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The Capers Papers
ISBN: 9780878056019 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At last it's available again, and in paperback, the book that Charlotte Capers' hosts of readers have been urging back into print. One of Mississippi's most fascinating personalities and one of its absolutely best raconteurs, Capers can hold any reader of listener enthralled with her witty, delicious narratives. Here she focuses upon whatever seized her insights--mainly life in its ordinary gait--yet her reports of the smalltown scene are as alluring as the tales of Shaharazade. These delightful essays, as Eudora Welty says in the foreward, "were written to amuse, and they abundantly do...At last it's available again, and in paperback, the book that Charlotte Capers' hosts of readers have been urging back into print. One of Mississip... |
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219,82 zł |
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Delta Wedding
ISBN: 9780156252805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the family s preparations for her cousin Dabney s wedding.
" A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, i...
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69,68 zł |
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One Writer's Beginnings
ISBN: 9781982152109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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74,04 zł |
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The Golden Apples
ISBN: 9780141196848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This is an acutely observed, atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana, Mississippi. There's Snowdie, who has to bring up her twin boys alone after her husband disappears. There's Loch Morrison who watches as wayward Virgie Rainey meets a sailor in the vacant house, and many more.
This is an acutely observed, atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana, Mississippi. There's Snowdie, who has to bring up her twin boys alon...
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50,99 zł |
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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
ISBN: 9780679730040 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Much like her highly acclaimed One Writer's Beginnings, this book offers invaluable meditations on the art of writing. In addition to seven essays on craft, this collection brings together her penetrating and instructive commentaries on a wide variety of individual writers.
Much like her highly acclaimed One Writer's Beginnings, this book offers invaluable meditations on the art of writing. In addition to seven essays on ...
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91,51 zł |
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A Curtain of Green: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780156234924 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the first collection of Welty s stories, originally published in 1941. It includes such classics as A Worn Path, Petrified Man, Why I Live at the P.O., and Death of a Traveling Salesman. The historic Introduction by Katherine Anne Porter brought Welty to the attention of the american reading public.
" This is the first collection of Welty s stories, originally published in 1941. It includes such classics as A Worn Path, Petrified Man, Why I Live at ...
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121,79 zł |
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Delta Wedding
ISBN: 9780358212522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,68 zł |
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Shoe Bird
ISBN: 9780878056682 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Arturo the Parrot, whose job it was to help greet people as they came into The Friendly Shoe Store, picked up and repeated a small boy's disgruntled comment, -Shoes are for the birds , - it certainly changed the course of his life. This is Eudora Welty's only book specifically written for young readers. When Arturo the Parrot, whose job it was to help greet people as they came into The Friendly Shoe Store, picked up and repeated a small boy's disgr... |
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158,81 zł |
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The Wide Net and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780156966108 / Angielski / Miękka / 1974 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the Old Natchez Trace region, the stories dip in and out of history and range from virgin wilderness to a bar in New Orleans. In each story, Miss Welty sustains the high level of performance that, throughout her distinguished career, has won her numerous literary awards. "Miss Welty runs a photofinish with the finest prose artists of her time" (Time).
These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the Old Natchez Trace region, the stories d...
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65,14 zł |
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The Golden Apples
ISBN: 9780156360906 / Angielski / Miękka / 1956 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious town of Morgana. I doubt that a better book about the South -one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life and its special tone and pattern-has ever been written (New Yorker).
" Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other ...
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78,21 zł |
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A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews
ISBN: 9781604732610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also as an astute literary critic. Her essays on the art of fiction and on the writers who enlarged the range of the short story and the novel are definitive pieces. Her distinguished book reviews, along with her critical essays, augment her reputation for being one of the most discerning author-critics in literary America. This collection of her book reviews manifests the connecting of her penetrating eye with her responsive intellect in forming sympathetic judgments of the... Although she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also as an astute literary criti... |
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219,82 zł |
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Losing Battles
ISBN: 9780679728825 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller's gift, the members of this clan cannot resist the temptation to swap tales.
Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller's gi...
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95,87 zł |
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The Robber Bridegroom
ISBN: 9780156768078 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Legendary figures of Mississippi s past-flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers-mingle with characters from Eudora Welty s own imagination in an exuberant fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. Berry-stained bandit of the woods Jamie Lockhart steals Rosamond, the beautiful daughter of pioneer planter Clement Musgrove, to set in motion this frontier fairy tale. For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful (New Yorker).
" Legendary figures of Mississippi s past-flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers-mingle with characters from Eudora Welty s own imagination...
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60,78 zł |
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The Optimist's Daughter
ISBN: 9780060955878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her ...
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100,22 zł |
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Ein Vorhang aus Grün : Erzählungen
ISBN: 9783036959887 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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63,50 zł |
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The Optimist's Daughter
ISBN: 9780860683759 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A reflective, poignant novel of independence and love from one of America's greatest contemporary Southern writers.
A reflective, poignant novel of independence and love from one of America's greatest contemporary Southern writers.
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50,99 zł |
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The Ponder Heart
ISBN: 9780156729154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Uncle Daniel Ponder, whose fortune is exceeded only by his desire to give it away, is a source of vexation for his niece, Edna Earle. Uncle Daniel's trial for the alleged murder of his seventeen-year-old bride is a comic masterpiece. Awarded the William Dean Howells Medal of the american Academy of Arts and Letters. Drawings by Joe Krush.
Uncle Daniel Ponder, whose fortune is exceeded only by his desire to give it away, is a source of vexation for his niece, Edna Earle. Uncle Daniel's t...
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56,43 zł |
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
ISBN: 9781328625649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,11 zł |
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To the Lighthouse
ISBN: 9780156907392 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Radiant as To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality."--Eudora Welty, from the Introduction
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the... "Radiant as To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and ... |
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43,53 zł |
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Concluding
ISBN: 9780811227001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Concluding—set in a single summer day—has at its heart old Mr. Rock, a famous retired scientist: he lives in a cottage on the grounds of a girl’s boarding school. Living with him is Elizabeth, his somewhat unstrung granddaughter; his white cat; his white goose; and Daisy, his white pig. Miss Edge and Miss Baker—the two inseparable spinster harpies who run the school—scheme to dislodge him from the cottage. Concluding opens with the discovery that two of the schoolgirls have vanished in the night: searching, eavesdropping, worrying, jostling, and giggling all ensue. A love affair, a...
Concluding—set in a single summer day—has at its heart old Mr. Rock, a famous retired scientist: he lives in a cottage on the grounds of a girl’...
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65,59 zł |
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