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Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
ISBN: 9781495477362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Eccentric scientist, Victor Frankenstein, creates a grotesque creature using an unorthodox scientific experiment in one of the earliest examples of science fiction, and an all-time classic Gothic horror story.
Eccentric scientist, Victor Frankenstein, creates a grotesque creature using an unorthodox scientific experiment in one of the earliest examples of sc...
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40,94 zł |
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A Vindication of the Rights Of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
ISBN: 9781494488192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education during that era. Wollstonecraft suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. With the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding...
Written in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked...
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40,94 zł |
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Mysticism and Logic: And other Essays
ISBN: 9781500272944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 2014 paperback edition. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist. Russell led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 20th century, is one of the founders of analytic philosophy, and is widely regarded as one of the 20th century's premier logicians. His work has had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. In 1950 Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize...
2014 paperback edition. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activi...
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40,94 zł |
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Jane Eyre
ISBN: 9781494706753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Focusing on the gradual unfolding of moral and spiritual sensibilities, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood. Charlotte Bronte's novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, and was consider ahead of its time due to its portrayal classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism. Cover painting by John Singer Sargent."
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Focusing on the gradual unfolding of moral and spiritual sensibilities, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences...
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68,25 zł |
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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
ISBN: 9780615854670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. "The Virginian" was the first western genre novel introducing the cowboy as a romantic hero. Set in Wyoming, Wister weaves a tale of action, violence, hate, revenge, love and friendship that revolves around the Virginian's confrontations with a rival gambler, chasing cattle thieves, and an ongoing romance with the local schoolteacher from back east who is not used to the wild west. Owen Wister is the "father" of western fiction. Like his friend Teddy Roosevelt, Wister became fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of the west after his first trip to...
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. "The Virginian" was the first western genre novel introducing the cowboy as a romantic hero. Set in Wyoming, Wister we...
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68,07 zł |
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Sense and Sensibility
ISBN: 9780615847702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. All new 6x9 inch paperback edition. "Sense and Sensibility" (considered the first "modern" English novel) portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, in southwest England between 1792 and 1797. The novel follows the young ladies from their comfortable life on the Norland Park estate to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read...
All new 6x9 inch paperback edition. "Sense and Sensibility" (considered the first "modern" English novel) portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood ...
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52,32 zł |
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Love Under Fire
ISBN: 9780692307915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 2014 Peruse Press paperback edition. While secretly gathering information behind Confederate lines, a young Union officer meets a southern belle who is involved with smuggling supplies for the rebels. He falls in love with her, creating conflicting situations involving the war . . . and her fiance. Randall Parrish (1858-1923) was an American author whose other best-selling novels include Wolves of the Sea; My Lady of the North; A Sword of the Old Frontier; Bob Hampton of Placer; Historic Illinois; Beth Norvell; The Great Plains; Prisoners of Chance; The Last Voyage of the Donna Isabel; and My...
2014 Peruse Press paperback edition. While secretly gathering information behind Confederate lines, a young Union officer meets a southern belle who i...
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40,94 zł |
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Wuthering Heights
ISBN: 9781494732714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Set at a farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights is the story of the destructive effect that jealousy and vengefulness have on individuals and their communities. Cover painting by James McNeill Whistler.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Set at a farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights is the story of the destructive effect that jealousy and ...
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45,49 zł |
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Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ten Christmas Stories
ISBN: 9780615930749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A classic collection of ten short stories about Christmas, and an essay, from the author of "The Man Without a Country," Edward E. Hale. The stories are: They saw a Great Light; Christmas Waits in Boston; Alice's Christmas-tree; Daily Bread; Stand and Wait; The Two Princes; The Story of Oello; Love is the Whole; Christmas and Rome; The Survivor's Story; and the essay The Same Christmas in Old England and New.
A classic collection of ten short stories about Christmas, and an essay, from the author of "The Man Without a Country," Edward E. Hale. The stories a...
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45,49 zł |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Tom Sawyer's Comrade
ISBN: 9780615878003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. Cover painting by Winslow Homer, 1873.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Ad...
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45,49 zł |
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
ISBN: 9780615877440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New 6x9 inch paperback edition with restored text. Challenging the prevailing morals of the Victorian era, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is considered by many to be the first feminist novel. This is a story of marital betrayal set within a moral framework tempered by an optimistic belief in universal salvation. The main character, Helen, is spirited and forthright, unafraid to speak with frankness to the men in her life. Anne Bronte portrays this approvingly, in contrast to the meekness of Milicent who is trampled and ignored by her unrepentant husband. Helen leaves with her beloved son in tow,...
New 6x9 inch paperback edition with restored text. Challenging the prevailing morals of the Victorian era, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is considered b...
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63,70 zł |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
ISBN: 9780615862590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. An early example of Joyce's modernist, free indirect speech style of writing, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a semi-autobiographical novel that traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions with which he has been raised. He finally leaves for abroad to pursue his ambitions as an artist. James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the...
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. An early example of Joyce's modernist, free indirect speech style of writing, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man...
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45,49 zł |
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War of the Classes
ISBN: 9780692284612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 2014 paperback edition. Best known for his adventure fiction novels, Jack London was also a passionate advocate for the rights of workers and social reform, writing several powerful works dealing with these topics based on his rational observations of the struggles facing the people at the bottom of the social pit, and the issues of labor, capital, and wealth inequality that are still applicable today.
2014 paperback edition. Best known for his adventure fiction novels, Jack London was also a passionate advocate for the rights of workers and social r...
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40,94 zł |
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Turn of the Screw
ISBN: 9781494454760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. A governess is hired to care for two children at a remote house in the pastoral countryside, where things turn for the worse when she becomes convinced the children are consorting with a pair of malevolent ghosts. Henry James's classic prose casts an eerie spell and challenges the reader to decide if the governess is merely insane or encounters real ghosts, and the dreadful implications of either conclusion.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. A governess is hired to care for two children at a remote house in the pastoral countryside, where things turn for the...
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40,94 zł |
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Pride and Prejudice
ISBN: 9781494497392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Pride and Prejudice addresses a key theme that most great novels pose: the search for self. Social standing and wealth are not necessarily advantages, as class divisions expose snobbery and ignorance, so clearly demonstrated as the Bennet sisters search for suitable husbands. Cover painting by George Romney circa 1784.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Pride and Prejudice addresses a key theme that most great novels pose: the search for self. Social standing and wealth...
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50,04 zł |
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Love: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9781494787608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. In addition to "Love," this edition also includes Chekhov's short stories "Lights," "A Story Without an End," "Mari D'elle," "A Living Chattel," "The Doctor," "Too Early ," "The Cossack," "Aborigines," "An Inquiry," "Martyrs," "The Lion and the Sun," "A Daughter of Albion," "Choristers," "Nerves," "A Work of Art," "A Joke," "A Country Cottage," "A Blunder," "Fat and Thin," "The Death of a Government Clerk," "A Pink Stocking," and "At a Summer Villa."
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. In addition to "Love," this edition also includes Chekhov's short stories "Lights," "A Story Without an End," "Mari D'...
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40,94 zł |
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Firebrand: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
ISBN: 9781494870225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Regarded as one of the most colorful autobiographies ever written (and also one of the first autobiographies written), the chronicle of Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini's life is an epic tale of exaggerated proportions. Cellini's loves, hatreds, passions, delights, brawls and battles, along with extraordinary events, and even supernatural phenomena, are narrated in an energetic, direct, and often racy style. Completed in 1563, Cellini's autobiography is also historically important for its firsthand account of daily life in Renaissance Italy. This 1887...
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Regarded as one of the most colorful autobiographies ever written (and also one of the first autobiographies written),...
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68,25 zł |
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The Sanity of Art
ISBN: 9780692280393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 2014 paperback edition. Written in 1895, George Bernard Shaw's "Sanity of Art" essay is a response to Max Nordau's 1892 book, "Degeneration," which criticized fin de siecle modernist trends by suggesting its practitioners were irrational, amoral, and possibly even insane with neurasthenia. Eschewing conventional morality, Shaw advocates for the right of individuals to decide for themselves the saneness of the maniacal geniuses cultivating the new aesthetic. Cover illustration by James Abbott McNeill Whistler."
2014 paperback edition. Written in 1895, George Bernard Shaw's "Sanity of Art" essay is a response to Max Nordau's 1892 book, "Degeneration," which cr...
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36,38 zł |
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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: Illustrated Edition
ISBN: 9780692494646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,98 zł |
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The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
ISBN: 9781494826444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. The second, and most popular, book of the "Leatherstocking Tales" pentalogy, by James Fenimore Cooper, "The Last of the Mohicans" is a historical story set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. Cover painting by Charles Bird King, 1821.
New 6x9 inch paperback edition. The second, and most popular, book of the "Leatherstocking Tales" pentalogy, by James Fenimore Cooper, "The Last of th...
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54,59 zł |
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