wyszukanych pozycji: 418
My Antonia
ISBN: 9789390354849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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101,70 zł |
The Song of the Lark
ISBN: 9780803214026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 976 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Willa Cather's third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg. In creating Thea's character, Cather was inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad, although Thea's early life also has much in common with Cather's own. Set from 1885 to 1909, the novel traces Thea's long journey from her fictional hometown of Moonstone, Colorado, to her source of inspiration in the Southwest, and to New York and the Metropolitan Opera House. As she makes her own way in the world from an unlikely background, Thea distills all her...
Willa Cather's third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg. In creating Thea's character, Cather was insp...
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323,45 zł |
One of Ours
ISBN: 9781514772843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,09 zł |
The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896
ISBN: 9780803200128 / Angielski / Twarda / 1966 / 489 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 'The Kingdom of Art' attempts to give a summary of the first, elementary principles on which one writer based her art, and then to present a collection of critical statements--personal and occasional as well as theoretical--that seem to give a realistic view of Willa Cather as she was in the years 1893-1896.
'The Kingdom of Art' attempts to give a summary of the first, elementary principles on which one writer based her art, and then to present a collectio...
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323,45 zł |
Lucy Gayheart
ISBN: 9780860685128 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At the turn of the century, Lucy is a talented pianist, studying music in Chicago, returning occasionally to provincial Haverford, the town of her birth. She meets and falls in love with a middle-aged opera singer whose influence will change the course of her life.
At the turn of the century, Lucy is a talented pianist, studying music in Chicago, returning occasionally to provincial Haverford, the town of her bir...
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133,42 zł |
Death Comes for the Archbishop
ISBN: 9781959986065 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,17 zł |
April Twilights (1903) (Revised)
ISBN: 9781496216649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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67,77 zł |
Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, Fiction, Short Stories, Literary, Classics
ISBN: 9781603121590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thea always knew she was destined for greatness. She has a fabulous voice, one that she believes will bring her out of the lowness of her situation. Though the townsfolk know that she has a great voice, it will do nothing for her future. Her voice coach Herr Munch is not at the caliber that she wishes to attain. She knows that there are better instructors in Chicago and her dream is to go there someday. Unfortunately for her, she doesn't have the money to travel there from Colorado and neither does her family. But one of her longtime friends, Dr. Archie, knows that she has always dreamed of...
Thea always knew she was destined for greatness. She has a fabulous voice, one that she believes will bring her out of the lowness of her situation. T...
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107,93 zł |
O Pioneers!
ISBN: 9781503106239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable p...
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31,75 zł |
Death Comes for the Archbishop
ISBN: 9788028355166 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. The narrative is based on two historical figures of the late 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, and the story follows their lives serving as Roman Catholic clergy in New Mexico. The narrative touches many aspects of their lives and has frequent digressions, either in terms of stories related to the pair (including the story of the Our Lady of Guadalupe and the murder of an...
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establis...
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48,42 zł |
Youth and the Bright Medusa
ISBN: 9781647999308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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143,56 zł |
Youth and the Bright Medusa
ISBN: 9780803217546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 646 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into Youth and the Bright Medusa, stories of the perilous pursuit of the bright medusa of art in a hostile, materialistic world. These include some of her best tales: "Coming, Aphrodite " focuses on a dedicated painter and his affair with a singer in pursuit of celebrity; "Paul's Case" and "A Wagner Matinee" tell of a young man and an old woman with artistic longings crushed by their environments; "The Sculptor's Funeral" and "The Diamond Mine" show the high costs of success. The historical essay...
In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into Youth and the Bright Medusa, stories of the perilo...
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386,05 zł |
Youth and the Bright Medusa
ISBN: 9781514147573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into Youth and the Bright Medusa, stories of the perilous pursuit of the bright medusa of art in a hostile, materialistic world. These include some of her best tales: "Coming, Aphrodite " focuses on a dedicated painter and his affair with a singer in pursuit of celebrity; "Paul's Case" and "A Wagner Matinee" tell of a young man and an old woman with artistic longings crushed by their environments; "The Sculptor's Funeral" and "The Diamond Mine" show the high costs of success. Contains eight of...
In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into Youth and the Bright Medusa, stories of the perilo...
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38,75 zł |
Death Comes for the Archbishop
ISBN: 9780679728894 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of...
Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 185...
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69,22 zł |
My Ántonia
ISBN: 9781684123131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,85 zł |
My Antonia
ISBN: 9780199538140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) My Antonia is a classic tale of pioneer life in the American Midwest. The novel details daily life in the newly settled plains of Nebraska through the eyes of Jim Burden, who recounts memories of a childhood shared with a girl named Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of a family who have emigrated from Bohemia. As adults, Jim leaves the prairie for college and a career in the east, while Antonia devotes herself to her large family and productive farm. When he returns Jim sees that although Antonia is careworn, she remains "a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races, ." Full of stirring...
My Antonia is a classic tale of pioneer life in the American Midwest. The novel details daily life in the newly settled plains of Nebraska through the...
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46,20 zł |
My Antonia
ISBN: 9781421823621 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandp
I FIRST HEARD OF Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had...
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140,27 zł |
O Pioneers!
ISBN: 9781501015786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. O Pioneers is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Antonia (1918). O Pioneers is divided into five parts, each of which has numerous chapters. The book tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies.She devotes her life to making the farm a...
O Pioneers is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilo...
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31,75 zł |
Youth and the Bright Medusa
ISBN: 9781451565881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,43 zł |
Song of the Lark
ISBN: 9781604595109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young girl, Thea, who leaves home to go to the big city to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous opera star. Along the way, her realization of the mediocrity of her peers propels her to greater levels of accomplishment, but in the course of her ascent she must discard those relationships which no longer serve her.
The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young girl, Thea, who leaves home to go t...
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86,25 zł |