wyszukanych pozycji: 31
Nightingale Wood
ISBN: 9781844085729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband's family in a joyless old house. There's Mr Wither, a tyrannical old miser, Mrs Wither, who thinks Viola is just a common shop girl, and two unlovely sisters-in-law, one of whom is in love with the chauffeur.
Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband's family in a joyless old house....
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Here Be Dragons
ISBN: 9780099529361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. Naive and only nineteen, she becomes embroiled with the wayward John Gaunt and falls in with London's bohemian crowd.
When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. ...
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51,70 zł |
Westwood
ISBN: 9780099528722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Set in wartime Highgate, 'Westwood' tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is 'not the type that attracts men'. What she lacks for in looks she makes up for with a romantic nature and cultural aspirations.
Set in wartime Highgate, 'Westwood' tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is 'not the type tha...
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51,70 zł |
Bassett
ISBN: 9780099529378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Tower Guesthouse lies nestled between the beech woods of Buckinghamshire. It is run by the unlikely partnership of balmy Miss Padsoe and young, cockney Miss Baker. Divided by class and age, they are determined to dislike each other.
The Tower Guesthouse lies nestled between the beech woods of Buckinghamshire. It is run by the unlikely partnership of balmy Miss Padsoe and young, co...
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88,32 zł |
The Weather at Tregulla
ISBN: 9781913527778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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74,21 zł |
The Yellow Houses
ISBN: 9781784870287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A mysterious stranger passes him a handkerchief, and strikes up a conversation that leads to friendship and an unconventional new home for Wilfred.
Mary Davis wants only four things out of life: a husband and three children, so at seventeen she runs away from school, her father and her home and moves to London to find them. Only a few months later Mary is engaged, but love and marriage promise to be very different from her childhood daydreams. ...Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A myste...
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51,70 zł |
Cold Comfort Farm, English edition
ISBN: 9780141441597 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. -Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century.- --Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition
The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is -very probably the funniest book ever written- (The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels. When the recently orphaned socialite Flora Poste descends on her relatives at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm in deepest Sussex, she finds a singularly miserable group in dire need of her particular talent: organization. For more than... -Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century.- --Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition
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44,13 zł |
The Matchmaker
ISBN: 9780099529330 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate with varying degrees of success the love affairs of her neighbours.
Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Al...
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60,70 zł |
The Woods in Winter
ISBN: 9781913527815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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74,21 zł |
Cold Comfort Farm
ISBN: 9780241418895 / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years....
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times When sensible, sop...
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51,70 zł |
Cold Comfort Farm
ISBN: 9780241951514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned, she decides to descend on her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm, and put their lives in order.
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned, she decides to descend on her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm, and put their lives in order.
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51,70 zł |
Ticky
ISBN: 9780099529354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Club in central London holds the quarters of Queen Victorias finest regiment: the First Bloods. Inside the mighty building, with its two exquisite glass towers, the First Bloods and their regimental servants tussle over a portion of recreational ground.
The Club in central London holds the quarters of Queen Victorias finest regiment: the First Bloods. Inside the mighty building, with its two exquisite...
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88,32 zł |
Starlight
ISBN: 9780099528692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highgate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their quiet lives are thrown into confusion when a new landlord takes over, a dreaded and unscrupulous 'rackman'.
Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highgate with Mr Fish...
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51,70 zł |
The Charmers
ISBN: 9780099560548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Thrown out of her long-established office job, Miss Christine Smith takes up a new role as housekeeper for a group of middle-aged artists. Charmed by a previous mystical experience, her spirituality is nurtured further by the tenants, who seem stuck in their own personal lull.
Thrown out of her long-established office job, Miss Christine Smith takes up a new role as housekeeper for a group of middle-aged artists. Charmed by ...
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88,32 zł |
Teatime mit Kuh
ISBN: 9783311300403 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Flora Poste wurde in jeder Kunst und Fertigkeit unterrichtet, nur nicht in der, für den eigenen Lebensunterhalt zu sorgen. Da ihre Eltern ihr weit weniger vermacht haben als erwartet, ist sie gezwungen, eine Weile bei ihren Verwandten im tiefsten Sussex unterzukommen. Schnell zeigt sich, dass der Alltag auf der Cold Comfort Farm die schlimmsten Vorurteile einer neunzehnjährigen Londonerin über das Landleben bestätigt. Was sich nämlich ihre Verwandtschaft nennt, ist ein liebenswerter, aber verrückter Haufen: Floras Tante Judith Starkadder verbringt den Tag damit, ihren Sohn Seth zu...
Flora Poste wurde in jeder Kunst und Fertigkeit unterrichtet, nur nicht in der, für den eigenen Lebensunterhalt zu sorgen. Da ihre Eltern ihr weit we...
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105,78 zł |
A Pink Front Door
ISBN: 9781913527754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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74,21 zł |
Pure Juliet
ISBN: 9781784870270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother. And clothes, boys, school, friends, the changing seasons and what other people think - none of these things seem to matter to Juliet. She spends hours in her room with incomprehensible mathematical text books, her mind voyaging in strange seas of thought, alone. Is she a genius?
No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother. And clothes, boys, school, friends, the changing seasons and what other people think ...
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56,87 zł |
White Sand and Grey Sand
ISBN: 9780099529385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On the dunes west of Bruges, two-year-old Ydette is found wrapped in a blanket and taken back to live in a small grocers shop. Opposite the shop live the wealthy van Roeslaere family and their son, Adriaan, a spoilt boy, plagued by ugliness. With overtones of 'Beauty and the Beast', their romance matures as they grow up together.
On the dunes west of Bruges, two-year-old Ydette is found wrapped in a blanket and taken back to live in a small grocers shop. Opposite the shop live ...
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88,32 zł |
The Bachelor
ISBN: 9780099529323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In St Alberics, Hertfordshire, stands a newly built family home: Sunglades. Its seven rooms house Kenneth and Constance Fielding, middle-aged bachelor and spinster, along with Kenneths old flame, an industrious Balkan exile, a young economist and the Fieldings raffish father.
In St Alberics, Hertfordshire, stands a newly built family home: Sunglades. Its seven rooms house Kenneth and Constance Fielding, middle-aged bachelor...
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56,87 zł |
Cold Comfort Farm
ISBN: 9781607960218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless, and the proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora's mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room. Flora's confident and clever management of an alarming cast of...
In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organ...
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52,37 zł |