wyszukanych pozycji: 13
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Three W's: Tears of Pain and Joy
ISBN: 9781956876659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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56,42 zł |
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Three W's: Tears of Pain and Joy
ISBN: 9781480879409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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62,98 zł |
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Three W's: How Strong Is Your Faith Through the Pain
ISBN: 9781662849336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,40 zł |
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
ISBN: 9780553263572 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1982 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand beside William Faulkner's Dilsey in The Sound And The Fury." Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, has 'endured, ' has seen almost everything and foretold the rest. Gaines' novel brings to mind other great works The Odyssey for the way his heroine's travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and...
"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to ...
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36,62 zł |
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
ISBN: 9780385342780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines's now-classic novel--written as an autobiography--spans one hundred years of Miss Jane's remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope--as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane's... Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle... |
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69,26 zł |
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Catherine Carmier
ISBN: 9780679738916 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. By the author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Catherine Carmier is a compelling love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence. After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. Surrounded by family and old friends, he discovers that his bonds to them have been irreparably rent by his absence. In the midst of his alienation from those around him, he falls in love with Catherine Carmier, setting the stage for conflicts and...
By the author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Catherine Carmier is a compelling love story set in a deceptively b...
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81,48 zł |
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Bloodline: Five Stories
ISBN: 9780679781653 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In these five stories, Ernest Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of his great novels A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying. As rendered by Gaines, this country becomes as familiar, and as haunted by cruelty, suffering, and courage, as Ralph Ellison's Harlem or Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Gaines introduces us to this world through the eyes of guileless children and wizened jailbirds, black tenants and white planters. He shows his characters eking out a living and making love,...
In these five stories, Ernest Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers' shacks, and decaying plantation houses of Louisiana, the terrain of hi...
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73,33 zł |
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A Lesson Before Dying
ISBN: 9780375702709 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of ... |
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65,18 zł |
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A Gathering of Old Men
ISBN: 9780679738909 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man.
Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death ...
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69,06 zł |
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Of Love and Dust
ISBN: 9780679752486 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he encounters conflict with the overseer, Sidney Bonbon, and a tale of revenge, lust and power plays out between Marcus, Bonbon, Bonbon's mistress Pauline, and Bonbon's wife Louise.
This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields...
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89,63 zł |
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A Lesson Before Dying
ISBN: 9781846687860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A bestseller in the US, this book tells the story of a young black man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and of a teacher who tries to impart to him his lerning and pride before the execution.
A bestseller in the US, this book tells the story of a young black man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and of a teacher who tries t...
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50,87 zł |
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Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays
ISBN: 9781400096459 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer. Told in the simple and powerful prose that is a hallmark of his craft, these writings by Ernest J. Gaines faithfully evoke the sorrows and joys of rustic Southern life. From his depiction of his childhood move to California a move that propelled him to find books that conjured the sights, smells, and locution of his native Louisiana home to his description of the real-life murder case that...
In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations b...
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73,33 zł |
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Conversations with Ernest Gaines
ISBN: 9780878057832 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
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159,13 zł |