wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Before Lunch
ISBN: 9780349007403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are devoted to each other. When Jack's widowed sister, Lilian, and her two stepchildren arrive to spend the summer in the neighbouring house, he dreads the intrusion to his idyll: Daphne, capable and ambitious, is too lively for his taste, whereas her brother Denis, a composer, he finds a crashing bore. But their wit and good sense charm the residents of Barchester, and they win over Lord Bond with...
Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and ...
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High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844088836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura's wealthy friend and neighbour George Knox has taken on a scheming secretary whose designs on marriage to her employer threaten the delicate social fabric of the village. Can clever, practical Laura rescue George from Miss Grey's clutches and, what's more, help his daughter Miss Sibyl Knox to secure her longed-for engagement?
Utterly charming and very funny, High Rising is irresistible comic entertainment. Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of Hig...
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50,99 zł |
The Duke's Daughter: Volume 20
ISBN: 9781504092883 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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121,97 zł |
The Old Bank House: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9780349018683 / Miękka / 2024 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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66,30 zł |
The Headmistress
ISBN: 9780349007472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an easy and erudite conversationalist. Her new neighbours like her and her pupils respect her, but there is something missing from her life; something which - though she never dreamt it when she arrived - perhaps Barsetshire can provide...
Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacua...
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August Folly: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844089680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in the parental home. But the numerous and impossibly glamorous Dean family - exquisite Rachel, her capable husband and six of their nine brilliant children - have come for the holidays, and their hostess Mrs Palmer plans to rope everyone into performing in her disastrous annual play. Surrounded by the irrepressible Deans, Richard and his sister Margaret cannot help but have their minds broadened, spirits raised and hearts smitten.
It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in...
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50,99 zł |
A Double Affair: Volume 26
ISBN: 9781504092807 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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100,18 zł |
Peace Breaks Out
ISBN: 9780349013428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Both wry and poignant, Peace Breaks In was written in the tumultuous year that it was set. It is an unforgettable portrait of the joy and misgivings felt in the final days of the Second World War.
Both wry and poignant, Peace Breaks In was written in the tumultuous year that it was set. It is an unforgettable portrait of the joy and misgivings f...
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50,99 zł |
Northbridge Rectory
ISBN: 9780349007427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been billeted at the rectory, and Mrs Villars, the Rector's wife, is finding the attentions of Lieutenant Holden (who doesn't seem to mind that she is married to his host) quite exhausting. The middle-aged ladies and gentlemen who undertake roof-spotting from the church tower are more concerned with their own lives than with any possible parachutist raids. There is the love triangle of Mr Downing, his redoubtable hostess Miss Pemberton and the hospitable Mrs...
As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been billeted ...
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50,99 zł |
The Demon in the House: Volume 2
ISBN: 9781504092876 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,75 zł |
Growing Up
ISBN: 9780349013435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Written with all the charm and wit that are the signature of Thirkell's Barsetshire series, Growing Up is a heartwarming portrait of a close-knit community during the Second World War.
Written with all the charm and wit that are the signature of Thirkell's Barsetshire series, Growing Up is a heartwarming portrait of a close-knit comm...
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50,99 zł |
Marling Hall
ISBN: 9780349007441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Barsetshire in the war years. Mr Marling, of Marling Hall, realises he will probably never be able to hold on to his wonderful old estate and pass it down to his children. The Second World War is bringing an end to so many things, but the Marlings carry on as best they can in the face of rationing and changed living conditions. Into their world erupt Geoffrey Harvey and his sister Frances, bombed out of their London home. Bohemian and sophisticated, they rent a local house and it is not long before they begin to have an effect on their neighbours. Geoffrey begins to court Lettice, the...
Barsetshire in the war years. Mr Marling, of Marling Hall, realises he will probably never be able to hold on to his wonderful old estate and pass it ...
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50,99 zł |
Wild Strawberries: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844088843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for handsome playboy David Leslie. Meanwhile, Agnes and her mother, the eccentric matriarch Lady Emily, have hopes of a different, more suitable match for Mary. At the lavish Rushwater dance party, her future happiness hangs in the balance . . .
Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for ...
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Love Among the Ruins
ISBN: 9780349018652 / Miękka / 2024 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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66,30 zł |
Miss Bunting
ISBN: 9780349007564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and Lady Fielding to tutor their daughter Anne, delicate, sixteen years old, and totally lacking in confidence. When Anne makes friends with Heather Adams, the gauche daughter of a nouveau riche entrepreneur, her mother is appalled. Miss Bunting, however, shows an instinctive understanding of the younger generation - perhaps, having lost so many of her former pupils to the war, she is more sympathetic to their needs. She may be a part...
Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Ro...
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45,89 zł |
The Brandons: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844089703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Lavinia Brandon is quite the loveliest widow in Barsetshire, blessed with beauty and grace, as well as two handsome grown-up children, Delia and Francis. So thinks their cousin Hilary Grant when he comes to stay and - like many before him - promptly falls for his fragrant hostess. Meanwhile, the Brandons' ill-tempered dowager aunt is stirring up controversy over her legacy, and Lavinia's attention is further occupied by the challenges of making a match between the vicar and gifted village helpmeet Miss Morris, and elegantly deterring her love-struck suitors. Angela Thirkell's 1930s comedy is...
Lavinia Brandon is quite the loveliest widow in Barsetshire, blessed with beauty and grace, as well as two handsome grown-up children, Delia and Franc...
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50,99 zł |