wyszukanych pozycji: 49
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The Trials of Rumpole
ISBN: 9780241474433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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48,62 zł |
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Dock Brief
ISBN: 9780573042096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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77,79 zł |
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The Collected Stories of Rumpole
ISBN: 9780141198293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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77,22 zł |
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A Rumpole Christmas
ISBN: 9780143117919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "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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94,02 zł |
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Zerah Colburn - Spirit of Darkness
ISBN: 9781845491963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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215,99 zł |
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One to Another
ISBN: 9780573070211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,79 zł |
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Paradise Postponed
ISBN: 9780141193397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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59,43 zł |
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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. 22 dni roboczych. 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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102,69 zł |
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The nearly engine
ISBN: 9781326177072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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216,44 zł |
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Automotive gas turbines
ISBN: 9781326884116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,55 zł |
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Zerah Colburn the Spirit of Darkness
ISBN: 9781845490249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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341,03 zł |
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Rumpole's Return
ISBN: 9780241474440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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54,02 zł |
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Angel in the house
ISBN: 9781326286378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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89,84 zł |
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A Voyage Round My Father
ISBN: 9780573014819 / Miękka / 1972 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed from the trellis surrounded, as if for protection, by an enormous garden. The tale grows in turns and twists upon allusion and reversals, all crisply dramatic and really not so comical as at first glance. We see the son in his childhood with a friend named Reigate and a teacher named Noah, then as a man who has been told all he is meant to feel sudden freedom growing up, the end of dependence the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than...
There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed fro...
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89,76 zł |
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Rumpole Misbehaves
ISBN: 9780143114116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The next novel in the Rumpole series from the beloved and bestselling master of the court
The Rumpole novels have garnered legions of fans who show no sign of abandoning their favorite curmudgeonly British barrister. Now in Rumpole Misbehaves, our hero takes on nothing less than the New Labour government when their ridiculous new Anti- Social Behavior Orders land a Timson child in front of the bench for playing soccer on a posh London street. However, Rumpole quickly discovers that the complainant is hiding some nefarious secrets of her own. As he investigates the murder of... The next novel in the Rumpole series from the beloved and bestselling master of the court
The Rumpole novels have garnered legions of fans... |
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94,02 zł |
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Mortimer, Collected Plays: Volume One
ISBN: 9781840022148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Includes: A Voyage Around My Father, one of Mortimer's greatest theatrical successes and a celebration of the Shakespeare-quoting, eccentric, brave, and impossible barrister the author had as a father. Also includes: The Collaborators, The Dock Brief, Lunch Hour, and What Shall We Tell Caroline? Includes: A Voyage Around My Father, one of Mortimer's greatest theatrical successes and a celebration of the Shakespeare-quoting, eccentric... |
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102,69 zł |
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Edwin
ISBN: 9780573121012 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,79 zł |
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Quite Honestly
ISBN: 9780143038641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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94,02 zł |
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Lunch Hour
ISBN: 9780573021497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A young man and woman meet in a wayside hotel during lunch hour to express their love. In order to be discreet, he has fabricated a story of marriage, children, distant home, to satisfy the concierge.The woman is confused when confronted with this fabrication, and as she unravels the matter in her mind the enchantment of love begins to fade. The room is dilapidated, the concierge an intruding bore, and its too cold to take off ones overcoat. The result is that she leaves at the end of the hour, never to see him again. The bloom of love is dead. In brilliant dialogue by one of Englands best...
A young man and woman meet in a wayside hotel during lunch hour to express their love. In order to be discreet, he has fabricated a story of marriage,...
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77,79 zł |
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A Voyage Round My Father
ISBN: 9781840026573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. John Mortimer's autobiographical play is the affectionate portrait of a son's relationship with his father. Growing up in the shadow of the brilliant barrister, who adored his garden and hated visitors, and whose blindness was never mentioned, the son continually yearns for his father's love and respect. John Mortimer's autobiographical play is the affectionate portrait of a son's relationship with his father. Growing up in the shadow of the brillia... |
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61,59 zł |