wyszukanych pozycji: 110
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Setting Free The Bears
ISBN: 9780552992060 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. John Irving's novel concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo.
John Irving's novel concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo.
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55,58 |
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Königin Esther
ISBN: 9783257073676 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Jimmy Winslow hat zwei Mütter. Honor, die ihn aufgezogen hat, schickt ihn als Studenten von New Hampshire nach Wien, wo er Vater werden soll. Das Wien der Sechzigerjahre ist ein Ort voller Geheimnisse und Versuchungen, und Jimmy springt kopfüber hinein und ist dabei immer auch auf der Suche nach seiner leiblichen Mutter Esther Nacht. Was er erlebt, ist eine spektakuläre Achterbahnfahrt, wie sie nur das Leben in John Irvings Büchern schreiben kann - voller großer Gefühle, unglaublicher Wendungen und Figuren, die uns nicht mehr loslassen.
Jimmy Winslow hat zwei Mütter. Honor, die ihn aufgezogen hat, schickt ihn als Studenten von New Hampshire nach Wien, wo er Vater werden soll. Das Wie...
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143,81 |
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The Last Chairlift
ISBN: 9781501189289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
96,03 |
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The Cider House Rules
ISBN: 9780345417947 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch-saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. This is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.
First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. The novel tells the story of D...
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84,55 |
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A Prayer For Owen Meany: a ‘genius’ modern American classic
ISBN: 9780552993692 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying.
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother....
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55,58 |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN: 9780062204097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument.... I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even becaus... |
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76,82 |
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The 158-Pound Marriage
ISBN: 9780552992084 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight, a fact not lost on Utch, a lonely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edith, Severin's underweight wife.
Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight, a fact not lost on Utch, a lonely Vienne...
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55,58 |
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Setting Free the Bears
ISBN: 9780345417985 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty-five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller. From the Paperback edition.
It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both c...
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76,86 |
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In One Person
ISBN: 9781451664133 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair). Winner of a 2013 Lambda Literary Award A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love--tormented, funny, and affecting--and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978...
"His most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair). Winner of a 2013 Lambda Litera...
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73,02 |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN: 9780062284853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the... |
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72,98 |
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A Widow for One Year
ISBN: 9780345424716 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in the summer of 1958) through the fall of 1990 (when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career), and at last in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother (and she's about to fall in love for the first time). Both elegiac and erotic, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force.
In A Widow for One Year, we follow Ruth Cole through three of the most pivotal times in her life: from her girlhood on Long Island (in ...
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65,33 |
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Understanding Mozart's Piano Sonatas
ISBN: 9781138265974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
285,76 |
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Mozart's Piano Sonatas: Contexts, Sources, Style
ISBN: 9780521496315 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mozart's piano sonatas form a richly diverse and significant part of his instrumental output and span much of his mature composing career, thereby representing a microcosm of the composer's changing style. Part I examines the contexts in which the sonatas were composed and performed, and reviews likely sources of influence. Part II concentrates on the genesis of the sonatas and the sources, which reveals important information about Mozart's compositional process. In Part III the musical style is studied from the standpoint of rhetoric--a discipline featured in numerous contemporary aesthetic...
Mozart's piano sonatas form a richly diverse and significant part of his instrumental output and span much of his mature composing career, thereby rep...
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491,80 |
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Die imaginäre Freundin
ISBN: 9783257261653 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Mit 19 wusste Irving schon genau, was er wollte: ringen und Romane schreiben. Bis zum Durchbruch von Garp machte er Wien mit seinem Motorrad unsicher und trainierte an amerikanischen Universitäten Ringermannschaften und angehende Schriftsteller. John Irving ganz privat, unspektakulär und sympathisch. Mit 19 wusste Irving schon genau, was er wollte: ringen und Romane schreiben. Bis zum Durchbruch von Garp machte er Wien mit seinem Motorrad unsich... |
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58,42 |
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Mozart's Piano Concertos
ISBN: 9781138277359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mozart's piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies as his most frequently performed and best loved music. They have attracted the attention of generations of musicologists who have explored their manifold meanings from a variety of viewpoints. In this study, John Irving brings together the various strands of scholarship surrounding Mozart's concertos including analytical approaches, aspects of performance practice and issues of compositional genesis based on investigation of manuscript and early printed editions. Treating the concertos collectively as a repertoire, rather...
Mozart's piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies as his most frequently performed and best loved music. They have attracted the atte...
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275,90 |
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Mozart's Piano Sonatas: Contexts, Sources, Style
ISBN: 9780521027410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mozart's piano sonatas form a richly diverse and significant part of his instrumental output and span much of his mature composing career, thereby representing a microcosm of the composer's changing style. Part I examines the contexts in which the sonatas were composed and performed, and reviews likely sources of influence. Part II concentrates on the genesis of the sonatas and the sources, which reveals important information about Mozart's compositional process. In Part III the musical style is studied from the standpoint of rhetoric--a discipline featured in numerous contemporary aesthetic...
Mozart's piano sonatas form a richly diverse and significant part of his instrumental output and span much of his mature composing career, thereby rep...
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306,40 |
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You Can Tell A Crone By Her Cackle
ISBN: 9781502750280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. You Can Tell A Crone By Her Cackle and by her poetry. Herein find a wise, tender, sometimes bittersweet celebration of a woman's passage through the 3rd trimester of life. As in all life-journeys, this one contains details of love, sex, disappointment, trance and rites of passage.
You Can Tell A Crone By Her Cackle and by her poetry. Herein find a wise, tender, sometimes bittersweet celebration of a woman's passage through the 3...
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28,20 |
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How The Northern Light Gets In
ISBN: 9781836151395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
51,61 |
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Mystery of the Black Madonna
ISBN: 9781456515904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Demi-orphaned Sara, abandoned en route to Paris by her father and new stepmother, finds herself standing on the doorstep of her grandfather's villa in the hills above Nice. Opening the door, she finds herself in the midst of a new world, full of color and mystery. Why can't Grandpere know of her friendship with blind Jacques and his seeing-eye dog Ben? What do Ludmilla's mysterious tarot cards portend? Sara's new friends hint at an important task that only she can do. Meanwhile, Grandfather Matisse is teaching her about color. She begins to see the world with fresh eyes. Sara's life changes...
Demi-orphaned Sara, abandoned en route to Paris by her father and new stepmother, finds herself standing on the doorstep of her grandfather's villa in...
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48,38 |
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Die wilde Geschichte vom Wassertrinker : Roman
ISBN: 9783257224450 / Niemiecki / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Seine Frau will raus; seine Geliebte will ein Kind. Die Beschwerden, die er sich bei seiner einstigen Babysitterin geholt hat, machen ihm das Lieben zur Qual. Der Filmemacher, für den er arbeitet, will sein Leben verfilmen: als Dokumentation eines Fehlschlags. Dies ist die Geschichte des fluchbeladenen Fred Bogus Trumper, eines Schlawiners und Schwindlers, eines Nichtstuers voller Charme und guter Vorsätze.
Seine Frau will raus; seine Geliebte will ein Kind. Die Beschwerden, die er sich bei seiner einstigen Babysitterin geholt hat, machen ihm das Lieben z...
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62,92 |