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Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
ISBN: 9780547386386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nathanael West was a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities and absurdities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpieces, Miss Lonelyhearts and the most penetrating novel ever written about Hollywood, The Day of the Locust. Eileen McKenney, accidental muse and literary heroine, fled Cleveland in search of romance and adventure, inspiring her sister s humorous stories, My Sister Eileen, which led to stage, film, and television adaptations.
Until their tragic deaths in 1940, husband and wife were intimate with many of the literary,... Nathanael West was a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities and absurdities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpiece...
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111,89 zł |
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Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase, a Biography
ISBN: 9780306808029 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Buster Keaton (1895-1966) was a brilliant comedian and filmmaker who conceived, wrote, directed, acted, and even edited most of his ten feature films and nineteen short comedies, which are perhaps the finest silent pictures ever made. With a face of stone and a mind that engineered breathtakingly intricate moments of slapstick, Keaton has become an icon of the American cinema. Marion Meade's definitive biography explores his often brutal childhood acting experiences, the making of his masterpieces, his shame at his own lack of education, his life-threatening alcoholism, and his turbulent...
Buster Keaton (1895-1966) was a brilliant comedian and filmmaker who conceived, wrote, directed, acted, and even edited most of his ten feature films ...
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107,58 zł |
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Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull
ISBN: 9781497638983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Victoria Woodhull is a historical figure too often ignored and undervalued by historians. Although she never achieved political power, her actions and her presence on the political scene helped begin to change the way Americans thought about the right to vote, particularly women's suffrage, and she set the stage for political emancipations to come throughout the twentieth century.
Woodhull was a product of and a revolutionary within the socially conservative Victorian era, which predominated in the United States as much as it did in England. She was an anomaly within her time, an... Victoria Woodhull is a historical figure too often ignored and undervalued by historians. Although she never achieved political power, her actions and...
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73,14 zł |
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
ISBN: 9781842126189 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England and mother to Richard Coeur de Lion and King John, she became a key political figure of the 12th century. Eleanor's long life inspired a number of legends. At 25 she set out for the Holy Land as a Crusader and at 78 she crossed the Pyreness to Spain to fetch the granddaughter whose marriage would be, she hoped, a pledge of peace between England and France. Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived...
A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England and mother to R...
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70,93 zł |
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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
ISBN: 9780140116168 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 459 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lillian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker. This edition features a new...
Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing bi...
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129,15 zł |
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
ISBN: 9780156030595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In her exuberant new work, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers-Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St.Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber- whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.
These literary heroines did what they wanted and said what they thought, living wholly in the moment. They kicked open the door for twentieth-century women writers and set a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom. Here are the social and literary triumphs and... In her exuberant new work, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers-Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St.Vincent Millay, an...
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94,67 zł |
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Stealing Heaven: The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard
ISBN: 9781497638990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In twelfth century France, two of Europe s greatest minds met and fell in love. It was a love forbidden by the world around them and eventually they were torn apart from each other. But the spark of it remained smoldering inside the lovers until their death and beyond.Heloise and her tutor, Peter Abelard, share a devotion passionate in its depth and beautiful in its thoughtfulness. They marry, and Heloise bears a son whom she names Astrolabe. However, all of this must be done in secret, for Abelard is forbidden to wed by the church, which considers him a cleric. When the truth of their...
In twelfth century France, two of Europe s greatest minds met and fell in love. It was a love forbidden by the world around them and eventually they w...
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94,67 zł |
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
ISBN: 9780140153385 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point of view: a woman's point of view."--Allene Talmey, Vogue.
"Marion Meade has told the story of Eleanor, wild, devious, from a thoroughly historical but different point of view: a woman's point of view."--Allen...
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103,32 zł |
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Sybille: Life, Love, & Art in the Face of Absolute Power
ISBN: 9781497639003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A holy war is sweeping France, razing cities and destroying the peaceful lives of those considered heretics.
Sybille d'Astarac, born to pampered luxury, is a gifted female troubadour. But her poems grow dark as the Catholic crusade seeks to eradicate her sect. In the face of massacre, can Sybille survive the Inquisition? Will her love songs? A work of stunning historical fiction, Sybille displays Marion Meade's pitch-perfect understanding of strong women facing the harsh realities of life in medieval times. As Robin Morgan, author of The Anatomy of Freedom,... A holy war is sweeping France, razing cities and destroying the peaceful lives of those considered heretics.
Sybille d'Astarac, born to pam... |
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107,58 zł |
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The Unruly Life of Woody Allen
ISBN: 9781497636972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A psychologically nuanced, tough-minded portrait" of the New York filmmaker and his relationships with Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn (Publishers Weekly).
Writer, director, actor, humorist. Woody Allen stands as one of our era's most celebrated artists. Starting in the 1950s, Allen began crafting a larger-than-life neurotic persona that has since entertained and enlightened millions. In his films, widely thought to be autobiographical explorations of his own comic fears and fixations, Allen carefully controlled the public's view of him as a lovable scamp. But that... "A psychologically nuanced, tough-minded portrait" of the New York filmmaker and his relationships with Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn (Publisher...
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107,58 zł |
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Bitching
ISBN: 9781497638976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood--single life, marriage, workplace harassment, rights, gripes--were often channeled through movement spokeswomen and always refracted through the lens of talking to men about men. Little was shared about the chats happening behind closed doors where everyday women talked to women without the threat of men listening in. But, all that changed with the book Bitching.
Originally published in 1973, Bitching is journalist and author Marion Meade's deep and... In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood--single life, marriage, workplace...
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81,75 zł |
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The Ladies of the Corridor
ISBN: 9780143105312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York
One of literature's leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen The Ladies of the Corridor, a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. Loosely based on Parker's life, and co-written with famed Hollywood playwright Arnaud d'Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor exposes the limitations of a woman's life in a drama teeming with Parker's signature wit. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher... The blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York
One of literature's leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew fro... |
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73,19 zł |
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