wyszukanych pozycji: 11
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys
ISBN: 9781934555040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,88 zł |
The Tom Barber Trilogy: Volume I: Uncle Stephen, the Retreat, and Young Tom
ISBN: 9781934555866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Forrest Reid (1875-1947), the Ulster novelist, spent his life in Belfast, in the north of Ireland, save for a period as an undergraduate at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. in 1908. He numbered among his many friends and acquaintances George William Russell (A. E.), E. M. Forster, Edmund Gosse, C. S. Lewis, and Walter de le Mare, as well as various Uranians such as Theo Bartholomew, Osbert Burdett, and Mark Andre Raffalovich. Despite his sixteen novels, his two autobiographies, and a range of other works, despite being a founding member of the Irish Academy of... Forrest Reid (1875-1947), the Ulster novelist, spent his life in Belfast, in the north of Ireland, save for a period as an undergraduate at Christ'... |
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289,72 zł |
Following Darkness
ISBN: 9781939140531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'A masterpiece.' - E. M. Forster
' A] strange, sinister, and unforgettable story.' - "Manchester Guardian" 'Forrest Reid has . . . beautiful, rhythmical prose, a true and permanent voice.' - John McGahern 'None of our contemporaries can describe childhood and youth as truly as he does.' - V. S. Pritchett When "Following Darkness" first appeared in 1912, critics did not know what to make of it. Sentimental novels of childhood and adolescence were popular in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, but here was something completely new in English fiction, a book that explored a... 'A masterpiece.' - E. M. Forster
' A] strange, sinister, and unforgettable story.' - "Manchester Guardian" 'Forrest Reid has . . . beautiful... |
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115,85 zł |
Uncle Stephen (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
ISBN: 9781941147443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'An exquisite book.' - E. M. Forster
'No other novelist of today can recapture more clearly than Mr. Reid the sense of early wonder and adventurous childhood.' - "The Times" 'An altogether remarkable book.' - "Glasgow Herald" Left in the care of his unloving stepmother after his father's death, sixteen-year-old Tom Barber has a vivid dream one night in which he sees his Uncle Stephen, whom he has never met and who is rumoured to have been mixed up in scandal and the practice of black magic. Unhappy at home and not knowing what to expect when he arrives at Uncle Stephen's manor... 'An exquisite book.' - E. M. Forster
'No other novelist of today can recapture more clearly than Mr. Reid the sense of early wonder and adventuro... |
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127,44 zł |
The Spring Song
ISBN: 9781939140227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. " A] very unusual story ...] an interest develops strongly, it increases, and we move on to a climax that is full of excitement. Nothing save the book itself can indicate its peculiar atmosphere and its real merit." - Daily Telegraph
"A very exquisite book, written with rare charm and great art." - Manchester Guardian "A book of distinction and charm." - New York Times "There are few contemporary stories of childhood reaching the artistic height of The Spring Song." - Springfield Republican Thirteen-year-old Grif Weston and his siblings,... " A] very unusual story ...] an interest develops strongly, it increases, and we move on to a climax that is full of excitement. Nothing save the boo...
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110,06 zł |
Denis Bracknel
ISBN: 9781939140975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "An admirable novel... the author has drawn this charming unearthly boy with extraordinary sympathy and penetration." - "Manchester Guardian"
"A work of rare distinction. . . . more than brilliant; it is actual; it is true; it is an accurate reproduction of an experience." - "Daily News" "A remarkable novel . . . it is as fine a piece of work as we have come upon for a long time." - "Daily Chronicle" At the end of his life, Forrest Reid (1875-1947) extensively revised his novel "The Bracknels" (1911), which had been acclaimed by critics and whose admirers included E.M. Forster... "An admirable novel... the author has drawn this charming unearthly boy with extraordinary sympathy and penetration." - "Manchester Guardian"
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115,85 zł |
Teaching Civic Engagement
ISBN: 9780190250508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Using a new model focused on four core capacities-intellectual complexity, social location, empathetic accountability, and motivated action--Teaching Civic Engagement explores the significance of religious studies in fostering a vibrant, just, and democratic civic order. In the first section of the book, contributors detail this theoretical model and offer an initial application to the sources and methods that already define much teaching in the disciplines of religious studies and theology. A second section offers chapters focused on specific strategies for teaching civic...
Using a new model focused on four core capacities-intellectual complexity, social location, empathetic accountability, and motivated action--Teach...
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634,04 zł |
Teaching Civic Engagement
ISBN: 9780190692995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Using a new model focused on four core capacities-intellectual complexity, social location, empathetic accountability, and motivated action--Teaching Civic Engagement explores the significance of religious studies in fostering a vibrant, just, and democratic civic order. In the first section of the book, contributors detail this theoretical model and offer an initial application to the sources and methods that already define much teaching in the disciplines of religious studies and theology. A second section offers chapters focused on specific strategies for teaching civic...
Using a new model focused on four core capacities-intellectual complexity, social location, empathetic accountability, and motivated action--Teach...
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153,95 zł |
The Retreat (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
ISBN: 9781941147511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "He writes with such ease and simplicity, his stories, always unusual, are so exquisitely told, and when, as often happens, he takes you into regions not too far distant from fairyland, he has only to wave his wand to make you believe." - Ralph Straus, Sunday Times
"Mr. Reid is one of the most remarkable living fantasists . . . A]t once charming and a psychological tour de force." - London Mercury " An] eerie, unusual, quite enchanting book." - Guardian The Retreat opens with a vivid dream about an evil sorcerer and his boy apprentice. The dreamer... "He writes with such ease and simplicity, his stories, always unusual, are so exquisitely told, and when, as often happens, he takes you into regions ...
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115,85 zł |
Brian Westby
ISBN: 9781939140654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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115,85 zł |
Young Tom (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
ISBN: 9781941147498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'One of the most original and most perfect works of imagination of our time' - Edwin Muir, The Listener
'A unique achievement in modern literature' - John Boyd 'It has a charm and freshness, it is beautifully written' - James Hanley, New English Weekly Young Tom (1944) completes the trilogy of novels featuring Tom Barber, which began with Uncle Stephen (1931) and The Retreat (1936), and it is probably Forrest Reid's finest achievement. Acclaim from contemporary critics was unanimous, and the book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize as the... 'One of the most original and most perfect works of imagination of our time' - Edwin Muir, The Listener
'A unique achievement in modern li... |
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110,06 zł |