wyszukanych pozycji: 56
The Sixties : Diaries Volume Two 1960-1969
ISBN: 9780099565222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York, and the raw Australian outback.
Takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of...
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138,60 zł |
The World in the Evening
ISBN: 9780099561149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Against the backdrop of World War II, this work charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. The world traveller comes to a gradual understanding of himself and of his newly adopted homeland.
Against the backdrop of World War II, this work charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. The worl...
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57,13 zł |
Christopher and His Kind
ISBN: 9780099561071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In November 1929, the author - determined to become a permanent foreigner - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. In this title, he recalls decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation. It describes his struggle to save his partner Heinz from persecution the Third Reich.
In November 1929, the author - determined to become a permanent foreigner - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket f...
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51,93 zł |
Das Denkmal : Porträt einer Familie. Roman
ISBN: 9783455405842 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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101,64 zł |
Goodbye to Berlin
ISBN: 9780811220248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafes; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires this was the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. Goodbye to Berlin is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable and divinely decadent Sally Bowles; plump Frau]lein Schroeder, who considers...
First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Ishe...
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49,84 zł |
Leb wohl, Berlin : Roman
ISBN: 9783455650778 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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64,68 zł |
Goodbye to Berlin
ISBN: 9781784878108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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46,74 zł |
Kathleen and Christopher: Christopher Isherwood's Letters to His Mother
ISBN: 9780816645800 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Opening a window into the most fascinating and, in many ways, most mysterious period in Christopher Isherwood's life, Kathleen and Christopher collects more than one hundred previously unpublished letters the young author wrote to his mother between 1935 and 1940. Composed while he was still a struggling writer, they offer a brilliant eyewitness account of Europe on the brink of war and an intimate look at the early career of a major literary figure. Because Isherwood destroyed his diaries from these years, these letters--published for the first time and edited and introduced by Lisa...
Opening a window into the most fascinating and, in many ways, most mysterious period in Christopher Isherwood's life, Kathleen and Christopher collect...
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115,82 zł |
Christopher and His Kind: A Memoir, 1929-1939
ISBN: 9780374535223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation |
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81,80 zł |
Mr Norris Changes Trains
ISBN: 9780099771418 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. 'Mr Norris Changes Trains' evokes the atmosphere of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis.
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a...
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55,39 zł |
Kathleen and Frank
ISBN: 9780099561194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tells the story of author's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960.
Tells the story of author's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death ...
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94,20 zł |
A Meeting by the River
ISBN: 9780099561095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Two English brothers meet, after a long separation, in India. Oliver prepares to take his final vows as a Hindu monk. Patrick has publicly admired his brother's convictions while privately criticizing his choices.
Two English brothers meet, after a long separation, in India. Oliver prepares to take his final vows as a Hindu monk. Patrick has publicly admired his...
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51,93 zł |
A Single Man
ISBN: 9780099548829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Christopher Isherwood explores the character of a middle-aged Englishman living in California: a professor alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality and from the rest of society by his homosexuality.
Christopher Isherwood explores the character of a middle-aged Englishman living in California: a professor alienated from his students by differences ...
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51,93 zł |
Mein Guru und sein Schüler
ISBN: 9783455016543 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Isherwoods letztes und persönlichstes Buch: Am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs reist der überzeugte Pazifist Isherwood nach Kalifornien, um die überkommenen linksintellektuellen Ãœberzeugungen, die die Welt an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt haben, hinter sich zu lassen und ein neues Mindset zu finden. Er trifft auf Swami Prabhavananda, einen hinduistischen Mönch, der von nun an sein spiritueller Begleiter sein wird. Es folgt ein Leben zwischen den Extremen: Nächtliche Trinkgelage, freie Liebe und Hollywoods Glamour-Welt wechseln sich ab mit Meditation und Abstinenz - ein beständiges... Isherwoods letztes und persönlichstes Buch: Am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs reist der überzeugte Pazifist Isherwood nach Kalifornien, um die Ã... |
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129,36 zł |
Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family
ISBN: 9780374180973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the last decades before World War I It is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents, the winsome and lively daughter of a successful wine merchant and the reticent, artistically gifted soldier-son of a country squire. They met in 1895 outside a music rehearsal in an army camp and married in 1903 after Christopher's father returned from the Boer War. Frank was killed in an assault near Ypres in 1915; Kathleen remained a widow for the rest of her life. Their story is told through... Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the last decades before World War I It is the ... |
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90,41 zł |
The Berlin Novels
ISBN: 9780749397029 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Piquant, witty and oblique, Christopher Isherwood's 'Berlin' novels vividly evoke the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin whilst forcefully conveying an ironic political parable. This volume features 'Mr Norris Changes Trains' and 'Goodbye to Berlin'.
Piquant, witty and oblique, Christopher Isherwood's 'Berlin' novels vividly evoke the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin whilst forcefully conveying an iron...
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77,92 zł |
My Guru and His Disciple
ISBN: 9780099561231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. This title tells his story.
In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed...
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67,53 zł |
Prater Violet
ISBN: 9780099561132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood's job is to rescue the script of a sentimental love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called "Prater Violet".
An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. I...
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51,93 zł |
Nur zu Besuch
ISBN: 9783455405859 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2021 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Isherwoods bester Roman. Ein unwiderstehliches Buch. New York Times Isherwoods bester Roman. Ein unwiderstehliches Buch. New York Times |
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133,98 zł |
All the Conspirators
ISBN: 9780099561064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary.
Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by wh...
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51,93 zł |