wyszukanych pozycji: 46
The Last Days of Troy
ISBN: 9780571315109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Presents the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from the most distinctive of contemporary authors, and in so doing brought Odysseus' return from the Trojan War memorably to life.
Presents the classical tale with all the flare, wit and engagement that we have come to expect from the most distinctive of contemporary authors, and ...
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56,09 zł |
All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate
ISBN: 9780141040462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Simon Armitage's humorous account of the North steers clear of the picturesque Lake District and the big cities of Manchester and Newcastle. Instead he focuses on the area of West Yorkshire, the land of Jarvis Cocker, Geoffrey Boycott and Bernard Ingham.
Simon Armitage's humorous account of the North steers clear of the picturesque Lake District and the big cities of Manchester and Newcastle. Instead h...
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56,09 zł |
The White Stuff
ISBN: 9780141010441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. So Abbie adopted at birth decides that if she can't have a child then she must at least discover whose child she is. Soon, she and Felix are caught up in a make-or-break search for family, identity and meaning. And little do they know quite where the journ
So Abbie adopted at birth decides that if she can't have a child then she must at least discover whose child she is. Soon, she and Felix are caught up...
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87,48 zł |
The Owl and the Nightingale
ISBN: 9780571357291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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76,50 zł |
The Unaccompanied
ISBN: 9780571333851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'A writer who has had a game-changing influence on his contemporaries.' Guardian'Armitage is that rare beast: a poet whose work is ambitious, accomplished and complex as well as popular.' Sunday Telegraph'The best poet of his generation.' Craig Raine, Observer
'A writer who has had a game-changing influence on his contemporaries.' Guardian'Armitage is that rare beast: a poet whose work is ambitious, accompli...
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66,30 zł |
The Death of King Arthur
ISBN: 9780571298419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. "The Alliterative Morte Arthure" - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and Sir Thomas Malory's prose "Morte D'Arthur". "The Death of King Arthur" deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. Simon Armitage is already the master of this alliterative music, as his earlier version of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (2006) so...
"The Alliterative Morte Arthure" - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian reviva...
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66,30 zł |
Walking Away
ISBN: 9780571298365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. From the surreal pleasure dome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, the author tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we've come to expect of one of Britain's best loved and most popular writers.
From the surreal pleasure dome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, t...
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56,09 zł |
Gig: Rock 'n' Roll Dreams in a Northern Town
ISBN: 9780141021249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. From punk to mod to New Romantic, and eventually to acclaimed poet, Simon Armitage writes about a life where music and poetry have been core.
From punk to mod to New Romantic, and eventually to acclaimed poet, Simon Armitage writes about a life where music and poetry have been core.
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56,09 zł |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
ISBN: 9780571340163 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Christmas gift edition of Simon Armitage's hugely popular translation, with colour illustrations by British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins
Christmas gift edition of Simon Armitage's hugely popular translation, with colour illustrations by British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins
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96,92 zł |
Seeing Stars
ISBN: 9780571249947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Armitage creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only thing certain is the unexpected.
Simon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. Arm...
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66,30 zł |
The Owl and the Nightingale
ISBN: 9780571382859 / Miękka / 2024 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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66,30 zł |
Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation
ISBN: 9780393343533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First appearing around 1400, The Death of King Arthur is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems penned in Middle English. While it is more than six centuries old, this magisterial new translation has finally given American readers the ability to experience the splendor and poignancy of the original. Echoing the lyrical passion that so distinguished Seamus Heaney s Beowulf, Simon Armitage has produced a virtuosic translation of a timeless masterpiece, one that follows Arthur s bloody conquests across Europe, all the way to his spectacular and even bloodier...
First appearing around 1400, The Death of King Arthur is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems penned in Middle English....
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100,00 zł |
Never Good with Horses: Assembled Lyrics
ISBN: 9780571377619 / Twarda / 2023 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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76,50 zł |
Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989–2014
ISBN: 9780571353392 / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who would reshape the landscape of contemporary poetry in the years to come.
When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who wo...
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76,50 zł |
Pearl: A New Verse Translation
ISBN: 9781631492549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English, Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage is celebrated for his compulsively readable translations New York Times Book Review). A perfect complement to his historic translation ofPearlthought to be by the same anonymous author and housed in the same original fourteenth-century manuscript. Honoring the rhythms and alliterative music of the original, Armitage s virtuosic translation describes a man mourning the loss of his Pearl something that has slipped away. What follows is a tense, fascinating, and tender dialogue weaving through the...
One of our most ingenious interpreters of Middle English, Oxford Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage is celebrated for his compulsively readable transl...
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65,14 zł |
Stanza Stones
ISBN: 9781907587306 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 109 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The newly drawn Stanza Stones Trail runs through forty-seven miles of the Pennine region, some of the most strikingly varied landscape in the world. The terrain bears the deep scars of industrial exploitation, as well as those less obvious: the signs left by a hundred local generations are carved into the region s abounding rocks. Simon Armitage was born and raised here, in the village of Marsden, and in 2012 he was commissioned through the Ilkley Literature Festival to write site-specific poetry. Armitage composed six new poems on his Pennine walks and, with the help of local expert Tom...
The newly drawn Stanza Stones Trail runs through forty-seven miles of the Pennine region, some of the most strikingly varied landscape in the world. T...
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76,55 zł |
The Dead Sea Poems
ISBN: 9780571176007 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A collection of poems in which questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, mingle with more mundane considerations, such as the problems of owning a dog, and the vicissitudes of the job market. Simon Armitage was the 1993 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.
A collection of poems in which questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, mingle with more mundane considerations, such as the problems...
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66,30 zł |
Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
ISBN: 9780871407436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District searching for inspiration. Now Simon Armitage, with equal parts enthusiasm and trepidation, as well as a wry humor all his own, has taken on Britain's version of our Appalachian Trail: the Pennine Way. Walking -the backbone of England- by day (accompanied by friends, family, strangers, dogs, the unpredictable English weather, and a backpack full of Mars Bars), each evening he gives a...
The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend an...
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79,33 zł |
Hansel & Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes
ISBN: 9780571384457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
ISBN: 9780393334159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rude...
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65,14 zł |