wyszukanych pozycji: 62
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Clinging to the Wreckage : A Part of Life
ISBN: 9780140063837 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother.
Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly uncon...
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86,70 |
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Paradise Postponed
ISBN: 9780141193397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in very different ways. Henry, novelist and former 'angry young man' turned grumpy old reactionary, decides to fight the will and prove their father was insane. Younger brother Fred, a mild-mannered country doctor, takes a different approach, quietly digging in Simeon's past, only to uncover an entirely unexpected explanation for the legacy. An exquisitely drawn saga of ancient rivalries and class struggles, featuring a...
When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, th...
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56,08 |
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Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
ISBN: 9780141035086 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Tells the story of the "Penge Bungalow Murders" case in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold, accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a German officer's gun; an
Tells the story of the "Penge Bungalow Murders" case in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending y...
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81,60 |
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Automotive gas turbines
ISBN: 9781326884116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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84,74 |
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Forever Rumpole : The Best of the Rumpole Stories
ISBN: 9780670919376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The best of Rumpole is represented in this selection of 14 stories, the first published in 1978, the last in 2004. And as an added bonus, the book ends with the fragment of a new Rumpole novel Sir John was working on when he died in January 2009.
The best of Rumpole is represented in this selection of 14 stories, the first published in 1978, the last in 2004. And as an added bonus, the book end...
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The nearly engine
ISBN: 9781326177072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book traces the post-war development of gas turbine engines for use in passenger cars and commercial vehicles in the UK, Germany, Italy and the USA. It is based on interviews with leading engineering figures of the day as well as reports by journalists. The work also contains photographs of engines and vehicles as well as diagrams of various gas turbine engines.
This book traces the post-war development of gas turbine engines for use in passenger cars and commercial vehicles in the UK, Germany, Italy and the U...
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Zerah Colburn - Spirit of Darkness
ISBN: 9781845491963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Zerah Colburn was a well-known nineteenth century locomotive engineer, journalist and publisher. In life he mixed with the famous men of engineering in America and Britain. And he was among 200 leading Americans nominated for New York University's Hall of Fame. But Colburn was an enigma, a dark and irascible man with a violent temper. His work colleagues in London called him the 'Spirit of Darkness'.
Zerah Colburn was a well-known nineteenth century locomotive engineer, journalist and publisher. In life he mixed with the famous men of engineering i...
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Rumpole at Christmas
ISBN: 9780141039770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Rumpole's idea of a good Christmas is exchanging presents with She Who Must Be Obeyed before settling round the fire at Froxbury Mansions for the traditional turkey with all the trimmings. But, as Rumpole will soon discover, the criminal fraternity never rests.
Rumpole's idea of a good Christmas is exchanging presents with She Who Must Be Obeyed before settling round the fire at Froxbury Mansions for the trad...
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Quite Honestly
ISBN: 9780141020907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. That's why she joined SCRAP, an organization which trains girls like Lucy to become the guide, philosopher and friend' to ex-convicts coming out of prison. And so, Lucy finds herself standing outside the gates o
Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. That's why she joined SCRAP, an organization which trains girls like Lucy to become the guide, philosophe...
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A Rumpole Christmas
ISBN: 9780143117919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Rumpole is one of the immortals of mystery fiction."
-San Francisco Chronicle Of the late Sir John Mortimer's many beloved characters, it is widely agreed that Horace Rumpole was his greatest fictional creation. Here, collected in book form for the first time, are five delightful tales that capture the beleagured barrister at his grumpy, yet warm-hearted best. Rumpole isn't particularly fond of Christmas Day-he finds it has a horrible habit of dragging on as She Who Must Be Obeyed leads him through the usual rituals. But at least the criminal fraternity rarely... "Rumpole is one of the immortals of mystery fiction."
-San Francisco Chronicle Of the late Sir John Mortimer's many beloved c... |
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The Trials of Rumpole
ISBN: 9780241474433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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45,36 |
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The Collected Stories of Rumpole
ISBN: 9780141198293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome She Who Must Be Obeyed. These collected stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time, are a definitive introduction to one of the wisest and wittiest characters...
Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole b...
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Rumpole's Return
ISBN: 9780241474440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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50,40 |
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Dock Brief
ISBN: 9780573042096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Performed in London and on American television and stage with What Shall We Tell Caroline? A seedy lawyer has been waiting for years to make a grandstand defence. He is assigned to defend an innocuous little man accused of murdering his wife. The man cheerfully admits his guilt; he simply couldn't stand his wife's constant joking and laughing. The trial ends and the verdict is a foregone conclusion. The lawyer begs his client to let him appeal. Ironically the man is reprieved because of the ineptitude of his defence.
Performed in London and on American television and stage with What Shall We Tell Caroline? A seedy lawyer has been waiting for years to make a grandst...
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Zerah Colburn the Spirit of Darkness
ISBN: 9781845490249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Zerah Colburn was a well-known nineteenth century locomotive engineer, journalist and publisher. In life, he mixed with the famous men of engineering in America and Britain. But Colburn was an enigma, a dark and irascible man with a violent temper. But why did he shoot himself at the age of 38 at the height of his career?
Zerah Colburn was a well-known nineteenth century locomotive engineer, journalist and publisher. In life, he mixed with the famous men of engineering ...
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Angel in the house
ISBN: 9781326286378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Seeking independence from her family in Brewer Street, Soho, London in 1858, Elizabeth Susanna Browning responds to an advertisement placed by 'Zeta' in The Times newspaper. Within days, Elizabeth is appointed housekeeper to 'Zeta', a strange but charismatic American engineer and newspaper editor, Zerah Colburn. Before long, 'Lizzy' as she is called by Mr. Colburn, and her new employer are sailing to New York on the iron steamer, Great Eastern. The couple marry in New York but a turbulent married life unfolds in Philadelphia where Zerah Colburn has launched a weekly newspaper. Hit by the 1860...
Seeking independence from her family in Brewer Street, Soho, London in 1858, Elizabeth Susanna Browning responds to an advertisement placed by 'Zeta' ...
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Collected Plays : Vol 2: The Wrong Side of the Park, Mill Hill, Bermondsey, Knightsbridge, Marble A
ISBN: 9781840022773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) John Mortimer is best known as the creator of Rumpole QC, hero of the Rumpole of the Bailey television series. In this second volume of his Collected Plays published by Oberon, these five plays combine London settings with the complexities of relationships between the sexes. Includes: The Wrong Side of the Park, Mill Hill, Bermondsey, Knightsbridge, Marble Arch and Edwin. John Mortimer is best known as the creator of Rumpole QC, hero of the Rumpole of the Bailey television series. In this second volume of his Coll... |
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CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
ISBN: 9780141193847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. As a boy dreaming of a tap-dancing career on the stage and forming a one-boy communist cell at boarding school, his father pushes him to pursue the law, where Mortimer embarks on the career that was to inspire his...
Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countrys...
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Summer's Lease
ISBN: 9780141034874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent
It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the...
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86,70 |
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Quite Honestly
ISBN: 9780143038641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From the creator of the Rumpole storiesa novel of middle-class do-gooding gone awry
Fans of John Mortimer and his popular Rumpole mysteries will love Quite Honestly, a comedy filled with a delightful cast of characters and Mortimer's unique and entertaining take on a life of crime. Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoycollege educated, with a steady boyfriend and a job offer in advertising. With all this good fortune, isn't it appropriate for her to give something back to society? Armed with only good intentions, she joins Social Carers, Reformers and Praeceptors... From the creator of the Rumpole storiesa novel of middle-class do-gooding gone awry
Fans of John Mortimer and his popular Rumpole mysteries... |
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