wyszukanych pozycji: 119
Galápagos, 1 Audio-CD, 1 MP3
ISBN: 9783742430137 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein Krieg bricht aus, eine Finanzkatastrophe ereilt die Menschheit - und dann wird sie auch noch von einem Virus heimgesucht, das alle Frauen unfruchtbar macht. In dieser schweren Stunde landet eine kleine, bunt zusammengewürfelte Gruppe Schiffbrüchiger mit dem Kapitän Adolf von Kleist auf einer fiktiven Galápagos-Insel. Während die übrige Menschheit ausstirbt, wird hier ein neues Menschengeschlecht mit winzigen Gehirnen begründet. In »Galápagos«, gelesen von Martin Reinke, schaut der amerikanische Schriftsteller Kurt Vonnegut mit seinem unnachahmlich provokanten Humor auf das Ende...
Ein Krieg bricht aus, eine Finanzkatastrophe ereilt die Menschheit - und dann wird sie auch noch von einem Virus heimgesucht, das alle Frauen unfrucht...
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68,67 zł |
A Man without a Country
ISBN: 9780747586050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5
Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5
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56,62 zł |
Cat's Cradle
ISBN: 9780241467985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched' J. G. Ballard This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a counter-culture classic. 'A satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion' Jay McInerney 'The closest thing we had to a Voltaire' Tom Wolfe 'The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it appears to be. He is not only entertaining, he is electrocuting' The New York Times
'Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched' J. G. Ballard This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expres...
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46,32 zł |
Jailbird
ISBN: 9780099999003 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Walter F. Starbuck was sent to prison in 1975 for his part in the American political scandals known collectively as Watergate. Now, he is coming out of jail, into the brave new world of 1980s Manhattan. This is the story of his first 24hrs of freedom.
Walter F. Starbuck was sent to prison in 1975 for his part in the American political scandals known collectively as Watergate. Now, he is coming out o...
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51,46 zł |
Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945
ISBN: 9780593133019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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197,32 zł |
Slaughterhouse 5: 50th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9781784874858 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When he did write about it, he combined his trademark humour, unfettered imagination, boundless humanity and keen sense of irony to create one of the most powerful anti-war books every written, and an enduring American classic. This special edition is published with... 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany... |
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66,92 zł |
Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage
ISBN: 9780425134061 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart."--New York Times
"An anthology in which Vonnegut freely quotes himself on everything from art and architecture to madness and mass murder...Uncompromising."--Los Angeles Times Here we have a collection of essays and speeches by me, with breezy autobiographical commentary serving as connective tissue and splints and bandages. Here we go again with real life and opinions made to look like one big, preposterous animal not unlike an invention by Dr. Seuss...... "Honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart."--New York Times
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104,58 zł |
While Mortals Sleep
ISBN: 9780099529064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In 'While Mortals Sleep' men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A man plays with his model trains too much until the women in his life decide to take matters into their own hands. In the title story, a hard-nosed reporter is called upon to judge the annual Christmas lights competition.
In 'While Mortals Sleep' men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A man plays with his model trains too much unt...
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51,46 zł |
Mother Night
ISBN: 9780099819301 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A companion novel to Slaughterhouse 5, covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American spy in Germany who becomes confused by his own methods as he sends his coded messages by using pro-Nazi radio broadcasts.
A companion novel to Slaughterhouse 5, covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire...
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51,46 zł |
Sucker's Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing
ISBN: 9781611099584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Available for the first time, Sucker's Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never before published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Short, sardonic, and dark, these six brief fiction stories and one non-fiction piece are consummate Vonnegut with piercing satire and an eye for life's obscene inanity. Also available for the first time is an unfinished science-fiction short story, included in the appendix. These stories trace trivial human lives and mundane desires, which is precisely where Vonnegut's inimitable perspective as a... Available for the first time, Sucker's Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never before published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the... |
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36,02 zł |
Galapagos
ISBN: 9783453322653 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Vor einer Million Jahre - 1986, um genau zu sein - ist die Welt, wie wir sie kennen, dem Untergang geweiht. Erst brechen die Finanzmärkte der Erde zusammen, dann das Klima und schließlich sorgt eine Pandemie dafür, dass alle Frauen unfruchtbar werden. Alle bis auf diejenigen, die sich an Bord des Kreuzfahrtschiffes Bahia de Darwin auf dem Weg zu den Galapagos-Inseln befinden. Plötzlich sind die Passagiere die letzte Hoffnung der Menschheit. Doch damit die Menschen als Spezies überleben können, muss sie die Evolution von dem befreien, was sie beinahe in den Untergang geführt...
Vor einer Million Jahre - 1986, um genau zu sein - ist die Welt, wie wir sie kennen, dem Untergang geweiht. Erst brechen die Finanzmärkte der Erde zu...
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77,83 zł |
Slaughterhouse 5
ISBN: 9781784879822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,46 zł |
Slaughterhouse Five : Schulausgabe für das Niveau C1, ab dem 6. Lernjahr. Ungekürzter englischer Originaltext mit Annotationen
ISBN: 9783125798922 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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54,42 zł |
Schlachthof 5 oder Der Kinderkreuzzug
ISBN: 9783455014273 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. »Antikriegsbuch und Science-Fiction, Autobiographie und Amerika-Satire ein sehr trauriges und herzlich komisches Buch.« Der Spiegel Ein tragikomisches Kaleidoskop des Irrsinns: Was macht der Krieg mit einem Menschen? Und wie lässt sich mit den Bildern und Erinnerungen weiterleben? Einer der wichtigsten Antikriegsromane der Weltliteratur und Meisterwerk der amerikanischen Postmoderne neu übersetzt von Gregor Hens und mit einem aktuellen Nachwort von Asal Dardan. »Hört mal her: Billy Pilgrim hat sich aus dem Lauf der Zeit gelöst.« So beginnt... »Antikriegsbuch und Science-Fiction, Autobiographie und Amerika-Satire ein sehr trauriges und herzlich komisches Buch.« Der Spiegel... |
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109,87 zł |
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
ISBN: 9781612190907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including his last published interview.
During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut which collects interviews from throughout his career we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end. From Kurt Vonnegut's last interview Is there another book in you, by chance? No. Look, I m 84 years old. Writers... One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including h...
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69,50 zł |
生存还是毁灭: 2BR02B, Chinese edition
ISBN: 9781034454250 / Chiński / Miękka / 2021 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,90 zł |
We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works
ISBN: 9780306822780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Called our finest black-humorist by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.
Written to be sold under the pseudonym of Mark Harvey, Basic Training was never published in Vonnegut s lifetime. It appears to have been written in the late 1940s and is therefore Vonnegut s first ever novella. It is a bitter, profoundly disenchanted story that satirizes the... Called our finest black-humorist by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his fi...
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82,75 zł |
Śniadanie mistrzów audiobook
ISBN: 9788381169103 / Polski / etui / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Ostra i wciąż aktualna satyra na amerykański styl życia.W Śniadaniu mistrzów Vonnegut w typowy dla siebie sposób obnaża bolączki współczesnego świata dehumanizację jednostki w społeczeństwie, którym rządzi technologia, spustoszenie środowiska naturalnego i ustawiczne wojny.Dwayne Hoover, bogaty sprzedawca samochodów, nagle dochodzi do wniosku, że wszyscy ludzie są maszynami. Kilgore Trout, nikomu nieznany autor powieści fantastyczno-naukowych, sądzi, że życie ma już za sobą. Spotkanie tych dwóch samotnych ludzi na szybko umierającej planecie to doskonały pretekst...
Ostra i wciąż aktualna satyra na amerykański styl życia.W Śniadaniu mistrzów Vonnegut w typowy dla siebie sposób obnaża bolączki współczesn...
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36,01 zł |
Timequake
ISBN: 9780099267546 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) According to Vonnegut's alter ego, Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on February 13, 2001. As he struggles with this time lapse, he addresses the relationship between memory and deja-vu, humanism, and suicide.
According to Vonnegut's alter ego, Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on February 13, 2001. As he struggles with this time ...
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51,46 zł |
Slapstick or Lonesome No More
ISBN: 9780099842705 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Presents a post-apocalyptic black comedy - dedicated to Laurel and Hardy.
Presents a post-apocalyptic black comedy - dedicated to Laurel and Hardy.
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51,46 zł |