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The Pit: A Story of Chicago
ISBN: 9781515328063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At eight o'clock in the inner vestibule of the Auditorium Theatre by the window of the box office, Laura Dearborn, her younger sister Page, and their aunt-Aunt Wess'-were still waiting for the rest of the theatre-party to appear. A great, slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to another. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all sides, while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chanced to be open simultaneously, a sudden draught of air gushed in, damp, glacial, and edged with the...
At eight o'clock in the inner vestibule of the Auditorium Theatre by the window of the box office, Laura Dearborn, her younger sister Page, and their ...
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53,54 zł |
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The Pit: A Story of Chicago
ISBN: 9781545067482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,95 zł |
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The Pit: A Story of Chicago
ISBN: 9781975884642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,09 zł |
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The Surrender of Santiago
ISBN: 9781515250975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,21 zł |
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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
ISBN: 9781546568148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1899, this novel by best-selling author Frank Norris tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence and finally murder as the result of jealousy and greed. The book was the basis for the films McTeague (1916), Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924), and Slow Burn (2000). It was also adapted as an opera by William Bolcom in 1992.
First published in 1899, this novel by best-selling author Frank Norris tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent des...
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63,41 zł |
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Moran of the Lady Letty. A story of adventure off the California coast.: By: Frank Norris (World's classic's)
ISBN: 9781539614388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre.His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901), and The Pit (1903).Frank Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870. His father, Benjamin, was a self-made Chicago businessman and his mother, Gertrude Glorvina Doggett, had a stage career. In 1884 the family moved to San Francisco where Benjamin went into real estate. In 1887, after the death of his brother...
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and sometime novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fi...
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34,61 zł |
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Der Ozean ruft
ISBN: 9783842410022 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2012 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Großteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich. Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bücher zu verlegen und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Förderung der Kultur. Sie trägt so dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit...
Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus ...
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57,03 zł |
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The Octopus: A Story of California and the Pit: A Story of Chicago
ISBN: 9781617200793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Collected in one binding are The Octopus and its sequel The Pit. The Octopus is a story of cooperate greed, power, and abuse. A group of wheat farmers agree to work a railway company's land in exchange for assurances that after a ten year period they will be able to purchase the land at a reasonable price. When it comes time for the purchase of the land the railway company decides to go back on its promise and brings all of their power to bear against the farmers in a deceitful and bloody confrontation. Inspired by Southern Pacific Railroad's action in the Mussel Slough Tragedy. The Pit: a...
Collected in one binding are The Octopus and its sequel The Pit. The Octopus is a story of cooperate greed, power, and abuse. A group of wheat farmers...
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130,03 zł |
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Blix
ISBN: 9781505290981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It would be difficult to imagine anything more different from Mr. Norris's last book than this charming little love idyll of ayoung Californian reporter-novelist. Yet it shows the same vivid reality which caused Mr. Howells to point out "McTeague" as an "altogether remarkable book," abounding "in little miracles of observation, in vivid insight, in simple and subtle expression."
It would be difficult to imagine anything more different from Mr. Norris's last book than this charming little love idyll of ayoung Californian report...
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35,72 zł |
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Blix
ISBN: 9781515250050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,21 zł |
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A Man's Woman
ISBN: 9781979872904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,09 zł |
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A Deal in Wheat
ISBN: 9781438534626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Frank Norris was a late 19th century American novelist writing in the naturalist genre. His most famous works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901), and The Pit (1903). His works show socialistic tendencies and were influenced by Darwin and Huxley. His work often includes depictions of suffering caused by corrupt and greedy turn-of-the-century corporate monopolies. Stories in this collection are A Deal in Wheat The Wife of Chino A Bargain with Peg-Leg The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock A Memorandum of Sudden Death Two Hearts That Beat as One The Dual Personality of...
Frank Norris was a late 19th century American novelist writing in the naturalist genre. His most famous works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A ...
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80,73 zł |
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The Pit
ISBN: 9781717073150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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84,79 zł |
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The Essential Frank Norris
ISBN: 9798880915231 / Miękka / 2024 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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184,84 zł |
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McTeague
ISBN: 9781481076159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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71,22 zł |
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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
ISBN: 9781978438675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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33,44 zł |
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A Man's Woman. New York(1900), by Frank Norris
ISBN: 9781530849666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Man's Woman is an adventure novel by Frank Norris written in the year 1900.It is a story that primarily follows two characters, Bennett and Lloyd, and the unlikely love that blossoms between them.It is one of three romantic novels by this author who typically wrote about more serious topics.*Plot Summary* The story opens with Ward Bennett, an explorer of extraordinary will, and his men making an attempt to reach the North Pole, enduring brutal hardships. Many of the men die slow, painful deaths, and they all would have had a boat not stumbled across them. However, when they arrive back home,...
Man's Woman is an adventure novel by Frank Norris written in the year 1900.It is a story that primarily follows two characters, Bennett and Lloyd, and...
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38,18 zł |
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The Octopus
ISBN: 9798880918775 / Miękka / 2024 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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143,17 zł |
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Moran of the Lady Letty
ISBN: 9781481075756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,82 zł |
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McTeague (1899) NOVEL by Frank Norris (World's Classics)
ISBN: 9781523673391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. McTeague is a dentist of limited intellect from a poor miner's family, who has opened a dentist shop on Polk Street in San Francisco. (His first name is never revealed; other characters in the novel call him simply "Mac.") His best friend, Marcus Schouler, brings his cousin, Trina Sieppe, whom he is courting, to McTeague's parlor for dental work. McTeague becomes infatuated with her while working on her teeth, and Marcus graciously steps aside. McTeague successfully woos Trina. Shortly after McTeague and Trina have kissed and declared their love for each other, Trina discovers that she has...
McTeague is a dentist of limited intellect from a poor miner's family, who has opened a dentist shop on Polk Street in San Francisco. (His first name ...
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52,02 zł |