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The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
ISBN: 9780547386096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression. Alongside curious facts and discoveries about jigsaw puzzles -- did you know that the 1929 stock market crash was followed by a boom in puzzle sales? -- Drabble introduces us to her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, their first trip to...
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her ...
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The Radiant Way
ISBN: 9781838857196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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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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The Red Queen
ISBN: 9781838859749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: The Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780141196435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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The Millstone
ISBN: 9780156006194 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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The Needle's Eye
ISBN: 9780156029353 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 427 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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The Great Good Places
ISBN: 9781837265374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2026 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Dark Flood Rises
ISBN: 9781782118336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 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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The Sea Lady
ISBN: 9780156034265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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The Realms of Gold
ISBN: 9781837264827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2026 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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A Writer's Britain
ISBN: 9780500514931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. For this new edition of her engaging study, Ms. Drabble has made corrections and updates to the text throughout and written a new epilogue.
For this new edition of her engaging study, Ms. Drabble has made corrections and updates to the text throughout and written a new epilogue.
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Margaret Drabble on the Romantics
ISBN: 9780500029497 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Pure Gold Baby
ISBN: 9781782111122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is happy, always willing to smile at the world around her, but she also presents profound challenges. For her mother Jess, still in her early 20s, her arrival will prove life-transforming. Over the course of decades, in ways large and small, Anna will affect the lives and loves of those around her. While Anna herself will remain largely unaltered by the passing years, she will live through a period of dramatic change, her journey illuminating our shifting attitudes towards motherhood, responsibility and the way we care for one another.
Anna is a child of special, unknowable qualities. She is happy, always willing to smile at the world around her, but she also presents profound challe...
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You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Stories of Elizabeth Taylor
ISBN: 9781590177273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL
Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwar period, prized and praised by Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel, among others. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett s uncanny sensitivity to the terrifying undercurrents that swirl beneath the apparent calm of respectable family life while showing a deep sympathy of her own for human loneliness, Taylor depicted dislocation with the unflinching presence of mind of Graham Greene. But for Taylor, unlike Greene, dislocation began not in distant climes but... AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL
Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postw... |
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Far from the Madding Crowd
ISBN: 9780375757976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy's passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, "The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which . . . must hold its place among the great English novels." Introducing the fictional name of "Wessex" to describe Hardy's legendary countryside, this early masterpiece draws a vivid...
Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy's passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly establ...
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A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman: Complete Short Stories
ISBN: 9780547737355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Margaret Drabble s novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity, her sense of irony all are on display here, in stories that explore marriage, female friendships, the English tourist abroad, love affairs with houses, peace demonstrations, gin and tonics, cultural TV programs, in stories that are perceptive, sharp, and funny. With an introduction by the Spanish academic Jose Fernandez that places the... Margaret Drabble s novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has ... |
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Persuasion
ISBN: 9780451530837 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Featuring one of her most likeable characters, this sparkling love story set in a seaside resort is Jane Austen's final finished work.
Since Anne Elliot eight years ago rejected the marriage proposal of Captain Wentworth, a penniless naval officer, she has resigned herself to a quiet life at home, tending to the imagined needs of her spoiled sisters and vain father (Austen's brilliant, utterly conceited creation, Sir Walter Elliot). But when Captain Wentworth reappears in their midst, having made his fortune at sea, Anne must ask herself whether she made the right decision--or... Featuring one of her most likeable characters, this sparkling love story set in a seaside resort is Jane Austen's final finished work.
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Mansfield Park
ISBN: 9780451531117 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2008 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Jane Austen turns her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval in this historical romance classic.
Mansfield Park is named for the magnificent, idyllic estate that is home to the wealthy Bertram family and that serves as a powerful symbol of English tradition and stability. The novel s heroine, Fanny Price a poor relation living with the Bertrams is acutely conscious of her inferior status and yet she dares to love their son Edmund from afar. With five marriageable young people on the premises, the peace at Mansfield cannot last.... Jane Austen turns her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval in this historical romance classic.
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Sense and Sensibility
ISBN: 9780451531018 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Two sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen's dramatically human narrative. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters--and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. Jane Austen's authentic representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class...
Two sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen's dramatically human narrative. ...
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