wyszukanych pozycji: 47
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African Stories
ISBN: 9781476767154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's best collection of short stories, African Stories--a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer--is now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a brilliant portrait of African life. This is Doris Lessing's Africa--where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here in these stories, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of life in Africa. First published in 1965, and out of...
Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing's best collection of short stories, African Stories--a central book in the work of a truly bel...
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146,15 |
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The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
ISBN: 9780006547228 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The fifth and final volume in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
The fifth and final volume in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-do...
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55,19 |
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Briefing for a Descent Into Hell: A Psychological Thriller
ISBN: 9780307390615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.
Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory... In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amne...
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74,97 |
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Das Leben meiner Mutter, MP3-CD : Lesung mit Katharina Thalbach (1 mp3-CD), Lesung. MP3 Format
ISBN: 9783742402158 / Niemiecki / Audio (mc/cd) / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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66,94 |
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Alfred and Emily
ISBN: 9780060834890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Alfred and Emily is an intimate and revealing book by Doris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, that explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. After beginning with a novella that portrays the happier life her parents would have led had there been no war, Lessing proceeds to tell the story of their marriage as it actually was in this "intriguing work . . . that] shimmers with precisely remembered details." (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)
Alfred and Emily is an intimate and revealing book by Doris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The G...
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Grass Is Singing
ISBN: 9780063463097 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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44,98 |
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The Good Terrorist
ISBN: 9780007498789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is the story of a band of bourgeois young revolutionaries living in a London squat and united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see in the city around them.
This is the story of a band of bourgeois young revolutionaries living in a London squat and united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see in ...
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65,23 |
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Adore
ISBN: 9780062318961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs . . . Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fall in love with each other's teenage sons--taboo-shattering passions that last for years, until the women end them, vowing to have a respectable old age. With Adore, Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, once again proves her unrivaled ability to capture the truth of the human condition. Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs . . . Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretch... |
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To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories Volume One
ISBN: 9780007143009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The grande dame of English Literature -- some of her most perceptive, most revelatory stories, beautifully repackaged For more than four decades, Doris Lessing's work has observed the passion and confusion of human relations, holding a mirror up to our selves in her unflinching dissection of the everyday. From the magnificent 'To Room Nineteen', a study of a dry, controlled middle class marriage 'grounded in intelligence', to the shocking 'A Woman on the Roof', where a workman becomes obsessed with a pretty sunbather, this superb collection of stories, written over four decades, from the...
The grande dame of English Literature -- some of her most perceptive, most revelatory stories, beautifully repackaged For more than four decades, Dori...
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75,26 |
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Doris Lessings Katzenbuch : Mit Katzenportraits
ISBN: 9783608983012 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2015 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Man kann im Leben auf vieles verzichten, aber nicht auf Katzen und Literatur.
Man kann im Leben auf vieles verzichten, aber nicht auf Katzen und Literatur.
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66,94 |
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Shikasta
ISBN: 9780006547198 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The first in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
The first in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary account...
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65,23 |
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Afrikanische Tragödie, 1 Audio-CD, 1 MP3
ISBN: 9783742432094 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In ärmlichen Verhältnissen im Süden Afrikas aufgewachsen, heiratet Mary einen Farmer. Doch das weiße Paar hat sich wenig zu sagen, und der finanzielle Ruin rückt Jahr für Jahr näher. Als ein schwarzer Farmarbeiter als Diener ins Haus geholt wird, wird Mary für ihr rassistisches Verhalten bestraft. »Afrikanische Tragödie« erzählt nicht nur die Geschichte einer missglückten Ehe, sondern demonstriert die erstickende Kraft kolonialer Herrschaft in Rhodesien, dem heutigen Simbabwe. Eva Mattes liest den 1950 erschienenen Debütroman von Doris Lessing, die selbst in Rhodesien aufwuchs...
In ärmlichen Verhältnissen im Süden Afrikas aufgewachsen, heiratet Mary einen Farmer. Doch das weiße Paar hat sich wenig zu sagen, und der finanzi...
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66,94 |
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The Golden Notebook
ISBN: 9780007498772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. In fear of madness, she records her experiences in four coloured notebooks.
Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life...
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El Cuaderno Dorado / The Golden Notebook
ISBN: 9788483468227 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,28 |
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The Fifth Child
ISBN: 9780586089033 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.
A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.
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The Grandmothers
ISBN: 9780007152810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.The title story, 'The Grandmothers', is an astonishing tour de force, a shockingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and the lengths to which they will go to find happiness and love. Written with a keen cinematic eye, the story is a ruthless dissection of the veneer of middle-class morality and convention which manages to be at once universal and desperately, heartbreakingly personal.A second story, 'Victoria and...
With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human...
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The Summer Before the Dark
ISBN: 9780307390622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age.
As the summer begins, Kate Brown--attractive, intelligent, forty-five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children--has no reason to expect that anything will change. But by summer's end the woman she was--living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring--no longer exists. The Summer Before the Dark""takes us along on Kate's journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband... Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth...
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78,72 |
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The Memoirs of a Survivor
ISBN: 9780006493259 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. As the world falls apart outside, the narrator watches over Emily, a young child brought into her care by a stranger. Emily is also guarded by Hugo, half cat and half dog, the bizarre and lovable beast whose presence dominates the tale.
As the world falls apart outside, the narrator watches over Emily, a young child brought into her care by a stranger. Emily is also guarded by Hugo, h...
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50,16 |
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The Golden Notebook
ISBN: 9780008553814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
ISBN: 9780006548089 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An extraordinary blend of fantasy and realism, this is classic Lessing, reissued here with a stunning new cover design. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical voyage, adrift on the ocean, landing on unknown shores, flying on the back of a huge white bird. Identified as Charles Walker, a Cambridge Classics professor, he is visited by family and friends, each revealing clues to the nature of his breakdown: both his young wife, Felicity, and his...
An extraordinary blend of fantasy and realism, this is classic Lessing, reissued here with a stunning new cover design. Penniless, rambling and incohe...
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55,19 |