wyszukanych pozycji: 46
Home Truths
ISBN: 9780140291803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the author of the Booker Prize finalist Small World.
Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the "A" level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path. His university friend Sam Sharp, who has become a successful screenwriter, drops in on the way to Los Angeles, fuming over a vicious profile of himself by Fanny Tarrant, one of the new breed of Rottweiler interviews, in a Sunday newspaper. Together they decide to take revenge on the interviewer, though Adrian is risking what he values most: his privacy. ... From the author of the Booker Prize finalist Small World.
Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the "A" ... |
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95,87 zł |
Hostující profesoři
ISBN: 8594169482897 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Škola hrou a taky základ života. Ale i expert by užasl, jak se učí tady… Když se usedlý učitýlek Philip Swallow z univerzity v anglické Papridgi ocitne na semestrálním pobytu v kalifornské Euforii a na jeho židli výměnou přistane zámořské pedagogické eso Morris Zapp, je o zábavu postaráno. Pod taktovkou klasika žánru univerzitního románu se v obou městech začnou dít věci, až se laik diví, expert žasne a publikum se chechtá. Ctihodní pánové v hostitelské zemi pořádně obnaží své kulturní i rodinné zázemí, sebe sama a taky celou škálu... Škola hrou a taky základ života. Ale i expert by užasl, jak se učí tady… Když se usedlý učitýlek Philip Swallow z univerzity v anglick... |
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71,21 zł |
The Year of Henry James: The Story of a Novel
ISBN: 9780141026800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Traces the conception, writing and publication of the author's book. This work offers psychological and literary insights which suggests nothing less than a short story by the Great Master, Henry James, himself.
Traces the conception, writing and publication of the author's book. This work offers psychological and literary insights which suggests nothing less ...
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87,48 zł |
Paradise News
ISBN: 9780140165210 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Paradise, tourist style. It's a very long way from home.
Bernard Walsh is in Hawaii on family business, escorting his querulous father to the bedside of a long-forgotten aunt. His mission transports him from quiet obscurity in Rummridge, England, to a lush tropical playground, from cloistered solitude into the unfamiliar company of package tourists: honeymooners; young women looking for Mr. Nice; families nuclear and fissile. But it is the island itself that holds the most astonishing surprises, as an accidental encounter opens up to Bernard possibilities of life, and love, never dreamed of... Paradise, tourist style. It's a very long way from home.
Bernard Walsh is in Hawaii on family business, escorting his querulous father to the bedsid... |
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95,87 zł |
The Art of Fiction
ISBN: 9780099554240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this entertaining and enlightening collection, David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to...
In this entertaining and enlightening collection, David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diver...
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56,62 zł |
Out Of The Shelter
ISBN: 9780099554158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Everything changes when Timothy s glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg. Kath, who left home long ago to work for the American army, introduces her sixteen-year-old brother to a lifestyle that is deliriously fast, furious and extravagant. Dazzled by the indulgent habits of the American forces, but at the same time sensitive to the broken spirits of the German community beneath this sparking surface, Timothy will find that his summer holiday is in more ways than one an unforgettable rite of passage."
Everything changes when Timothy s glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg. Kath, who left home long ago to work fo...
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56,62 zł |
Small World
ISBN: 9780099554165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge s satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air."
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make...
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56,62 zł |
Author, Author
ISBN: 9780143036098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A cunning, audacious portait of Henry James."--The Boston Globe Henry James takes center stage in this brilliant story about literary ambition, creativity, and rivalry as revealed in the public career and private life of this most singular writer. Framed by a moving and dramatic account of his last illness, Author opens in the early 1880s, describing James's close friendship with an illustrator named George du Maurier and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson. At the end of the decade, Henry, worried by the...
"A cunning, audacious portait of Henry James."--The Boston Globe Henry James takes center stage in this brilliant story about literary ambi...
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95,87 zł |
The Picturegoers
ISBN: 9781784702694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picture goers who touch and shape each other's destinies. Amongst them is Mark, the cynical intellectual who seeks sensuality and finds spirituality; Clare, his girlfriend, who loses faith and...
Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picture ...
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54,65 zł |
Small World
ISBN: 9780140244861 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge s satiricalSmall World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air."
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make...
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84,69 zł |
Nice Work
ISBN: 9780099554189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr. Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds -- and about themselves.
When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr. Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide he...
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51,46 zł |
The Campus Trilogy
ISBN: 9780099529132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'The Campus Trilogy' contains three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.
'The Campus Trilogy' contains three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping a...
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87,52 zł |
Deaf Sentence
ISBN: 9780143116059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, Lodge's 14th work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. What emerges is a funny, moving account of one man's effort to come to terms with aging and mortality.
The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, Lodge's 14th work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-...
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95,87 zł |
Nice Work
ISBN: 9780140133967 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A funny, intelligent, superbly paced social comedy." --The New York Times
Vic Wilcox, a self-made man and managing director of an engineering firm. has little regard for academics, and even less for feminists. So when Robyn Penrose, a trendy leftist teacher, is assigned to "shadow" Vic under a goverment program created to foster mutual understanding between town and gown, the hilarious collusion of lifestyles and ideologies that ensues seems unlikely to foster anything besides mutual antipathy. But in the course of a bumpy year, both parties make some surprising discoveries about... "A funny, intelligent, superbly paced social comedy." --The New York Times
Vic Wilcox, a self-made man and managing director of an engineerin... |
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95,87 zł |
Paradise News
ISBN: 9780099554233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister, it feels more like purgatory than paradise.
Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to the hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Hawaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of... Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack...
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92,95 zł |
How Far Can You Go?
ISBN: 9780099554141 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow. On the one hand there's sex and then the pill, on the other there is the traditional Catholic Church. In this razor-sharp novel, David Lodge exposes the pressures that assailed Catholics everywhere within a more permissive society, and voices their eternal question: how far can you go?
Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university ...
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56,62 zł |
The British Museum Is Falling Down
ISBN: 9780099554226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted -- not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the late 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.
The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the st...
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51,46 zł |
Small World
ISBN: 9780446393270 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance. From the author of the award-winning Changing Places.
Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post...
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108,90 zł |
Varying Degrees of Success: The new memoir from one of Britain’s best loved writers
ISBN: 9781529114898 / Miękka / 2022 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,62 zł |
Thinks . . .
ISBN: 9780142000861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. David Lodge's novels have earned comparisons to those of John Updike and Philip Roth and established him as "a cult figure on both sides of the Atlantic" (The New York Times). Thinks . . . , his witty new novel about secret infidelities and the nature of consciousness, unfolds in the alternating voices of Ralph Messenger, director of the Centre for Cognitive Science at the University of Gloucester, and Helen Reed, a novelist and writer in residence at the university. Mutually attracted, the two end up in a moral standoff that is shattered by events that dramatically confirm the...
David Lodge's novels have earned comparisons to those of John Updike and Philip Roth and established him as "a cult figure on both sides of the Atlant...
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95,87 zł |