wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Darling
ISBN: 9781448213634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. First published in 1965, this is a tale of the face that has launched a thousand billboards. Diana Scott is "The Happiness Girl" in ads plastered all over the country, and she's hunting happiness in more ways than she's care to confess. She's the life of the Dolce Vita, Paris version - a reckless seeker of self, caught up in a frenzied sexcursion of jet-set Europe. This is her story - a novel based on the bold and powerful... First published in 1965, this is a tale of the face that has launched a thousand billboards. Diana Scott is "The Happiness Girl" in ads plastered a... |
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71,75 zł |
The Benefit of Doubt: Essays
ISBN: 9781857546354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Frederic Raphael's essays we meet familiar faces, known names, but the way he reintroduces them to us, with a ruthless clarity which seeks to conceal nothing, makes us revalue them. Doubt is what keeps us from accepting the nostrums of a journalised and televisualised culture.
In Frederic Raphael's essays we meet familiar faces, known names, but the way he reintroduces them to us, with a ruthless clarity which seeks to conce...
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82,57 zł |
Last Post
ISBN: 9781800173033 / Miękka / 2023 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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154,86 zł |
California Time
ISBN: 9781448213658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Victor England, the great film director, returns to Hollywood to finalise arrangements for his next production. Everything seems propitious: he has a firm contract with a studio that owes him a substantial debt of gratitude and whose top executives are top friends of his. Why, then, is he left to languish in the grand hotel owned by Verdugo, which in Spanish means executioner? What is the relationship between Victor, who can write equally well with left hand or right, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, about whom he once made a film, a film which is showing on TV as he enters his suite? Who is the... Victor England, the great film director, returns to Hollywood to finalise arrangements for his next production. Everything seems propitious: he has... |
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77,27 zł |
Ifs and Buts
ISBN: 9781847771223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. June 1978: Frederic Raphael is in a studio for the dubbing of his television play Something's Wrong, and a routine moment is captured by his wry alertness to vanities and foibles. Ifs and Buts continues the sharply stylish extracts from the journal of time spent, in the words of the Sunday Times, with 'one eye on life's greasy pole and the other on the eternal verities'. Both, for Raphael, are subjects for curiosity, scepticism and entertainment. Ifs and Buts includes encounters with David Garnett and Rebecca West, with their still-vivid memories of H.G. Wells and Lytton Strachey, D.H....
June 1978: Frederic Raphael is in a studio for the dubbing of his television play Something's Wrong, and a routine moment is captured by his wry alert...
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110,19 zł |
There and Then: Personal Terms 6
ISBN: 9781847771407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Compulsively readable, wise, and mischievous by turns, this sixth volume from the collection of Frederic Raphael s personal journals chronicles his eventful life in the seemingly glamorous worlds of 1980s Hollywood and literary London. Included are his encounters with Mary Whitehouse and Meryl Streep, vital memories of Dirk Bogarde, and warm reflections on Peter Sellers. Postwar British values and Byron s sex life are subjected to scrutiny; and there are acute portraits of Robert Redford, Shirley Conran, and many others. This account continues the account of time spent, in the words of...
Compulsively readable, wise, and mischievous by turns, this sixth volume from the collection of Frederic Raphael s personal journals chronicles his ev...
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104,66 zł |
Antiquity Matters
ISBN: 9780300215373 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes
This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing life during which Frederic Raphael has returned again and again to the literature and landscape of the ancient world. In his new book, Raphael deploys his renowned wit and erudition to give us a vivid mosaic of the complexities and contradictions underlying Western civilization and its continuing influence upon contemporary society. Tackling a broad range of... A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes
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124,27 zł |
Coast to Coast
ISBN: 9781448213641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Marion and Barnaby Pierce are an American couple who are about to sell the New England house in which they have raised what seems to be a happy family. They are leaving on a trip across America in a vintage jaguar which Barnaby intends to give his son who is getting married in Los Angeles. Their long drive from coast to coast is planned to include a number of stops: the first to deposit their dog with Marion's pious, bitter sister in upstate New York. At every stop there are memories and surprises as Barnaby and Marion live and re-live their secret dramas and, in the allusive, edgy... Marion and Barnaby Pierce are an American couple who are about to sell the New England house in which they have raised what seems to be a happy fam... |
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77,27 zł |
Ticks and Crosses: Personal Terms IV
ISBN: 9781857549300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A writer s wry observations about the glamorous worlds of Hollywood and literary London during the second half of the 1970s are offered in this autobiography. Though Frederic Raphael is only incidentally concerned with the rich and famous and has little interest in names and gossip, he notices and comments on the discrepancies between public and private faces to convey the texture of life around him. His notebooks, never originally intended for publication but contained in this compilation, are exercises in candor, precise observation, and wit, creating an engrossingly stylish and enduring...
A writer s wry observations about the glamorous worlds of Hollywood and literary London during the second half of the 1970s are offered in this autobi...
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104,66 zł |
A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus
ISBN: 9780307456359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37 c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world. From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37 c.100), the Jewish general... |
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102,31 zł |
Cuts and Bruises: No. 3
ISBN: 9781857547085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mixing observations about friends and family with short sketches and literary gossip, this third installment of the author's notebooks updates an intriguing personal and cultural record. Starting where Rough Copy: Personal Terms II left off, the story of one contemporary writer's life is resumed in anecdotes, aphorisms, journal entries, reviews, and vignettes of people and places.
Mixing observations about friends and family with short sketches and literary gossip, this third installment of the author's notebooks updates an intr...
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82,57 zł |
Where Were We?: The Conversation Continues
ISBN: 9781587319341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Frederic Raphael, the English novelist, screenwriter, and man of letters, and Joseph Epstein, the American essayist, short-story writer, and literary critic, exchanged e-mails sporadically over the years, usually commenting on each other's various writings. Then one day in 2009, Raphael wrote to Epstein to suggest that, since they enjoyed a benevolence toward each other unusual among literary men, they begin an exchange of e-mail correspondence on a regular basis. His thought was that, at the end of a year or so, the result might be an interesting book. Epstein, who had long admired Raphael's...
Frederic Raphael, the English novelist, screenwriter, and man of letters, and Joseph Epstein, the American essayist, short-story writer, and literary ...
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154,64 zł |
The Cost of Living Like This (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
ISBN: 9781941147283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Kennaway's best book. More than any of his other books, it testifies to his extraordinary poetic talent and the power of his human insight." - John le Carre
"If there is any justice at all . . . Kennaway's stock will rise posthumously. He could, after all, write rings around many of his more famous contemporaries. And is it too much to hope that he will be remembered at least partly as the author of "The Cost of Living Like This," his last and probably best novel?" - "Life Magazine" "A moving and serious book, the harrowing theme is heightened by Kennaway's extraordinary ability to... "Kennaway's best book. More than any of his other books, it testifies to his extraordinary poetic talent and the power of his human insight." - John l...
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102,00 zł |
Marching with April
ISBN: 9780648023326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It is the early 1950s. Lionel Spote, a young London publisher, has just discovered that he has inherited a Scottish estate. He is also a rather bemused devotee of the couch - the psychiatric one. Full to the brim with misgivings and uncertainty, he arrives in the far north to discover that his newly-acquired property 'marches' alongside that of a formidable woman, April Gunter-Sykes, who is staring-eyed and direct -- bluntly peculiar. It must be said that April's elusive daughter Laura seems far more appealing. He also meets Sir Duncan Fidge, the local MP, an ebullient storm of a... It is the early 1950s. Lionel Spote, a young London publisher, has just discovered that he has inherited a Scottish estate. He is also a rather bem... |
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66,86 zł |
Becket
ISBN: 9780413774927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Anouilh's classic historical tale of conflict between church and state, in a major new translation by Frederic and Stephen Raphael In Becket, Anouilh presents the history of England under Henry II as if it was France under German occupation. As Henry's long-time political playmate, Thomas's elevation to Archbishop of Canterbury forces him to sacrifice the love of his leader for his newfound love of the church: "If I become archbishop I shall cease to be your friend." Becket was first produced at the Theatre Montparnasse in 1959. Anouilh's classic historical tale of conflict between church and state, in a major new translation by Frederic and Stephen Raphael In Becket,... |
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62,91 zł |