wyszukanych pozycji: 79
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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder
ISBN: 9780241951613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Written at the end of the World War II, this novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied to him by the austerities of war.
Written at the end of the World War II, this novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous...
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46,20 zł |
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Decline and Fall
ISBN: 9781835913208 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,31 zł |
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Men at Arms
ISBN: 9780141185736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier copybook. Men at Arms is the first book in Waugh's brilliant trilogy, Sword of Honour, which chronicles the fortunes of Guy Crouchback. The second and third volumes, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender, are also published in Penguin. Sword of Honour has recently been made into a...
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but ...
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53,81 zł |
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Decline and Fall
ISBN: 9780241585290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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80,75 zł |
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Men at Arms
ISBN: 9780316926287 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first volume of Evelyn Waugh's masterful trilogy about war, religion, and politics.
The first volume of Evelyn Waugh's masterful trilogy about war, religion, and politics.
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93,28 zł |
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Scoop
ISBN: 9780141184029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia.
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That ...
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51,35 zł |
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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
ISBN: 9780141182483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to...
Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-u...
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51,35 zł |
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Brideshead Revisited: 75th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780316242103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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84,80 zł |
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Sword of Honor
ISBN: 9780316216692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 764 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This trilogy spanning World War II, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war overwhelming. Though often somber, Sword of Honor is also a brilliant comedy, peopled by the fantastic figures so familiar from Waugh's early satires. The deepest pleasures these...
This trilogy spanning World War II, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a no...
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144,19 zł |
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A Handful of Dust
ISBN: 9780241341100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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46,20 zł |
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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
ISBN: 9780316216449 / Angielski / Inna / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece-a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire.Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, "Brideshead Revisited" transcends Waugh's early satiric explorations...
The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece-a novel that immerses us in the glitte...
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173,92 zł |
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Vile Bodies
ISBN: 9780316216340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of 1920s London, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercised their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In these pages a vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast and furiously for ever greater sensations and the hedonistic fulfillment of their desires. Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny satire reveals the...
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of 1920s Lond...
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80,56 zł |
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Mit wehenden Fahnen : Roman
ISBN: 9783257243086 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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49,79 zł |
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Decline and Fall
ISBN: 9789355228406 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,07 zł |
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Officers and Gentlemen
ISBN: 9780141184678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete.
Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have ...
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51,35 zł |
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Scoop
ISBN: 9780241585306 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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80,75 zł |
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece
ISBN: 9780141184500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinations increase and life on board becomes very embarrassing.
An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, ...
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53,81 zł |
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Sword of Honour
ISBN: 9780241585320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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102,29 zł |
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A Handful of Dust
ISBN: 9780141183961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray Davis. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining...
Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social di...
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51,35 zł |
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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
ISBN: 9780241472736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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46,20 zł |