wyszukanych pozycji: 17
There is a Happy Land
ISBN: 9781444753905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) There is a Happy Land tells of the events of a few weeks in the life of a small boy on a north county council estate and the rhubarb fields, quarries and Clerk of Works yard that are his playground. Unlike most boys portrayed in fiction he is not an ultrasensitive soul but an ordinary boy, occasionally cowardly, sometimes a liar, tough in his own eyes and often insecure in his dealings with others. In his evocation of the jingles, games, fantasies and nightmares of childhood, Waterhouse brings his tribe of street urchins so vividly to life that the book has taken on the status of a much-loved...
There is a Happy Land tells of the events of a few weeks in the life of a small boy on a north county council estate and the rhubarb fields, quarries ...
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51,70 zł |
Billy Liar
ISBN: 9780241973646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The classic comedy of a 50s youth trapped inside a Walter Mitty fantasy-world, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar was published in 1959, and captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy finds that his only happiness lies in grand plans for his future and fantastical day-dreams of the fictional country Ambrosia.
The classic comedy of a 50s youth trapped inside a Walter Mitty fantasy-world, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Keith Waterhouse's...
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71,75 zł |
Billy Liar
ISBN: 9780141041735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. To Billy Fisher, Stradhoughton is one long subtopian cliche - a bad Yorkshire joke. The dimmer his surroundings, the more fantastic are his compensatory day-dreams."
To Billy Fisher, Stradhoughton is one long subtopian cliche - a bad Yorkshire joke. The dimmer his surroundings, the more fantastic are his compensato...
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71,75 zł |
Soho
ISBN: 9781444753950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) No London neighbourhood more resembles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho. Ask the people who live there, like Christine Yardley, drag queen by night and grey-suited accountant by day; or Len Gates, self-appointed Soho historian and bore; or Jenny Wise, former starlet and now resident lush in the New Kismet club; or even Ellis Hugo Bell, wannabe film producer who dreams of moving to LA. Daily, nightly, shift by shift, their numbers are swelled by immigrants flocking to work, eat, drink and loiter, from kitchen staff to dress designers, hookers to...
No London neighbourhood more resembles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho. Ask the people who live there, ...
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51,70 zł |
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
ISBN: 9780573018046 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Gambler, journalist, fervent alcoholic and four-times married Jeffrey Bernard writes the "Low Life" column for the Spectator magazine chronicling Soho life as well as offering a very personal philosophy on vodka, women and race-courses. From this, Keith Waterhouse has brilliantly constructed a play (the title being the euphemism used by the Spectator when Bernard is incapable of writing his column) which is set in the saloon bar of Bernard's favourite Soho pub, the Coach and Horses. Having passed out in the lavatory, Bernard awakes in the early hours of the morning to find himself alone and...
Gambler, journalist, fervent alcoholic and four-times married Jeffrey Bernard writes the "Low Life" column for the Spectator magazine chronicling Soho...
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75,20 zł |
Good Grief
ISBN: 9781444753974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Returning from the memorial service for her husband, a tough tabloid editor cut down in his prime, June Pepper sets about following his instructions to keep a journal as therapy. But both grief and the journal prove elusive. Distracted by a problem stepdaughter and by a liaison with a man she discovers wearing one of her husband's old suits, June finds bereavement far from straightforward. And as she empties skeletons from closets, she learns there is far more to life than death.
Returning from the memorial service for her husband, a tough tabloid editor cut down in his prime, June Pepper sets about following his instructions t...
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51,70 zł |
Keith Waterhouse: Collected Plays
ISBN: 9781849431217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Contains some of Waterhouse's most famous plays. Included in this collection is Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, Mr And Mrs Nobody, Good Grief, Our Song and Billy Liar.
Contains some of Waterhouse's most famous plays. Included in this collection is Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, Mr And Mrs Nobody, Good Grief, Our Song<...
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99,63 zł |
Waterhouse on Newspaper Style
ISBN: 9780956368690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This book has a complex history. It was originally written in 1979 as a series of style notes for journalists on the Daily Mirror, and it has gone in and out of print ever since - whilst simultaneously establishing a reputation as a classic of clear guidance and an analysis of tabloid journalism. Keith Waterhouse is one of the old Fleet Street school who actually care about clarity, accuracy, and good prose style. Writing from the point of view of a working journalist, he inspects the linguistic practice of the press and reveals its weaknesses in a series of witty mini-essays. He adopts the...
This book has a complex history. It was originally written in 1979 as a series of style notes for journalists on the Daily Mirror, and it has gone in ...
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82,55 zł |
Billy Liar
ISBN: 9780573111426 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams. He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to escape from his dull job as an undertaker's clerk and his dreary domestic background he imagines himself in so many different situations that truth and fiction become hopelessly intermingled. His family is unable to understand or control him, though they realize that he is a good for nothing. The cast is completed by the three girls to whom he is simultaneously engaged. When he is given the chance to start a new life, he turns it down,...
A teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams. He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to ...
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75,20 zł |
There Is a Happy Land
ISBN: 9781939140616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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104,52 zł |
Billy Liar on the Moon (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
ISBN: 9781941147542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'The funniest book I've read for years' - "The Times" (London)
'Among the few great writers of our time' - Auberon Waugh, "The Independent" 'Well written and amusing' - "Library Journal" Keith Waterhouse's comic masterpiece "Billy Liar" (1959) introduced us to Billy Fisher, a seventeen-year-old undertaker's clerk whose inability to tell the truth led him into constant (and often hilarious) trouble with his parents, his employer, and his three girlfriends. It was a smash success, becoming a bestseller and winning widespread acclaim for both the novel and the classic film... 'The funniest book I've read for years' - "The Times" (London)
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110,32 zł |
Billy Liar
ISBN: 9781939140302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'Buy, borrow or beg Keith Waterhouse's outstanding new novel. I can't recommend it too highly. Waterhouse has an uncanny gift for recapturing every attitude, agony and phrase of childhood and youth.' - "Daily Mirror"
'I wished I'd written Keith Waterhouse's first novel; and now, even more, I wish I'd written his second . . . "Billy Liar" is very funny: funny in a wild and sardonic and high-spirited way without malice or cruelty.' - John Braine, author of "Room at the Top" 'A brilliant novel, in language fresh and sweet, with characters vivid and singular in an inventive and dynamic... 'Buy, borrow or beg Keith Waterhouse's outstanding new novel. I can't recommend it too highly. Waterhouse has an uncanny gift for recapturing every at...
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104,52 zł |
Jubb (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
ISBN: 9781941147771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) C. L. Jubb is thirty-six, married, gainfully employed, and active in his community, both in local government and as a volunteer youth leader working with disadvantaged boys. But as he narrates the story of his downfall, we begin to see that he is other things as well: a voyeur, a fetishist, a racist, an admirer of Mussolini, and above all, a man obsessed by his sexual fantasies. With its unforgettable protagonist - odious yet pitiable, vile yet oddly sympathetic - Keith Waterhouse's third novel is both a gripping case study of a social and sexual misfit and an unsettling but wickedly funny...
C. L. Jubb is thirty-six, married, gainfully employed, and active in his community, both in local government and as a volunteer youth leader working w...
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116,13 zł |
Say Who You Are
ISBN: 9780573019524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A husbands affair with a teenage mistress provokes his wife to arrange secret liaisons for a randy neighbour...
A husbands affair with a teenage mistress provokes his wife to arrange secret liaisons for a randy neighbour...
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91,60 zł |
Worzel Gummidge
ISBN: 9780573180316 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Following the successful television series based on Barbara Euphan Todd's children's classic, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall and Denis King bring us a new, effervescent stage musical of the story of Worzel Gummidge. The naughty, petulant, greedy, yet always lovable scarecrow is here with all the familiar characters: Aunt Sally, Sergeant Beetroot and Sue and John. Brought to life by the Crowman, Worzel creates havoc and farce wherever he goes in his frenzied efforts to win Aunt Sally's unwilling hand until he finds himself before the scarecrow court on a very serious charge. But the final...
Following the successful television series based on Barbara Euphan Todd's children's classic, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall and Denis King bring us a ...
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91,60 zł |
The Theory and Practice of Lunch
ISBN: 9781907841002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Keith Waterhouse is very particular about what lunch is not: 'It is not prawn cocktail, steak and Black Forest gateau with your bank manger. It is not civic, commemorative, annual office or funeral. It is not when either party is on a diet, on the wagon or in a hurry.' He is equally precise about what lunch is: 'It is a mid-day meal taken at leisure by, ideally, two people. Three's a crowd, four always split like a double amoeba into two pairs, six is a meeting, eight is a conference... A little light business may be touched upon but the occasion is firmly social. Whether they know it or not,...
Keith Waterhouse is very particular about what lunch is not: 'It is not prawn cocktail, steak and Black Forest gateau with your bank manger. It is not...
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87,14 zł |
The Theory and Practice of Travel
ISBN: 9781907841057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A hard-headed but often hilarious guide to the pleasures and pitfalls of travel by one of Britain's favourite writers.
A hard-headed but often hilarious guide to the pleasures and pitfalls of travel by one of Britain's favourite writers.
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82,55 zł |