wyszukanych pozycji: 56
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Liberation : Diaries Vol 3
ISBN: 9780099575474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, the author journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the Grand Old Man of Gay Liberation. This title unearths the family demons that haunted his fugitive youth.
'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, the author journeyed and changed with his century, until, by t...
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97,70 |
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Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1
ISBN: 9780099555827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. These diary entries are filled with philosophy, gossip, mystical insights, and the period following his emigration to California in 1939. He is one of the great gay icons, and his relationships are discussed frankly in these diaries.
These diary entries are filled with philosophy, gossip, mystical insights, and the period following his emigration to California in 1939. He is one of...
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201,76 |
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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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130,02 |
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The Berlin Novels
ISBN: 9780749397029 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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75,62 |
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Down There on a Visit
ISBN: 9780099561088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Interweaving semi-autobiography with fiction, and taking the reader through relationships with 4 very different men, from 1930s Germany and prewar Greece to decadent Hollywood, Isherwood provides a black and witty portrait of the writer abroad.
Interweaving semi-autobiography with fiction, and taking the reader through relationships with 4 very different men, from 1930s Germany and prewar Gre...
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55,44 |
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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 Überzeugungen, 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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125,54 |
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Christopher and His Kind: A Memoir, 1929-1939
ISBN: 9780374535223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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99,06 |
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Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
ISBN: 9780374535308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropoutatlarge in London's bohemia of the 1920s. Forced to withdraw from Cambridge University, "Christopher Isherwood" works as a tutor to the privileged, serves as the secretary to a busy string quartet, ill-fatedly attends medical school. Licensed by names he invents, he works up extravagant portraits of his brilliant contemporaries W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, and Stephen Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion changed the literary... Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropouta... |
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91,43 |
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Prater Violet
ISBN: 9780099561132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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50,40 |
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The Berlin Stories
ISBN: 9780811218047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. 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 is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures...
First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are reco...
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71,98 |
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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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87,41 |
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The Memorial: Portrait of a Family
ISBN: 9780374533465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood, the Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy of his father's roguish friend who survived the war and afterward threw himself into gay life. Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the novel in which a... Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tr... |
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83,81 |
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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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128,63 |
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Goodbye to Berlin
ISBN: 9780749390549 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of a series of individuals.
Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of ...
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50,40 |
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A Single Man
ISBN: 9780099548829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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50,40 |
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Christopher and His Kind
ISBN: 9780099561071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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50,40 |
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Begegnung am Fluss
ISBN: 9783455013016 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein großer Roman darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem ein Bruder zu sein Nach langem Schweigen treffen zwei Londoner Brüder in einem hinduistischen Kloster am Ufer des Ganges wieder aufeinander - und mit ihnen zwei Welten, die nicht vereinbar scheinen. Zwischen den beiden entspinnt sich ein Zwiegespräch, das alte Wunden aufbricht und zu großen Fragen führt. Isherwoods letzter Roman ist eine fein gestrickte Auseinandersetzung mit östlicher Mystik und darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem Bruder zu sein. Ein großer Roman darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem ein Bruder zu sein Nach langem Schweigen treffen zwei Londoner Brüder... |
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112,09 |
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Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family
ISBN: 9780374180973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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133,36 |
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The Memorial
ISBN: 9780099561125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice, and resentment toward his father's roguish friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin.
The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his her...
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50,40 |
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Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bacha
ISBN: 9780374612337 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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141,03 |