Wyniki wyszukiwania:
wyszukanych pozycji: 49
 |
Latecomers
ISBN: 9780141048291 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they were strangers in a strange land. Together, they survived. And in adulthood they have been unable to separate, sharing a successful business. Yet Hartmann's carefully polished manners conceal the past he refuses to think about. While Fibich, a mass of fears and neuroses, can do nothing but remember. Together these two men seek to build a future from the shaky foundations of their own pasts . . . 'Like Virginia Woolf, Brookner's aim is not to draw characters in the round,...
'No man is free of his own history' Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they were strangers in a strange...
|
cena:
51,35 zł |
 |
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. |
cena:
109,62 zł |
 |
A Friend from England
ISBN: 9781400095216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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...
|
cena:
77,87 zł |
 |
The Rules of Engagement
ISBN: 9780141014128 / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
87,81 zł |
 |
Visitors
ISBN: 9780679781479 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The extraordinary Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening.In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.
Dorothea May is most at ease in the company of strangers.When her late husband's relatives prevail on her to take in a young man for the week before an unexpected family wedding, Thea's carefully constructed, solitary world is thrown into disarray.As the wedding approaches, old family... The extraordinary Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," gives us a brilliant novel ...
|
cena:
82,19 zł |
 |
Providence
ISBN: 9780679738145 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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...
|
cena:
64,89 zł |
 |
A Family Romance
ISBN: 9780241979426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
87,81 zł |
 |
Incidents in the Rue Laugier
ISBN: 9780241979488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
87,81 zł |
 |
The Bay Of Angels
ISBN: 9780241977835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) '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...
|
cena:
51,35 zł |
 |
Providence
ISBN: 9780241977767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
cena:
51,35 zł |
 |
Leaving Home
ISBN: 9781400095650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In her exquisite new novel, Brookner deals with one of the great dramas of one's life: growing up and leaving home. At 26, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture out into the wider world.
In her exquisite new novel, Brookner deals with one of the great dramas of one's life: growing up and leaving home. At 26, Emma Roberts comes to the p...
|
cena:
82,19 zł |
 |
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 |
cena:
100,49 zł |
 |
The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780786711123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 625 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Combining two volumes of Wharton's short stories in a brand new edition, this outstanding selection is the most comprehensive available. Although Edith Wharton is best known for her novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, this extensive collection of her short fiction shows her to be a master of all its varieties. Wharton's stories ... owe their enduring power to portray the emotional consequences of life in a rarefied world."The New York Times"
Combining two volumes of Wharton's short stories in a brand new edition, this outstanding selection is the most comprehensive available. Although Edit...
|
cena:
121,09 zł |
 |
A Closed Eye
ISBN: 9780679743408 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening.
In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives. In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lyt...
|
cena:
73,54 zł |
 |
The Debut
ISBN: 9781982107512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
69,22 zł |
 |
Lewis Percy
ISBN: 9780679729440 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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...
|
cena:
69,00 zł |
 |
Brief Lives
ISBN: 9780241979396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
87,81 zł |
 |
Undue Influence
ISBN: 9780241977828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This superb new novel by the author who has been called "one of the finest novelists of her generation" (The New York Times) tells the story of Claire Pitt, a young woman who has lived most of her life under the watchful eyes of her parents. After her mother's death, Claire reexamines her day-to-day routine and her future in her London flat. She passes the time working in a bookstore, where she meets a mysterious and attractive young man whose wife is ill, and they begin a relationship that dramatically alters Claire's vision of herself, her past, and her future.
"Under Brookner's... This superb new novel by the author who has been called "one of the finest novelists of her generation" (The New York Times) tells the story of Claire...
|
cena:
87,81 zł |
 |
Family and Friends
ISBN: 9780241977781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
cena:
71,34 zł |
 |
Strangers
ISBN: 9780141040264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now.' Paul Sturgis is a retired banker manager who lives alone in a dark little flat. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers: the cheerful Australian girl who cuts his hair, the lady at the drycleaners. His only relative, and only acquaintance, is a widowed cousin by marriage - herself a virtual stranger - to whom he pays ritualistic visits on a Sunday afternoon. Trying...
'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances ...
|
cena:
51,35 zł |
Czytaj nas na:
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
