wyszukanych pozycji: 31
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The Alteration
ISBN: 9780099461081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A comic masterpiece by one of Britain's best-loved writers. A comic masterpiece by one of Britain's best-loved writers. |
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50,40 zł |
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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
ISBN: 9781526640154 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How's Your Glass? In one handsome package, the book covers a full shelf of the master's riotous and erudite thoughts on the drinking arts: Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) are Amis's musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man's Diet, The Mean Sod's Guide, and (presumably as a...
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volum...
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65,53 zł |
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Ending Up
ISBN: 9780141194233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, 'Ending Up' is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.
Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, 'Ending Up' is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.
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51,40 zł |
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New Novel
ISBN: 9780091791919 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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77,12 zł |
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One Fat Englishman
ISBN: 9780141194264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Outrageously funny and irreverent, 'One Fat Englishman' is a devastating satire on Anglo-American relations.
Outrageously funny and irreverent, 'One Fat Englishman' is a devastating satire on Anglo-American relations.
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51,40 zł |
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Lucky Jim
ISBN: 9780141182599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England'.
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department ...
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55,44 zł |
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The Anti-Death League
ISBN: 9780141194295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it? These men of action travel between the barracks, the lunatic asylum and the house of an aristocratic nymphomaniac in search of answers.
In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for de...
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50,40 zł |
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Lucky Jim
ISBN: 9781590175750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones." Kingsley Amis's scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in...
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently m...
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65,32 zł |
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Complete Stories
ISBN: 9780141195292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Includes a collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. In this book, the stories reveal the scope of his imagination and the warmth beneath his acerbic humour, and they all share the unmistakable style and wit of one of Britain's writers.
Includes a collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny at...
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65,53 zł |
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Stanley And The Women
ISBN: 9780099461043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Stanley Duke thinks it is safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked or just plain capricious. As they gnaw away at his composure, he wonders whether insanity is not something with which women are intimately acquainted.
Stanley Duke thinks it is safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sid...
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82,27 zł |
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The Green Man
ISBN: 9780099461074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities -- including superb sexual comedy." "Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities -- including superb sexual comedy." |
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50,40 zł |
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Difficulties With Girls
ISBN: 9780141194226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospital. They have reached a certain level of maturity, or so they think.
Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny te...
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50,40 zł |
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I Want It Now
ISBN: 9780141194257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents in the company of braying aristocrats, Greek shipping magnates and American dandies.
The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupie...
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50,40 zł |
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That Uncertain Feeling
ISBN: 9780141194288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams, who is married to a member of the local Council.
Competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of dauntin...
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50,40 zł |
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You Can't Do Both
ISBN: 9780099461029 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford describing the pangs of a pre-war adolescence in South London and on through his rites of passage to adulthood. 'You Can't do Both' is classic Amis - funny, tender, insightful - and strongly autobiographical.
Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford describing the pangs of a pre-war adoles...
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66,83 zł |
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Lucky Jim
ISBN: 9780241956847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without. If he can just deliver a lecture on Merrie England, a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple...
Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without. If he can just deliver a lecture on ...
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50,40 zł |
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Memoirs
ISBN: 9780099461067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Endlessly entertaining-Good, rollicking stuff, and a delight to read -- Sir Kingsley Amis is surely one of the funniest men alive." --Auberon Waugh, "Sunday Telegraph"
Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a successful novelist, "Memoirs "offers extraordinary insights into a unique literary life. "Endlessly entertaining-Good, rollicking stuff, and a delight to read -- Sir Kingsley Amis is surely one of the funniest men alive." --Auberon Waugh, ...
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85,71 zł |
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Alteracja
ISBN: 9788368191233 / Polski / twarda / 2024 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Rok 1976. Świat utkwił intelektualnie i duchowo w mrokach średniowiecza, odkąd Marcin Luter został w XVI wieku papieżem. Po ulicach jeżdżą baruchy, elektryczność uchodzi za rzecz niebezpieczną, schizmatyk to najgorsza obelga, tymczasem zaś Anglia opłakuje śmierć Jego Pobożnej Wysokości Stefana III. Hubert Anvil, obdarzony niebiańskim głosem dziesięciolatek, śpiewa na pogrzebie władcy. Uroczystość uświetniają swą obecnością Fe-dericus Mirabilis i Lupigradus Viaventosa, którzy przybyli prosto z Rzymu i mają ustalić, czy genialnie utalentowany chłopiec nadaje...
Rok 1976. Świat utkwił intelektualnie i duchowo w mrokach średniowiecza, odkąd Marcin Luter został w XVI wieku papieżem. Po ulicach jeżdżą ba...
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55,46 zł |
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Girl, 20
ISBN: 9780141194240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 'Girl, 20' is a merciless send-up of 1970s London's permissive society from a master of uproarious comedy.
'Girl, 20' is a merciless send-up of 1970s London's permissive society from a master of uproarious comedy.
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50,40 zł |
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Take A Girl Like You
ISBN: 9780141194271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in Britain.
Twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. ...
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51,40 zł |