wyszukanych pozycji: 97
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Mornings in the Dark: The Graham Greene Film Reader
ISBN: 9781784109998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 776 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Carcanet's Graham Greene Film Reader reissued as a Carcanet Classic, the only book to collect his written contributions to the world of cinema.
Carcanet's Graham Greene Film Reader reissued as a Carcanet Classic, the only book to collect his written contributions to the world of cinema.
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Reflections
ISBN: 9780099582878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Whether reporting from the London cinema, Cotswolds villages, second-hand bookshops, war zones or political trouble spots, Graham Greene's novelistic gifts for detail, drama and compassionate curiosity provide unique and resonant insights into his life and times. 'Reflections' provides an extraordinary mirror on the 20th century from one of its greatest observers.
Whether reporting from the London cinema, Cotswolds villages, second-hand bookshops, war zones or political trouble spots, Graham Greene's novelistic ...
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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 and The Fallen Idol
ISBN: 9780099286233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates. The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games adults play. Left in the care of the butler and his wife while his parents go on holiday, Philip realizes too late the danger of lies and deceit. But the truth is even deadlier.
The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend...
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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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The Third Man
ISBN: 9783150141458 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext - ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Rollo Martins folgt der Einladung seines alten Freundes Harry Lime in das korrupte Wien der Nachkriegsjahre. Doch das geplante Treffen platzt - stattdessen findet er sich auf Harrys Beerdigung wieder. Aber ist dieser wirklich tragisch verunglückt? Aus der Suche nach der Wahrheit und dem dritten Mann wird schnell eine nervenaufreibende Hetzjagd. Graham Greenes viel beachteter Klassiker erscheint nun mit Nachwort...
Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext - ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite,...
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Vyhaslý případ
ISBN: 9788070170656 / Czeski / 2007 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Greenovo „srdce temnoty“ z roku 1961 rozehrává věčná témata svatosti, povolání, lásky, víry a zoufalství s mistrovstvím, pro něž bývá právem nazýván Dostojevským dvacátého století. V autobiografické knize Úniky (Kalich 2006) Greene v souvislosti s Vyhaslým případem píše: „Představa víry jako poklidného moře byla navždy tatam – víra byla spíše jako bouře, ve které byli ti šťastní pohlceni a ztraceni, zatímco ti, co neměli štěstí, přežili a byli s ranami a krvácejícími šrámy vyvrženi na břeh. Lepší člověk si na okraji tohoto...
Greenovo „srdce temnoty“ z roku 1961 rozehrává věčná témata svatosti, povolání, lásky, víry a zoufalství s mistrovstvím, pro něž bý...
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A Sort of Life
ISBN: 9780099282570 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. "Writing "A Sort of Life."..was in the nature of a psychoanalysis. I made a long journey through time, and I was one of my characters." - Graham Greene in conversation with Marie-Francoise Allain
"Writing "A Sort of Life."..was in the nature of a psychoanalysis. I made a long journey through time, and I was one of my characters." - Graham Green...
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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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Heirate nie in Monte Carlo : Roman
ISBN: 9783803113092 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Das alte Lied vom Glück im Spiel und vom Pech in der Liebe hat Gültigkeit. Wer seine Ehe nicht gleich in den Flitterwochen aufgeben will, sollte sich in dieser Zeit nicht vom Büroangestellten zum Millionär mausern.
Das alte Lied vom Glück im Spiel und vom Pech in der Liebe hat Gültigkeit. Wer seine Ehe nicht gleich in den Flitterwochen aufgeben will, sollte sic...
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The Honorary Consul
ISBN: 9780099478386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This story tells of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority kidnapped by a group of revolutionaries. As local doctor, Eduardo Plarr, negotiates for Fortnum's release, their corruption becomes evident.
This story tells of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority kidnapped by a group of revolutionaries. As lo...
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A Burnt-out Case
ISBN: 9780099478430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation.
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving ...
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Brighton Rock
ISBN: 9780099478478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With a new introduction by J.M. Coetzee
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death. With a new introduction by J.M. Coetzee
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a ma... |
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The Tenth Man
ISBN: 9780099284147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel, it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical with a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place.
In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel, it see...
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Complete Short Stories
ISBN: 9780143039105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction
Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete edition reveals Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each of these forty-nine stories confirms V. S. Pritchett s declaration that Greene is a master of storytelling. This Penguin Classics edition features an... The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction
Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and viole... |
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Brighton Rock
ISBN: 9781509828029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Graham Greene's powerful novel of good, evil and adolescent rebellion.
Graham Greene's powerful novel of good, evil and adolescent rebellion.
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The Captain and the Enemy
ISBN: 9780099529149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat. The stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves as her conduit to the outside world. From mysterious beginnings, Graham Greene's final novel becomes a twisting thriller of smuggling, jewel theft and international espionage which culminates in a dramatic showdown in Panama.
A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat. The stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's...
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Monsignor Quixote
ISBN: 9780099283942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With his trusty Sancho Panza, a deposed communist mayor, Rocinante, an old motor car and a terrific sense of his own righteousness, Monsignor Quixote sets off on his adventures through modern Spain, echoing his forerunner's footsteps.
With his trusty Sancho Panza, a deposed communist mayor, Rocinante, an old motor car and a terrific sense of his own righteousness, Monsignor Quixote ...
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Twenty-One Stories
ISBN: 9780099286165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The stories in this text, all written between 1929 and 1954, share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels; humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit.
The stories in this text, all written between 1929 and 1954, share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels; humour and violence,...
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A Burnt-Out Case
ISBN: 9780140185393 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a "burnt-out case," a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Then the white community finds out who Querry is... For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than...
Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving ...
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