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The American Newness
ISBN: 9780674182677 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 99 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "To confront American culture is to feel oneself encircled by a thin but strong presence. I call it Emersonian, an imprecise term but one that directs us to a dominant spirit in the national experience." Thus Irving Howe, America's distinguished social critic and a longtime reader of the Sage of Concord, begins this illuminating discussion of Emerson and his disciples and doubters. What is the Emersonian spirit? What inspired it, what propelled it? And what does it mean to us today?
History gave Emerson his opportunity and then took it away. Coming to manhood during the... "To confront American culture is to feel oneself encircled by a thin but strong presence. I call it Emersonian, an imprecise term but one that dir... |
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283,92 zł |
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Voice Still Heard: Selected Essays of Irving Howe
ISBN: 9780300203660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An indispensable collection of one of America's most outspoken and original critics of the second half of the twentieth century
Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America's most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe's work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and political, have had a vigorous afterlife. This posthumous and capacious collection includes twenty-six essays that originally appeared in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the... An indispensable collection of one of America's most outspoken and original critics of the second half of the twentieth century
Man of let... |
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495,52 zł |
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Twenty-Five Years of Dissent: An American Tradition
ISBN: 9781032045528 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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167,84 zł |
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Twenty-Five Years of Dissent: An American Tradition
ISBN: 9781032045498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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708,33 zł |
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William Faulkner: A Critical Study
ISBN: 9780929587691 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this fourth edition of his celebrated study of Faulkner, Irving Howe analyzes all of the great author's works, emphasizing the themes that run throughout the novels and stories. "The scheme of my book is simple," Mr. Howe writes. "First, I have tried to say what Faulkner's work is about, ' to report on the social and moral themes in his books; and then I have tried to analyze and evaluate the more important novels." Anyone who has enjoyed the special flavor of Faulkner's writing will appreciate Mr. Howe's careful analysis, and the student of twentieth-century American literature will gain...
In this fourth edition of his celebrated study of Faulkner, Irving Howe analyzes all of the great author's works, emphasizing the themes that run thro...
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116,07 zł |
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World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made
ISBN: 9780814736852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic. Winner of the National Book Award, 1976 World of Our Fathers traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their... A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic. Winner of the National Book Award, 1976 World of... |
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146,86 zł |
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The Portable Kipling
ISBN: 9780140150971 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 687 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Portable Kipling contains selections from The Jungle Books and Soldiers Three; more than twenty stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King," "The Cat that Walked by Himself," "The Eye of Allah," and the unsettling "Mary Postgate"; more than fifty poems; and three essays. The volume also includes a complete chronology and a critical introduction by Irving Howe that permits us to see the formal achievements of Kipling's work as well as to enjoy its abundant pleasures--not least of which is the sheer satisfaction of great storytelling.
The Portable Kipling contains selections from The Jungle Books and Soldiers Three; more than twenty stories, including "The Man Who W...
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117,94 zł |
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Oliver Twist
ISBN: 9780553211023 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1982 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation....
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums...
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25,99 zł |
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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780811220033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Now with an exciting new preface by rock musician Lou Reed (Delmore Schwartz s student at Syracuse), In Dreams Begin Responsibilities collects eight of Schwartz s finest delineations of New York s intellectuals in the 1930s and 1940s. As no other writer can, Schwartz captures the speech, the generational conflicts, the mocking self-analysis of educated, ambitious, Depression-stymied young people at odds with their immigrant parents. This is the unique American dilemma Irving Howe described as that interesting point where intellectual children of immigrant Jews are finding their way into the...
Now with an exciting new preface by rock musician Lou Reed (Delmore Schwartz s student at Syracuse), In Dreams Begin Responsibilities collects eight o...
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69,67 zł |
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A Treasury of Yiddish Stories: Revised and Updated Edition
ISBN: 9780140144192 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Fifty-two Yiddish short stories describe life in the shetl and other aspects of the Jewish experience, and include works produced by Jewish writers during the last two centuries.
Fifty-two Yiddish short stories describe life in the shetl and other aspects of the Jewish experience, and include works produced by Jewish writers du...
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131,04 zł |
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The Other America
ISBN: 9780684826783 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington's essays on poverty in the 1970s and '80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington's biographer, Maurice Isserman. This illuminating, profoundly moving classic is still all too relevant for today's America. When Michael Harrington's masterpiece, The Other America, was first published in 1962, it was hailed as an explosive work and became a galvanizing force for the war on poverty. Harrington shed light on...
In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition incl...
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87,32 zł |
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