wyszukanych pozycji: 56
Several Perceptions
ISBN: 9781860490941 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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51,82 zł |
The Magic Toyshop
ISBN: 9780349010311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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51,82 zł |
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 (Dostawa przed świętami) * 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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51,82 zł |
Love
ISBN: 9780140108514 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities."
Annabel and Lee are married; Lee and Buzz are brothers. A quirky threesome, they have set up a household on the fringes on university life in the late sixties. Their hermetic existence is filled with drugs, sex, alchohol, intensity, and madness; their relationships with one another are haunting and complex. Carter's compelling tale carries echoes of Poe and Bronte into the... "One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her for she had no inst...
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96,33 zł |
Wise Children
ISBN: 9780099981107 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the comic tale of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. The novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
This is the comic tale of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. The novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identi...
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Heroes and Villains
ISBN: 9780141192383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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51,82 zł |
Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories
ISBN: 9780099592914 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers. Suitable for Angela Carter aficionados, this title gathers together her work.
As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several antholo...
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Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780860682691 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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51,82 zł |
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks: Introduction by Joan Acocella
ISBN: 9781101907993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An omnibus of works by the great British writer that showcases her hauntingly erotic fabulism and the subversive richness of her imagination. In The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, we see a Beauty who turns into a Beast, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother stoned as a werewolf, and Bluebeard as a murderous, porn-addicted businessman. In the surreally delightful novel Wise Children, an elderly woman recounts the colorful life she and her identical twin sister led as vaudeville performers. And the...
An omnibus of works by the great British writer that showcases her hauntingly erotic fabulism and the subversive richness of her imagination. <...
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118,22 zł |
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
ISBN: 9780140255287 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, citicism, and fiction. But it is in her short stories that her extraordinary talents--as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and weaver of tales--are most penetratingly evident. This volume presents Carter's considerable legacy of short fiction gathered from published books, and includes early and previously unpublished stories. From reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of classic folklore and fairy tales, to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its...
One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, citicism, and fiction. But it is in ...
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96,33 zł |
Good Morning, Daughter: 31 Days with Daddy Devotional
ISBN: 9780989988827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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74,21 zł |
The Magic Toyshop
ISBN: 9781844085231 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' Observer
'Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' Observer
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67,37 zł |
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
ISBN: 9780141192390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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51,82 zł |
Expletives Deleted : Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780099222811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Presenting a selection of her writing, Angela Carter covers more than a decade of her thought, which ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a measure of the focus of her interests.
Presenting a selection of her writing, Angela Carter covers more than a decade of her thought, which ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a meas...
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71,88 zł |
Saints and Strangers
ISBN: 9780140089738 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "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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96,33 zł |
Nights at the Circus
ISBN: 9780099388616 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Raunchy, raucous... a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety."
--The Times Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan... or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but... "Raunchy, raucous... a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety." --The Times |
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The Bloody Chamber: York Notes Advanced - everything you need to study and prepare for the 2025 and 2026 exams
ISBN: 9781405896160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel.
Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text ...
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41,44 zł |
The Passion Of New Eve
ISBN: 9780860683414 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself . . . '
New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve. I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a...
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Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Stories
ISBN: 9780140103717 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In Elizabeth Jolley's "The Last Crop," a seemingly guileless woman cons a man out of his land. In Leonora Carrinton's "The Debutante," a young girl sends a hyena to her coming-out ball, with disastrous results. The title character in Frances Towers's "Violet" uses her talent for witchcraft with wicked intention. Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" faces a litany of her mother's strictures and admonishments, and Suniti Namjoshi's bittersweet fables suggest that nothing a woman does will ever be really right. But whether these women are bad or good, evil or benign, guilty or innocent, calculating or...
In Elizabeth Jolley's "The Last Crop," a seemingly guileless woman cons a man out of his land. In Leonora Carrinton's "The Debutante," a young girl se...
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96,33 zł |
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780099588115 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves, the author has created a collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves, the author has creat...
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51,82 zł |