wyszukanych pozycji: 61
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Faithful Are the Wounds
ISBN: 9780393317152 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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91,43 |
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At Seventy: A Journal
ISBN: 9780393310306 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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97,95 |
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The Small Room
ISBN: 9780393008326 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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83,81 |
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May Sarton
ISBN: 9780393039542 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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209,59 |
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Miss Pickthorn and Mr. Hare: A Fable
ISBN: 9780393330991 / Angielski / Miękka / 1966 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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64,75 |
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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393312485 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood anddescribes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hercoming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a writer.
Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood anddescribes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hercoming-of-age years,...
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83,81 |
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Shadow of a Man
ISBN: 9780393300307 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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95,25 |
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Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year
ISBN: 9780393313178 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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99,06 |
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The House by the Sea
ISBN: 9780393313901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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91,43 |
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The Birth of a Grandfather
ISBN: 9780393305913 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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91,43 |
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First Year Teacher
ISBN: 9780595312672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Clive Monroe is English, but takes up his first teaching position at an independent secondary school in the USA. The school is co-educational, mixed day and boarding, and about to undergo a transition mandated by its Board of Trustees, who have appointed a new headmaster for this purpose. At the same time the school is affected by the general "student revolutionism" of the late 'sixties. The way the new British teacher, shouldered with unexpected responsibilities, faces up to these and other crises creates a compelling dramatic interest. His new challenges when he finds himself in charge of...
Clive Monroe is English, but takes up his first teaching position at an independent secondary school in the USA. The school is co-educational, mixed d...
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64,61 |
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Fucking Relax
ISBN: 9780986309830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A book of strongly-worded, sage advice, Fucking Relax is part of the LifeMath Series of books by Alexandra Love Sarton. With 30 hand-drawn, intricate and meditative designs, it's sure to be a perfect, long-lasting companion to any spiritual practice. We here at LifeMath understand that enlightenment is a process, not a fucking destination. Now's the time to be real about our feelings and sort out our bullshit, one day, one page, one moment at a time. A book of strongly-worded, sage advice, Fucking Relax is part of the LifeMath Series of books by Alexandra Love Sarton. With 30 hand-drawn, intrica... |
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57,39 |
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Baptism in Siberia
ISBN: 9780595250851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tragedy often provides the vehicle we need to motivate ourselves to spiritual exploration. Such is the case for the protagonist in Christopher Sarton s stirring new novel,
Tragedy often provides the vehicle we need to motivate ourselves to spiritual exploration. Such is the case for the protagonist in Christopher Sarton ...
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56,98 |
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First Year Teacher
ISBN: 9780595767045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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102,72 |
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Fucking Love Yourself
ISBN: 9780986309847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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51,01 |
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Baptism in Siberia
ISBN: 9780595650309 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tragedy often provides the vehicle we need to motivate ourselves to spiritual exploration. Such is the case for the protagonist in Christopher Sarton s stirring new novel,
Tragedy often provides the vehicle we need to motivate ourselves to spiritual exploration. Such is the case for the protagonist in Christopher Sarton ...
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95,10 |
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Coming Into Eighty: Poems
ISBN: 9780393316230 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here are Sarton's observations and reflections, many of which came to her as if by magic during the small hours of the morning. Along with the daily events of writing a letter, appreciating her flowers, taking care of her car Pierrot, these poems wrestle with the larger questions of life and death, the difficulties and rewards of living alone. Here are Sarton's observations and reflections, many of which came to her as if by magic during the small hours of the morning. Along with the dail... |
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60,94 |
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Inner Landscape: Poems
ISBN: 9781684220083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 2016 Reprint of 1937 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The subject of the book is the human heart. The emotion is intense, the point of view mature, the expression direct, fresh and simple. Sarton's aim is to present the landscape of the heart without confusion and without sentimentality, a fire reflected in a mirror, flight as expressed in the tension of a spire--From the dust jacket. 2016 Reprint of 1937 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The subject of the book is ... |
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48,11 |
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Collected Poems, 1930-1993
ISBN: 9780393034936 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lucid, ardent, and contemplative, May Sarton is one of America's best-loved writers. This comprehensive collection - the first in twenty years - celebrates six decades of bold imagination and fifteen books of poetry, the creative output of a lifetime. Arranged chronologically, these poems reveal the full breadth of Sarton's creative vision. Themes include the search for an inward order, her passions, the natural world, self-knowledge, and, in her latest poems, the trials of old age. Moving through Sarton's work, we see her at ease in both traditional forms and free verse, finding inspiration...
Lucid, ardent, and contemplative, May Sarton is one of America's best-loved writers. This comprehensive collection - the first in twenty years - celeb...
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228,65 |
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A Private Mythology: Poems
ISBN: 9780393315523 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In these poems, May Sarton reflects on a journey undertaken to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, a journey that took her around the world to Greece via Japan and India, and finally home to the New Hampshire village where she had put down roots.
In these poems, May Sarton reflects on a journey undertaken to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, a journey that took her around the world to Greece via...
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68,57 |