wyszukanych pozycji: 51
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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87,14 zł |
Look At Me
ISBN: 9780241977774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,99 zł |
Hotel du Lac
ISBN: 9780140147476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 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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Making Things Better
ISBN: 9781400031061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he s confronted by life s pressing questions with an urgency he has never known before: what do we owe the people in our lives? How should we fill our days? Feeling fortified despite the growing ache in his heart, Herz finds himself also blessed with a stirring sense of exhilaration. After a lifetime of deferring to others stronger wills, he faces a future of possibility, the only constraint the deeply...
Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling str...
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61,59 zł |
Hotel du Lac
ISBN: 9780241996560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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45,89 zł |
Incidents in the Rue Laugier
ISBN: 9780679765127 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, deeply knowing novel by the author of Hotel du Lac, Maud's seduction creates a chemistry of longing, sensuality, and betrayal--with a surprising climax.
Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, ...
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70,39 zł |
Ein Start ins Leben : Roman
ISBN: 9783961610716 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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54,43 zł |
Fraud
ISBN: 9780241979419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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87,14 zł |
Providence
ISBN: 9780679738145 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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65,99 zł |
The Next Big Thing
ISBN: 9780241977842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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87,14 zł |
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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87,14 zł |
Latecomers
ISBN: 9780141048291 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they were strangers in a strange land. Together, they survived. And in adulthood they have been unable to separate, sharing a successful business. Yet Hartmann's carefully polished manners conceal the past he refuses to think about. While Fibich, a mass of fears and neuroses, can do nothing but remember. Together these two men seek to build a future from the shaky foundations of their own pasts . . . 'Like Virginia Woolf, Brookner's aim is not to draw characters in the round,...
'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they were strangers in a strange...
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50,99 zł |
A Friend from England
ISBN: 9781400095216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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79,19 zł |
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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108,86 zł |
Visitors
ISBN: 9780679781479 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The extraordinary Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening.In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.
Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers.When her late husband's relatives prevail on her to take in a young man for the week before an unexpected family wedding, Thea's carefully constructed, solitary world is thrown into disarray.As the wedding approaches, old family... The extraordinary Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," gives us a brilliant novel ...
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83,59 zł |
The Rules of Engagement
ISBN: 9780141014128 / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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87,14 zł |
A Family Romance
ISBN: 9780241979426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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87,14 zł |
A Closed Eye
ISBN: 9780679743408 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.
In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives. In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lyt...
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74,79 zł |
Lewis Percy
ISBN: 9780679729440 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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70,17 zł |
Incidents in the Rue Laugier
ISBN: 9780241979488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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87,14 zł |