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Grona gniewu
ISBN: 9788382343687 / Polski / twarda / 2022 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Porywająca lekcja historii Amerykańska klasyka w najlepszym tego słowa znaczeniu!Stany Zjednoczone, lata 30. XX wieku. Wielki kryzys zbiera tragiczne żniwo. Rodzina Joadów decyduje się opuścić rodzinną Oklahomę i w poszukiwaniu pracy przenieść się do Kalifornii. Po dotarciu na miejsce okazuje się jednak, że nie ma ono nic wspólnego z krainą mlekiem i miodem płynącą znaną z reklamowych folderów. Zamieszkujący ją farmerzy - sami dotknięci bezrobociem i ledwo wiążący koniec z końcem - są do przybywających do ich stanu nastawieni wręcz wrogo. Czy w takich...
Porywająca lekcja historii Amerykańska klasyka w najlepszym tego słowa znaczeniu!Stany Zjednoczone, lata 30. XX wieku. Wielki kryzys zbiera tragicz...
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The Pearl
ISBN: 9780142000694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon." One of Steinbeck's most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl from the Gulf beds means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife Juana cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. This classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck examines the fallacy of the American dream, and illustrates the...
"There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon." One of Steinbeck's most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican di...
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Von Mäusen und Menschen : Roman
ISBN: 9783423253970 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Jetzt im Großdruck: die dramatische Geschichte um zwei ungleiche Freunde
Jetzt im Großdruck: die dramatische Geschichte um zwei ungleiche Freunde
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Of Mice And Men And Cannery Row
ISBN: 9780140177398 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the...
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark o...
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The Grapes of Wrath
ISBN: 9780141185064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) An evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of Tom Joad and his family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land.
An evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream. Set against ...
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The Red Pony
ISBN: 9780141185095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Jody Tiflin is given a red pony, and later he is promised the colt of a bay mare. Yet both of these gifts bring him tragedy as well as joy, and Jody is taught not only the harsh lessons of life and death, but made painfully aware of the fallibilty of adults.
Jody Tiflin is given a red pony, and later he is promised the colt of a bay mare. Yet both of these gifts bring him tragedy as well as joy, and Jody i...
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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780142437414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this distinctive collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him. In addition to the complete text of Steinbeck's last published book, America and Americans, this volume brings together for the first time more than fifty of Steinbeck's finest essays and journalistic pieces on Salinas, Sag Harbor, Arthur Miller, Woody...
More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist wh...
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Cannery Row
ISBN: 9780140187373 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival
Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his boys, Lee Chong, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a... Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival ...
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The Pearl
ISBN: 9780141394909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This is a parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed.
This is a parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his impover...
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The Wayward Bus
ISBN: 9780141186115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited. His passengers include Ernest, a travelling salesman out for fun, seventeen-year-old Kit, also known as Pimples, and Camille the stripper who dances at stag nights and takes the star-struck young Norma under her wing.
Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited. His passengers include Ernest, a travelling salesman out for fun, sevente...
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Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History
ISBN: 9780486852942 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History
ISBN: 9781684229437 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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The Pearl
ISBN: 9780141185125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From the author of Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck's The Pearl is a flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring, published with an introduction by Linda Wagner-Martin and drawings by Jose Clemente Orozco in Penguin Modern Classics. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with haunting...
From the author of Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck's The Pearl is a flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring, published with an introduc...
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The Pearl
ISBN: 9780141394688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This is a parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed.
This is a parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his impover...
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A Russian Journal
ISBN: 9780141186337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Just as the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Steinbeck and Capa began a remarkable journey through the Soviet Union. Their travels took them to Moscow and Stalingrad. What they saw and recorded was what Steinbeck called the great other side, the ordinary lives of Russian men and women. Combining Steinbeck's compassion, humour and eye for detail with Capa's photographic studies, this text is a unique potrait of Russia and its people as they emerged from the ravages of war. Here too is an intimate glimpse of two great artists at work.
Just as the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Steinbeck and Capa began a remarkable journey through the Soviet Union. Their travels took them to Mo...
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Krótkie panowanie Pepina IV
ISBN: 9788383911724 / Polski / twarda / 2025 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Satyryczna powieść Johna Steinbecka.Zaiste, gdyby w lutym 19.. spytać Pepina Hristala o jego wymarzony tryb życia, z kilku zaledwie zmianami opisałby życie, które wówczas prowadził. Miał pięćdziesiąt cztery lata, był szczupły, przystojny i, o ile wiedział, cieszył się dobrym zdrowiem, co oznaczało, że w ogóle nie musiał zaprzątać tym sobie głowy.Jego małżonka, Marie, znała swoje miejsce i dobrze wywiązywała z obowiązków żony i pani domu. Była pulchna, miła i pogodna; równie dobrze mogłaby stać za barem wykwintnej restauracyjki. [] Podziwiała męża, nie...
Satyryczna powieść Johna Steinbecka.Zaiste, gdyby w lutym 19.. spytać Pepina Hristala o jego wymarzony tryb życia, z kilku zaledwie zmianami opisa...
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Sweet Thursday
ISBN: 9780141185521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears from Doc, based on Steinbeck s lifelong friend Ed Ricketts, to Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by Robert DeMott....
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just natural...
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Cup Of Gold : A Life Of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, With Occasional Reference To History
ISBN: 9780141186122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Steinbeck's sole work of historical fiction, this tale recounts the story of Henry Morgan, who ruled the Spanish Main in the 1670s. He was consumed by two passions, to possess the mysterious woman known as La Santa Roja, and to conquer Panama and wrest the cup of gold from Spanish hands.
Steinbeck's sole work of historical fiction, this tale recounts the story of Henry Morgan, who ruled the Spanish Main in the 1670s. He was consumed by...
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The Grapes of Wrath
ISBN: 9780241980347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War
ISBN: 9780813932576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely associated with his Depression-era works of social struggle. But from Pearl Harbor on, he often wrote passionate accounts of America's wars based on his own firsthand experience. Vietnam was no exception. Thomas E. Barden's Steinbeck in Vietnam offers for the first time a complete collection of the dispatches Steinbeck wrote as a war correspondent for Newsday. Rejected by the military because of his reputation as a subversive,... Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely asso... |
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