wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Crossing the Alps
ISBN: 9781599540177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fiction. "In this seminal work, Helen Barolini tells the story of Frances Molletone grappling with her ethnic heritage as she falls in love with a married man. The author takes us to post-WW2 Italy, a little-documented era of turmoil, and we discover the culture of the Italian diaspora, as well as Italy before it was 'discovered.' When it first appeared, this novel was highly acclaimed in Italy. Now, it once again speaks to us of romantic love and conflicted longing in the aftermath of war" Christine Lehner."
Fiction. "In this seminal work, Helen Barolini tells the story of Frances Molletone grappling with her ethnic heritage as she falls in love with a mar...
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60,71 zł |
Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy
ISBN: 9780823226290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Our lives are Swiss, Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, So still-so cool.But over the Alps, Italy stands the other side.For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention, enchantment, and freedom. So it was for Helen Barolini, who, as a student in Rome after World War II, wrote her first poetry and gave birth to her own creative life, reinvigorating her mother tongue. In this book, Barolini celebrates the lives of other women whose imaginations succumbed to the lure of Italy.Here Barolini profiles six gifted women transformed...
Our lives are Swiss, Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, So still-so cool.But over the Alps, Italy stands the other side.For Dickinson, as for many other w...
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409,77 zł |
Aldus & His Dream Book: An Illustrated Essay
ISBN: 9780934977227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Aldus and His Dream Book" is a tribute to the life and work of the pioneering scholar-publisher, Aldus Manutius (1449/50-1515).
Helen Barolinis text discusses Aldus, his education, his publishing vision, his typographic innovations, and his famous Venetian press. At the same time, this book reproduces all the illustrations, and many of the full pages, from the Aldine press edition of Francesco Colonnas "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili," which many consider the most beautiful book printed in the Renaissance. It also includes a bibliography of works on Aldus and the "Hypnerotomachia." This edition... "Aldus and His Dream Book" is a tribute to the life and work of the pioneering scholar-publisher, Aldus Manutius (1449/50-1515).
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121,42 zł |
Love in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780595092536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,50 zł |
Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy
ISBN: 9780823226306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Our lives are Swiss, Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, So still-so cool.But over the Alps, Italy stands the other side.For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention, enchantment, and freedom. So it was for Helen Barolini, who, as a student in Rome after World War II, wrote her first poetry and gave birth to her own creative life, reinvigorating her mother tongue. In this book, Barolini celebrates the lives of other women whose imaginations succumbed to the lure of Italy.Here Barolini profiles six gifted women transformed...
Our lives are Swiss, Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, So still-so cool.But over the Alps, Italy stands the other side.For Dickinson, as for many other w...
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124,44 zł |
A Circular Journey
ISBN: 9780823226153 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Circular Journey collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of America's most distinctive voices. These fifteen pieces, tracking some thirty years of a writer's life, come together to illuminate the stages and themes and places that mark Helen Barolini's art. Divided into three closely linked sections-Home, Abroad, Return, -the essays move through Barolini's worlds. Her love of literature began when, as a child growing up as an avid reader in Syracuse, New York, she was presented with a diary and told to write in it. Returning to...
A Circular Journey collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of America's most distinctiv...
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321,59 zł |
Visits
ISBN: 9781599540924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fiction. "In her engrossing VISITS, Helen Barolini the author of the classic "Umbertina" and editor of the equally classic Dream Book once again explores the complexities of an Italian heritage and an Italian- American futurity. Tracing her protagonist's emotional, spiritual and aesthetic encounters with parents, siblings, husband, lovers, daughters, grandchildren, and friends, she narrates an arduous journey toward self-achievement while also bringing three generations of a fascinating family to life. The many lovers of Umbertina and Barolini's other works will be...
Fiction. "In her engrossing VISITS, Helen Barolini the author of the classic "Umbertina" and editor of the equally classic Dream Book once ag...
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95,40 zł |
Festa: Recipes and Recollections of Italian Holidays
ISBN: 9780299179847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Born of Italian-American parents, Helen Barolini rediscovered her culinary heritage when she married Italian writer Antonio Barolini and lived for some years in Italy. Festa is a year-long feast of memories and delicious, traditional Italian dishes from St. Nicholas sweetmeats in December and perciatelli with sardines and fennel for March s St. Joseph s Day, to figs with prosciutto for summer s Ferragosto and pumpkin gnocchi for an American Thanksgiving in Italy."
Born of Italian-American parents, Helen Barolini rediscovered her culinary heritage when she married Italian writer Antonio Barolini and lived for ... |
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121,18 zł |
A Circular Journey
ISBN: 9780823226160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Circular Journey collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of America's most distinctive voices. These fifteen pieces, tracking some thirty years of a writer's life, come together to illuminate the stages and themes and places that mark Helen Barolini's art. Divided into three closely linked sections-Home, Abroad, Return, -the essays move through Barolini's worlds. Her love of literature began when, as a child growing up as an avid reader in Syracuse, New York, she was presented with a diary and told to write in it. Returning to...
A Circular Journey collects for the first time in one book the essays that most powerfully define the unique gifts of one of America's most distinctiv...
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124,44 zł |
The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women
ISBN: 9780815606628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Drawing on rare sources and archival material, Helen Barolini has here collected 56 works by Italian American women writers. The volume features: prose, poetry, one play and a large section of fiction.
Drawing on rare sources and archival material, Helen Barolini has here collected 56 works by Italian American women writers. The volume features: pros...
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86,51 zł |
Umbertina
ISBN: 9781558612051 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Publishers Weekly calls Helen Barolini's now-classic novel of immigration "an ambitious saga which spans the history and probes some of the tensions of the Italian American... Panoramic, descriptive and solidly crafted." When the book was first published in 1979, the Philadelphia Inquirer called it "an important novel for these times. . . . Through a dazzling interplay of American and Italian characters in both countries, Helen Barolini delineates the major concerns of all thinking American ethnics." This is no less true today, as this republication restores Umbertina to...
Publishers Weekly calls Helen Barolini's now-classic novel of immigration "an ambitious saga which spans the history and probes some of the ten...
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113,27 zł |