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Lewis Percy
ISBN: 9780241977798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.' Destined to be a haunter of libraries, Lewis's cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estranged from his wife and daughter, he searches for an alternative. This novel presents the life and aspirations of one man who remains out of step with his times.
'The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that si...
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Seht mich an
ISBN: 9783961612567 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. "Ein tiefbewegender Roman." FAZ Frances Hinton arbeitet in einer medizinischen Bibliothek und führt ein zurückgezogenes Leben. Ihre eintönige Existenz wird von neuem Glanz erfüllt, als sie ein extravagantes Paar kennenlernt, das sie in ihren illustren Freundeskreis aufnimmt. "Ein tiefbewegender Roman." FAZ Frances Hinton arbeitet in einer medizinischen Bibliothek und führt ein zurückgezogenes Leben. Ihre ... |
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Altered States
ISBN: 9780679773252 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, remembers back to a time when he stepped briefly out of character to indulge in a liaison with Sarah Miller, an intriguing but heartless distant relative--only to find himself in a series of absurd situations that culminated in his marriage to Sarah's clinging, childlike friend Angela.
With her compassionate portrait of a man who has paid a... Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the...
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Falling Slowly
ISBN: 9780241977811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The brilliant Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," now gives us a stunning story of two sisters and the strange patterns of identity and love.
The Sharpe sisters have lived a careful and contemplative existence. Miriam is a translator of French texts and Beatrice a moderately successful pianist. Their lives of quiet sophistication are suddenly interrupted by several complicated men: Max, Beatrice's agent; Simon, a handsome and charming married man; and Tom Rivers, a journalist who befriends Miriam. These men create disorder in... The brilliant Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," now gives us a stunning story of two s...
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The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780786711123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 625 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Combining two volumes of Wharton's short stories in a brand new edition, this outstanding selection is the most comprehensive available. Although Edith Wharton is best known for her novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, this extensive collection of her short fiction shows her to be a master of all its varieties. Wharton's stories ... owe their enduring power to portray the emotional consequences of life in a rarefied world."The New York Times"
Combining two volumes of Wharton's short stories in a brand new edition, this outstanding selection is the most comprehensive available. Although Edit...
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Fraud
ISBN: 9780241979419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Bay of Angels
ISBN: 9780375727603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zoe Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, Anne, finally decides to remarry, Zoe is thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, who is not only wealthy, but also kind and generous. Simon s affection for his new family allows Zoe to pursue what she thinks is an independent life: her own apartment in a fashionable part of London, a university education, casual affairs, and carefree holidays at Simon s villa in Nice. When a series of unexpected calamities intervene, Zoe learns...
Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zoe Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, ...
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Closed Eye
ISBN: 9780241979402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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A Friend from England
ISBN: 9781400095216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her father's accountant, and then as her own. Part owner of a London bookshop, Rachel is thoroughly independent and somewhat distant, determinedly restrained in her feelings for others, but above all responsible. And it is this trait that leads Oscar and his wife Dorrie to seek out Rachel as a mentor for their twenty-seven-year-old...
In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Osc...
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A Start in Life
ISBN: 9780241981498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.' Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment. Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . .
Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literatu...
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Lewis Percy
ISBN: 9780679729440 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Anita Brookner performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him.
Anita Brookner performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the...
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Brief Lives
ISBN: 9780241979396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Hotel du Lac
ISBN: 9780140147476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Winner of the Booker Prize 'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era' Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to...
Winner of the Booker Prize 'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, ...
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Hotel du Lac : Roman. Mit einem Vorwort von Elke Heidenreich. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Booker Prize 1984
ISBN: 9783961610792 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Providence
ISBN: 9780679738145 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This brightly polished yet immensely touching comedy presents the romantic quest of Kitty Maule, who, in revenge against the impossibly charming and elusive man who rejects her, resolves to become totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful, to any number of others.
This brightly polished yet immensely touching comedy presents the romantic quest of Kitty Maule, who, in revenge against the impossibly charming and e...
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Dolly
ISBN: 9780679745785 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In her superbly accomplished new novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our mast profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine identity and desire with a stylishness that conveys an almost sensual pleasure.
From the moment Jane Manning first meets her aunt Dolly, she is both fascinated and appalled. Where Jane is tactful and shy, Dolly is flamboyant and unrepentantly selfish, a connoisseur of fine things, an exploiter of wealthy people. But as the exigencies of family bring Jane and Dolly together, Brookner shows us that we may end up loving people we cannot bring... In her superbly accomplished new novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our mast profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine...
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A Start in Life
ISBN: 9780241977750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Eine Mesalliance
ISBN: 9783961611188 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die verletzte weibliche Seele Die verletzte weibliche Seele |
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Family and Friends
ISBN: 9780241977781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Ein tugendhafter Mann
ISBN: 9783961611980 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein heldenhaftes, abenteuerliches Leben, das wäre Lewis Percys Ideal. Ein Leben, wie es die Männer in den Romanen führen, die er studiert. Doch in der Realität wohnt er mit seiner Mutter zusammen in einem Londoner Vorort. Lange geht er den Weg des geringsten Widerstands, bis er an einen Pubkt gelangt, an dem er sich entscheiden muss, ob sich nicht doch ein Stück Abenteuer ins Dasein retten lässt. »Brillant.« THE NEW YORK TIMES Ein heldenhaftes, abenteuerliches Leben, das wäre Lewis Percys Ideal. Ein Leben, wie es die Männer in den Romanen führen, die er studiert. |
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