wyszukanych pozycji: 45
Alfred and Emily
ISBN: 9780060834890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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65,01 zł |
Ghas Ga Rahi Hai
ISBN: 9788172239190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,15 zł |
Adore
ISBN: 9780062318961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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56,33 zł |
The Diaries of Jane Somers
ISBN: 9780007136445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The diaries introduce us to Jane, an intelligent and beautiful magazine editor concerned with success, clothes and comfort. After her husband, then her mother, die from cancer she befriends ninety-something Maudie, whose poverty and squalor contrast with her own life.
The diaries introduce us to Jane, an intelligent and beautiful magazine editor concerned with success, clothes and comfort. After her husband, then he...
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101,36 zł |
To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories Volume One
ISBN: 9780007143009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 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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75,98 zł |
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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67,57 zł |
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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67,57 zł |
The Summer Before the Dark
ISBN: 9780307390622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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91,07 zł |
Worum es wirklich geht : Stories
ISBN: 9783869151908 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2019 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. "Es sind unsere Geschichten, die uns wiedererschaffen, wenn wir zerrissen, verwundet, ja vernichtet sind." Doris Lessing
"Es sind unsere Geschichten, die uns wiedererschaffen, wenn wir zerrissen, verwundet, ja vernichtet sind." Doris Lessing
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90,09 zł |
Love Again
ISBN: 9780060927967 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her sanity. Widowed for many years, with grown children, Sarah is a writer who works in the theater in London. During the production of a play, she falls in love with a seductive young actor, the beautiful and androgynous 28-year-old Bill, and then with the more mature 35-year-old director Henry. Finding herself in a state of longing and desire that she had thought was the province of younger women, Sarah is compelled to explore and examine her own personal history of love, from her... Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who falls in love and struggles to maintain her sanity. Widowed for many years, with gr... |
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78,02 zł |
The Golden Notebook
ISBN: 9780008553814 / Miękka / 2022 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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55,70 zł |
African Stories
ISBN: 9781476767154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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86,73 zł |
The Memoirs of a Survivor
ISBN: 9780006493259 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 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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50,63 zł |
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell: A Psychological Thriller
ISBN: 9780307390615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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86,73 zł |
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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67,57 zł |
The Fifth Child
ISBN: 9780586089033 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 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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45,57 zł |
The Grass Is Singing
ISBN: 9780061673740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggleagainst a ruthless fate. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm works its slow poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic, virile black servant. Locked in... Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully under... |
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78,02 zł |
The Memoirs of a Survivor
ISBN: 9780394757599 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called -an attempt at autobiography,- is that woman's journal -- a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction.
In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman...
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82,39 zł |
In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary
ISBN: 9780060976293 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Pursuit of the English is a novelist's account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you've probably never met or even read about--though they are the real English. The cast of characters--if that term can be applied to real people--includes: Bobby Brent, a con man; Mrs. Skeffington, a genteel woman who bullies her small child and flings herself down two flights of stairs to avoid having another; and Miss Priest, a prostitute, who replies to...
In Pursuit of the English is a novelist's account of a lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-clas...
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65,05 zł |