wyszukanych pozycji: 20
Good Morning, Midnight
ISBN: 9780393357806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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69,67 zł |
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
ISBN: 9780141183947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she really wants - love.
For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides t...
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51,70 zł |
Wide Sargasso Sea
ISBN: 9780141185422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is...
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is edite...
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46,53 zł |
Voyage in the Dark
ISBN: 9780393358124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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69,67 zł |
The Collected Short Stories
ISBN: 9780141984858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories: of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafes; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss. Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers and...
New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing ...
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51,70 zł |
Wide Sargasso Sea
ISBN: 9780393352566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction's most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys... Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career... |
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44,13 zł |
Wide Sargasso Sea
ISBN: 9780141182858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is...
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is edite...
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41,35 zł |
Good Morning, Midnight
ISBN: 9780141183930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde.
In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and ...
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51,70 zł |
Wide Sargasso Sea: Backgrounds, Criticism
ISBN: 9780393960129 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Textual notes illuminate the novel s historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and French phrases necessary to fully understand this powerful story. Backgrounds includes a wealth of material on the novel s long evolution, it connections to Jane Eyre, and Rhys s biographical impressions of growing up in Dominica. Criticism introduces readers to the critical debates inspired by the novel with a Derek Walcott poem and eleven essays."
Textual notes illuminate the novel s historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and French phrases necessary to fully u...
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71,75 zł |
After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie
ISBN: 9780393357813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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71,75 zł |
Voyage in the Dark
ISBN: 9780141183954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known, ' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London. But there, dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness, she is absolutely alone and unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience. Her childish dreams have been replaced by the harsher reality of living in a man's world, where all charity has its price Voyage in the Dark was first published in 1934, but it...
'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known, ' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West...
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51,70 zł |
Wide Sargasso Sea
ISBN: 9780241951552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now... Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?' If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to...
Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as...
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46,53 zł |
Die weite Sargassosee : Roman
ISBN: 9783423145718 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2017 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Zwei Welten prallen aufeinander: auf der einen Seite die einheimischen Dienstboten, ihre Lieder und Rituale, auf der andern Seite die weißen Plantagenbesitzer, die sich als Herren über die Insel begreifen.
Zwei Welten prallen aufeinander: auf der einen Seite die einheimischen Dienstboten, ihre Lieder und Rituale, auf der andern Seite die weißen Plantage...
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50,13 zł |
Die weite Sargassosee : Roman
ISBN: 9783895613623 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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100,95 zł |
Quartet
ISBN: 9780141183923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms with mauve- flowered wallpaper, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions. Jean Rhys's first novel is both poignant anddisturbingly intimate in its vivid depiction of a woman on her own.
Set in a superficially romantic, between-wars Paris, QUARTET is a poignant tale of a lonely woman. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Per...
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51,70 zł |
The Collected Short Stories
ISBN: 9780393306255 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Jean Rhys was one of the twentieth century's foremost writers, a literary artist who made exqusite use of the raw material of her own often turbulent life to create fiction of memorable resonance and poignancy. Here for the first time in one volume are her complete stories.
Jean Rhys was one of the twentieth century's foremost writers, a literary artist who made exqusite use of the raw material of her own often turbulent ...
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122,08 zł |
Wide Sargasso Sea
ISBN: 9780241281901 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's fiftieth anniversary. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another...
A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's fiftieth anniversary....
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87,92 zł |
Smile Please
ISBN: 9780141984544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early years in Dominica, England and Paris. Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, now the celebrated author of Wide Sargasso Sea but still haunted by memories of her troubled past: her precarious jobs on chorus lines and relationships with unsuitable men, her enduring sense of isolation and her decision at last to become a writer. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time in England, living in bedsits on gin and little else, to...
A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early ye...
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51,70 zł |
The Social Contract & Discourses
ISBN: 9781723396519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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54,81 zł |
The Social Contract & Discourses
ISBN: 9781533648532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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45,63 zł |