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The Sacred And Profane Love Machine
ISBN: 9780099433576 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Presents a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither.
Presents a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither.
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82,10 |
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An Accidental Man
ISBN: 9780140036114 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A scintillating novel of fate, accidents, and moral dilemmas
Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England, engaged to a wonderful girl, who is suddenly drafted to a war he disapproves of. What is duty here, what is self-interest, what is cowardice? Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man of the title, is accident-prone, also prone to bring disaster to his friend sand relations. He blames fate. But are we not all accidental, one of his victims asks. Fate and accidents make deep moral dilemmas for... A scintillating novel of fate, accidents, and moral dilemmas
Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young Americ... |
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113,72 |
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Jackson's Dilemma
ISBN: 9780701188474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. At Penndean, a nearby house, preparations are under way for the wedding, overseen by the anxious Benet. Family and friends gather together for a celebratory dinner on the eve of the ceremony.
Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. At Penndean, a nearby house, preparations are under way for the weddin...
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82,10 |
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Under The Net
ISBN: 9780099429074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jake Donaghue is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living as a translator and by sponging on his friends. A meeting again, after some years, with Anna, an old flame, leads him into a series of fantastic adventures.
Jake Donaghue is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living as a translator and by sponging on his friends. A meeting again, after some...
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55,31 |
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The Sea, The Sea & A Severed Head
ISBN: 9781841593708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Traces the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a smug, well-to-do London wine merchant and unfaithful husband, whose life is turned inside out when his wife leaves him for her psychoanalyst.
Traces the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a smug, well-to-do London wine merchant and unfaithful husband, whose life is turned in...
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85,50 |
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The Message To The Planet
ISBN: 9780099583288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind. Luden's friends are more sceptical. Jack Sheerwater, painter, thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne, ex-preist, thinks he is evil.
For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a mi...
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92,37 |
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Henry and Cato
ISBN: 9781453200957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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83,35 |
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The Red and the Green
ISBN: 9780099429135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Introduction by Declan Kiberd The scene is Dublin in 1916. As rebellion looms, tension mounts in the sombre, rain-soaked Dublin streets. A single Anglo-Irish family provides the diverse characters: Pat Dumay, a Catholic and an Irish patriot; his pious mother pursuing her private war with his step-father; Pat's English-Protestant cousin Andrew Chase-White, an officer in King Edward's Horse and Frances, the girl he loves. Weaving between them all moves Millie Kinnard - fast, feminist, and only just respectable.
Introduction by Declan Kiberd The scene is Dublin in 1916. As rebellion looms, tension mounts in the sombre, rain-soaked Dublin streets. A single ...
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55,31 |
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The Flight From the Enchanter
ISBN: 9780099283690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A group of poeple have elected Mischa Fox to be their God. While Mischa is charming his devotees, his alter ego, Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and Rosa Keepe is swept into the battle between sturdy common sense and dangerous enchantment.
A group of poeple have elected Mischa Fox to be their God. While Mischa is charming his devotees, his alter ego, Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and ...
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55,31 |
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Something Special
ISBN: 9780099422655 / Miękka / 2001 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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66,70 |
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Die Souveränität des Guten
ISBN: 9783518299920 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2023 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In diesem nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegenden Klassiker der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts offenbart Iris Murdoch die Unzulänglichkeiten der analytischen Moralphilosophie und fordert einen Richtungswechsel. Wir können Moral nicht verstehen, wenn wir uns rein auf naturwissenschaftliche und sprachphilosophische Methoden beschränken. In Auseinandersetzung mit Wittgenstein, Kant, Sartre, Weil oder Platon argumentiert Murdoch, dass die Moral nicht darin besteht, rationale Entscheidungen in einer wertneutralen Welt zu treffen. Stattdessen besteht sie in der Orientierung an... In diesem nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegenden Klassiker der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts offenbart Iris Murdoch die Unzulängli... |
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76,04 |
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The Sandcastle
ISBN: 9780140014747 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyalty
The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt, magic, art, and political ambition. Mor s teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The Head, himself disenchanted, advises Mor to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a... A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyalty
The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed whe... |
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83,39 |
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The Sandcastle
ISBN: 9780099433583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The quiet life of schoolteacher Bill Mor and his family is disturbed when Rain Carter arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor becomes aware of new desires and his wife and children fight discreetly and ruthlessly against Rain and her influence over him.
The quiet life of schoolteacher Bill Mor and his family is disturbed when Rain Carter arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. M...
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55,31 |
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The Nice and the Good
ISBN: 9780099285267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. "Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century." --"Guardian"
Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolves round a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their household in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its two aspects, the self-gratifying and the impersonal -- the nice and the good -- as they are embodied in a fascinating array of paired characters. "The Nice and the Good" leads through stress and terror to a joyous and compassionate 'Midsummer Nights Dream' conclusion, in which the couples all... "Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century." --"Guardian"
Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolve... |
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55,31 |
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The Good Apprentice
ISBN: 9780099285250 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend. He dreams sometimes of redemption, sometimes of suicide.
Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a pr...
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92,37 |
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The Nice and the Good
ISBN: 9780140030341 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice and being good.
John Ducane, a respected Whitehall civil servant, is asked to investigate the suicide of a colleague. As he pursues his inquiry, he uncovers a shabby, evil world of murder, blackmail, and black magic. He begins to feel more trapped than trapping. In contrast to a stagnant summer in London, Octavian and Kate Gray s adoring community on the Dorset coast seems to offer Ducane refuge, but even here the after-effects of... From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice ...
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83,39 |
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A Severed Head
ISBN: 9780099285366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education.
Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Ma...
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55,31 |
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A Word Child
ISBN: 9780099429128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemptiton.
Saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and disappointment in a dull, orderly civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition. - With a new introduction by Ray Monk (British philosopher and academic) Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemptiton.
Saved by education from a delinquen... |
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56,43 |
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The Book and the Brotherhood
ISBN: 9780140104707 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A story about love and friendship and Marxism
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends commissioned one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest? Rose Curtland asks. The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history, Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide... A story about love and friendship and Marxism
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends commissioned one of their number to write a political... |
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83,39 |
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The Sea, the Sea; A Severed Head: Introduction by Sarah Churchwell
ISBN: 9781101907665 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. These two major novels--by one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century--are ferociously dark comedies that combine playfulness with profundity. A Severed Head (1961) is one of Iris Murdoch's most entertaining works, tracing the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, a smug, prosperous London wine merchant and unfaithful husband, whose life is turned inside out when his wife leaves him for her psychoanalyst. The story takes bedroom farce to a new level of sophistication, with scenes that are both wickedly funny and emblematic of the way...
These two major novels--by one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century--are ferociously dark comedies that combine playfulnes...
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113,72 |
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