wyszukanych pozycji: 37
The Needle's Eye
ISBN: 9781838857172 / Miękka / 2022 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of love
An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of love
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The Dark Flood Rises
ISBN: 9781782118336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The new novel from literary great Margaret Drabble is by turns dark and joyous, hilarious and heartbreaking, and asks us what makes a good life, and a good death
The new novel from literary great Margaret Drabble is by turns dark and joyous, hilarious and heartbreaking, and asks us what makes a good life, and a...
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50,87 zł |
The Red Queen
ISBN: 9780156032704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed for her impending trip to Seoul, but Barbara doesn't know who sent it. On the plane, she avidly reads the memoir, a story of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinary detail the ways of the Korean court and confesses the family dramas that left her childless and her husband dead by his own hand. When a Korean man Barbara meets at her hotel offers to guide her to some of the haunts of the crown...
Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess. An appropriate gift indeed ...
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78,39 zł |
Mühlstein
ISBN: 9783038201366 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2024 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Rosamunde macht sich nicht viel aus der Liebe. Die wohl einzige Jungfrau im London der Swinging Sixties hätte zwar mehr als genug Gelegenheiten für heiße Affären, sitzt aber lieber über den Büchern. Und ausgerechnet sie wird nach einem mäßigen One-Night-Stand schwanger. Im ersten Schreck versucht sie die Angelegenheit mit Gin und einem heißen Bad zu beenden. Doch alles geht schief, und der Abend endet in einem großen Besäufnis.Rosamunde schafft es nicht, sich gegen das Kind zu entscheiden. Na gut, dann zieht sie es eben allein auf. Auch wenn das Leben als ledige Mutter wohl nicht...
Rosamunde macht sich nicht viel aus der Liebe. Die wohl einzige Jungfrau im London der Swinging Sixties hätte zwar mehr als genug Gelegenheiten für ...
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113,14 zł |
The Needle's Eye
ISBN: 9780156029353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 427 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to drive her home one night after a dinner party. Yet at one time she had been notorious-her name constantly in the news.
Now, separated from her Greek husband, she lives alone with her three children. Despite all the efforts and sneers of her friends, she refuses to move from her slum house in a decaying neighborhood to which she has become attached. Gradually, Simon becomes aware that Rose is a woman of remarkable integrity and courage. He is... Simon Camish, an embittered, diffident lawyer in a loveless marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been asked to driv...
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82,75 zł |
The Millstone
ISBN: 9781838857134 / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties
An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties
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50,87 zł |
The Sea Lady
ISBN: 9780141027456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry, a freckled cobra ready to strike. Yet they fascinate one another and when they meet again years later they fall briefly - and disastrously - in love.
Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry...
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87,31 zł |
The Sea Lady
ISBN: 9781838859725 / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
The Millstone
ISBN: 9780156006194 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Margaret Drabble s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman s decision to become a mother.
" Margaret Drabble s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman s decision...
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69,68 zł |
The Peppered Moth
ISBN: 9781838857165 / Miękka / 2022 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one family
Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one family
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55,97 zł |
The Dark Flood Rises
ISBN: 9781250160058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,51 zł |
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780141196435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, sheexamines the intense private worlds and passions of everyday people. From one man's honeymooning epiphany in Hassan's Tower to the journeying fantasies of A Voyage to Cythera, and from the sharp joy of The Merry Widow to the bloody reality of the collection's title story, these are moving, witty and provocative tales, exploring cruel and loving relationships, social change and personal obsessions, and confirming her status as a leading...
Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, sh...
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50,87 zł |
The Sea Lady
ISBN: 9780156034265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. Now, as they journey back toreceive honorary degrees from a new university thereHumphrey on the train, Ailsa flyingthey take stock of their lives, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements, romantic and otherwise. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender. Their mutual pasts unfold in an exquisite portrait of English social life in thelatter half of...
Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. Now, as they journey back toreceive ho...
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78,39 zł |
The Red Queen
ISBN: 9781838859749 / Miękka / 2023 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
The Seven Sisters
ISBN: 9780156028752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room, walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London--and begins to pour her soul into a diary. Candida is not exactly destitute. So, is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? What can happen, at her age, to change her life?
In a voice that is pitch-perfect, Candida describes her health club, her social circle, and her attempts... When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful Georgian house in lovely Suffolk to a two-room, wa...
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Jerusalem the Golden
ISBN: 9781838857141 / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixt...
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50,87 zł |
Pure Gold Baby
ISBN: 9780544228030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Achingly wise . . . Admirers of Marilynne Robinson will find themselves very much at home in this book." Wall Street Journal
Jessica Speight, an anthropologist in 1960s London, is at the beginning of a promising academic career when an affair leaves her a single mother. Anna is delightful a pure gold baby. But as it becomes clear that Anna is not a normal child, the book circles questions of responsibility, potential, even age, with Margaret Drabble s characteristic intelligence and wit. Told from the point of view of Jess's fellow mothers, The Pure Gold Baby is a... "Achingly wise . . . Admirers of Marilynne Robinson will find themselves very much at home in this book." Wall Street Journal
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The Red Queen
ISBN: 9780141018164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her extraordinary existence - and Dr Babs Halliwell, with her own complicated past, is the perfect envoy. Why does the Red Queen pick Babs to keep her story alive, and what else does she want from her?
200 years after being plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea, the Red Queen's ghost decides to set the record straight about her ex...
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87,31 zł |
The Witch of Exmoor
ISBN: 9780156006040 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In a profoundly moving, intellectually acute novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh (Los Angeles Times), Margaret Drabble conjures up a retired writer besieged by her three grasping children in this dazzling, wickedly gothic tale.
" In a profoundly moving, intellectually acute novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh (Los Angele...
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74,04 zł |
The Radiant Way
ISBN: 9781838857196 / Miękka / 2022 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women
The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women
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55,97 zł |