loom of Youth
ISBN: 9781548065430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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51,68 zł |
Fuel for the Flame
ISBN: 9781448201211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An imaginary island on the Equator has suddenly achieved importance through the discovery of oil - what will happen to the men and women living under the tensions of life on this island? At one end of this island is the oil refinery where the members of the staff live in constant proximity to one another, and where emotions are heightened by the lack of privacy. The men are goaded by ambitions for power, while the women are drawn into affairs of love and passion. At the other end of the island is a hotbed of politics where a British diplomat is attempting to retain the island under... An imaginary island on the Equator has suddenly achieved importance through the discovery of oil - what will happen to the men and women living und... |
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98,42 zł |
No Truce with Time
ISBN: 9781448201136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Having married a man several years older than herself, Mary Montague craves love and attention to relieve the monotony of her days. Her husband, Gerald Montague, whose ill-running health is ruining his life, has little time to spare for his young wife. In Mary's lonely eyes, Barclaye Ashe is the most romantic thing happening. He fulfills Mary's need for love and it isn't long before Mary, in spite of herself, returns his love and embarks on idyllic days and balmy nights; exquisite moments of perfect ecstasy for Mary who thinks her happiness is complete. However, Mary's happy... Having married a man several years older than herself, Mary Montague craves love and attention to relieve the monotony of her days. Her husband, Ge... |
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76,53 zł |
Love in These Days: A Modern Story
ISBN: 9781448200467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Love in These Days, first published in 1926, Alec Waugh explores themes of love, marriage and friendship in the vibrant and dynamic years of the early twenties. With his characteristic attention to detail he uses his characters to examine the social and cultural changes of the time and their impact on interpersonal affairs. 'Love in these days. How remote it was from the old and simple need by which primitive men and women were surprised into the responsibilities of parenthood. How remote too from the gilded conception of mediaeval chivalry.' In Love in These Days, first published in 1926, Alec Waugh explores themes of love, marriage and friendship in the vibrant and dynamic years... |
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87,48 zł |
Guy Renton: A London Story
ISBN: 9781448203307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Austria. February 1925. It was always to remain a special date for Guy Renton. There his chance meeting with the young and beautiful, but married, Mrs Renee Burton, precipitated the first crisis in his life. Hitherto he had been sure of himself temperamentally and emotionally: the 1914-18 war over, he had concentrated on his love of rugby, eventually being 'capped' for England, and he knew that one day, when too old to play, he would enter the family wine business. Until that far off day, life should have been carefree. But Renee was to change his plans radically. This story of their... Austria. February 1925. It was always to remain a special date for Guy Renton. There his chance meeting with the young and beautiful, but married, ... |
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77,96 zł |
A Family of Islands
ISBN: 9781448200450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What Columbus started in 1492 was finished in 1898, when the red and gold flag was lowered at Havana to mark the end of four centuries of Spanish dominance in the Caribbean. For two and a half centuries after the Pope divided the world between Spain and Portugal, the navies of Britain, France, Spain and occasionally the Netherlands fought in the Caribbean. Most of the islands changed hands at least once. Europe discovered the delights of coffee, tea and cocoa; sugar boomed; fortunes were made and lost; the slave trade flourished. But after the Napoleonic Wars prosperity receded, the... What Columbus started in 1492 was finished in 1898, when the red and gold flag was lowered at Havana to mark the end of four centuries of Spanish d... |
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92,95 zł |
The Prisoners of Mainz
ISBN: 9781544658834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable p...
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30,14 zł |
A Year to Remember: A Reminiscence of 1931
ISBN: 9781448201273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. One of the Bright Young Things in that brilliant and stimulating era between the wars, Alec Waugh remembers 1931 as being a year of firsts. It was the year he attended his first garden party, the year he made his first transatlantic phone call, the year he became a member of the MCC. But it was also a year that marked the end of one epoch and the beginning of another, far less frivolous. Nostalgic for the best of that time, Alec Waugh recalls the writers he knew and met here and in America - Somerset Maugham, A J Cronin, John O'Hara, Thurber and Dorothy Parker. Here is an insight... One of the Bright Young Things in that brilliant and stimulating era between the wars, Alec Waugh remembers 1931 as being a year of firsts. It was ... |
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76,53 zł |
A Spy in the Family: An Erotic Comedy
ISBN: 9781448200610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Alec Waugh describes his novel as an erotic comedy. It is the story of a respectable Treasury official, Victor Trail, and his wife Myra, whose marriage has lost its flavour, owing to Victor's clock-work schedule and Myra's bland acceptance of it. The unexpected revelation that Victor has suspiciously altered his routine rouses Myra out of her complacency, and her jealousy rapidly changes the shape of their lives. It leads her into a series of quite extraordinary adventures and demimonde activities which are altogether astonishing in a respectable married woman. Her discomfiture is... Alec Waugh describes his novel as an erotic comedy. It is the story of a respectable Treasury official, Victor Trail, and his wife Myra, whose marr... |
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76,53 zł |
'Sir!' She Said
ISBN: 9781448200306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him " This was Melanie's viewpoint and she always knew exactly what she wanted. Julia was different. She worked in a dress shop and she was often disturbed about her younger sister's morals. Both head strong, their differing character traits meant that their parents didn't know what to make of either of them. Here, against a background of smart and not-so-smart London we see the business girl and the girl-about-town meeting their difficulties in sex and in the daily routine. "The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him " This was Melanie's viewpoint and she always knew exactly what s... |
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71,06 zł |
Island in the Sun
ISBN: 9781448200849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. To the casual visitor Santa Marta is a sub-tropical paradise, a small sister of Jamaica, Bermuda and Nassau, unmentioned in the colour-splashed brochures of travel agents: an island where the sun shines throughout the year on the sandy beaches of innumerable coves, on the cane-fields and coconut plantations, on the shingled hits of the peasant villages and the fine houses of the white planters handed down through generation after generation, from the Sugar Barons of a past century. But this was not how the newspaper columnist, Bradshaw, saw it when he arrived on his first trip to the... To the casual visitor Santa Marta is a sub-tropical paradise, a small sister of Jamaica, Bermuda and Nassau, unmentioned in the colour-splashed bro... |
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114,83 zł |