wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Upon This Bank and Shoal
ISBN: 9780981024653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Upon This Bank and Shoal, from the author of the much-discussed novel The Haunted Man (1997), deals with the perennial theme of the man-woman relationship in a unique manner. Even in the twenty first century one finds the dreamy man in his desperate quest for lost Paradise and the practical woman in her fight against the inevitable smites of fate. From birth to death, every individual passes through the four stages of childhood, youth, middle age and old age, too anxiously trying to find out the mystery of existence before one's birth and after one's death. Being... Upon This Bank and Shoal, from the author of the much-discussed novel The Haunted Man (1997), deals with the perennial theme o... |
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85,28 zł |
The Haunted Man
ISBN: 9781926585222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely; this is true under dictatorship, totalitarianism and fundamentalism, and democracy as well. Slavery, bondage, suppression and discrimination follow when absolute power corrupts. Perhaps, an Abraham Lincoln could legally put an end to the physical slavery, but its manifestation in various other forms related to race, including color and caste, culture, language, religion, nationality and political system remains a threat to man's spirit of freedom. The nineteen month-long Emergency declared in India in 1975 would be relatively an... Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely; this is true under dictatorship, totalitarianism and fundamentalism, and democracy as well. ... |
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85,28 zł |
Where They Shattered His Green Dreams
ISBN: 9781681816258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Where They Shattered His Green Dreams is a novel based on media reports following NATO's war against Libya. The account begins when Colonel Gaddafi's tragic assassination is announced, and ends with the narrator of the story, a professor of journalism at Al Fateh University in Tripoli, being murdered. The first chapter describes an evening in Tripoli on February 11, 2011, the Eve of Prophet Mohammed's birthday, and the last chapter details the cold-blooded assassination of Colonel Gaddafi, Libya's ruler for forty-two years, on October 20, 2011. Major... Where They Shattered His Green Dreams is a novel based on media reports following NATO's war against Libya. The account b... |
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82,72 zł |
Poles Apart on the Same Bed: Twenty-Nine Selected Short Stories
ISBN: 9781926918662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here's a fine selection of Alexander Raju's stories written over thirty years-ranging between the stories of a tyro giving expression to his idealistic perspective of the world and the society he lives in and intensely feels about, and those of a cynical angry man in quarrel with the world and its ways. They are poles apart also in the sense that the stories do not belong to any particular school: they range from humorous musings on the stupidity of men and women of his social milieu to harsh diatribes against the many evils rampant in his society. The most emotionally appealing are the... Here's a fine selection of Alexander Raju's stories written over thirty years-ranging between the stories of a tyro giving expression to his ideali... |
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85,28 zł |
And Still Plays the Abyssinian Damsel on her Dulcimer: A Novel based on Ethiopian History and Legends
ISBN: 9781631356155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. And Still Plays the Abyssinian Damsel on Her Dulcimer is a novel based on Ethiopian history and legends. The story has thirteen chapters representing the thirteen months in the Ethiopian calendar.
The narrator, a professor at an Ethiopian University, flies from Mumbai to Addis Ababa, and then to his destination. He is haunted by the Abyssinian damsel whom the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge saw in a dream and described in his poem "Kubla Khan." The Abyssinian damsel tells the story of Ethiopia from prehistoric to modern times, revealing herself as one who visited King Solomon together... And Still Plays the Abyssinian Damsel on Her Dulcimer is a novel based on Ethiopian history and legends. The story has thirteen chapters representing ...
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105,84 zł |
When Babel Tower Is Falling Down
ISBN: 9781771431736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Babel Tower Is Falling Down is a domestic novel, from the author of the allegorical novels The Haunted Man (1997) and Upon This Bank and Shoal (2008), which makes us rethink about the beauty of natural human relationships, presently contaminated by the craze for individual freedom. We live in a world in which the voice of modern education has taught us to ignore the sanctity of social life in general and of conjugal life in particular, and compelled us to follow the animal instincts of mere survival. We failed to realize the significance of abstinence,... When Babel Tower Is Falling Down is a domestic novel, from the author of the allegorical novels The Haunted Man (1997) and Upon Th... |
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94,78 zł |