wyszukanych pozycji: 17
Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man
ISBN: 9780241963289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This biography covers Hardy's rural upbringing, his escape to London in the 1860s, his marriages, his status as a best-selling novelist, and in later life, his supreme achievements as a poet.
This biography covers Hardy's rural upbringing, his escape to London in the 1860s, his marriages, his status as a best-selling novelist, and in later ...
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65,84 zł |
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780345803979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted thirteen years and destroyed Dickens s marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record.
In this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, the acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen rescues Nelly from the shadows of history, not only returning the neglected actress to her... Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45...
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86,52 zł |
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World
ISBN: 9780241974858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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55,70 zł |
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life
ISBN: 9780241963302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, Katherine Mansfield glittered in the circles of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf and became, after her death, one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This reissue gives a fine portrait of the woman.
Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, Katherine Mansfield glittered in the circles of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf and ...
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55,70 zł |
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780241963258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Claire Tomalin's story of the life of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens returns the neglected actress to her rightful place in history as well as providing a compelling and truthful portrait of the great Victorian novelist.
Claire Tomalin's story of the life of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens returns the neglected actress to her rightful place in history as well as provi...
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65,84 zł |
A Life of My Own
ISBN: 9780241974834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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55,70 zł |
Jane Austen: A Life
ISBN: 9780241963272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman 'As near perfect a life of Austen as we are likely to get: intelligent, feeling, suggestive' Carmen Callil, Daily Telegraph 'Tomalin has written a biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit and insight' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 'Of all the Austen biographies, this is the best ... leaves the reader with a much deeper appreciation of the...
Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Char...
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65,84 zł |
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World
ISBN: 9780241239971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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101,36 zł |
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King
ISBN: 9780241963296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Recounting the story of Dora Jordan, whose fame was almost extinguished by its own brilliance, Claire Tomalin looks at the life of this great comic actress of the late 18th-century stage with perception and animation.
Recounting the story of Dora Jordan, whose fame was almost extinguished by its own brilliance, Claire Tomalin looks at the life of this great comic ac...
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122,39 zł |
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
ISBN: 9780241963319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'; and travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French feminist movement.
Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published 'A Vindication of the Ri...
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65,84 zł |
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
ISBN: 9780241963265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful. This text, which draws on Pepys' own personal diary, covers his childhood and young adulthood. It goes beyond the source material to explore the inner man.
A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful. This text, which draws...
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65,84 zł |
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
ISBN: 9780375725531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 465 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language.
Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with John Milton composing diplomatic correspondence for Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Wren drawing up plans to rebuild London, and Isaac... For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defin...
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95,17 zł |
Charles Dickens: A Life
ISBN: 9780141036939 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Claire Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius.
Claire Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius.
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75,98 zł |
Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780143112877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of his time in his novels and then abandoned fiction to reestablish himself as a great twentieth-century lyric poet. In this acclaimed new biography, Claire Tomalin, one of today's...
"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer The novels of Thomas Hardy have a perm...
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129,78 zł |
Meet Me in Buenos Aires
ISBN: 9781999313579 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An intensely personal and revealing biography of life with Eric Hobsbawm one of the 20th Century's most influential intellectualsA rich and fascinating life - from pre-war Vienna via an emigre childhood in the UK and on to Italy, the Congo and the US.
An intensely personal and revealing biography of life with Eric Hobsbawm one of the 20th Century's most influential intellectualsA rich and fascinatin...
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69,15 zł |
"Maurice", or "the Fisher's Cot"
ISBN: 9780226752280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In November 1997, a slight book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was Maurice, the only children's story ever penned by Mary Shelley. Written two years after Frankenstein, Maurice is often read as a gloss of Shelley's personal family tragedies, bearing the same melancholy that distinguishes all of her works. As Claire Tomalin shows in her compelling introduction, it contributes greatly to the literary and biographical scholarship on this fascinating woman who was a significant writer in her own right as well as the wife of one of the...
In November 1997, a slight book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was Maurice, the only children's story eve...
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122,44 zł |
Unexpected Elegies: Poems of 1912-1913 and Other Poems about Emma
ISBN: 9780892554096 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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129,56 zł |