wyszukanych pozycji: 68
The Memory of Old Jack
ISBN: 9781582430430 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century. "Few novelists treat both their characters and their readers with the kind of respect that Wendell Berry displays in this deeply moving account . . . The Memory of Old...
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Br...
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69,50 zł |
Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work
ISBN: 9780813109428 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Includes 20 color plates of Hubbard's own paintings, along with several photographs of Anna and Harlan Hubbard. Wendell Berry is also the author of Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. See other books in the series Blazer Lectures. "Includes 20 color plates of Hubbard's own paintings, along with several photographs of Anna and Harlan Hubbard. Wendell Berry is also the author o... |
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173,87 zł |
A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership
ISBN: 9781619021884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River, populated over the years by a cast of unforgettable characters living in a single place over a long time. In this new collection, the author's first piece of new fiction since the publication of Andy Catlett in 2006, the stories date's range from 1864, when Rebecca Dawe finds herself in her own reflection at the end of the Civil War, to one from 1991 when Grover Gibbs' widow, Beulah, attends the auction as her home place is offered for sale. It feels...
For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River, populated...
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82,36 zł |
Standing by Words: Essays
ISBN: 9781582437453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "If we fail to do what is required and if we do what is forbidden, we exclude ourselves from the mercy of Nature; we destroy our place, or we are exiled from it." The essays of Wendell Berry are an extended conversation about the life he values; sustainable agriculture, a connection to place, the miracle of life, and the interconnectedness of all things. The existence of this life is dependent on our devotion to preserving it, an emotional proximity to the land that is slipping away from us. In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry considers the degeneration of language that is...
"If we fail to do what is required and if we do what is forbidden, we exclude ourselves from the mercy of Nature; we destroy our place, or we are exil...
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87,31 zł |
Stand By Me
ISBN: 9780141990248 / Miękka / 2020 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,62 zł |
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9780141984131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,62 zł |
Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community: Eight Essays
ISBN: 9781640091405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,86 zł |
Hannah Coulter
ISBN: 9781593760786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Ignorant boys, killing each other," is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife, friends, and family about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Life carried on for the community of Port William, Kentucky, as some boys returned from the war and the lives of others were mourned. In her seventies, Nathan's wife, Hannah, has time now to tell of the years since the war. In Wendell Berry's unforgettable prose, we learn of the Coulter's children, of the Feltners and Branches, and how survivors "live right on."
"Ignorant boys, killing each other," is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife, friends, and family about the Battle of Okinawa in the spri...
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73,86 zł |
The Hidden Wound
ISBN: 9781582434865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) With the expected grace of Wendell Berry comes The Hidden Wound, an essay about racism and the damage it has done to the identity of our country. Through Berry's personal experience, he explains how remaining passive in the face of the struggle of racism further corrodes America's potential. In a quiet and observant manner, Berry opens up about how his attempt to discuss racism is rooted in the hope that someday the historical wound will begin to heal.
With the expected grace of Wendell Berry comes The Hidden Wound, an essay about racism and the damage it has done to the identity of our countr...
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82,36 zł |
Remembering
ISBN: 9781582434155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 103 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depression since losing his hand in a farming accident, is alone in San Francisco, and takes a long walt through the walking street ofthe city. By the end ofthe day, when he has flown home to Port William, Kentucky, Andy is on his way to becoming whole again.
Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depression since losing his hand in a farming accident, is...
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69,50 zł |
Think Little: Essays
ISBN: 9781640091733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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43,58 zł |
Watch with Me: And Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch
ISBN: 9781619028319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In these newly reissued stories, Wendell Berry transports readers to Port William, Kentucky, the fictional community he's lovingly created across multiple novels, stories, and poems Never has Berry seemingly had so much fun as he does in spinning the tall tales of Ptolemy Proudfoot, "a member of a large clan of large people." Tol Proudfoot is a farmer, a longtime bachelor at war with his clothes. The challenge of arriving in presentable fashion at the harvest festival in order to court Miss Minnie, Port William's schoolmarm, is an epic battle. But Miss Minnie is delighted to have...
In these newly reissued stories, Wendell Berry transports readers to Port William, Kentucky, the fictional community he's lovingly created across m...
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73,86 zł |
How It Went: Thirteen Stories of the Port William Membership
ISBN: 9781640095816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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128,72 zł |
Fidelity: Five Stories
ISBN: 9781640090750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,86 zł |
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
ISBN: 9780241337561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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15,46 zł |
That Distant Land: The Collected Stories
ISBN: 9781593760540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. That Distant Land includes twenty-three stories from Wendell Berry's Port William membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book shines forth as a single sustained work, not simply an anthology. It reveals Wendell Berry as a literary master capable of managing an imaginative integrity over decades of writing with a multitude of characters followed over several generations. Combining The Wild Birds (1985), Fidelity (1992), and Watch With Me (1994), and including four never-before-collected stories and a map of Port William, this book offers rest for...
That Distant Land includes twenty-three stories from Wendell Berry's Port William membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book ...
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82,57 zł |
A Place on Earth
ISBN: 9781582431246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found. This brings the revised 1983 edition back into print, the next book in our program to put all of Wendell Berry's fiction into print in revised and corrected uniform editions.
The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from...
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78,21 zł |
It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays
ISBN: 9781619021143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture--our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement--Wendell Berry decided to take on the obligation of thinking again about the problems that have engaged him throughout his long career. He wanted a fresh start, not only in looking at the groundwork of the problems facing our nation and the earth itself, but in gaining hope from some examples of repair and healing even in these times of Late Capitalism and its destructive contagions. As a poet and writer he understood already that much can be gleaned from...
When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture--our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement--Wendell Berry...
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69,50 zł |
How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership
ISBN: 9781640096158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,86 zł |
What Are People For?: Essays
ISBN: 9781582434872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Wendell Berry identifies himself as both -a farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts, - which he deftly illustrates in the scope of these 22 essays. Ranging from America's insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America's attitude toward waste, Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next. He speaks candidly about the ills plaguing America and the growing gap between people and the land. Despite the somber nature of these essays, Berry's voice and prose provide an underlying sense of faith and hope. He frames his reflections with poetic responsibility,...
Wendell Berry identifies himself as both -a farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts, - which he deftly illustrates in the scope of these 22 essays. Ran...
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82,36 zł |