wyszukanych pozycji: 94
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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94,76 |
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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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60,65 |
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The Third Man and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781509828050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An anthology of Graham Greene's masterful short stories, including Cold War classic novella, The Third Man.
An anthology of Graham Greene's masterful short stories, including Cold War classic novella, The Third Man.
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55,31 |
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Der dritte Mann : Roman. Nachw. v. Hanns Zischler
ISBN: 9783552057678 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Graham Greenes faszinierender Thriller, kongenial verfilmt mit Orson Welles, gibt es jetzt in exzellenter Neuübersetzung von Nikolaus Stingl.
Graham Greenes faszinierender Thriller, kongenial verfilmt mit Orson Welles, gibt es jetzt in exzellenter Neuübersetzung von Nikolaus Stingl.
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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 Confidential Agent
ISBN: 9780099286196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, D becomes a hunted man.
Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at ...
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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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It's A Battlefield
ISBN: 9780099282228 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a pathetic journalist feeding on fantasies; pretty, promiscuous Kay - all have a part to play in his fate.
Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve wi...
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Dr Fischer of Geneva
ISBN: 9780099288497 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Doctor Fischer despises the human race. The notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties.
Doctor Fischer despises the human race. The notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties.
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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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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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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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