wyszukanych pozycji: 17
Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy
ISBN: 9781637744147 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A poignant, deliciously anecdotal account of a talented artist's Oz-like journey in the worlds of Off-Broadway, Broadway, and Hollywood.
A poignant, deliciously anecdotal account of a talented artist's Oz-like journey in the worlds of Off-Broadway, Broadway, and Hollywood.
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121,79 zł |
Judith of Bethulia
ISBN: 9780573700941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Imagine the outrageous Mae West in a Cecil B. DeMille biblical epic. Judith, a beautiful, wealthy young widow, is reviled by her own people as a gold digging adventuress. When her ancient city of Bethulia is facing brutal annihilation, Judith, wearing her most glittering finery, slips into the enemy camp, seduces and ultimately decapitates the ruthless General Holofernes. This wild homage to the Hollywood movie epic is the latest trip to the cinematic past by the author of "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" and "The Divine Sister. "
Imagine the outrageous Mae West in a Cecil B. DeMille biblical epic. Judith, a beautiful, wealthy young widow, is reviled by her own people as a gold ...
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69,50 zł |
The Confession of Lily Dare
ISBN: 9780573707667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,50 zł |
Times Square Angel
ISBN: 9780573703140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New York, 1948. Irish O'Flanagan is the tough as nails, red-headed headliner of the Club Intime. A lifetime of hard knocks has left her bitter and with a chip on her shoulder the size of Mount Rushmore. In the spirit of fantasies such as "A Christmas Carol," "It's a Wonderful Life" and "The Bishop's Wife," an angel in the form of a sexy vaudeville magician named Albert comes down to show Irish that the path she's been taking is leading her to disaster. He takes her on a journey that reveals that in the next twenty-four hours, she'll be killed in a botched kidnapping of a corrupt senator's...
New York, 1948. Irish O'Flanagan is the tough as nails, red-headed headliner of the Club Intime. A lifetime of hard knocks has left her bitter and wit...
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69,50 zł |
The Divine Sister
ISBN: 9780573698866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Divine Sister is an outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns. Evoking such films as The Song of Bernadette, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Singing Nun and Agnes of God, The Divine Sister tells the story of St. Veronica's indomitable Mother Superior who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with a young postulant who is experiencing "visions," sexual hysteria among her nuns, a sensitive schoolboy in need of mentoring, a mysterious nun visiting from the Mother House in Berlin, and a former suitor intent on...
The Divine Sister is an outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns. Evoking such films as The Song of Bernadette, The Bells...
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69,50 zł |
Olive and the Bitter Herbs
ISBN: 9780573700071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Characters: 3 male, 2 female Unit Set Olive Fisher is an elderly character actress whose claim to fame were the iconic "Gimme the Sausage" commercials of the 1980's. She's a classic New York curmudgeon, at war with the world and in particular her next door neighbors. Her closed-off life is shaken by the appearance of a spectral male figure viewed through her living room mirror. A series of strange and outrageous coincidences reveals that the man in the mirror has intimate links to everyone in Olive's world and most revealingly to Olive, encouraging her that it's never too late to change one's...
Characters: 3 male, 2 female Unit Set Olive Fisher is an elderly character actress whose claim to fame were the iconic "Gimme the Sausage" commercials...
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69,50 zł |
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and Other Plays: The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party, the Lady in Questio
ISBN: 9780802137852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Charles Busch is renowned for weaving popular culture, wicked camp humor, and biting social satire into an unusual and uproarious theatrical signature that has earned him the Outer Critics' John Gassner Award for Playwrighting and a Drama Desk Award for Best Play nomination. Of his latest play, The New York Times has written, "Uproarious . . . wall-to-wall laughs . . . Mr. Busch has swum straight into the mainstream and stays comfortably afloat there".
Busch is the author of such plays as Vampire Lesbians of Sodom -- one of the longest-running plays in Off-Broadway history -- and Psycho... Charles Busch is renowned for weaving popular culture, wicked camp humor, and biting social satire into an unusual and uproarious theatrical signature...
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78,44 zł |
The Third Story
ISBN: 9780573697302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Comedy / Characters: 4m, 2f / Unit set A faded screenwriter in the 1940's woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screen play. The gangster/sci fi B-movie in their imagination unfolds before us, involving a chic crime czarina, a beautiful but icy lady scientist and her failed and understandly bitter human cloning experiment. A third story is the Russian fairy tale the screenwriter told her son as a child about a painfully shy princess who forges a diabolical pact with a terrifying but surprisingly vulnerable old witch. The fairy tale inspires the movie which inspires the...
Comedy / Characters: 4m, 2f / Unit set A faded screenwriter in the 1940's woos her troubled ex-writer son into collaborating on a screen play. The gan...
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69,50 zł |
Red Scare on Sunset
ISBN: 9780573703157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The time: the fifties; the place: Hollywood, where film star Mary Dale finds the Red Menace invading her own Beverly Hills backyard. When she discovers that her husband has been lured into the local Communist party by way of a method acting class and that there is a left wing plot afoot to abolish the star system, Mary wages a private war to save her husband, her country and billing over the title. The McCarthy era is turned on its head in this novel take on a serious subject.
The time: the fifties; the place: Hollywood, where film star Mary Dale finds the Red Menace invading her own Beverly Hills backyard. When she discover...
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69,50 zł |
Die Mommie Die!
ISBN: 9780573623608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Comic melodrama. Little Theatre. Characters: 3 male. 3 female. Interior set. Newly revised! This comic melodrama evokes the 1960's movie thrillers that featured such aging cinematic icons as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner and Susan Hayward. Faded pop singer, Angela Andrews, is trapped in a corrosive marriage to film producer, Sol Sussman. In her attempt to find happiness with her younger lover, an out of work TV star, Angela murders her husband with the aid of a poisoned suppository. In a plot that reflects both Greek tragedy as well as Hollywood folklore, Angela's... Comic melodrama. Little Theatre. Characters: 3 male. 3 female. Interior set. Newly revised! This comic melodrama evokes the 1960's movi... |
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69,50 zł |
Hard Times
ISBN: 9780451530998 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dickens's scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society.
Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens's most powerful and unforgettable novels, is all brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Its emblematic citizen, the schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, lives to impose his version of education: facts and statistics that feed the mind while starving the soul and spirit. Inflexible and unyielding, he places conformity above curiosity and logic over sentiment, only to see his philosophy warp and destroy the lives of his own family.... Dickens's scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society.
Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dick... |
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25,92 zł |
soft as water
ISBN: 9789188061256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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104,39 zł |
Oliver Twist
ISBN: 9780451529718 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2005 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the great novelist's most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens's genius. This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. Oliver Twist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens: the master thief, Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer, Bill Sikes...along with some of his most sentimental and comical characters. Only Dickens can give us nightmare and daydream together. According to George Orwell, "in...
One of the great novelist's most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens's genius. This tale of the o...
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25,92 zł |
A Tale of Two Cities
ISBN: 9780451530578 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2007 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times... The storming of the Bastille...the death carts with their doomed human cargo...the swift drop of the guillotine blade--this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his novel of...
The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times... The storming ...
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30,28 zł |
The Invisible Child: War's Unspeakable Bargain
ISBN: 9781737182825 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,21 zł |
Über das weltweite soziale Chaos
ISBN: 9783050049144 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2012 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Die vorliegende Auswahl von Texten des franzosischen Sozialphilosophen und Gesellschaftstheoretikers Charles Fourier (1772-1837) hat zwei Schwerpunkte: Zum einen thematisiert sie die wesentlichen Aspekte und die gedankliche Struktur von Fouriers weitreichendem OEuvre; zum anderen macht sie verstandlich, welche Uberlegungen Fouriers fur heutige Theoretikerinnen und Theoretiker anregend oder anschlussfahig sind. Zu den Themen, die Fourier in den im vorliegenden Band publizierten Schriften behandelt, zahlen das Ideal einer exakten Sozialwissenschaft; die Grundlagen der Anthropologie; die... Die vorliegende Auswahl von Texten des franzosischen Sozialphilosophen und Gesellschaftstheoretikers Charles Fourier (1772-1837) hat zwei Schwerpun... |
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456,44 zł |
Little ME: Intimate Memoirs Belle
ISBN: 9780767913478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Back in print at last From the author of Auntie Mame the bawdy, bestselling, bountifully illustrated autobiography of an imaginary diva whose life is one hilarious mishap after another.
For Belle Poitrine, nee Mayble Schlumpfert, all the world's a stage and she's the most important player on it. At once coy and coercive, with a name that means "beautiful bosom" in French, she claws her way from Striver's Row to the silver screen. Recalling Belle's career, which ranged from portraying Anne Boleyn in Oh, Henry to roles in both Sodom and its sequel... Back in print at last From the author of Auntie Mame the bawdy, bestselling, bountifully illustrated autobiography of an imaginary diva who...
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87,15 zł |