wyszukanych pozycji: 34
D.H. Lawrence: A Biography
ISBN: 9780815412304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This masterly work offers an exciting recreation of the life and times of British novelist D.H. Lawrence.
This masterly work offers an exciting recreation of the life and times of British novelist D.H. Lawrence.
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106,89 zł |
Edmund Wilson: A Biography
ISBN: 9780815411116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully, that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald's. Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and the tragic death of his second wife (he was married four times, among them, Mary McCarthy); had affairs with numerous beautiful women, including Edna St. Vincent Millay; and was friend to literary giants such as John Dos Passos, Vladimir Nabakov, and W.H. Auden.
This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully, that the subj...
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119,74 zł |
George Orwell
ISBN: 9780415159234 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media.
The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available ...
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1653,36 zł |
Gary Cooper: American Hero
ISBN: 9780815411406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This definitive biography of a Hollywood icon portrays Gary Cooper as a man of complex and sophisticated tastes, as well as large appetites.
This definitive biography of a Hollywood icon portrays Gary Cooper as a man of complex and sophisticated tastes, as well as large appetites.
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81,19 zł |
Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes: A Table in the Mist
ISBN: 9780975391440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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81,19 zł |
The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader: From Sherlock Holmes to Spiritualism
ISBN: 9780815412021 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Best known as the creator of the consulting detective par excellence Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a man of wide-ranging interests and talents, and his literary output went far beyond his Holmes and Watson stories. The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader collects works from all the genres in which he wrote, including mysteries, historical adventure tales, science fiction stories, ghost stories, plays, memoirs, essays on spiritualism (in which he was a dedicated believer) and reports on the Boer War and World War I. This collection features the account of Watson's first...
Best known as the creator of the consulting detective par excellence Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a man of wide-ranging int...
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124,03 zł |
Edgar Allen Poe: His Life and Legacy
ISBN: 9780815410386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant but exploited author and editor, a man who veered radically from temperance to rampant debauchery, and an agnostic who sought a return to religion at the end of his life. Acclaimed biographer Jeffrey Meyers explores the writer's turbulent life and career, including his marriage and multiple, simultaneous romances, his literary feuds, and his death at an early age under bizarre and troubling circumstances.
This biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), a giant of American literature who invented both the horror and detective genres, is a portrait of extr...
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98,32 zł |
Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation
ISBN: 9780393322637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Respected biographer Jeffrey Meyers delves into the complex life of the man whose visionary work gave us the great anti-utopias of modern literature. "The breadth of his research is impressive" (New York Times Book Review), drawing on a close study of the new edition of Orwell's Complete Works, personal interviews, and unpublished material in London's Orwell Archive. Meyers's "briskly paced, absorbing narrative...offers keen insights" (Boston Sunday Globe) on Orwell's intellectual development, as well as his human failings his childhood insecurities, his political dilemmas, and his conflicted...
Respected biographer Jeffrey Meyers delves into the complex life of the man whose visionary work gave us the great anti-utopias of modern literature. ...
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115,46 zł |
Joseph Conrad: A Biography
ISBN: 9780815411123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Celebrated biographer, Jeffrey Meyers recounts the contradictory, tormented life of Joseph Conrad.
Celebrated biographer, Jeffrey Meyers recounts the contradictory, tormented life of Joseph Conrad.
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81,19 zł |
Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9780415159340 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 628 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This individual volume covers American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The 42 volumes that comprise the series covering 19th and 20th-century European and American authors are available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This individual volume covers American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The 42 volumes that comprise the series covering 19th and 20th-century European and ...
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534,17 zł |
Resurrections: Authors, Heroes--And a Spy
ISBN: 9780813941684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Brings to life a set of extraordinary writers, painters, and literary adventurers who turned their lives into art. Jeffrey Meyers knew nine of these figures, in some cases intimately, while five others he admires and regrets never meeting.
Brings to life a set of extraordinary writers, painters, and literary adventurers who turned their lives into art. Jeffrey Meyers knew nine of these f...
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119,74 zł |
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
ISBN: 9780062316950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. Despite his early success with The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald battled against failure and disappointment. This book, by the acclaimed biographer of Hemingway, is the first to analyze frankly the meaning as well as the events of Fitzgerald's life and to illuminate the recurrent patterns that reveal his inner self. Meyers emphasizes Fitzgerald's alcoholism, Zelda's illnesses and her doctors, Fitzgerald's love... Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entir... |
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85,64 zł |
Hemingway: A Biography
ISBN: 9780306808906 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 734 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and numerous short stories, he explored such universal themes as stoicism in adversity, as well as our futile struggles against nature and mortality.This evocative, sympathetic biography illuminates the events that informed Hemingway's vigorous life: an...
Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Heming...
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186,17 zł |
The Enemy
ISBN: 9781032118703 / Miękka / 2023 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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147,48 zł |
The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis
ISBN: 9781032046181 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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442,54 zł |
Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes
ISBN: 9780810129535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as deeply as Thomas Mann. From his first youthful encounter with "Death in Venice, " Meyers has cultivated a lifetime obsession with Mann s elegant style, penetrating irony, and insight into the life of the artist." Thomas Mann s Artist-Heroes" follows Mann s own obsession with the artistic life through his characters: from the fiction of Gustav von Aschenbach in "Death in Venice" and the music of Adrian Leverkuhn in "Doctor Faustus, " to Tonio Kroger s...
Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as deeply...
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144,32 zł |
Ernest Hemingway: The Critical Heritage
ISBN: 9780415568920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 612 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete s...
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101,69 zł |
The Way of Peace
ISBN: 9781498228374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the most influential social activists of the twentieth century, A. J. Muste is remembered by some as a pioneering labor leader, by others for his work helping lay the foundations of the civil rights movement, and by many others for his tireless work for peace, justice, economic equality, and the protection of civil liberties. As a pastor, Mustes life and work were shaped by his Christian theology. This collection of Mustes sermons, speeches, articles, and other works for religious audiences is a timely call for Christians to follow him in the way of peace.
""This book recovers one of... One of the most influential social activists of the twentieth century, A. J. Muste is remembered by some as a pioneering labor leader, by others for h...
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171,36 zł |
The Lord's Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship
ISBN: 9781591280088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Begun as a practical pastoral guide to worship, this book balances theory and praxis to create a compelling case for a biblical, aesthetic, and covenantal worship service as the place where the Triune God and His people renew the bonds of love and loyalty. Jeffrey Meyers begins laying out a case for a covenant renewal service by means of Old Testament sacrificial liturgics, biblical typology, and covenant theology. He then guides us through the stages of a covenant renewal liturgy, explaining from Scripture the meanings of each step of the service. The final section addresses miscellaneous...
Begun as a practical pastoral guide to worship, this book balances theory and praxis to create a compelling case for a biblical, aesthetic, and covena...
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142,44 zł |
Fiction & the Colonial Experience
ISBN: 9781032190907 / Miękka / 2023 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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142,39 zł |