wyszukanych pozycji: 66
Flaubert's Parrot
ISBN: 9780099540588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A retired English doctor, in solitary widowhood, makes a pilgrimage through the life and art of Gustave Flaubert, whose work he has always venerated. As he meditates on his passion, he reveals as much about himself as he uncovers about Flaubert.
A retired English doctor, in solitary widowhood, makes a pilgrimage through the life and art of Gustave Flaubert, whose work he has always venerated. ...
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50,87 zł |
Staring at the Sun
ISBN: 9780099540090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jean Serjeant was a carefree country girl before the war, becoming a wise and trenchant old lady in the year 2020. Through this period, we follow her bruising experiences in marriage, her questioning of male truths and her adventures in motherhood, whilst finding the often unsatisfactory answers to life's questions.
Jean Serjeant was a carefree country girl before the war, becoming a wise and trenchant old lady in the year 2020. Through this period, we follow her ...
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50,87 zł |
Flaubert's Parrot/History of the World
ISBN: 9781841593487 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. This book blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah's time to the present.
Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used ...
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66,14 zł |
Pulse
ISBN: 9780099552475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by new beginnings and endings.
The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, conn...
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50,87 zł |
The Only Story
ISBN: 9781529110661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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52,95 zł |
Elizabeth Finch
ISBN: 9783442774371 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der neue Roman von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautor Julian Barnes - »Beim Lesen werde ich klüger.« Elke Heidenreich, DER SPIEGEL
Neil, gescheiterter Schauspieler, Vater und Ehemann, besucht an der Abenduni eine Vorlesung zur Kultur und Zivilisation und ist fasziniert von der stoischen und anspruchsvollen Professorin Elizabeth Finch. Er hat zwar Affären und Liebeleien, doch prägt das Ringen um ihre Anerkennung sein Leben. Auch nach Beendigung des Studiums bleiben die beiden in Kontakt. Als sie stirbt, erbt Neil ihre Bibliothek und Aufzeichnungen - und stürzt sich in ein Studium... Der neue Roman von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautor Julian Barnes - »Beim Lesen werde ich klüger.« Elke Heidenreich, DER SPIEGEL
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58,83 zł |
The Noise of Time
ISBN: 9781784703325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.
In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away ...
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50,87 zł |
Elizabeth Finch, 2 Audio-CD, 2 MP3
ISBN: 9783839819838 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Eine Hommage an die Philosophie Neil, gescheiterter Schauspieler, Vater und Ehemann, besucht im Abendstudium eine Vorlesung zu Kultur und Zivilisation und ist fasziniert von der stoischen und anspruchsvollen Professorin Elizabeth Finch. Er hat zwar immer wieder Affären, doch prägt das Ringen um ihre Anerkennung sein Leben. Auch nach Beendigung des Studiums bleiben die beiden in Kontakt. Als sie stirbt, erbt Neil ihre Bibliothek und stürzt sich in ein Studium von Julian Apostata, der für Elizabeth Finch ein Schlüssel für die Bedeutung von Geschichte an sich war: Der römische... Eine Hommage an die Philosophie Neil, gescheiterter Schauspieler, Vater und Ehemann, besucht im Abendstudium eine Vorlesung zu Kultur und Ziv... |
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113,14 zł |
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Updated Edition)
ISBN: 9781787332898 / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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101,83 zł |
Talking It Over
ISBN: 9780679736875 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Married to Stuart, Gillian falls in love with his more glamorous best friend, Oliver.
Married to Stuart, Gillian falls in love with his more glamorous best friend, Oliver.
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77,41 zł |
Vom Ende einer Geschichte : Roman. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Man Booker Prize 2011
ISBN: 9783442745470 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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40,73 zł |
The Porcupine
ISBN: 9780099540144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed leader of a former Soviet allie, is on trial. His adversary stands for the new ideals, the leader for the old - or so one would think. But Petkanov is different and, when given his day in court, he only increases the discomfort and suprise of those around him.
Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed leader of a former Soviet allie, is on trial. His adversary stands for the new ideals, the leader for the old - or so one ...
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50,87 zł |
England, England
ISBN: 9780099526544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island The Project that is monstrous, risky, and vastly successful. In fact, it gradually begins to rival Old England and even threatens to supersede it.
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literall...
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50,87 zł |
The Sense of an Ending: The classic Booker Prize-winning novel
ISBN: 9781784705633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, tradin...
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47,06 zł |
Die einzige Geschichte : Roman
ISBN: 9783462051544 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2019 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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99,56 zł |
Death: Vintage Minis
ISBN: 9781784872601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents.
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on wha...
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30,50 zł |
Elizabeth Finch
ISBN: 9788382894332 / Polski / broszurowa / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Książka, która odmieni twój sposób postrzegania świata. Intelektualny balsam na współczesne zabiegane dusze. Bestseller Sunday Timesa, autorstwa światowej sławy brytyjskiego pisarza Juliana Barnesa, zdobywcy Nagrody Bookera. Zniewalający. Sunday TimesOryginalny. The TimesProwokacyjny. Sunday Telegraph Elizabeth Finch to nauczycielka, myślicielka i inspiracja niezmiennie rygorystyczna, lecz zawsze życzliwa. Obdarzona pełną troski empatią, nakłaniała uczniów, by rozwijali konstruktywne idee i odkrywali źródła autentyczności. Nie jest to jednak tylko książka o...
Książka, która odmieni twój sposób postrzegania świata. Intelektualny balsam na współczesne zabiegane dusze. Bestseller Sunday Timesa, autorst...
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47,40 zł |
Nothing to Be Frightened of
ISBN: 9780307389985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is the most rational thing in the world, how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty and an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for, against, and with God, and at his own bloodline,... NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on... |
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77,41 zł |
Elizabeth Finch: From the Booker Prize-winning author of THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
ISBN: 9781787333932 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych.
We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch. We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation. She will change the way you see the world. We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch. We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation. She will change the way you see ... |
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86,51 zł |
Staring at the Sun
ISBN: 9780679748205 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes s wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed).
Elegant, funny and... Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes s wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barne...
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61,11 zł |