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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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Home Truths
ISBN: 9780140291803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Nice Work
ISBN: 9780140133967 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Small World
ISBN: 9780140244861 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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How Far Can You Go?
ISBN: 9780099554141 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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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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The Year of Henry James : The story of a novel: With other essays on the genesis, composition and reception of literary fiction
ISBN: 9780099554523 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 2004, Henry James featured as a character in no less than three novels - David Lodge's Author, Author was one of them. With insightful and amusing candour, here he traces the history of his book from conception to publication, pondering the mystery - and indeed the anguish - of so many novels about James appearing at the same time. Lodge's reflections on his own creative practice are accompanied by studies of the genesis, composition and reception of key works by James himself, as well as other novelists from George Eliot to Vladimir Nabokov, and J.M. Coetzee to Graham Greene.
In 2004, Henry James featured as a character in no less than three novels - David Lodge's Author, Author was one of them. With insightful and amusing ...
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Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975
ISBN: 9781784700539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A memoir from one of Britain's finest novelists and critics. 'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, who got his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother, David Lodge was four when World War II began and grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change, giving him plenty to write about in his distinguished career.
In this memoir of his life up to the publication of... A memoir from one of Britain's finest novelists and critics. 'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good t...
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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader
ISBN: 9781138172210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism is a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. It is a companion volume to Modern Criticism and Theory (Longman 1988), also edited by David Lodge, which anthologises contemporary criticism as it has developed through structuralism and post-structuralist theory. Together these volumes provide the most comprehensive survey available of traditional and radical literary theory in action.
The critics collected together in this volume have been drawn from... Twentieth Century Literary Criticism is a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before...
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Secret Thoughts
ISBN: 9781787300163 / Miękka / 2017 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel
ISBN: 9780415290036 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the novelist David Lodge. In it he established a fresh approach to the appreciation of literature that focuses the reader's attention on the significance of language. This edition has a new foreword from David Lodge and includes in its entirety the comprehensive afterword from the 1984 edition.
The Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the novelist David Lodge. In it he established a fresh approach to the appreciation of lite...
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The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature
ISBN: 9781474244213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. Written in...
The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is li...
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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: A Reader
ISBN: 9780582484221 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism is an anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structuralist revolution. The critics collected together in this volume have been drawn from England, America and Europe, and each essay has been prefaced by an editor's introduction.
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism is an anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the structura...
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Writer's Luck: A Memoir: 1976-1991
ISBN: 9781784708078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel
ISBN: 9780415290029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the novelist David Lodge. In it he established a fresh approach to the appreciation of literature that focuses the reader's attention on the significance of language. This edition has a new foreword from David Lodge and includes in its entirety the comprehensive afterword from the 1984 edition.
The Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the novelist David Lodge. In it he established a fresh approach to the appreciation of lite...
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A Man of Parts
ISBN: 9780099556084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park hours in 1944, the ailing H.G. Wells looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a comic touch; his plunge into socialist politics; his belief in free love and energetic practice of it.
Unfolding this astonishing story, David Lodge depicts a man as contradictory as he was talented: a socialist who enjoyed his affluence, an acclaimed novelist who... Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park hours in 1944, the ailing H.G. Wells looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. He ...
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Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays
ISBN: 9780674013773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping--even rediscovery--by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. As the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature, David Lodge suggests, may offer a kind of understanding that is complementary, not opposed, to scientific knowledge. Writing with characteristic wit and brio, and employing the insight and acumen of a skilled novelist and critic, Lodge here explores the representation of human consciousness in fiction... Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping--even rediscovery--by the natural sciences, driven by deve... |
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Lives in Writing
ISBN: 9780099587767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.
Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary. In these thoughtful and enlightening essays David Lodge considers some particularly interesting examples of life-writing, and contributes several of his own. The subjects include celebrated modern British writers such as Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis, Muriel Spark and Alan Bennett, and two major... A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.
Writing about real lives takes various forms, which o... |
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A Man of Parts
ISBN: 9780143122098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A riveting novel about the remarkable life and many loves of author H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact with the most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of his time, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored and disillusioned in his own utopian visions. Novelist and critic David Lodge has taken the... A riveting novel about the remarkable life and many loves of author H. G. Wells H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine |
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Consciousness and the Novel
ISBN: 9780099554493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' ObserverHow does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?
'The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' ObserverHow does the novel represent hum...
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