wyszukanych pozycji: 15
The Dream Of Scipio
ISBN: 9780099284581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A novel set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth. It follows the fortunes of three men, and each man's story is linked by the classical text that gives the book its title.
A novel set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black...
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93,30 zł |
Arcadia
ISBN: 9780571301577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. April, 1960: In the cellar of a professor's house in Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat - and instead finds herself in a different world. But is this world real - and what happens if Rosie decides to stay?
Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. April, 1960: In the cellar of a professor's house in Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes i...
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67,06 zł |
The Bernini Bust
ISBN: 9780425191897 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,10 zł |
An Instance of the Fingerpost: Explore the murky world of 17th-century Oxford in this iconic historical thriller
ISBN: 9780099751816 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) We are in Oxford in the 1660s - a time, and place, of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear about the events surrounding his death from four witnesses: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II, a mathematician,...
We are in Oxford in the 1660s - a time, and place, of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of New C...
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67,06 zł |
The Portrait
ISBN: 9781594481758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A national bestseller from acclaimedauthor Iain Pears, The Portrait is a novel of suspense and a tour de force.
An art critic journeys to a remote island off Brittany to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile. The painter recalls their years of friendship, the gift of the critic's patronage, and his callous betrayals. As he struggles to capture the character of the man, as well as his image, on canvas, it becomes clear that there is much more than a portrait at stake... Iain Pears's An Instance of the... A national bestseller from acclaimedauthor Iain Pears, The Portrait is a novel of suspense and a tour de force.
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96,10 zł |
The Last Judgement
ISBN: 9780425186473 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,10 zł |
Stone's Fall
ISBN: 9780099516170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War I he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents.
Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War I he was able to m...
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67,06 zł |
The Titian Committee
ISBN: 9780425185001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Iain Pears combines "articulate characters and erudite art commentary" (The New York Times Book Review) in this sophisticated, suspenseful series featuring art historian Jonathan Argyll and the delightfully clever Flavia di Stefano.
In The Titian Committee, the two embark on a daring investigation after a member of a famous research committee is found dead in a Venetian public garden. Iain Pears combines "articulate characters and erudite art commentary" (The New York Times Book Review) in this sophisticated, suspenseful seri...
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96,10 zł |
Death and Restoration
ISBN: 9780425190425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. General Bottando can't believe his rotten luck. He has just been promoted--to a position that's heavy on bureaucratic duties-but disturbingly light on investigative responsibilities. As if that wasn't annoying enough, he's received a tip about a planned raid at a nearby monastery. He's relying on his colleague Flavia di Stefano and her art-expert fiance, Jonathan Argyll, to thwart the plot-but both are beyond baffled. The only valuable item in the monastery's art collection is a supposed Caravaggio that's currently being restored. There are no solid suspects-unless you count the endearing art...
General Bottando can't believe his rotten luck. He has just been promoted--to a position that's heavy on bureaucratic duties-but disturbingly light on...
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96,10 zł |
An Instance of the Fingerpost
ISBN: 9781573227957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A national bestseller and one of the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a thrilling historical mystery from Iain Pears.
-It is 1663, and England is wracked with intrigue and civil strife. When an Oxford don is murdered, it seems at first that the incident can have nothing to do with great matters of church and state....Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember them falsely. Each of four narrators--a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on... A national bestseller and one of the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a thrilling historical myste...
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131,04 zł |
The Raphael Affair
ISBN: 9780425178928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Deliciously literate" (Kirkus Reviews) and filled with "articulate characters and erudite art commentary" (The New York Times Book Review), this acclaimed series of novels by Iain Pears combines art and history, literature and mystery fiction, with the same passion for detail he displayed in his New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. In The Raphael Affair, the first book in the series, we are introduced to Jonathan Argyll, an enthusiastic young art scholar from England who has followed his suspicions about a long-lost Raphael...
"Deliciously literate" (Kirkus Reviews) and filled with "articulate characters and erudite art commentary" (The New York Times Book Review
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96,10 zł |
The Immaculate Deception
ISBN: 9780743272414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From internationally bestselling author Iain Pears comes the seventh in his Jonathan Argyll series -- an intriguing mystery of love, loss, and artistic license.
For newlywed and Italian art theft squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over when a painting, borrowed from the Louvre and en route to a celebratory exhibition, is stolen. Desperate to avoid public embarrassment -- and to avoid paying a ransom -- the Italian prime minister leans hard on Flavia to get it back quickly and quietly. Across town, her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, begins an investigation of his... From internationally bestselling author Iain Pears comes the seventh in his Jonathan Argyll series -- an intriguing mystery of love, loss, and artisti...
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74,04 zł |
Dream of Scipio
ISBN: 9781573229869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called "The Dream of Scipio," three men struggle to find refuge for their hearts and minds from the madness that surrounds them in the final days of the Roman Empire, in the grim years of the Black Death, and in the direst hours of World War II. An ALA Booklist Editors' Choice. Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Portrait are also...
In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three...
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96,10 zł |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
ISBN: 9780241347782 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "This collection first published in Penguin Classics 2001"--Title page verso.
"This collection first published in Penguin Classics 2001"--Title page verso.
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98,04 zł |