wyszukanych pozycji: 14
The Weather in Africa
ISBN: 9780907871781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Martha Gellhorn's three novellas are about Europeans in the dramatic landscape of East Africa. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their ventures in the great world to their parents hotel On The Mountain, where they are caught up in scandalous relations with an African official and an English botanist. A heart-broken woman tries to escape the memory of her son's death on a doomed holiday By The Sea. A lonely awkward young Englishman, disoriented by years as a prisoner-of-war, orphaned by bombs in London, seeks a new life In The Highlands, and is transformed by love...
Martha Gellhorn's three novellas are about Europeans in the dramatic landscape of East Africa. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried...
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66,14 zł |
The Trouble I've Seen
ISBN: 9781906011628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Martha Gellhorn was the youngest of 16 handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt's White House.
Martha Gellhorn was the youngest of 16 handpicked reporters who filed accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the...
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76,32 zł |
The View From the Ground
ISBN: 9781862071490 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A collection of the author's peacetime dispatches, bearing witness to six decades of change. They include coverage of America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the trial of Adolf Eichmann and Spain in the days after Franco.
A collection of the author's peacetime dispatches, bearing witness to six decades of change. They include coverage of America in the Great Depression,...
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50,87 zł |
The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn
ISBN: 9780679743699 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 636 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Blending] cool lyricism and fiery emotion, alternately prickly and welcoming, funny and stern, Gellhorn is one of the most extraordinary women of our era. Chicago Sun-Times
Spanning more than 40 years and settings that range from Depression-era America to the smartest London dinner parties to the highlands of East Africa, the novellas of Martha Gellhorn display the same qualities that have made her one of the most famous journalists of the twentieth century: an indelible sense of place, prose of breathtaking swiftness and precision, and an unerring fix on the hidden motives of... Blending] cool lyricism and fiery emotion, alternately prickly and welcoming, funny and stern, Gellhorn is one of the most extraordinary women of our...
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108,94 zł |
The Face of War: Writings from the Frontline,1937-1985
ISBN: 9781780601052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Find yourself plunged straight back into Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, feel the frozen ground of the Finno Russian war, the continent-wide Japanese invasion of China, the massacres in Java, the murderously naive intervention in Vietnam and the USA's dirty little wars in Central America.
Find yourself plunged straight back into Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, feel the frozen ground of the Finno Russian war, the continent-wide Japa...
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66,14 zł |
A Stricken Field
ISBN: 9780226286969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Martha Gellhorn was one of the first and most widely read female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she was also an acclaimed novelist.In 1938, before the Munich pact, Gellhorn visited Prague and witnessed its transformation from a proud democracy preparing to battle Hitler to a country occupied by the German army. Born out of this experience, " A Stricken Field" follows a journalist who returns to Prague after its annexation and finds her efforts to... Martha Gellhorn was one of the first and most widely read female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless re... |
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91,51 zł |
The View from the Ground
ISBN: 9780871132123 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Presented for the first time aregs from the tinderboxes across the political horizons of Castro's Cuba, the chambers of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and a small Mississippi town during the height of the civil rights movement. Atlantic Monthly Press.
Presented for the first time aregs from the tinderboxes across the political horizons of Castro's Cuba, the chambers of the House Committee on Un-Amer...
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61,01 zł |
The Face Of War
ISBN: 9781862071506 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A collection of the author's war journalism, covering her reports on the conflicts in Spain, Finland, China and World War II, with later reports on Vietnam, Israel and Central America.
A collection of the author's war journalism, covering her reports on the conflicts in Spain, Finland, China and World War II, with later reports on Vi...
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55,97 zł |
The View from the Ground: Peacetime Dispatches,1936-87
ISBN: 9781780601045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night
If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, J...
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76,32 zł |
Point of No Return
ISBN: 9780803270510 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1948, this powerful novel follows a U.S. Army infantry battalion in Europe through the last months of the Second World War-through the Battle of the Bulge, the Allied sweep across Germany, and the discovery of the Nazi death camps. Jacob Levy, a young soldier from St. Louis, has never given much thought to politics, world affairs, or his own Jewish heritage, but after the liberation of Dachau, he confronts the horror of the Holocaust and takes his own violent revenge. Jolted into a new understanding of humanity's connectedness, he comes to terms with his own Jewish...
Originally published in 1948, this powerful novel follows a U.S. Army infantry battalion in Europe through the last months of the Second World War-thr...
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109,54 zł |
Travels with Myself and Another
ISBN: 9780907871774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A brilliantly witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues, and narrow escapes of Martha Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. "Gellhorn is incapable of writing a dull sentence". The Times (London) "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt", writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and...
A brilliantly witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues, and narrow escapes of Martha Gellhorn, one of America's most impor...
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66,14 zł |
Travels with Myself and Another
ISBN: 9781585420902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.
Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With... "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As ...
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104,58 zł |
Love Goes to Press: A Comedy in Three Acts
ISBN: 9780803226777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Written in the aftermath of World War II, Love Goes to Press opened in London in 1946 and on Broadway in 1947. At the time a relief for the survivors of Blitzkrieg and ration cards, today it is a devilishly entertaining portrayal of the Battle of the Sexes.In this romantic farce, set in a press camp on the Italian front in 1944, two women war correspondents smart, sexy, and famous for scooping their male competitors struggle to balance their professional lives with their love lives. The American literary tradition is replete with stories of men without women, but in Love Goes to...
Written in the aftermath of World War II, Love Goes to Press opened in London in 1946 and on Broadway in 1947. At the time a relief for the sur...
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82,94 zł |
Merry Christmas!
ISBN: 9783038201182 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten von der Insel, erzählt von Saki, Laurie Lee, Martha Gellhorn, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Taylor, Patrick Hamilton und Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten von der Insel, erzählt von Saki, Laurie Lee, Martha Gellhorn, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Taylor, Patrick ...
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72,41 zł |