wyszukanych pozycji: 12
The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones
ISBN: 9781784975135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A stark and violent exploration of an American myth, this is a novel about the doomed gunslinger Billy the Kid.
A stark and violent exploration of an American myth, this is a novel about the doomed gunslinger Billy the Kid.
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51,62 zł |
Short Novels of the Masters
ISBN: 9780815411789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ten classic short novels appear in this collection by noted editor Neider. The contents include: Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, Notes from Underground by F. M. Dostoyevsky, A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert, The Death of Ivan Ilych by L. N. Tolstoy, The Aspern Papers by Henry James, Ward No. 6 by A. P. Chekhov, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, The Dead by James Joyce (recently made into a musical), The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, and The Fox by D. H. Lawrence. In the introduction, Neider discusses the themes that arise in several of the novels, grouping them by more than just their...
Ten classic short novels appear in this collection by noted editor Neider. The contents include: Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, Notes from Undergro...
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102,10 zł |
The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: With a Selection of the Best Short Novels
ISBN: 9780306808821 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a writer of power and originality, who penned such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Weir of Hermiston. The editor has collected in convenient form Stevenson's short fiction, including the complete New Arabian Nights and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as ghost stories, medieval romances, farces, horror stories, and the South Sea Tales. This volume amply illustrates Stephenson's wide range and enduring appeal.
Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a writer of power and originality, who penned such classics as Treasur...
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166,46 zł |
Essays of the Masters
ISBN: 9780815410973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature writers best known for novels, plays, and poems and how they put the essay to their personal use. Contributors include Auden, Balzac, Conrad, Dickens, Dostoevski, Eliot, Faulkner, Flaubert, Gide, Goethe, Hardy, Hawthorne, Heine, Hemingway, Kafka, Kipling, Lawrence, Melville, Pirandello, Poe, Proust, Sartre, Tolstoy, Twain, Whitman, Wilde, Woolf, and Yeats."
This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature writers best known for novels, plays, and poems and h...
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80,79 zł |
The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780306809576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 732 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mark Twain is best known as one of this country's finest humorists and novelists. As this collection confirms, he was one of our finest essayists as well. Gathered here in a single volume, these pieces reveal the complete range of this esteemed American writer and contain some of his best, funniest, and most caustic work. "English as She Is Taught," "What Is Man?," and "Letters to Satan" are among the seventy-seven essays, each featuring Twain's witty, vital, colorful style--and reminding us why, nearly one hundred years after his death, he continues to be one of the most widely read and...
Mark Twain is best known as one of this country's finest humorists and novelists. As this collection confirms, he was one of our finest essayists as w...
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132,11 zł |
The Complete Tales of Washington Irving
ISBN: 9780306808401 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 840 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service as a diplomat, Irving was amazingly prolific: His collected works fill forty volumes that encompass essays, history, travel writings, and multi-volume biographies of Columbus and Washington. But it is Irving's mastery of suspense, characterization, tempo, and irony that transforms his fiction into virtuoso performances, earning him his reputation as the father of the American short story....
Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy internation...
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140,47 zł |
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780060955427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy."--From the Introduction by Charles Neider
Mark Twain was a figure larger than fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story--which includes sixteen pages of photos--with the same flair he brought to... "Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has th...
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76,69 zł |
Kafka
ISBN: 9781032610948 / Twarda / 2024 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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482,65 zł |
Beyond Cape Horn: Travels in the Antarctic
ISBN: 9780815412359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Writer and Antarctic explorer Neider tells of his third trip to the frozen continent, describing the international stations there and the goals they are working toward. Neider also tours the Antarctic landscape, observing the geography and wildlife and evoking it in detail. Devoting scrutiny to the international treaties that protect the continent politically and environmentally, Neider reveals how important those treaties are. Also included in this work are interviews with Antarctic pioneers Sir Charles Wright, Sir Vivian Fuchs, and Laurence Gould.
Writer and Antarctic explorer Neider tells of his third trip to the frozen continent, describing the international stations there and the goals they a...
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76,52 zł |
Great Short Stories of the Masters
ISBN: 9780815412533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. The authors include Americans such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, and Flannery O'Connor, 19th and 20th century Western European giants such as Proust, Sartre, Flaubert, Kafka, Mann, Pirandello, Rilke, and Balzac, Russian icons Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Turgenev, and Chekhov, and Asian writers Rabindranath Tagore and Lu Hsun. While many of the names are recognizable (though some, such as Bunin, Lagerlof, Nexo, and Svevo rank among the...
Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. ...
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85,05 zł |
Life as I Find It: A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities
ISBN: 9780815410270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mark Twain's hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection.
Mark Twain's hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection.
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76,52 zł |
Tolstoy: Tales of Courage and Conflict
ISBN: 9780815410102 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Russian novelist and philospher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for his monumental novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but his reputation as a master of short fiction is richly evident in this unparalleled anthology. Here, in the largest one-volume collection available, are 36 stories of war, intrigue, treachery, murder, moral turmoil, spiritual anguish, and occasional redemption. They include early stories like the famed "Sevastopol" tales of warfare and "Lost on the Steppe;" the tour de force novellas "The Death of Ivan Ilyitch" and "The Kreutzer Sonata;" as well as folk tales,...
Russian novelist and philospher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for his monumental novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but his reputation as...
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114,89 zł |