wyszukanych pozycji: 94
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Our Man in Havana
ISBN: 9781509828043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Graham Greene's blackly comic espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.
Graham Greene's blackly comic espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.
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55,83 |
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Loser Takes All
ISBN: 9780140185423 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bertram had no belief in luck. He was not superstitious. A conspicuously unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time. Quite quietly: St Luke's, Maida Hill, and then two weeks in Bournemouth. But Dreuther, a director of Bertram's firm, whimsically switches wedding and honeymoon to Monte Carlo. Inevitably Bertram visits the Casino. Inevitably he loses. Then suddenly his system starts working . . . For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles,...
Bertram had no belief in luck. He was not superstitious. A conspicuously unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the sec...
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66,22 |
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The Heart of the Matter
ISBN: 9780099478423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With a new introduction by James Wood
Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences." With a new introduction by James Wood
Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted being scrupulously honest an... |
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Ways Of Escape
ISBN: 9780099282594 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as if seeking out danger, Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last days of the French, Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion. With ironic delight he recalls his time in the British Secret Service in Africa, and his brief involvement in Hollywood. He writes, as only he can, about people and places, about faith, doubt, fear and, not least, the trials and craft of writing.
With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as if s...
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65,99 |
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Loser Takes All
ISBN: 9780099286226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstition. An unambitious man, he looks for a quiet life. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, his boss, who changes Bertram's plans and packs him off to Monte Carlo. Once there, Bertram develops a betting system and his troubles begin.
Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstition. An unambitious man, he looks for a quiet life. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, his...
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67,65 |
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The Man Within
ISBN: 9780099286158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'The Man Within' tells the story of a man who betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in a woman's house who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices.
'The Man Within' tells the story of a man who betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salv...
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The Ministry of Fear
ISBN: 9780099286189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. For Arthur Rowe, the charity fair was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder.
For Arthur Rowe, the charity fair was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty yea...
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The Tenth Man
ISBN: 9781982199128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by the Germans during World War II. The lawyer is chosen by the soldiers to die, but instead he makes a cowardly trade for his life--one that he will have to pay for even as a free man.
An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by the Germans during World War II. The lawyer is chosen by the soldiers to d...
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Brighton Rock: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780142437971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..."
Graham Greene's chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind.Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed mob boss Kite and also for the death of Hale, a reporter who threatened the livelihood of the mob, Pinkie is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, Pinkie is convinced that his... "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..."
Graham Greene's chilling expose of violence and g... |
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70,12 |
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Der stille Amerikaner : Roman
ISBN: 9783552056398 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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99,33 |
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Desátý muž
ISBN: 9788090345638 / Czeski / 2005 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. U nás dosud nepublikované dílo britského romanopisce a esejisty Grahama Greena (1904-1991) je strhujícím příběhem odehrávajícím se ve Francii za druhé světové války a těsně po ní.
Do přeplněné cely německého vězení kdesi na francouzském okupovaném území přichází důstojník wermachtu, aby třicítce vězňů oznámil hrůzný verdikt: každý desátý obyvatel cely bude následujícího rána zastřelen. Losování, které vězni zvolí, rozehraje krutou hru odkrývající absurditu i osudovost jednání člověka v bezvýchodné situaci. Hořká... U nás dosud nepublikované dílo britského romanopisce a esejisty Grahama Greena (1904-1991) je strhujícím příběhem odehrávajícím se ve Fran...
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A Sense Of Reality
ISBN: 9780099282563 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of four stories comprising Under The Garden (A short novel); A Visit to the Morin; Dream of a Strange Land and, A Discovery in the Woods.
A collection of four stories comprising Under The Garden (A short novel); A Visit to the Morin; Dream of a Strange Land and, A Discovery in the Woods....
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Duel Duet: Selected Stories
ISBN: 9781529946512 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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96,46 |
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Travels with My Aunt: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780143039006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..."
Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it," Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her way--winding through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, and Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a... "I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..."
Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the ... |
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74,01 |
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The Little Train
ISBN: 9781782952817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. He chugs and puffs his way through villages, past castles and over bridges. But soon he gets tired, and the big city is a bit scary . . . there's only one thing to do; he'll have to head back The Little Train, Graham Greene's first children's book, was originally published in 1946 with Ardizzone's illustrations commissioned 28 year later. First published in 1974, this new edition brings the classic little train back to life for a whole new generation. Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. He chugs and puffs his way throug... |
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Stamboul Train
ISBN: 9780099478362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Centenary edition with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens: a gripping spy thriller, which unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople, weaving a web of subterfuge, murder, politics and passion along the way.
Centenary edition with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens: a gripping spy thriller, which unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosse...
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50,76 |
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Die Reisen mit meiner Tante : Roman
ISBN: 9783423141796 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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63,21 |
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The Power and the Glory
ISBN: 9780099286097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the whisky priest, is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him."
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the whisky priest, is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of es...
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The Portable Graham Greene
ISBN: 9780143039181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his essays, criticism, screenplays, autobiography, and novels, Graham Greene explored a territory located somewhere on the border between despair and faith, treachery and love.
This cross-section of Greene s work was originally selected with the author s help in 1973 and has now been extensively revised and updated. It includes the complete novels The Heart of the Matter and The Third Man, along with excerpts from ten other novels; short stories; selections from Greene s memoirs and travel writings; essays on English and American literature; and public... In his essays, criticism, screenplays, autobiography, and novels, Graham Greene explored a territory located somewhere on the border between despair a...
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97,39 |
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The Ministry of Fear
ISBN: 9781509828036 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Graham Greene's gripping WWII thriller about a man who knew too much.
Graham Greene's gripping WWII thriller about a man who knew too much.
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