wyszukanych pozycji: 89
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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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Verleihe niemals deinen Mann
ISBN: 9783803113160 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2016 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Liebe gehört nicht zu den gängigen Merkmalen einer Ehe!§Nach dem großen Erfolg von "Heirate nie in Monte Carlo" nun die Fortsetzung: Denn auf jede Eheschließung folgen die Flitterwochen, und die sind nicht minder gefährlich ...
Liebe gehört nicht zu den gängigen Merkmalen einer Ehe!§Nach dem großen Erfolg von "Heirate nie in Monte Carlo" nun die Fortsetzung: Denn auf jede...
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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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Our Man In Havana
ISBN: 9780099286080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age -- so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, M.I.6's man in Havana. To keep the job, Wormold pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories. Then the stories start becoming disturbingly true.
Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age -- so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus...
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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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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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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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May We Borrow Your Husband?
ISBN: 9780099283843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A widow and a divorcee tipsily discuss the inadequacy of men, deciding that women have much more to offer each other by way of variety in sexual love. Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours, this collection contains some of the author's saddest observations on the hilarity of sex.
A widow and a divorcee tipsily discuss the inadequacy of men, deciding that women have much more to offer each other by way of variety in sexual love....
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The Third Man and the Fallen Idol
ISBN: 9780140185331 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in Vienna to visit his old friend and hero Harry Lime. Harry is dead, but the circumstances surrounding his death are highly suspicious, and his reputation, at the very least, dubious. Graham Greene said of The Third Man that he "wanted to entertain people], to frighten them a little, to make them laugh" and the result is both a compelling narrative and a haunting thriller. The Fallen Idol is...
The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-...
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Der stille Amerikaner, 1 Audio-CD, 1 MP3
ISBN: 9783742418432 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Saigon, Anfang der 50er-Jahre: Der britische Auslandskorrespondent Thomas Fowler verfolgt distanziert und ohne viel Empathie das Kriegsgeschehen in Vietnam. Doch als er sich mit dem idealistischen und vermeintlich naiven Amerikaner Pyle anfreundet, wird er tief in die politischen Konflikte des Landes hineingezogen. Greene verwebt in dieser Geschichte seine Erfahrungen als Kriegsreporter mit dem historischen Kontext. Aufgrund dieses Romans wurde der Schriftsteller für den Rest seines Lebens vom amerikanischen Geheimdienst überwacht. Spannungsvoll gelesen von Ulrich Noethen.Lesung mit Ulrich...
Saigon, Anfang der 50er-Jahre: Der britische Auslandskorrespondent Thomas Fowler verfolgt distanziert und ohne viel Empathie das Kriegsgeschehen in Vi...
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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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The End of the Affair
ISBN: 9780099478447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With a new introduction by Monica Ali
The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later, after a chance meeting, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. With a new introduction by Monica Ali
The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, en... |
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A Gun for Sale
ISBN: 9780099286141 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. The money he receives in payment for the killing of the Minister of War is made up of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent, who has been double-crossing him and attempts to elude the police, he becomes both hunter and hunted.
Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. The money he receives in payment for the killing of the Minister of War is made up of stolen notes. When...
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The Collected Plays
ISBN: 9780099286257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes and No. For Whom the Bell Chimes In these eight plays Graham Greene, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, demonstrates his considerable skills as a dramatist. Each of them explores themes that were of fundamental importance to Greene, and together they exhibit a daring wit and an exhilarating sense of experiment.
The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes and No. For Whom the Be...
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The Third Man
ISBN: 9781529982725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Power and the Glory
ISBN: 9780099540960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly 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.
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut ...
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England Made Me
ISBN: 9780099286172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Anthony Farrant has always found his way, lying to get jobs and borrowing money to get by when he leaves them in a hurry. His twin sister Kate persuades him to move and sets him up with a job as a bodyguard to Krogh, which has drastic results.
Anthony Farrant has always found his way, lying to get jobs and borrowing money to get by when he leaves them in a hurry. His twin sister Kate persuad...
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Our Man in Havana
ISBN: 9780142438008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true... First published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene's most widely read novels. It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire of government intelligence that still...
MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bo...
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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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