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A Shower of Summer Days
ISBN: 9780393312508 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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Anger
ISBN: 9780393313895 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments. Emotional and forthright, Anna battles against Ned's crippling reserve. In this new paperback reissue of the clash of two strong personalities, May Sarton explores the different ways that men and women express both anger and love.
The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments. Emotional a...
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83,35 |
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A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations
ISBN: 9780393305005 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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87,14 |
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At Eighty-Two: A Journal
ISBN: 9780393316223 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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98,51 |
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Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
ISBN: 9780393309294 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. May Sarton's ninth novel explores a woman's struggle to reconcile the claims of life and art, to transmute passion and pain into poetry. As it opens, Hilary Stevens, a renowned poet in her seventies, is talking with Mar, an intense young man who has sought her out and whose passionate despair reminds her of herself when young. Mar has had an unhappy love affair with a man. Bewildered by both his sexuality and his writing talent, he flings his anguish against Hilary's brusque, sympathetic intelligence.
May Sarton's ninth novel explores a woman's struggle to reconcile the claims of life and art, to transmute passion and pain into poetry. As it opens, ...
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The Fur Person
ISBN: 9780393349900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This enchanting story and classic of cat literature is drawn from the true adventures of Tom Jones, May Sarton's own cat. Prior to making the author's acquaintance, he is a fiercely independent, nameless Cat About Town. Growing tired of his vagabond lifestyle, however, he concludes that there might be some appeal in giving up his freedom for a home. Finally, a house materializes that does seem acceptable and so do the voices that inhabit it. It is here that he begins his transformation into a genuine Fur Person. Sarton's book is one of the most beloved stories ever written about the joys and...
This enchanting story and classic of cat literature is drawn from the true adventures of Tom Jones, May Sarton's own cat. Prior to making the author's...
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56,67 |
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Kinds of Love
ISBN: 9780393311013 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. May Sarton's Willard is a small town in the rocky hills of New Hampshire, a place that attracts "the untameable, the wild, the gentle." As Sarton takes us into the lives of the people who live there, we encounter a rich tapestry of characters and relationships. In the center are the deep, prickly friendship between Christina, an old Bostonian, and Ellen, the daughter of a farmer, and the unfolding process by which Christina and her husband "come into their own" in their marriage and become winter people at last
May Sarton's Willard is a small town in the rocky hills of New Hampshire, a place that attracts "the untameable, the wild, the gentle." As Sarton take...
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113,67 |
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Magnificent Spinster
ISBN: 9780393312492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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102,30 |
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The Fur Person
ISBN: 9781614279754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 2016 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This charming story is drawn from the true adventures of Sartons own cat, and recounts his evolution from a stray to a gentleman cat, and finally, his emergence as a Fur Person. "A Fur Person is a cat who had decided to stay with people as long as he lives. This can only happen if a human being has imagined a part of himself into a cat just as the cat has imagined part of himself into a human being." Illustrated by Barbara Knox.
2016 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This charming story is draw...
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37,25 |
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Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year
ISBN: 9780393313888 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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98,51 |
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Plant Dreaming Deep
ISBN: 9780393315516 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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After the Stroke: A Journal
ISBN: 9780393306309 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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90,93 |
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A Reckoning
ISBN: 9780393316216 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The heart of the story is Laura's realization that for her the real connections have been with women: her brilliant and devastating mother, a difficult daughter, and most of all a woman she knew when she was young.
The heart of the story is Laura's realization that for her the real connections have been with women: her brilliant and devastating mother, a difficul...
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87,14 |
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Journal of a Solitude
ISBN: 9780393309287 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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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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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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90,93 |
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At Seventy: A Journal
ISBN: 9780393310306 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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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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83,35 |
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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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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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