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The Nice and the Good
ISBN: 9780099285267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century." --"Guardian"
Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolves round a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their household in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its two aspects, the self-gratifying and the impersonal -- the nice and the good -- as they are embodied in a fascinating array of paired characters. "The Nice and the Good" leads through stress and terror to a joyous and compassionate 'Midsummer Nights Dream' conclusion, in which the couples all... "Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century." --"Guardian"
Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolve... |
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56,43 zł |
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Die Souveränität des Guten
ISBN: 9783518299920 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2023 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In diesem nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegenden Klassiker der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts offenbart Iris Murdoch die Unzulänglichkeiten der analytischen Moralphilosophie und fordert einen Richtungswechsel. Wir können Moral nicht verstehen, wenn wir uns rein auf naturwissenschaftliche und sprachphilosophische Methoden beschränken. In Auseinandersetzung mit Wittgenstein, Kant, Sartre, Weil oder Platon argumentiert Murdoch, dass die Moral nicht darin besteht, rationale Entscheidungen in einer wertneutralen Welt zu treffen. Stattdessen besteht sie in der Orientierung an... In diesem nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegenden Klassiker der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts offenbart Iris Murdoch die Unzulängli... |
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76,22 zł |
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The Sandcastle
ISBN: 9780140014747 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyalty
The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt, magic, art, and political ambition. Mor s teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The Head, himself disenchanted, advises Mor to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a... A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyalty
The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed whe... |
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84,55 zł |
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A Severed Head
ISBN: 9780099285366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education.
Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Ma...
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56,43 zł |
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The Good Apprentice
ISBN: 9780099285250 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend. He dreams sometimes of redemption, sometimes of suicide.
Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a pr...
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92,37 zł |
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The Black Prince
ISBN: 9780099589259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "It is witty and wise and provocative... brilliantly good." --"Evening Standard"
" The Black Prince" is both a remarkable thriller and a story about being in love. Bradley Pearson, narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'. Finding himself surrounded by predatory friends and relations -- his ex-wife, her delinquent brother, a younger, deplorably successful writer, Arnold Baffin, Baffin's restless wife and engaging daughter -- Bradley attempts to escape. His failure to do so and its aftermath lead to a violent climax and a most unexpected conclusion. "It is witty and wise and provocative... brilliantly good." --"Evening Standard"
" The Black Prince" is both a remarkable thriller and a story ... |
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55,44 zł |
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The Nice and the Good
ISBN: 9780140030341 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice and being good.
John Ducane, a respected Whitehall civil servant, is asked to investigate the suicide of a colleague. As he pursues his inquiry, he uncovers a shabby, evil world of murder, blackmail, and black magic. He begins to feel more trapped than trapping. In contrast to a stagnant summer in London, Octavian and Kate Gray s adoring community on the Dorset coast seems to offer Ducane refuge, but even here the after-effects of... From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice ...
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84,55 zł |
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The Red and the Green
ISBN: 9780099429135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Introduction by Declan Kiberd The scene is Dublin in 1916. As rebellion looms, tension mounts in the sombre, rain-soaked Dublin streets. A single Anglo-Irish family provides the diverse characters: Pat Dumay, a Catholic and an Irish patriot; his pious mother pursuing her private war with his step-father; Pat's English-Protestant cousin Andrew Chase-White, an officer in King Edward's Horse and Frances, the girl he loves. Weaving between them all moves Millie Kinnard - fast, feminist, and only just respectable.
Introduction by Declan Kiberd The scene is Dublin in 1916. As rebellion looms, tension mounts in the sombre, rain-soaked Dublin streets. A single ...
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55,44 zł |
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Living on Paper : Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995
ISBN: 9780701187057 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Offers a portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. This title reveals author's personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its intriguing complexity: her emotional hunger and her tendency to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable.
Offers a portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. This title reveals author's personal life, the subject of much spec...
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128,36 zł |
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The Book and the Brotherhood
ISBN: 9780140104707 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A story about love and friendship and Marxism
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends commissioned one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest? Rose Curtland asks. The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history, Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide... A story about love and friendship and Marxism
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends commissioned one of their number to write a political... |
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84,55 zł |
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Henry And Cato
ISBN: 9780099429081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The story of two prodigal sons that questions the nature of love, whether it is a route to salvation or a type of demonic possession.
The story of two prodigal sons that questions the nature of love, whether it is a route to salvation or a type of demonic possession.
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82,10 zł |
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The Philosopher's Pupil
ISBN: 9780099283591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In the healing waters of Ennistone the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing. To this town of subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. And there he exerts an almost magical influence, especially over George McCaffrey, his old pupil.
In the healing waters of Ennistone the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing. To this town of subterranean insp...
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55,44 zł |
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The Good Apprentice
ISBN: 9780141186689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram. Funny and compelling, The Good Apprentice is at once a supremely sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry into the spiritual crises that afflict the modern world. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic...
Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a halluc...
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96,08 zł |
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The Italian Girl
ISBN: 9780099285236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones.
Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems togethe...
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50,40 zł |
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The Sovereignty of Good
ISBN: 9780415253994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of Good and Bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found here.
Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all t...
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68,24 zł |
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Under the Net
ISBN: 9780140014457 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose 'philosophy' he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot on a film set of ancient Rome. Jake,...
A comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, h...
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61,49 zł |
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The Unicorn
ISBN: 9780099285342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) When Marion Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house upon a coast, she finds herself confronted with weird mysteries. Some crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a spell.
When Marion Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house upon a coast, she finds herself confronted with weird mysteries. Some crim...
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50,40 zł |
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An Unofficial Rose
ISBN: 9780099285380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A complex Shakespearean comedy of intertwined relationships, as nine closely linked characters search for love.
After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has attachments elsewhere. Her mother Ann has her own private dream, while taking upon herself the strains and pains of all the others. Impelled by affection, lust and illusion, these characters search for love within a tightly woven web. A complex Shakespearean comedy of intertwined relationships, as nine closely linked characters search for love.
After his wife's death, Hugh cont... |
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55,44 zł |
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The Sandcastle
ISBN: 9780099433583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The quiet life of schoolteacher Bill Mor and his family is disturbed when Rain Carter arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor becomes aware of new desires and his wife and children fight discreetly and ruthlessly against Rain and her influence over him.
The quiet life of schoolteacher Bill Mor and his family is disturbed when Rain Carter arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. M...
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55,44 zł |
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The Unicorn
ISBN: 9780140024760 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A brilliant mythical drama about well-meaning people trapped in a war of spiritual forces
Marian Taylor, who has come as a companion to a lovely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her employer is a prisoner, not only of her obsessions, but of an unforgiving husband. Hannah, the Unicorn, seemingly an image of persecuted virtue, fascinates those who surround her, some of whom plan to rescue her from her dream of redemptive suffering. But is she an innocent victim, a guilty woman, a mad woman, or a witch? Is her spiritual life really some evil enchantment? If she is... A brilliant mythical drama about well-meaning people trapped in a war of spiritual forces
Marian Taylor, who has come as a companion to a l... |
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84,55 zł |
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