wyszukanych pozycji: 31
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Metamorphosis: Selected Stories
ISBN: 9780241514771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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52,87 zł |
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The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780241978535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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52,87 zł |
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Moon Tiger
ISBN: 9780141188317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Claudia Hampton lies dying in hospital. There is Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool, conventional daughter; and Tom, her one great love, both found and lost in wartime Egypt. This novel weaves a mesh of memories, flashbacks and shifting voices, in a story of loss and desire.
Claudia Hampton lies dying in hospital. There is Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool, c...
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52,87 zł |
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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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90,55 zł |
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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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69,97 zł |
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Heat Wave
ISBN: 9780060928551 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is a long, hot summer at World's End, a two-family grey stone cottage in the English countryside. Pauline is editing a romance novel in the smaller dwelling, and the larger part is occupied by her daughter, Teresa; Teresa's baby; and her husband, Maurice, a writer, whose infatuation with his editor's girlfriend is growing.
Pauline fears for Teresa, who is passionately in love with her husband, for she senses Maurice's imminent betrayal. She remembers a time when her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her own youth. A stunning and unexpected denouncement irrevocably changes... It is a long, hot summer at World's End, a two-family grey stone cottage in the English countryside. Pauline is editing a romance novel in the smaller...
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65,81 zł |
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The Photograph
ISBN: 9780241986486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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47,58 zł |
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Moon Tiger
ISBN: 9780241973684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view....
Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first...
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47,58 zł |
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Heat Wave
ISBN: 9780141196824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing.
Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daught...
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52,87 zł |
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How It All Began
ISBN: 9780143122647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively--a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersect Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories.
When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike. A marriage unravels after an illicit love affair is revealed through an errant cell phone message; a posh yet financially strapped interior designer meets a business partner who might prove too good to be true;... A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively--a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersect Look out for Penelope Lively's new...
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94,67 zł |
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A House Unlocked
ISBN: 9780802140074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lively takes readers on a journey of her familial country house in England, purchased by her grandparents in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room, object to object, she paints a moving portrait of an era of rapid change and of the family that changed with the times.
Lively takes readers on a journey of her familial country house in England, purchased by her grandparents in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room, ...
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69,97 zł |
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The Photograph
ISBN: 9780142004425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's latest masterpiece opens with a snapshot: Kath, before her death, at an unknown gathering, holding hands with a man who is not her husband. The photograph is in an envelope marked "DON'T OPEN--DESTROY." But Kath's husband does not heed the warning, embarking on a journey of discovery that reveals a tight web of secrets--within marriages, between sisters, and at the heart of an affair. Kath, with her mesmerizing looks and casual ways, moves like...
Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's...
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90,55 zł |
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Život v zahradě
ISBN: 9788075777881 / Czeski / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Penelope Lively je nejen oceňovaná spisovatelka, ale také náruživá zahradnice. V knize Život v zahradě se obě její vášně propojují: vzpomíná na život strávený v zahradách, ať už během svého dětství v Káhiře, na babiččině zahrádce, nebo na svých vlastních zahradách v Oxfordshiru a Londýně. A zároveň si vybavuje všechny záhony, na které narazila při svém bloumání světovou literaturou. Život v zahradě je okouzlující kniha, ze které téměř cítíte vůni starého papíru a mokré hlíny. Na stránkách se střídají příběhy spisovatelů a...
Penelope Lively je nejen oceňovaná spisovatelka, ale také náruživá zahradnice. V knize Život v zahradě se obě její vášně propojují: vzpo...
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60,40 zł |
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The Road To Lichfield
ISBN: 9780140061178 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus.
Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she sha...
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58,16 zł |
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Moon Tiger: Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize
ISBN: 9780141044842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent - is dying. She decides to write a history of the world. As the memories crowd in, Claudia re-creates the richly patterned mosaic of her life and times.
Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent - is dying. She decides to write a history of the world. As the memories crowd in, Claudia re-creates...
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52,87 zł |
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Consequences
ISBN: 9780143113430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Booker Prize?winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women
?One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day? (The Washington Post ) follows the lives and loves of three women?Lorna, Molly, and Ruth?from World War II?era London to the close of the century. Told in Lively's incomparable prose, this is a powerful story of growth, death, and renewal, as well as a penetrating look at how the major and minor events of the twentieth century changed lives. By chronicling the choices and consequences that comprise one family's history, Lively offers an... The Booker Prize?winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women
?One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day?... |
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90,55 zł |
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Moon Tiger
ISBN: 9780802135339 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center -- forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world -- is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during...
Winner of the Man Booker Prize The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. ...
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69,97 zł |
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Life in the Garden
ISBN: 9780241982181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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58,16 zł |
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Cleopatra's Sister
ISBN: 9780060922177 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,58 zł |
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Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
ISBN: 9780141188324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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cena:
52,87 zł |