wyszukanych pozycji: 48
The Photograph
ISBN: 9780241986486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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45,89 zł |
Family Album
ISBN: 9780143117872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "In this haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." --The New York Times Book Review Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. Penelope Lively is renowned for her signature combination of silken storytelling and nuanced human insights. In Family Album, lively masterfully peels back one family's perfect facade to reveal the unsettling truths. All Alison ever wanted was to provide her six children with a blissful childhood. Its creation, however,...
"In this haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." --The New York Times Book Review<...
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96,79 zł |
Judgment Day
ISBN: 9780802139665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Judgment Day takes readers into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a seemingly drowsy village enlivened by sideshows of adultery and gossip. With flawless precision, Lively brings the village and its inhabitants to life as an unpardonable death reminds them all that the world is a very uncertain place.
Judgment Day takes readers into the life of Clare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a seemingly drowsy village enlivened by sid...
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74,79 zł |
Passing On
ISBN: 9780140119329 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their lives.
Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their...
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87,14 zł |
Spiderweb
ISBN: 9780060929725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and slowly acquires neighbors, a dog, and a professional curiosity about the country village where she intends to settle and put down roots for the first time. She has spent her life studying communities of people--their families, social structures, how they welcome outsiders into their midst-remaining an observer, privileged to share in their intimate life but not obliged, and finally unwilling to tie herself closely to any lover, friend, or social group. In Somerset, Stella once again finds an... At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and slowly acquires neighbors, a dog, and a profess... |
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70,35 zł |
Cleopatra's Sister
ISBN: 9780060922177 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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61,55 zł |
Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
ISBN: 9780141188324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. An autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. It is a look at Egypt up to, and including, World War II from a small girl's point of view.
An autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories...
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50,99 zł |
Making It Up
ISBN: 9780141021195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path. The author takes moments from her own life and asks 'what if' she had made other choices: what if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWII? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was 18?
Examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path. The author takes moments from her own...
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70,79 zł |
Perfect Happiness
ISBN: 9780140069969 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. After a long and happy marriage, Frances is plunged into mourning when her husband dies leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. She is submerged in her own loss, until, shocked into feeling by the revelations and sufferings of others, she is drawn into the sunlight of new hope.
After a long and happy marriage, Frances is plunged into mourning when her husband dies leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. She is submerged in her...
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70,79 zł |
Metamorphosis: Selected Stories
ISBN: 9780241514771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,99 zł |
City of the Mind
ISBN: 9780802140203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Matthew Halland is an architect, intimately involved with the new face of the city, while haunted by earlier times of destruction and loss in its history. Although he is divorced and lonely, Matthew has a rich and moving relationship with his daughter Jane. She offers a fresh perspective on love, loss, and even the city of London.
Matthew becomes entangled with an array of fascinating characters, from Rutter, a corrupt real estate developer whose mafia-like ways disgust him, to Sarah Bridges, a romantic ray of hope who enters his life. Mathew s relationships with Jane, Sarah, and Rutter... Matthew Halland is an architect, intimately involved with the new face of the city, while haunted by earlier times of destruction and loss in its hist...
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74,79 zł |
The Road To Lichfield
ISBN: 9780241981405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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87,14 zł |
Beyond the Blue Mountains
ISBN: 9780140256932 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Includes fourteen stories that range from the fantasy of Scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory, depicting in exquisite prose the subtle but significant events that go to create everyday experience.
Includes fourteen stories that range from the fantasy of Scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory, depicting in exquisite prose the subtle b...
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70,79 zł |
According to Mark
ISBN: 9780141196831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, and apparently dedicated to a life of letters, he nevertheless falls in love with Strong's granddaughter Carrie, an unsophisticated young woman more interested in bedding plants than books or passion.
A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, a...
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54,44 zł |
Family Album
ISBN: 9780141041223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. " In this] haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering."
-"The New York Times Book Review" Penelope Lively is renowned for her signature combination of silken storytelling and nuanced human insights. In "Family Album," lively masterfully peels back one family's perfect facade to reveal the unsettling truths. All Alison ever wanted was to provide her six children with a blissful childhood. Its creation, however, became an obsession that involved Ingrid, the family au pair. As adults, Paul, Gina, Sandra, Katie, Roger, and... " In this] haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering."
-"The New York Times Book Review"... |
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50,99 zł |
City of the Mind
ISBN: 9780140156676 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. City of the Mind is the second novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. 'This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and construction.' In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland is aware of how the past and the present blend. It stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter Jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him. Here too is the London of prehistory, of Georgian elegance, of the Blitz. But Matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for London...
City of the Mind is the second novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. 'This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is n...
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87,14 zł |
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time
ISBN: 9781405966993 / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,99 zł |
Pack of Cards : Stories 1978-1986
ISBN: 9780140102390 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Pack of Cards, Penelope Lively introduces the reader to slivers of the everyday world that are not always open to observation, as she delves into the minutiae of her characters' lives. Whether she writes about a widow on a visit to Russia, a small boy's consignment to boarding school, or an agoraphobic housewife, Penelope Lively takes the reader past the closed curtains, through the locked door, into a world that seems at first mundane and then, at second glance, proves to be uniquely memorable.
In Pack of Cards, Penelope Lively introduces the reader to slivers of the everyday world that are not always open to observation, as she delves into t...
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87,14 zł |
Life in the Garden
ISBN: 9780241982181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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56,09 zł |
Passing on
ISBN: 9780802136268 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Still dominated by the memories of her late mother, Helen looks back on their lives together, and wonders why only her younger sister, Louise, found the courage to leave and live an independent life.
Still dominated by the memories of her late mother, Helen looks back on their lives together, and wonders why only her younger sister, Louise, found t...
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74,79 zł |