wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Mansfield Park: (Starbooks Classics Editions)
ISBN: 9781500437336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."
--- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between February 1811 and 1813. It was published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition in 1816, its publication was taken over by John Murray, who also published its successor, Emma. Literary significance and criticism Mansfield Park is the most controversial of Austen's major novels. Regency... "Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."
--- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at C... |
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68,75 zł |
This Side of Paradise: (Starbooks Classics Editions)
ISBN: 9781500260491 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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50,40 zł |
Persuasion: (Starbooks Classics Editions)
ISBN: 9781500429836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "You pierce my soul. I am half agony,
half hope...I have loved none but you. " ---Jane Austen, Persuasion Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December of that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well... "You pierce my soul. I am half agony,
half hope...I have loved none but you. " ---Jane Austen, Persuasion Persuasion is Jane Austen's l... |
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41,23 zł |
Northanger Abbey: (Starbooks Classics Editions)
ISBN: 9781500430078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
--- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written circa 1798-99. It was revised by Austen for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for 10 to a London bookseller, Crosby & Co., who decided against... "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
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41,23 zł |
The Awakening: (Starbooks Classics Editions)
ISBN: 9781496047595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without . It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating mixed reaction from contemporary readers and...
The Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana co...
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29,81 zł |
Pride and Prejudice: (Starbooks Classics Editions)
ISBN: 9781500438500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
-- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. Though the... "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
-- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice <... |
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64,17 zł |
The Beautiful and Damned: (Starbooks Classics Editions)
ISBN: 9781500259891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York cafe society. As in Fitzgerald's other novels, the characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald.
Themes The Beautiful and Damned is at once a morality tale, a meditation on love, money and decadence, and a social document. It concerns characters' disproportionate appreciation of their past,... The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz ...
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64,21 zł |
Emma: (Starbooks Classics Editions)
ISBN: 9781500429539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. "
--- Jane Austen, Emma Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as... "I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. "
--- Jane Austen, Emma Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the p... |
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71,09 zł |
Ivanhoe: (Starbooks Classics Editions)
ISBN: 9781496132437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott published in 1820 and set in 12th-century England. Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in romance and medievalism; John Henry Newman claimed Scott "had first turned men's minds in the direction of the middle ages," while Carlyle and Ruskin made similar assertions of Scott's overwhelming influence over the revival based primarily on the publication of this novel. Plot introduction Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the English nobility was overwhelmingly Norman. It...
Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott published in 1820 and set in 12th-century England. Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing inte...
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87,10 zł |
The Making of a Marchioness
ISBN: 9781500867539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "He felt the scent and the golden glow of the sunset light as intensely as he felt the dead silence which reigned between himself and Hester almost with the effect of a physical presence."
--- Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emily Fox-Seton First published in 1901, The Making of a Marchioness follows thirty-something Emily who lives alone, humbly and happily, in a tiny apartment and on a meager income. She is the one that everyone counts on but no one goes out of their way to accommodate. This Cinderella-like story remains a much-loved favorite among many. This book is followed by a... "He felt the scent and the golden glow of the sunset light as intensely as he felt the dead silence which reigned between himself and Hester almost wi...
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36,65 zł |
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Starbooks Classics Editions)
ISBN: 9781500922375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
"I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone." The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a 1915 novel by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique that formed part of Ford's pioneering view of literary... The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
"I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone."... |
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38,99 zł |
Emma's Discovery: The Chthonian Prophecy Book One
ISBN: 9780986342448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A witch who thinks she's human. A werewolf who doesn't want a mate, but can't seem to fight the enigma she is. When she discovers that the paranormal is real she can't seem to stop running and she will use any excuse she can, no matter how weak it is to deny what she is feeling for the wolf who keeps chasing her. When she can no longer run and accepts the love of a lifetime will it be too late? The truth of her birth is about to catch up to her and Emma will discover just who and what she is and just how quickly that discovery could lead to her death.
A witch who thinks she's human. A werewolf who doesn't want a mate, but can't seem to fight the enigma she is. When she discovers that the paranormal ...
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77,92 zł |