wyszukanych pozycji: 46
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
ISBN: 9780618872022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this first single-volume English-language biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Damrosch mines the influential philosophers letters, memoirs, and writings to expose the eccentricities of a man who prefigured the modern mind.
In this first single-volume English-language biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Damrosch mines the influential philosophers letters, memoirs, and wri...
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133,77 zł |
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Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
ISBN: 9780300248289 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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127,87 zł |
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Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
ISBN: 9780300223644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of his life
William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about almost every aspect of... In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story o...
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84,62 zł |
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Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
ISBN: 9780300271027 / Angielski / Inna / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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89,91 zł |
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Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
ISBN: 9780300205411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver's Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce protest against English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really... From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the E...
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79,33 zł |
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Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
ISBN: 9780061228155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book. While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen, she supported herself by working as a waitress. Before long she was the only female captain at the four-star New York City restaurant Per Se during its first year. Service Included is the story of her obsession with food, her love affair with a sommelier, and her amusing, eye-opening, and sometimes shocking experiences in the fascinating, frenetic, highly... Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing... |
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74,05 zł |
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Around the World in 80 Books
ISBN: 9780141981499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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65,02 zł |
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Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age
ISBN: 9780691134994 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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222,26 zł |
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Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth
ISBN: 9780691615547 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, but that this fact docs not imply philosophical or artistic failure. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The... In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, ... |
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306,94 zł |
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Tocqueville's Discovery of America
ISBN: 9780374532598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of rapid change. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America, the prizewinning biographer Leo Damrosch retraces Tocqueville's nine-month journey through the young nation in 1831-32, illuminating how his enduring ideas were born of imaginative interchange with America and Americans, and... Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its demo... |
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86,44 zł |
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The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus
ISBN: 9780674330948 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In October 1656 James Nayler, a prominent Quaker leader--second only to George Fox in the nascent movement--rode into Bristol surrounded by followers singing hosannas in deliberate imitation of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. In Leo Damrosch's trenchant reading this incident and the extraordinary outrage it ignited shed new light on Cromwell's England and on religious thought and spirituality in a turbulent period.
Damrosch gives a clear picture of the origins and early development of the Quaker movement, elucidating the intellectual foundations of Quaker theology. A number... In October 1656 James Nayler, a prominent Quaker leader--second only to George Fox in the nascent movement--rode into Bristol surrounded by follow... |
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290,80 zł |
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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
ISBN: 9780300251784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of "the Club," a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern
Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of "the Club," a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a ...
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68,74 zł |
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World Literature in Theory
ISBN: 9781118407691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.
World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today. |
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195,54 zł |
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The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present
ISBN: 9780691132853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. As comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, it is essential for students and teachers to look deeply into the discipline's history and its present possibilities. The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature is a wide-ranging anthology of classic essays and important recent statements on the mission and methods of comparative literary studies. This pioneering collection brings together thirty-two pieces, from foundational statements by Herder, Madame de Stael, and Nietzsche to work by a range of the most influential comparatists writing today,... As comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, it is essential for students and teachers to look deeply into the discipline'... |
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222,26 zł |
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The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope
ISBN: 9780520372368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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423,36 zł |
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The Garden Primer: The Completely Revised Gardener's Bible - 100% Organic
ISBN: 9780761122753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 820 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The most comprehensive, entertaining, down-to-earth one-volume gardening reference ever, and highly praised: "Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods."--Chicago Tribune
"Best of the crop."--House Beautiful "Barbara Damrosch's writing has the snap of a good snowpea and the spice of an old rose."--The Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer "Covers just about everything you could think of and then some." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "An extraordinarily comprehensive guide." -- The San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle "Takes your soaring... The most comprehensive, entertaining, down-to-earth one-volume gardening reference ever, and highly praised: "Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods...
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113,19 zł |
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How to Read World Literature
ISBN: 9781119009252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of other cultures and eras. Fully revised to address important developments in World Literature, and generously expanded with new material, this second edition covers a wide variety of genres - from lyric and epic poetry to drama and prose fiction - and discusses how each form has been used in different eras and cultures. An ideal introduction for those new to the study of World Literature, as well as beginners to ancient and... The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching... |
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116,16 zł |
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The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook: From the Garden to the Table in 120 Recipes
ISBN: 9780761156697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman are America's foremost organic gardeners--and authorities. Barbara is the author of The Garden Primer, and Eliot wrote the bible for organic gardening, The New Organic Grower. Today they are the face of the locavore movement, working through their extraordinary Four Season Farm in Maine. And now they've written the book on how to grow what you eat, and cook what you grow.
Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman are America's foremost organic gardeners--and authorities. Barbara is the author of The Garden Primer, an... |
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102,69 zł |
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Around the World in 80 Books
ISBN: 9780593299883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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123,48 zł |
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Teaching World Literature
ISBN: 9781603290340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is an exciting, and unsettling, time to be teaching world literature, writes David Damrosch. Because the range of works taught in world literature courses has expanded enormously, both historically and geographically, the task of selection--and of teacher preparation--has grown more challenging. Teachers of this field must grapple with such issues as coverage, cultural difference, and the role of translation in the classroom. Should one emphasize masterpieces or traditions, concepts or themes? How does one avoid making a work bear the burden of representing an entire tradition? To what...
This is an exciting, and unsettling, time to be teaching world literature, writes David Damrosch. Because the range of works taught in world literatur...
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216,71 zł |