wyszukanych pozycji: 68
The Only Story
ISBN: 9781784708313 / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of Britain's greatest mappers of the human heart.
At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love beco...
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50,76 zł |
The Sense of an Ending: The classic Booker Prize-winning novel
ISBN: 9781784705633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, tradin...
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46,96 zł |
The Only Story
ISBN: 9781529110661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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52,83 zł |
Flaubert's Parrot
ISBN: 9780099540083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A classic work by a great British author, published for the first time by Vintage.
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details about Geoffrey and his own life.
A classic work by a great British author, published for the first time by Vintage.
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession... |
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45,68 zł |
The Noise of Time
ISBN: 9781784703325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.
In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away ...
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50,76 zł |
Staring at the Sun
ISBN: 9780679748205 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes s wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed).
Elegant, funny and... Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes s wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barne...
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62,21 zł |
Vom Ende einer Geschichte : Roman. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Man Booker Prize 2011
ISBN: 9783442748747 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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45,15 zł |
Levels of Life
ISBN: 9780345806581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An NPR Best Book of the Year An NPR Best Book of the Year |
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74,66 zł |
Love, Etc.
ISBN: 9780375725883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Julian Barnes continues to reinvigorate the novel with his pyrotechnic verbal skill and playful manipulation of plot and character. In Love, etc. he uses all the surprising, sophisticated ingredients of a delightful farce to create a tragicomedy of human frailties and needs.
After spending a decade in America as a successful businessman, Stuart returns to London and decides to look up his ex-wife Gillian. Their relationship had ended years before when Stuart s witty, feckless, former best friend Oliver stole her away. But now Stuart finds... Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Julian Barnes continues to reinvigorate the novel with his pyrotechnic verbal skill and playful manipulation o...
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70,51 zł |
Miłość itd.
ISBN: 9788382896916 / Polski / broszurowa / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Po dekadzie rozwoju zawodowego w USA Stuart wraca do Londynu i postanawia się spotkać ze swoją byłą żoną Gillian. Lata temu odbił ją Stuartowi jego przyjaciel Oliver. Jednak ich związek chyli się ku ruinie. Stuart podejrzewa więc, że mógłby teraz on odbić byłą żonę.
Po dekadzie rozwoju zawodowego w USA Stuart wraca do Londynu i postanawia się spotkać ze swoją byłą żoną Gillian. Lata temu odbił ją Stuartow...
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44,90 zł |
Love, Etc
ISBN: 9780099540168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Julian Barnes revisits Stuart, Gillian and Oliver, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the reader, to whisper their secrets and to argue for their version of the truth.
Julian Barnes revisits Stuart, Gillian and Oliver, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the reader, to wh...
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50,76 zł |
Elizabeth Finch
ISBN: 9783462003277 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der neue Roman Julian Barnes' über eine platonische Liebe und den Tod einer besonderen Frau, der zum Anlass für die tiefere Auseinandersetzung eines Mannes mit Liebe, Freundschaft und Biografie wird. Neil, gescheiterter Schauspieler, Vater und Ehemann, besucht an der Abenduni eine Vorlesung zur Kultur und Zivilisation und ist fasziniert von der stoischen und anspruchsvollen Professorin Elizabeth Finch. Er hat zwar Affären und Liebeleien, doch prägt das Ringen um ihre Anerkennung sein Leben. Auch nach Beendigung des Studiums bleiben die beiden in Kontakt. Als... Der neue Roman Julian Barnes' über eine platonische Liebe und den Tod einer besonderen Frau, der zum Anlass für die tiefere Auseinanderse... |
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108,36 zł |
Before She Met Me
ISBN: 9780099540076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "A remarkably original and subtle novel." --Frank Kermode, "New York Review of Books"
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over the bad movies she appeared in. It's not that he blames Anne for having a past before they met, but history has always... "A remarkably original and subtle novel." --Frank Kermode, "New York Review of Books"
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53,50 zł |
Die einzige Geschichte
ISBN: 9783442719532 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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49,67 zł |
The Sense of an Ending
ISBN: 9780099570332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A brilliant short novel from a writer at the very height of his powers.
A brilliant short novel from a writer at the very height of his powers.
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40,59 zł |
Die einzige Geschichte : Roman
ISBN: 9783462051544 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2019 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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99,33 zł |
Death: Vintage Minis
ISBN: 9781784872601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents.
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on wha...
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30,44 zł |
Before She Met Me
ISBN: 9780679736097 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Graham Hendrick, an historian, becomes obsessed with discovering all of the men his actress wife, Ann, loved before him.
Graham Hendrick, an historian, becomes obsessed with discovering all of the men his actress wife, Ann, loved before him.
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74,66 zł |
The Lemon Table
ISBN: 9780099554998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In this collection of stories it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death at the 'lemon table', and each of Julian Barnes' characters is facing death, but each in a very different way.
In this collection of stories it is permissible - indeed obligatory - to talk about death at the 'lemon table', and each of Julian Barnes' characters ...
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50,76 zł |