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The Norton Book of American Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393046779 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking anthology, respected writer and critic Jay Parini brings together an abundant selection from over three centuries of "the democratic voice . . . discovering itself." Here are the voices of the Founding Fathers and African American slaves; of transcendentalists and suffragists; of ancestors such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Mark Twain, Henry James, Helen Keller, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, and many others; and of a wide range of contemporaries, including Maxine Hong Kingston, Gore Vidal, Julia Alvarez, and Mark Doty The...
In this groundbreaking anthology, respected writer and critic Jay Parini brings together an abundant selection from over three centuries of "the democ...
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174,08 zł |
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Robert Frost: A Life
ISBN: 9780805063417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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130,73 zł |
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When Things Happen
ISBN: 9781978837119 / Twarda / 2023 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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269,72 zł |
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Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Writing and Politics
ISBN: 9780231110716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Distinguished poet and novelist Jay Parini presents some of his best essays--both classic and unpublished works--on topics ranging from baseball to Frost and Emerson to the culture of creative writing. For aspiring writers, Some Necessary Angels is an illuminating glimpse into the workshop of a distinguished novelist and critic. For readers who share Parini's love of language, it is an invigorating expression of faith.
Distinguished poet and novelist Jay Parini presents some of his best essays--both classic and unpublished works--on topics ranging from baseball to Fr...
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152,88 zł |
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One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner
ISBN: 9780060935559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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87,11 zł |
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The Art of Teaching
ISBN: 9780195169690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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75,04 zł |
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When Things Happen
ISBN: 9781978837102 / Miękka / 2023 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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77,75 zł |
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The Apprentice Lover
ISBN: 9780060935566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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74,04 zł |
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The Bandit Queens: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
ISBN: 9781838957179 / Miękka / 2024 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
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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. 12 dni roboczych. |
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66,14 zł |
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Il Giorno
ISBN: 9781979840194 / Włoski / Miękka / 2017 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,59 zł |
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Le odi
ISBN: 9781481097499 / Włoski / Miękka / 2012 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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36,56 zł |
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Dialogo sopra la Nobiltà
ISBN: 9781481105828 / Włoski / Miękka / 2012 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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36,56 zł |
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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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70,93 zł |
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature: 4-Volume Set
ISBN: 9780195156539 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 2280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Encyclopedia of American Literature gathers together 350 essays from over 190 leading scholars on the whole of American literature, from European discovery to the present. At the core of the Encyclopedia lie 250 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists. Figures such as Whitman, Melville, Faulkner, Frost, and Morrison are discussed in detail with each examined in the context of his or her times, an assessment of the writer's current reputation, a bibliography of major works, and a list of major critical and biographical works about the writer. Fifty...
The Encyclopedia of American Literature gathers together 350 essays from over 190 leading scholars on the whole of American literature, from ...
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2291,31 zł |
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British Writers, Supplement XVIII
ISBN: 9781414480268 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 2011 / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Biographical and critical essays on 18 British writers"--
"Biographical and critical essays on 18 British writers"--
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925,64 zł |
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The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year
ISBN: 9780307386151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
A New York Times Notable Book As Leo Tolstoy s life draws to a tumultuous close, his tempestuous wife and most cunning disciple are locked in a whirlwind battle for the great man s soul. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth and thirteen children, Tolstoy dramatically flees his home, only to fall ill at a tiny nearby rail station. The famous (and famously troubled) writer believes he is dying alone, unaware that over a hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly... SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
A New York Times Notable Book As Leo Tolstoy s life draws to a tumultuous close, his te... |
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78,44 zł |
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Benjamin's Crossing
ISBN: 9781786892850 / Miękka / 2021 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A powerful and moving novel recounting the life and death of Walter Benjamin from the award-winning author
A powerful and moving novel recounting the life and death of Walter Benjamin from the award-winning author
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50,87 zł |
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Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal
ISBN: 9780349139401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's foremost thinkers and writers.
The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's foremost thinkers and writers.
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55,97 zł |
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American Writers, Supplement XXIV: A Collection of Critical Literary and Biographical Articles That Cover Hundreds of Notable Authors from the 17th Ce
ISBN: 9781414496092 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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925,64 zł |
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