wyszukanych pozycji: 58
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The Animals : Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
ISBN: 9781784700829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Christopher Isherwood was a celebrated English writer when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. They spent their first night together on Valentine's Day 1953. Defying the conventions, the two men began living as an openly gay couple in an otherwise closeted Hollywood. This book tells their story.
Christopher Isherwood was a celebrated English writer when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. They spent th...
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90,80 zł |
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Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader
ISBN: 9781250254863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,08 zł |
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Liberation : Diaries Vol 3
ISBN: 9780099575474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, the author journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the Grand Old Man of Gay Liberation. This title unearths the family demons that haunted his fugitive youth.
'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, the author journeyed and changed with his century, until, by t...
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101,49 zł |
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Down There on a Visit
ISBN: 9780099561088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Interweaving semi-autobiography with fiction, and taking the reader through relationships with 4 very different men, from 1930s Germany and prewar Greece to decadent Hollywood, Isherwood provides a black and witty portrait of the writer abroad.
Interweaving semi-autobiography with fiction, and taking the reader through relationships with 4 very different men, from 1930s Germany and prewar Gre...
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54,79 zł |
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Die Welt am Abend : Roman
ISBN: 9783455405828 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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106,34 zł |
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Begegnung am Fluss
ISBN: 9783455013016 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein großer Roman darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem ein Bruder zu sein Nach langem Schweigen treffen zwei Londoner Brüder in einem hinduistischen Kloster am Ufer des Ganges wieder aufeinander - und mit ihnen zwei Welten, die nicht vereinbar scheinen. Zwischen den beiden entspinnt sich ein Zwiegespräch, das alte Wunden aufbricht und zu großen Fragen führt. Isherwoods letzter Roman ist eine fein gestrickte Auseinandersetzung mit östlicher Mystik und darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem Bruder zu sein. Ein großer Roman darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem ein Bruder zu sein Nach langem Schweigen treffen zwei Londoner Brüder... |
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110,78 zł |
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Liberation Diaries, Volume Three: 1970-1983
ISBN: 9780062084767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the period of his life when he wrote Kathleen and Frank, his first intensely personal book, Liberation: Diaries 1970-1983 intimately and wittily records Isherwood's immersion in the 1970s art scene in Los Angeles, New York, and London--a world peopled by the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and David Hockney, as well as his Broadway writing career, which brought him in touch with John Huston, Merchant and Ivory,... Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the p... |
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84,80 zł |
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The Memorial: Portrait of a Family
ISBN: 9780374533465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood, the Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy of his father's roguish friend who survived the war and afterward threw himself into gay life. Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the novel in which a... Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tr... |
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84,84 zł |
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Praterveilchen : Roman
ISBN: 9783455405316 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2015 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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79,76 zł |
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Prater Violet
ISBN: 9780374535247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. ""Prater Violet" is the most charming novel I have read in a long time." Diana Trilling ""Prater Violet" is the most charming novel I have read in a long time." Diana Trilling |
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93,32 zł |
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Goodbye to Berlin
ISBN: 9780749390549 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of a series of individuals.
Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of ...
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49,81 zł |
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Lions and Shadows
ISBN: 9780099561224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's Bohemia.
Blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in L...
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54,79 zł |
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The Memorial
ISBN: 9780099561125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice, and resentment toward his father's roguish friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin.
The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his her...
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49,81 zł |
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Isherwood on Writing: The Complete Lectures in California
ISBN: 9781517914318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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121,80 zł |
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Mein Guru und sein Schüler
ISBN: 9783455016543 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Isherwoods letztes und persönlichstes Buch: Am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs reist der überzeugte Pazifist Isherwood nach Kalifornien, um die überkommenen linksintellektuellen Überzeugungen, die die Welt an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt haben, hinter sich zu lassen und ein neues Mindset zu finden. Er trifft auf Swami Prabhavananda, einen hinduistischen Mönch, der von nun an sein spiritueller Begleiter sein wird. Es folgt ein Leben zwischen den Extremen: Nächtliche Trinkgelage, freie Liebe und Hollywoods Glamour-Welt wechseln sich ab mit Meditation und Abstinenz - ein beständiges... Isherwoods letztes und persönlichstes Buch: Am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs reist der überzeugte Pazifist Isherwood nach Kalifornien, um die �... |
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124,07 zł |
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Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1
ISBN: 9780099555827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. These diary entries are filled with philosophy, gossip, mystical insights, and the period following his emigration to California in 1939. He is one of the great gay icons, and his relationships are discussed frankly in these diaries.
These diary entries are filled with philosophy, gossip, mystical insights, and the period following his emigration to California in 1939. He is one of...
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199,40 zł |
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Down There on a Visit
ISBN: 9780374533809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha? Published in 1962, Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin... Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwoo... |
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101,81 zł |
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Mr Norris steigt um : Roman
ISBN: 9783455405811 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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97,48 zł |
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The Berlin Stories
ISBN: 9780811218047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafes; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures...
First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are reco...
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74,77 zł |
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Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
ISBN: 9780374535308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropoutatlarge in London's bohemia of the 1920s. Forced to withdraw from Cambridge University, "Christopher Isherwood" works as a tutor to the privileged, serves as the secretary to a busy string quartet, ill-fatedly attends medical school. Licensed by names he invents, he works up extravagant portraits of his brilliant contemporaries W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, and Stephen Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion changed the literary... Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropouta... |
cena:
89,08 zł |