wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Santa Claus: All about Me
ISBN: 9789881512659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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165,06 zł |
French Novels and the Victorians
ISBN: 9780197266090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1836, John Wilson Croker, having immersed himself in dozens of contemporary French novels, warned his readers that 'she who dares to read a single page of the hundred thousand licentious pages with which the last five years have indundated society, is lost for ever.' It has become common to build an opposition between the attitudes towards fiction held in prudish Victorian England and permissive 19th-century France. The lack of a full-length study of 19th-century Anglo-French literary relations means, however, that the rejection of French novels has been greatly exaggerated....
In 1836, John Wilson Croker, having immersed himself in dozens of contemporary French novels, warned his readers that 'she who dares to read a single ...
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427,20 zł |
Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century 'Hidden' Lives
ISBN: 9780199572137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well as the illustrious'. She did so in part as a reaction against Victorian biography, deemed to have been overly preoccupied with 'Great Men'. Yet a significant number of Victorians had already broken ranks to write the lives of humble, unsuccessful, or neglected men and women. Victorian Biography Reconsidered seeks to uncover and assess this trend.
The book begins with an overview of Victorian biography followed by a reflection on how the... In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well ...
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674,79 zł |
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
ISBN: 9780198724643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a spider from a fairy-tale, Silas fills fifteen monotonous years with weaving and accumulating gold. The son of the wealthy local Squire, Godfrey Cass also seeks an escape from his past. One snowy winter, two events change the course of their lives: Silas's gold is stolen and, a child crawls across his threshold. About the Series For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of...
Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspici...
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30,86 zł |
Jane Eyre
ISBN: 9780198804970 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre has gripped readers since its 1847 publication. Thousands of readers since then have been drawn by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion.
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre has gripped readers since its 1847 publication. Thousands of readers since then have been drawn by the vigour of Jane's v...
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30,86 zł |
The Mill on the Floss
ISBN: 9780198707530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?'
When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes entangled in lawsuits, he sets off a chain of events that will profoundly affect the lives of his family and bring into conflict his passionate daughter Maggie with her inflexible but adored brother Tom. As she grows older, Maggie's discovery of romantic love draws her once more into a struggle to reconcile familial and moral claims with her own desires. Strong-willed, compassionate, and intensely loyal, Maggie seeks personal happiness and inner... 'Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?'
When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes en... |
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47,60 zł |