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The Birth of a Grandfather
ISBN: 9780393305913 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the story of the Wyeth family, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts (and in the summer, Maine): the very old, who are looking back; Sprig and his wife Frances, who are finding their way in the midst of youthful hopes that refuse to fade away; and the young, embarking on adulthood, sometimes with anger. As Sprig struggles to reach past his reserve so that he can be there for his wife and children, and for a friend who needs him, the other characters likewise find their way to what self-fulfillment means.
This is the story of the Wyeth family, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts (and in the summer, Maine): the very old, who are looking back; Sprig and his w...
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100,00 zł |
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Plant Dreaming Deep
ISBN: 9780393315516 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.
May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.
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86,93 zł |
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A Shower of Summer Days
ISBN: 9780393312508 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. So begins May Sarton's evocative early novel about Violet Gordon's return, after thirty years, to her childhood home, where much had to be settled in one brief summer--fateful decisions about a marriage, a love affair, and a career. No influence was more important than the splendid old Dene's Court itself, and the memories it held.
So begins May Sarton's evocative early novel about Violet Gordon's return, after thirty years, to her childhood home, where much had to be settled in ...
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100,00 zł |
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At Seventy: A Journal
ISBN: 9780393310306 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. May Sarton--poet, novelist, and chronicler--occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine, she savors "the experience of being alive in this beautiful place," reflecting on nature, friends, and work. "Why is it good to be old?" she was asked at one of her lectures. "Because," she said, "I am more myself than I have ever been."
May Sarton--poet, novelist, and chronicler--occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 19...
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101,83 zł |
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Shadow of a Man
ISBN: 9780393300307 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is the death of Persis Bradford, Francis's mother, a most unusual woman with an intense feeling for living, that starts the son on his road to maturity. Grief opens his eyes, not only to himself but to Alan Bradford, the stepfather he has always disliked. A summer in Paris is to Francis a journey of the spirit in which he learns, through Solange Bernard, to love and finds through love, how integrate his mixed heritage and how to make use of it. The strange summer, partly idyllic, partly miserable, brings Francis to himself and sends him home to Ann, the young woman whom he has never had...
It is the death of Persis Bradford, Francis's mother, a most unusual woman with an intense feeling for living, that starts the son on his road to matu...
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104,36 zł |
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The Poet and the Donkey
ISBN: 9780393315530 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he can no longer write he has lost the joy he used to have in simply being alive and a young, mischievous female donkey, who is sad because she can't run and play she has a touch of arthritis. . . . There is a moral, of course, but any moral looks dull next to the simple happiness of the old poet and his long-eared muse." The New Yorker"
"A small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he...
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78,21 zł |
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Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year
ISBN: 9780393313888 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "I had always imagined a philosophical journal of my seventy-ninth year, dealing with the joys and problems, the doors opening out from old age to unknown efforts and surprises. I looked forward to the year as a potent harvest," May Sarton writes. Assailed by debilitating illnesses, Sarton found herself instead using much of her energy battling for health. Yet, as this record shows, she did after all do what she had wanted to, as she persevered in work, friendships, and love of nature, discovering in the process new landscapes in the country of old age.
"I had always imagined a philosophical journal of my seventy-ninth year, dealing with the joys and problems, the doors opening out from old age to unk...
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108,72 zł |
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Crucial Conversations
ISBN: 9780393311020 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Reed and Poppy Whitelaw's conventional and apparently serene life together is shattered when Poppy tells Reed that she has decided to leave him. In a series of encounters that follow the shock of this news, which affects not only Reed but also their children and friends--in particular Philip, who must learn why he is so invested in their marriage--Reed and Poppy struggle to make sense of their lives in this alien new terrain.
Reed and Poppy Whitelaw's conventional and apparently serene life together is shattered when Poppy tells Reed that she has decided to leave him. In a ...
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82,57 zł |
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Journal of a Solitude
ISBN: 9780393309287 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this book, we are closer to the marrow than ever before in May Sarton's writing.
In this book, we are closer to the marrow than ever before in May Sarton's writing.
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69,50 zł |
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A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations
ISBN: 9780393305005 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. May Sarton's celebrations in this book center around the friendships that flowered in her life from age twenty-six to age forty-five between the end of I Knew a Phoenix and the beginning of Plant Dreaming Deep. Her subjects include her father, the noted science historian George Sarton; people in the arts Elizabeth Bowen, Louise Brogan, Jean Dominique; and people who lived lives remote from the center Marc, the vigneron of Satigny, in the foothills of the Jura mountains, and Quig, the painter of Nelson, New Hampshire."
May Sarton's celebrations in this book center around the friendships that flowered in her life from age twenty-six to age forty-five between the end o...
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95,64 zł |
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May Sarton
ISBN: 9780393039542 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fittingly, an early letter thanks parents for books. Later we enter the world of the theater, then years rich with study, travel, teaching, and the discipline of craft. Sarton's deep anguish as World War II approaches pervades many letters, but readers will also encounter the things that gave Sarton joy: her love of flowers, her affection for animals, her celebration of beauty in all its guises As Sarton divides her time between America and Europe, in an era when ocean voyages were the norm, illustrious acquaintances and intimates are introduced, among them Eva Le Gallienne, Elizabeth Bowen,...
Fittingly, an early letter thanks parents for books. Later we enter the world of the theater, then years rich with study, travel, teaching, and the di...
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226,59 zł |
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Miss Pickthorn and Mr. Hare: A Fable
ISBN: 9780393330991 / Angielski / Miękka / 1966 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An extended fable about a Latin mistress, in retirement with her translations of Horace, and a hobo who takes up residence in the henhouse nearby.
An extended fable about a Latin mistress, in retirement with her translations of Horace, and a hobo who takes up residence in the henhouse nearby.
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73,86 zł |
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At Eighty-Two: A Journal
ISBN: 9780393316223 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. May Sarton's eagerly awaited journals have recorded her life as a single, woman writer and, in later years, as a woman confronting old age. She completed this pilgrimage through her eighty-second year a few months before she died in 1995.
May Sarton's eagerly awaited journals have recorded her life as a single, woman writer and, in later years, as a woman confronting old age. She comple...
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108,72 zł |
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The House by the Sea
ISBN: 9780393313901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here she found the peace and aloneness she sought--and partly feared. The journal records the renewing of her life and work in this place.
Here she found the peace and aloneness she sought--and partly feared. The journal records the renewing of her life and work in this place.
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100,00 zł |
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Magnificent Spinster
ISBN: 9780393312492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The "magnificent spinster" is Jane Reid, a teacher who became not only a revered role model but a dear friend to Cam, the narrator of this novel within a novel. After Jane's death, the accidental discovery of poems written by Cam in her youth to Jane prompts a flood of recollections--and frees Cam to imagine in fiction Jane's passionately vibrant life.
The "magnificent spinster" is Jane Reid, a teacher who became not only a revered role model but a dear friend to Cam, the narrator of this novel withi...
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113,07 zł |
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The Education of Harriet Hatfield / A Novel by May Sarton
ISBN: 9780393310290 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Harriet Hatfield opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood near Boston, she is bombarded by anonymous threats. And when the Boston Globe reports "Lesbian Bookstore Owner Threatened," her education in the narrow-mindedness of her fellow man--and woman--begins.
When Harriet Hatfield opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood near Boston, she is bombarded by anonymous threats. And when the Bosto...
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108,72 zł |
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After the Stroke: A Journal
ISBN: 9780393306309 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The author chronicles her efforts to regain her health after having suffered a stroke at the age of seventy-three, describes her self-proclaimed life of solitude, and offers keen observations on the natural world surrounding her.
The author chronicles her efforts to regain her health after having suffered a stroke at the age of seventy-three, describes her self-proclaimed life ...
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100,00 zł |
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The Small Room
ISBN: 9780393008326 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. How the central characters--students and teachers--react to the crisis and what effect the scandal has on their personal and professional lives are the central motifs of May Sarton's sensitive, probing novel. How the central characters--students and teachers--react to the crisis and what effect the scandal has on their personal and professional lives are... |
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95,64 zł |
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Faithful Are the Wounds
ISBN: 9780393317152 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Its central character is Edward Cavan, a brilliant English professor, who commits suicide. His death sets off a shock wave among Cavan's friends and changes things for some of them forever.
Its central character is Edward Cavan, a brilliant English professor, who commits suicide. His death sets off a shock wave among Cavan's friends and c...
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104,36 zł |
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Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year
ISBN: 9780393313178 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this affirmative journal, May Sarton describes both hardships and joys in the daily round of her life in old age--physical struggles counterbalanced by the satisfactions of friendship, nature, critical recognition, and creative spark. Readers both old and new will cherish this latest dispatch from her ongoing journey. Photos.
In this affirmative journal, May Sarton describes both hardships and joys in the daily round of her life in old age--physical struggles counterbalance...
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108,72 zł |
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