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Closed Eye
ISBN: 9780241979402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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A Friend from England
ISBN: 9781400095216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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A Start in Life
ISBN: 9780241981498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.' Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment. Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . .
Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literatu...
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Lewis Percy
ISBN: 9780679729440 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Brief Lives
ISBN: 9780241979396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Hotel du Lac
ISBN: 9780140147476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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Hotel du Lac : Roman. Mit einem Vorwort von Elke Heidenreich. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Booker Prize 1984
ISBN: 9783961610792 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Providence
ISBN: 9780679738145 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Dolly
ISBN: 9780679745785 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In her superbly accomplished new novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our mast profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine identity and desire with a stylishness that conveys an almost sensual pleasure.
From the moment Jane Manning first meets her aunt Dolly, she is both fascinated and appalled. Where Jane is tactful and shy, Dolly is flamboyant and unrepentantly selfish, a connoisseur of fine things, an exploiter of wealthy people. But as the exigencies of family bring Jane and Dolly together, Brookner shows us that we may end up loving people we cannot bring... In her superbly accomplished new novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our mast profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine...
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A Start in Life
ISBN: 9780241977750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Eine Mesalliance
ISBN: 9783961611188 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die verletzte weibliche Seele Die verletzte weibliche Seele |
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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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Incidents in the Rue Laugier
ISBN: 9780679765127 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Family and Friends
ISBN: 9780241977781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Bay Of Angels
ISBN: 9780241977835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .' Zoe is delighted when her widowed mother marries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice. However, the long enchanted visits to France she enjoys come to an abrupt end when Simon suffers a bad fall. Zoe and her mother, finding themselves surrounded by well-meaning strangers, must learn how and how not to trust appearances . . . 'One of her very best - possibly her finest . . . reverberates long after it's put down ... Brookner in all her...
'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .' Zoe is...
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Family and Friends
ISBN: 9780679781646 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in Family and Friends to create a richly textured novel about the life of a wealthy Jewish family in London, focusing on the generation that came to maturity between the two World Wars.
Presiding over the Dorn household is the formidable Sofka, an elegant and circumspect widow who watches as her four children find their way into adulthood. Frederick, the sybaritic eldest son, escapes to the comforts of the Riviera while stern, dutiful Alfred runs the family business and burns with unrealized longings;... In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in Family and Friends to create a richly textured novel about ...
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Falling Slowly
ISBN: 9780375704246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the Sharpe sisters, regret over chances not taken casts a shadow over their contented existence. Beatrice, a talented if uninspired pianist, gives up performing, a decision motivated by stiffening joints and the sudden realization that her art has never brought her someone to love. Miriam, usually calm and lucid, slides headlong into an affair with a charming, handsome--and very married--man. And as each woman awakens to the urgency of her...
In Falling Slowly, Anita Brookner brilliantly evokes the origins, nature, and consequences of human isolation. As middle age settles upon the S...
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The Next Big Thing
ISBN: 9780241977842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Rules of Engagement
ISBN: 9781400075300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Elizabeth and Betsy had been school friends in 1950s London. Elizabeth, prudent and introspective, values social propriety. Betsy, raised by a spinster aunt, is open, trusting, and desperate for affection. After growing up and going their separate ways, the two women reconnect later in life. Elizabeth has married kind but tedious Digby, while Betsy is still searching for love and belonging. In this deeply perceptive story, Anita Brookner brilliantly charts the resilience of a friendship tested by alienation and by jealousy over a man who seems to offer the promise of escape.
Elizabeth and Betsy had been school friends in 1950s London. Elizabeth, prudent and introspective, values social propriety. Betsy, raised by a spinste...
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A Family Romance
ISBN: 9780241979426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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