wyszukanych pozycji: 172
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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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The Octopus
ISBN: 9798880918768 / Twarda / 2024 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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171,18 |
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A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West
ISBN: 9781481075800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,39 |
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A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West
ISBN: 9781515250869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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28,82 |
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The Pit: A Story of Chicago
ISBN: 9781729552711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,79 |
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The Essential Frank Norris: The Octopus, a Story of California: The Pit, a Story of Chicago: McTeague, a Story of San Francisco
ISBN: 9781617200816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Collected in one omnibus edition are Frank Norris' three most important novels: The Octopus and its sequel The Pit, as well as McTeague. The Octopus: A Story of California 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...
Collected in one omnibus edition are Frank Norris' three most important novels: The Octopus and its sequel The Pit, as well as McTeague. The Octopus: ...
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156,64 |
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A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West
ISBN: 9781981425778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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28,82 |
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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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78,30 |
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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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The Octopus
ISBN: 9781481076098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,26 |
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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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28,82 |
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The Pit: A Story of Chicago
ISBN: 9781612032986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Pit: A Story Of Chicago is Frank Norris' novel detailing wheat speculation and the trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building. It was the second book in what was to be the Epic of Wheat trilogy, the first book being The Octopus. The third book, Wolf, was never completed. The Pit follows a businessman who begins speculating in the commodities market on a small scale then, overcome by greed and addicted to the art of the deal power, gambles recklessly in the market while the fortunes of farmers and small investors hang in the balance. His independent-minded young wife becomes bored...
The Pit: A Story Of Chicago is Frank Norris' novel detailing wheat speculation and the trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building. It was the...
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65,93 |
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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
ISBN: 9781511420891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. McTeague is a simple dentist who becomes infatuated with Trina, the cousin of his friend Marcus. Trina then buys a winning lottery ticket worth $5,000, and McTeague announces his plans to marry her. But their marriage quickly falls apart as greed consumes them both, and Marcus' jealousy toward McTeague boils over.
McTeague is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It 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... McTeague is a simple dentist who becomes infatuated with Trina, the cousin of his friend Marcus. Trina then buys a winning lottery ticket worth $5,000...
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37,07 |
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A Man's Woman
ISBN: 9781717393623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,56 |
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Yvernelle: a legend of feudal France(1892), by Frank Norris
ISBN: 9781530848591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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31,95 |
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Moran of The Lady Letty
ISBN: 9781515328032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is to be a story of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that reason it begins with a pink tea and among the mingled odors of many delicate perfumes and the hale, frank smell of Caroline Testout roses. There had been a great number of debutantes "coming out" that season in San Francisco by means of afternoon teas, pink, lavender, and otherwise. This particular tea was intended to celebrate the fact that Josie Herrick had arrived at that time of her life when she was to wear her hair high and her gowns long, and to have a "day" of her own quite distinct from that...
This is to be a story of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that reason it begins with a pink tea and among the mingled odo...
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The Octopus: A Story of California
ISBN: 9781515328070 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Just after passing Caraher's saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muertos, Presley was suddenly aware of the faint and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville. In starting out from the ranch house that morning, he had forgotten his watch, and was now perplexed to know whether the whistle was blowing for twelve or for one o'clock. He hoped the former. Early that morning he had decided to make a long excursion through the neighbouring country,...
Just after passing Caraher's saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muertos,...
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70,06 |
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The Essential Frank Norris: The Octopus, a Story of California: The Pit, a Story of Chicago: McTeague, a Story of San Francisco
ISBN: 9781515432067 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
182,75 |