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Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780547520223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life, told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the title of the book. These fourteen tales map a very particular world Jews whose lives are anchored in Chicago in rich, revealing detail even as they brim with universal longings: complex love affairs and unspoken rivalries, family triumphs and private disappointments. Epstein, who happens to possess a standup comic... In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: sto... |
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64,75 |
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Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life
ISBN: 9781668009635 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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114,30 |
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Snobbery: The American Version
ISBN: 9780618340736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Snobbery is Epstein's deliciously readable (Harper's Bazaar) collection of essays skewering all manner of elitism. Filled with dishy detail, Snobbery takes up its subject in contemporary America, examining the discriminating qualities in all.
Snobbery is Epstein's deliciously readable (Harper's Bazaar) collection of essays skewering all manner of elitism. Filled with dishy detail, Snobbery ...
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64,75 |
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide
ISBN: 9780061768880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Alexis de Tocqueville dissects the legacy of the celebrated cultural observer. Joseph Epstein, distinguished literary historian and author of the bestselling Snobbery: The American Version, provides a fresh account of the celebrated writer's classic travels in America, and compares what de Tocqueville witnessed to the current state of our nation.
Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Alexis de Tocqueville dissects the legacy of the celebrated cultural observer. Joseph Epstein, di...
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60,94 |
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Fred Astaire
ISBN: 9780300158441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Joseph Epstein's Fred Astaire investigates the great dancer's magical talent, taking up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits, his modest pretensions, and above all his accomplishments. Written with the wit and grace the subject deserves, Fred Astaire provides a remarkable portrait of this extraordinary artist and how he came to embody for Americans a fantasy of easy elegance and, paradoxically, of democratic aristocracy. Tracing Astaire's life from his birth in Omaha to his death in his late eighties in Hollywood, the book discusses his early days with...
Joseph Epstein's Fred Astaire investigates the great dancer's magical talent, taking up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits...
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66,56 |
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Charm: The Elusive Enchantment
ISBN: 9781493055579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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66,56 |
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A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays
ISBN: 9780393308549 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Paul Klee's words on his art, "I take a line out for a walk," describe precisely what the author of these essays does--he takes out such "lines" as gossip, gambling, height (or the lack of it), hats, smoking, fame or compulsive reading and "walks them" in his own discursive style.
Paul Klee's words on his art, "I take a line out for a walk," describe precisely what the author of these essays does--he takes out such "lines" as go...
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87,66 |
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Narcissus Leaves the Pool
ISBN: 9780618872169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Epstein's sixth collection of personal pieces winningly and brilliantly rounds off his 23-year tenure as editor of The American Scholar. Among the topics covered are naps, Gershwin aging, name-dropping, long books, pet peeves, talent vs. genius, Anglophilia, and surgery--the head and the heart. Excerpted in The New Yorker.
Epstein's sixth collection of personal pieces winningly and brilliantly rounds off his 23-year tenure as editor of The American Scholar. Among the top...
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68,57 |
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In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage
ISBN: 9780547085746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Writing as a memoirist, polemicist, literary critic, and amused observer of contemporary culture, the author of Snobbery and Friendship presents this engaging collection of essays that captures his witty, entertaining responses to the richness and variety of life.
Writing as a memoirist, polemicist, literary critic, and amused observer of contemporary culture, the author of Snobbery and Friendship presents this ...
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72,38 |
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Eseje
ISBN: 9788073255305 / Czeski / 2022 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tento výbor z esejů Josepha Epsteina – představující ovšem jen zlomek z jeho rozsáhlé tvorby – je veden snahou ukázat šíři a pestrost autorových zájmů. Čtenář v něm nalezne tři základní tematické okruhy.
První se vytvářel v závislosti na Epsteinově povolání univerzitního učitele literatury. Jeho znalosti i přehled zejména americké literární produkce staršího i novějšího data jsou famózní. Epstein nám ukazuje, do jaké hloubky lze číst a přemýšlet o přečteném. Druhý je utvořen z jeho celoživotní snahy pochopit řeckou a... Tento výbor z esejů Josepha Epsteina – představující ovšem jen zlomek z jeho rozsáhlé tvorby – je veden snahou ukázat šíři a pestrost ...
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67,03 |
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Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays
ISBN: 9781668009727 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,00 |
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Friendship: An Expose
ISBN: 9780618872152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The author sketches a witty and incisive anatomy of the modern friendship: its duties and requirements, the various kinds of friendships, the differences between male and female friendships, the complications marriage creates, and even what happens when sex enters the equation.
The author sketches a witty and incisive anatomy of the modern friendship: its duties and requirements, the various kinds of friendships, the differen...
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64,75 |
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Life Sentences: Literary Essays
ISBN: 9780393333398 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Reading an essay by Joseph Epstein is much like watching Joe DiMaggio hit a pitched ball: the pleasure is in watching a difficult art performed with matchless grace and ease. In Life Sentences, his fourth collection of literary essays, Epstein considers the lives and works of nineteen writers of note, appreciating many of them, roughing up some others, and overall weighing them in the very finely calibrated balance of his well-stocked mind. His subjects include Michel de Montaigne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Mary McCarthy, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Robert Lowell, John Dos... Reading an essay by Joseph Epstein is much like watching Joe DiMaggio hit a pitched ball: the pleasure is in watching a difficult art performed wit... |
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91,48 |
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Scalable VoIP Mobility: Integration and Deployment
ISBN: 9781856175081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych.
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253,08 |
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Envy
ISBN: 9780195158120 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Malice that cannot speak its name, cold-blooded but secret hostility, impotent desire, hidden rancor and spite--all cluster at the center of envy. Envy clouds thought, writes Joseph Epstein, clobbers generosity, precludes any hope of serenity, and ends in shriveling the heart. Of the seven deadly sins, he concludes, only envy is no fun at all.
Writing in a conversational, erudite, self-deprecating style that wears its learning lightly, Epstein takes us on a stimulating tour of the many faces of envy. He considers what great thinkers--such as John Rawls, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche--have... Malice that cannot speak its name, cold-blooded but secret hostility, impotent desire, hidden rancor and spite--all cluster at the center of envy. Env...
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75,43 |
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Ambition: The Secret Passion
ISBN: 9780929587189 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Ambition is not what it used to be," writes Joseph Epstein. The desire to get ahead no longer evokes the same admiration it once did indeed, modern novelists seem hardly able to deal with ambition without a sneer. But is ambition necessarily synonymous with ruthless, narrow self-interest? Or, as Mr. Epstein suggests, is it "the fuel of achievement" an honorable way to influence and advance civilization? Mr. Epstein s sketches of eminent Americans from Benjamin Franklin (that premier go-getter) to Henry Ford, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Adlai Stevenson, and the Rockefeller,...
"Ambition is not what it used to be," writes Joseph Epstein. The desire to get ahead no longer evokes the same admiration it once did indeed, modern n...
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95,81 |
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The Novel, Who Needs It?
ISBN: 9781641773058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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99,06 |
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Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit
ISBN: 9780547844596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Gossip is no trivial matter; despite its reputation, Epstein argues, it is an eternal and necessary human enterprise. Proving that he himself is a master of the art, Epstein serves up delightful mini-biographies of the Great Gossips of the Western World, along with many choice bits from his own experience. He also makes a powerful case that gossip has morphed from its old-fashioned best clever, mocking, a great private pleasure to a corrosive new-school version, thanks to the reach of the mass media and the Internet.
Written in his trademark erudite and witty style, Gossip captures... Gossip is no trivial matter; despite its reputation, Epstein argues, it is an eternal and necessary human enterprise. Proving that he himself is a mas...
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64,75 |
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Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives
ISBN: 9780393307160 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Epstein writes about authors to whom he feels indebted, those he has revered and learned from. His range extends from Matthew Arnold to Tom Wolfe, from George Santayana to S.J. Perelman.
Epstein writes about authors to whom he feels indebted, those he has revered and learned from. His range extends from Matthew Arnold to Tom Wolfe, fro...
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99,10 |
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Where Were We?: The Conversation Continues
ISBN: 9781587319341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Frederic Raphael, the English novelist, screenwriter, and man of letters, and Joseph Epstein, the American essayist, short-story writer, and literary critic, exchanged e-mails sporadically over the years, usually commenting on each other's various writings. Then one day in 2009, Raphael wrote to Epstein to suggest that, since they enjoyed a benevolence toward each other unusual among literary men, they begin an exchange of e-mail correspondence on a regular basis. His thought was that, at the end of a year or so, the result might be an interesting book. Epstein, who had long admired Raphael's...
Frederic Raphael, the English novelist, screenwriter, and man of letters, and Joseph Epstein, the American essayist, short-story writer, and literary ...
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136,30 |
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