wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Slower
ISBN: 9781857548280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 93 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. These evocations of wilderness and the natural world draw on the author's experience living for a year on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. In the tradition of William Butler Yeats, the poems look to Celtic traditions, are sometimes formal in structure, rely on straightfoward and striking language, and change in mood from joy to rage to elegy.
These evocations of wilderness and the natural world draw on the author's experience living for a year on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the w...
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54,33 zł |
Essays of Virginia Woolf Vol 1: Vol. 1, 1904-1912
ISBN: 9780156290548 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nonfiction pieces dating from 1904, when she was twenty-three, to 1912, the year of her marriage to Leonard Woolf. "These are polished works of literary journalism-shrewd, deft, inquisitive, graceful, and often sparkling" (Library Journal). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
Nonfiction pieces dating from 1904, when she was twenty-three, to 1912, the year of her marriage to Leonard Woolf. "These are polished works of litera...
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140,94 zł |
Winter Moorings
ISBN: 9781847772480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Andrew McNeillie's sixth collection returns to the sea and its immensity as a metaphor for fate. It also revisits the British and Irish archipelago ('For which read a figure for my heart. / For which read too a figure for time's hurt'), following a north-western trajectory from the Aran Islands to the Hebrides. The natural world is seen here in both its beauty and its indifference to human beings ('There's many a thing more lasting than a person'). From a version of 'The Seafarer' to an elegiac play 'for sounds and voices' retelling the story of an English airman drowned off Aran in World War...
Andrew McNeillie's sixth collection returns to the sea and its immensity as a metaphor for fate. It also revisits the British and Irish archipelago ('...
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54,33 zł |
Nevermore
ISBN: 9781903039021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Nevermore is an elegy for lost times and threatened things. It celebrates recollection and the immortality of youth and youth's passions. The poems are situated in Wales, Scotland and Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s.
Nevermore is an elegy for lost times and threatened things. It celebrates recollection and the immortality of youth and youth's passions. The poems ar...
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37,95 zł |
Striking a Match in a Storm: New and Collected Poems
ISBN: 9781800172333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Andrew McNeillie is a Forward Prize-shortlisted poet, nature writer and editor of the ecoliterature magazine Archipelago. His seven collections of poetry make up this timely Collected.
Andrew McNeillie is a Forward Prize-shortlisted poet, nature writer and editor of the ecoliterature magazine Archipelago. His seven collections of poe...
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96,24 zł |
Essays of Virginia Woolf Vol 3 1919-1924: Vol. 3, 1919-1924
ISBN: 9780156290562 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During the period in which these essays were written, Woolf published Night and Day and Jacob's Room, contributed widely to British and American periodicals, and progressed from straight reviewing to more extended critical essays. "Excellently edited, the essays reconfirm Woolf's] major importance as a twentieth-century writer" (Library Journal). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
During the period in which these essays were written, Woolf published Night and Day and Jacob's Room, contributed widely to British and American perio...
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173,46 zł |
The Second Common Reader: Annotated Edition
ISBN: 9780156028165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield s letters and De Quincey s autobiography. She writes, too, about the life and art of women. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
" Here, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Mered...
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91,02 zł |
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4: 1931-1935
ISBN: 9780156260398 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The penultimate volume of Woolf's diaries details the mature period of The Years and moments of personal sadness brought by the deaths of Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and Roger Fry. "A book of extraordinary vitality, wit, and beauty" (New York Times Book Review). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
The penultimate volume of Woolf's diaries details the mature period of The Years and moments of personal sadness brought by the deaths of Lytton Strac...
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140,94 zł |
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume Five, 1936-1941
ISBN: 9780156260404 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Virginia Woolf was fifty-four on January 25, 1936, some three weeks after this final volume of her diary opens. Its last page was written four days before she drowned herself on March 28, 1941. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index; maps.
Virginia Woolf was fifty-four on January 25, 1936, some three weeks after this final volume of her diary opens. Its last page was written four days be...
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140,94 zł |
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2: 1920-1924
ISBN: 9780156260374 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too much for one remarkable woman" (Christian Science Monitor). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above all h...
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130,05 zł |
Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930
ISBN: 9780156260381 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An account of Woolf's life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. "Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose...make this a most valuable and pleasurable book" (Publishers Weekly). "Volume three is as witty and intelligent as its predecessors" (Atlantic Monthly). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
An account of Woolf's life during the period in which To the Lighthouse and The Waves were written. "Her steel-trap mind and elegant prose...make this...
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140,94 zł |
Essays of Virginia Woolf Vol 2 1912-1918: Vol. 2, 1912-1918
ISBN: 9780156290555 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Essays beginning at the time of her marriage to Leonard Woolf and ending just after the Armistice. More than half have not been collected previously. "In these essays we see both Woolf's work and her self afresh" (Chicago Tribune). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
Essays beginning at the time of her marriage to Leonard Woolf and ending just after the Armistice. More than half have not been collected previously. ...
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140,94 zł |