wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Passion and Virtue: Essays on the Novels of Samuel Richardson
ISBN: 9780802035035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Love, lust and human suffering - passion in all its aspects - was Samuel Richardson's great theme. The essays in Passion and Virtue are thematically united by the moral vision in Richardson's novels. The novels reveal the conflicting demands of human passion, through the ennobling and destructive aspects of love and lust, and the attempt to achieve a virtuous existence through Christian suffering. This conflict is considered and critically analyzed in fourteen essays, all originally published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, the leading periodical for fiction from this period.... Love, lust and human suffering - passion in all its aspects - was Samuel Richardson's great theme. The essays in Passion and Virtue are them... |
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311,22 zł |
Roderick Random
ISBN: 9780140433326 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Roderick is combative, often violent, but capable of great affection and generosity. His father had been disinherited and has left Scotland leaving his son penniless. After a brief apprenticeship to a surgeon, the innocent Roderick travels to London where he encounters various rogues. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide...
Roderick is combative, often violent, but capable of great affection and generosity. His father had been disinherited and has left Scotland leaving hi...
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81,85 zł |
Roxana
ISBN: 9780140431490 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The final work of Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe
Roxana(1724) was Defoe's last novel. It is a fascinating work, simultaneously strange and tragic, which dramatizes the moral deterioration and degradation of its complex heroine. Mlle Beleau, or Roxana as she becomes known, enters upon a career as a courtesan. She passes from one protector to another in England, France and Holland and amasses much wealth. But she is fatally torn between the dull virtue of middle-class respectability and the evil attractions of the beckoning city lights. The only one of... The final work of Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe
Roxana(1724) was Defoe's last novel. It is a fascinating work, simu... |
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70,93 zł |
The Pony Trap: Escaping the 1987 SMU Football Death Penalty
ISBN: 9780985988302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Forget everything you think you know about SMU Football and the infamous Death Penalty. Previous accounts told the story from the perspective of the NCAA or of the news media and hyped the scandal for personal gain. The story as they told it, was one of corruption and of the under resourced NCAA struggling mightily to clean up rampant cheating within the college ranks. In The Pony Trap, former SMU football player and member of the Death Penalty team David Blewett, backs into the motivation to find out what really happened. His daughter innocently asks, "Daddy, did you do anything wrong when...
Forget everything you think you know about SMU Football and the infamous Death Penalty. Previous accounts told the story from the perspective of the N...
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65,95 zł |
Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 2
ISBN: 9781138756922 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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440,84 zł |
Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 4
ISBN: 9781138756946 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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440,84 zł |
Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 3
ISBN: 9781138756939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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700,25 zł |