wyszukanych pozycji: 53
Napoleon Symphony
ISBN: 9780393350159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon's life into a pattern borrowed--in liberty, equality, and fraternity--from Beethoven's Third "Eroica" Symphony, in this rich, exciting, bawdy, and funny novel Anthony Burgess has pulled out all the stops for a virtuoso performance that is literary, historical, and musical.
A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon's life into a pattern borrowed--in liberty, equal...
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65,46 zł |
A Clockwork Orange
ISBN: 9780141182605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills.
Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a...
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46,63 zł |
Earthly Powers
ISBN: 9780099468646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. In this book, the author plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it.
Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to be...
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67,37 zł |
A Clockwork Orange: Play with Music
ISBN: 9780413735904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. Alex and his vicious teenage gang revel in horrific violence, mugging and gang rape. Alex also revels in the music of Beethoven. The Gang communicates in a language which is as complicated as their actions. When a drug-fuelled night of fun ends in murder, Alex is finally busted and banged up. He is given a choice - be brainwashed into good citizenship and set free, or face a lifetime inside. Anthony Burgess's play with music, based on his own provocative 1962 novella of the same name, was first... Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. Alex and his vicious teenage gang revel in horrific violen... |
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63,03 zł |
The Right to an Answer
ISBN: 9780393008876 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The playground of Mr. Burgess' humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to find the face of England hardened into a standardized grimace. He is appalled by his observations in all quarters of cheapness, shallowness, vice. He is appalled also by monotony. But monotony reigns only briefly. Soon Everett, the broken-down poet, and Winterbottom, the printer, have involved him in affairs which put a strain on his holiday spirit. And with the appearance of Mr. Raj, Ceylonese gentleman, persistent lecher and unflagging...
The playground of Mr. Burgess' humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to fi...
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100,49 zł |
Mechanický pomeranč
ISBN: 8595693406731 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mechanický pomeranč je kultovním, značně neobvyklým dílem. Týnština, jazyk, který autor používá, je naprosto unikátní a dává knize nový rozměr. Kniha je zpovědí násilnického Alexe o jeho brutálních činech a jeho „napravení“ v obludném experimentu. Kritika společnosti na příkladu antiutopie zasazené do Londýna roku 1982. Neveselá budoucnost s duchovně vyprázdněnou společností, kde na jedné straně řádí násilnické gangy a na druhé se formuje mocichtivá vláda s politiky.
Kniha byla časopisem Time vybrána mezi sto nejlepších... Mechanický pomeranč je kultovním, značně neobvyklým dílem. Týnština, jazyk, který autor používá, je naprosto unikátní a dává knize no...
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87,96 zł |
A Clockwork Orange
ISBN: 9780393341768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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69,84 zł |
One Hand Clapping
ISBN: 9781474253802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. Not for anybody, one of these days. And it's a wicked world. Average couple Janet and Howard's lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a gameshow fortune. Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much. She's quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the evening. But... Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because t... |
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66,35 zł |
A Clockwork Orange
ISBN: 9780434021512 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A new critical edition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange -- one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
First published by William Heinemann in 1962, A Clockwork Orange is the best known of Anthony Burgess's thirty-three remarkable novels, and is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. For more than twenty years A Clockwork Orange circulated in two distinct editions with two different endings. This special edition to mark the 50th Anniversary of first publication restores the text of the novel as Burgess... A new critical edition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange -- one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
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129,64 zł |
1985
ISBN: 9788379985357 / Polski / twarda / 2024 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Anthony Burgess (1917-93) - angielski pisarz, kompozytor, filolog, wykładowca na Uniw. W Birmingham i innnnych, autor ok 40 powieści, kilkunastu dzieł biograficznych i eseistycznych, a z powieści z najsłynniejszą "Mechaniczną pomarańczą" na czele, jedną z najważniejszych dystopii XX wieku w literaturze światowej. Dystopia (czyli antyutopia) to kluczowe słowo dla zrozumienia 1985 oto Burgess (napisawszy już przecież Pomarańczę, postanawia pójść dalej dystopijnym tropem i odpowiedzieć na bodaj jeszcze słynniejszą wizję przerażającego świata niż jego Mechanicznaczyli...
Anthony Burgess (1917-93) - angielski pisarz, kompozytor, filolog, wykładowca na Uniw. W Birmingham i innnnych, autor ok 40 powieści, kilkunastu dzi...
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37,91 zł |
Byrne
ISBN: 9780099541424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter, ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He moves opportunistically from country to country and from bed to bed, leaving a small tribe of children across the globe.
Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talent...
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71,88 zł |
You've Had Your Time
ISBN: 9780099437062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The second volume of Burgess's autobiography begins in 1959 with the author's return to England from Brunei and - after the mistaken prognosis which gave him a year to live - the start of his professional writing career. It ends in 1982 with the centenary celebrations of James Joyce's birth.
The second volume of Burgess's autobiography begins in 1959 with the author's return to England from Brunei and - after the mistaken prognosis which g...
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77,42 zł |
The Black Prince: Adapted from an original script by Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 9781783526420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A kaleidoscopic historical novel based on unpublished material by Anthony Burgess, from the prize-winning author Adam Roberts
A kaleidoscopic historical novel based on unpublished material by Anthony Burgess, from the prize-winning author Adam Roberts
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51,82 zł |
1985
ISBN: 9781846689192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, the author sheds light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own right.
A sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, the author sheds light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating...
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57,00 zł |
Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life
ISBN: 9780393346404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "Burgess can remake reality not only in his own writing but also in a new perception of the writings of his subject."New York Times Book Review
"Burgess can remake reality not only in his own writing but also in a new perception of the writings of his subject."New York Times Book Review
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113,62 zł |
Człowiek z Nazaretu
ISBN: 9788379985340 / Polski / twarda / 2024 / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Anthony Burgess (1917-93) - angielski pisarz, kompozytor, filolog, wykładowca na Uniw. W Birmingham i innych, autor ok 40 powieści, kilkunastu dzieł biograficznych i eseistycznych, a z powieści z najsłynniejszą Mechaniczną pomarańczą na czele, jedną z najważniejszych antyutopii XX wieku w literaturze światowej.Człowiek z Nazaretu to obok Mechanicznej pomarańczy chyba najsłynniejsza książka A. Burgessa. Wcześniej na podstawie jego scenariusza Franco Zefirelli nakręcił film i serial "Jesus of Nazareth".Wydawać się może dziwne, że taki liberał (lewicowy?) jak Burgess...
Anthony Burgess (1917-93) - angielski pisarz, kompozytor, filolog, wykładowca na Uniw. W Birmingham i innych, autor ok 40 powieści, kilkunastu dzie...
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42,65 zł |
M/F
ISBN: 9780141187808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru, an obscure poet and painter. But in the streets of Castita's capital, where a wild religious festival is in full swing, a series of bizarre encounters - including his own repulsive doppelganger (the son of a circus bird-woman) - and disturbing family revelations await Miles, who soon finds himself a willing victim of dynastic destiny. A darkly surreal comedy of dazzling linguistic inventiveness, MF is an outrageous tale of...
Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the s...
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71,88 zł |
The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy
ISBN: 9780393309430 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
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131,36 zł |
A Clockwork Orange: Play with Music
ISBN: 9781474261333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. Alex and his vicious teenage gang revel in horrific violence, mugging and gang rape. Alex also revels in the music of Beethoven. The Gang communicates in a language which is as complicated as their actions. When a drug-fuelled night of fun ends in murder, Alex is finally busted and banged up. He is given a choice - be brainwashed into good citizenship and set free, or face a lifetime inside. Anthony Burgess's play with music, based on his own provocative 1962 novella of the same name, was first published in...
Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. Alex and his vicious teenage gang revel in horrific violence, mugg...
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157,71 zł |
A Clockwork Orange : Text in Englisch. Mit Vokabelerläuterungen in Deutsch
ISBN: 9783150198971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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35,95 zł |