wyszukanych pozycji: 97
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Orient Express: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780142437919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness of rails and points, round the corners of abandoned trucks."
As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, its voyage binds together the lives of several of its passengers in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters includes Coral Musker, a beautiful chorus girl; Carleton Myatt, a rich Jewish businessman; Richard John, a mysterious and kind doctor returning to his native Belgrade; the spiteful journalist... "The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness of rails and points, round the ...
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70,12 |
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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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70,12 |
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The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780142437995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork..." Graham Greene's masterpiece, The Heart of the Matter, tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity. When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and...
"Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork..." Graham Greene's masterpiece, |
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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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99,10 |
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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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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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37,54 |
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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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67,79 |
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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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96,24 |
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The Quiet American
ISBN: 9780143039020 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it...
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the tro...
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70,12 |
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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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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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50,63 |
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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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63,06 |
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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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Brighton Rock
ISBN: 9781857151466 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the author of THE POWER AND THE GLORY. A story of gang war in the underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, only seventeen, has already brutally killed a man. Now believing he has escaped retribution, he is unprepared for Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge the death.
From the author of THE POWER AND THE GLORY. A story of gang war in the underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, only seventeen, has already brutally killed a m...
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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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60,77 |
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England Made Me
ISBN: 9780140185515 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From master storyteller Graham Greene comes the tale of Anthony Farrant, who has boasted, lied and cheated his way through jobs all over the world. Then his adoring twin sister, Kate, gets him taken on as the bodyguard of Krogh, her lover and boss, a megalomaniac Swedish financier. All goes well until Krogh gives orders that offend Anthony's innate decency. Outraged and blind to risk, he leaks information to Minty, a shabby journalist and fellow victim of life, a decision that will lead to disastrous consequences. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of...
From master storyteller Graham Greene comes the tale of Anthony Farrant, who has boasted, lied and cheated his way through jobs all over the world. Th...
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66,22 |
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The Quiet American: Discover Graham Green’s prescient political masterpiece
ISBN: 9780099478393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With a new introduction by Zadie Smith Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious "Third Force." As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love?
With a new introduction by Zadie Smith Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democr...
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Travels With My Aunt
ISBN: 9780099282587 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, dull, suburban Henry travels her way through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay and finds himself in a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all currency regulations and eventually coming alive. Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing human dilemmas.
With Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, dull, suburban Henry travels her way through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay and finds hi...
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