wyszukanych pozycji: 58
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
ISBN: 9780141192390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Angela Carter's 'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman' was first published in 1972, and is a magical, satirical adventure.
Angela Carter's 'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman' was first published in 1972, and is a magical, satirical adventure.
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Love
ISBN: 9780099594215 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and lost connections. This revised edition evokes the ebb of the 1960s, and includes an afterword which describes the progress of the survivors into the anguish of middle age.
Charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alien...
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Fireworks
ISBN: 9781784872984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. `I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko.
`I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during ...
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Black Venus
ISBN: 9780099480716 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from the author's imagination. She also wrote Nights at the Circus, The Magic Toyshop and Shadow Dance.
A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Bo...
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Saints and Strangers
ISBN: 9780140089738 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "An absolutely unique voice...It would be an impertinence to call these eight delightful concoctions stories...A virtuoso Mendelssohn of fiction." -- The New York Times Book Review Drawing on American history, literary legend, and folk tale, Angela Carter transports us to that shadowy country between fact and myth in this book of short stories. Lizzy Borden, the spinster daughter of a glutton and a compulsive miser, ticks off the hours before a murder. An eighteenth-century whore and pickpocket who runs off to join the Indians tells her story in a voice of bawdy authenticity....
"An absolutely unique voice...It would be an impertinence to call these eight delightful concoctions stories...A virtuoso Mendelssohn of fiction." -- ...
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Nights at the Circus
ISBN: 9780140077032 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swan Sophi Fevvers--the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec--is an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover Fevvers's true identity: Is she part swan or all fake?... Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody C... |
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: A special edition of the feminist cult classic
ISBN: 9781784878689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Heroes and Villains
ISBN: 9780141192383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Playful, sensuous, violent and gripping, 'Heroes and Villains' is an ambiguous and deliriously rich blend of post-apocalyptic fiction, gothic fantasy, literary allusion and twisted romance.
Playful, sensuous, violent and gripping, 'Heroes and Villains' is an ambiguous and deliriously rich blend of post-apocalyptic fiction, gothic fantasy,...
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
ISBN: 9780140235197 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to question the living, and profound anxiety drives hundreds to suicide.
Behind it all stands Doctor Hoffman, whose gigantic generators crack the immutable surfaces of time and space and plunge civilization into a world without the chains - or structures - of reason. Only Desiderio, immune to... The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and ...
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Wise Children
ISBN: 9780374530945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora--unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day--were known as the Lucky Chances, with private lives as colorful and erratic as their careers. But now, at age 75, Dora is typing up their life story, and it is a tale indeed that Angela Carter tells. A writer known for the richness of her imagination and wit as well as her feminist insights into matters large and small, she created in Wise Children an effervescent family saga that... In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora--unacknowledged daughters of Sir Mel... |
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Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women
ISBN: 9780349008462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. * This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners - reissued in a HB edition as a companion to Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
* This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners - reissued in a HB edition as ...
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Shaking A Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings
ISBN: 9780099583073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Features: a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a person with an entirely unpredictable train of thought but whose exuberance, knowledge and insight sweeps you along on.
Features: a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a person with an entirely unp...
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98,90 |
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Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780860682691 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Angela Carter was also a journalist and critic. 'Nothing Sacred' explores a range of topics as Carter writes about herself, Japan, England and Englishness and literary criticism.
One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Angela Carter was also a journalist and critic. 'Nothing Sacred' explores a range of topics as ...
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A Souvenir of Japan
ISBN: 9781529983722 / Angielski / Miękka / 02-07-2026 / 176 str. Książka dostępna od: 02-07-2026 |
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Several Perceptions
ISBN: 9781860490941 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a Dionysic revel and spending his days in a mortuary - is the anti-hero at the heart of this novel.
Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a...
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The Magic Toyshop
ISBN: 9780349010311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.
In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore ...
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The Bloody Chamber
ISBN: 9781350262607 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "All is yours, everywhere is open to you - except the lock that the single key fits. You must promise, if you love me, to leave it well alone." When a 17 year old virgin marries a mature and charismatic Marquis it seems like a fairy tale. But when the Marquis is called away on their wedding night, leaving her only her only his keys and a single instruction, her curiosity leads her to uncover a dark secret. Bryony Lavery's new stage adaptation of Angela Carter's story opened as a Northern Stage production in September 2008.
"All is yours, everywhere is open to you - except the lock that the single key fits. You must promise, if you love me, to leave it well alone." When ...
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Heroes and Villains
ISBN: 9780140234640 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization while the superstitious Barbarians constantly attack them. The Barbarians are in turn attacked by the deformed and diseased Out People, who struggle to survive in a netherworld of incinerated cities. When Marianne, a Professor's daughter, is kidnapped to become the captive bride of the Barbarian Jewel, a dangerous, erotic love story begins. For as Marianne gives herself over to the exotic life of the jungle, she also begins to discover her own...
After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization whil...
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American Ghosts & Old World Wonders
ISBN: 9780099133711 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; and a transfigured Mary Magdalene steps out of the canvases of Donatello and de la Tour.
A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pi...
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Good Morning, Daughter: 31 Days with Daddy Devotional
ISBN: 9780989988827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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