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One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner
ISBN: 9780060935559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. William Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most important and influential writers. Drawing on previously unavailable sources -- including letters, memoirs, and interviews with Faulkner's daughter and lovers -- Jay Parini has crafted a biography that delves into the mystery of this gifted and troubled writer. His Faulkner is an extremely talented, obsessive artist plagued by alcoholism and a bad marriage who somehow transcends his limitations. Parini weaves the tragedies and triumphs of Faulkner's life in with his novels, serving up a biography that's as engaging as it is... William Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most important and influential writers. Drawing on previously unavailable sources -- i... |
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Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal
ISBN: 9780345805836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An intimate, authorized yet totally frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925 2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century
The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini s Empire of Self digs behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal s colorful career to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truths underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well a virtual Who s Who of the twentieth century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia... An intimate, authorized yet totally frank biography of Gore Vidal (1925 2012), one of the most accomplished, visible, and controversial American no...
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Robert Frost: A Life
ISBN: 9780805063417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Robert Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce this definitive and insightful biography of both the public and private man. While he depicts the various stages of Frost's colorful life, Parini also sensitively explores the poet's psyche, showing how he dealt with adversity, family tragedy, and depression. By taking the reader into the poetry...
This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay P...
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When Things Happen
ISBN: 9781978837119 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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274,71 |
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Paradise Now
ISBN: 9798898950071 / Angielski / Twarda / 05-11-2026 / 160 str. Książka dostępna od: 05-11-2026 |
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When Things Happen
ISBN: 9781978837102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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80,75 |
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The Apprentice Lover
ISBN: 9780060935566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter -- day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island. The Apprentice Lover traces a young American's enchantment and disenchantment -- with his American past, his new European mentor,... When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to beco... |
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The Art of Teaching
ISBN: 9780195169690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft.
Here is a godsend for instructors of all levels, offering valuable insight into the many challenges that educators face, from establishing a persona in the classroom, to fostering relationships with students, to balancing teaching load with academic writing and... Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Pari...
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Il Giorno
ISBN: 9791041840533 / Włoski / Miękka / 2023 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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83,80 |
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Some People
ISBN: 9781805465355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Le odi
ISBN: 9781481097499 / Włoski / Miękka / 2012 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Le Odi
ISBN: 9791041842476 / Włoski / Miękka / 2023 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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62,80 |
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The Bandit Queens: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
ISBN: 9781838957179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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51,82 |
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Il Giorno
ISBN: 9781979840194 / Włoski / Miękka / 2017 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Dialogo sopra la Nobiltà
ISBN: 9781481105828 / Włoski / Miękka / 2012 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Il Giorno
ISBN: 9791041840540 / Włoski / Miękka / 2023 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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83,80 |
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The Bandit Queens: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
ISBN: 9781838957155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780141191195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 1910: Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to venture beyond the tiny station of Astapovo, he believes his last days will pass in isolation. But as we learn through the journals of those closest to him, the battle for Tolstoy's soul will not be a peaceful one. Jay Parini introduces, translates and edits this collection of Tolstoy's...
1910: Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous...
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Why Poetry Matters
ISBN: 9780300144567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Poetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives. By the end of the book, Parini has recovered a truth often obscured by our clamorous culture: without poetry, we live only partially, not fully conscious of the possibilities that life affords. Poetry indeed matters. A gifted poet and acclaimed teacher, Parini begins by looking at defenses of poetry written over the centuries. He ponders Aristotle, Horace, and...
Poetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetr...
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The Passages of H.M.: A Novel of Herman Melville
ISBN: 9780307386199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With the same masterly touch that made The Last Station so powerful, Jay Parini penetrates the mind and soul of another literary titan.
Through the eyes of his long-suffering wife, Lizzie, we are introduced to an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville. He is decades past his flourishing career as a writer of bestselling tales of seagoing adventures. His epic but ungainly Moby-Dick was meant to make him immortal, but critics scoffed and readers fled. He spends his days trudging the docks of New York as a customs inspector and contemplating his malign literary fate. But... With the same masterly touch that made The Last Station so powerful, Jay Parini penetrates the mind and soul of another literary titan.
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