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The Confidence-Man: Volume Ten, Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780810103245 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The authoritative edition of Melville's last novel
The authoritative edition of Melville's last novel
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Moby Dick (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)
ISBN: 9781998621736 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
219,28 |
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The Confidence-man
ISBN: 9780140445473 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a 'cosmopolitan' gentleman, who simply swindles a barber out of the price of a shave. Making very little from his hoaxes, the pleasure of trickery seems an end in itself for this slippery conman. Is he the Devil? Is his chicanery merely intended to expose the mercenary concerns of those around him? Set on April Fool's...
Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick suc...
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66,30 |
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Pierre, or The Ambiguities. NOVEL (1852) by: Herman Melville (World's Classics)
ISBN: 9781540623560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is a novel, the seventh book, by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The plot, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanley, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancee; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister. According to scholar Henry A. Murray, in writing Pierre Melville "purposed to write his spiritual autobiography in the form of a novel" rather than to experiment with the novel and...
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is a novel, the seventh book, by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The plot, which use...
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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) by: Herman Melville. ( NOVEL )
ISBN: 9781546614821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. s the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857. The book was published on April 1, the exact day of the novel's setting. The Confidence-Man portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony, and cynicism. Many critics have placed The Confidence-Man...
s the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857. The book was published on April 1, the exact...
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49,14 |
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Benito Cereno, 1 Audio-CD, MP3 : Ungekürzte Lesung mit Rolf Boysen (1 mp3-CD), Lesung
ISBN: 9783742413918 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
cena:
68,04 |
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Moby Dick
ISBN: 9781613822241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
93,71 |
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall-Street
ISBN: 9781365147883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ever Felt Alone, Surrounded by People...?
Bartleby the Scrivener explores the theme of isolation in American life and the workplace through actual physical loneliness and mental loneliness. Although all of the characters at the office are related by being co-workers, Bartleby is the only one whose name is known to us and seems serious, as the rest of characters have odd nicknames, such as ""Nippers"" or ""Turkey."" This excludes him from being normal in the workplace. Bartlebys former job was at the ""Dead Letter Office"" that received mail with nowhere to go, representing the isolation... Ever Felt Alone, Surrounded by People...?
Bartleby the Scrivener explores the theme of isolation in American life and the workplace... |
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65,58 |
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Moby-Dick; Or, the Whale
ISBN: 9781547063642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
49,31 |
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Abenteuer in der Südsee: Taipi + Omoo
ISBN: 9788027348824 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Zur Inhalt: Von dem Walfänger "Dolly" desertiert der Ich-Erzähler "Tom" gemeinsam mit einem Kameraden namens Toby während eines Zwischenhaltes in der Bucht der Marquesas-Insel Nukuhiva. Die beiden suchen Zuflucht bei einem der ansässigen Insulaner-Stämme, den "Typee", in einem abgelegenen Tal der Insel. Dort angekommen, werden sie zwar freundlich aufgenommen, jedoch praktisch gefangengehalten. Im Verlauf der Erzählung wird das Alltagsleben und einige Bräuche der Typee beschrieben, so unter anderem das Familienleben, die unterschiedliche Rolle der Geschlechter und das kriegerische...
Zur Inhalt: Von dem Walfänger "Dolly" desertiert der Ich-Erzähler "Tom" gemeinsam mit einem Kameraden namens Toby während eines Zwischenhaltes in d...
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Moby-Dick
ISBN: 9781509826643 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by a crazed captain hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Melville transforms the little world of the whale-ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary, compressed intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a most profoundly imaginative literary... On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by a crazed... |
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Bílá velryba - audiobook
ISBN: 8590236094628 / Czeski / audio (mc/cd) / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Píše se rok 1814. V přístavním městečku New Bedford se chystá mladý Izmael na moře. Dá se najmout na velrybářskou loď, jejíž kapitán Achab kdysi přišel o nohu v boji s bílou velrybou zvanou Moby Dick. Brzy se ukáže, že cílem nové výpravy není lov, ale pomsta za každou cenu.
Píše se rok 1814. V přístavním městečku New Bedford se chystá mladý Izmael na moře. Dá se najmout na velrybářskou loď, jejíž kapitán ...
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Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile(1855)by Herman Melville(Original Version)
ISBN: 9781530976997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
32,85 |
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The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897) By: Herman Melville (World's Classics)
ISBN: 9781530921669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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36,93 |
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I and My Chimney
ISBN: 9781984155498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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49,35 |
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street
ISBN: 9781723261503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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32,70 |
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
ISBN: 9783753165851 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The novel by Herman Melville draws on the author's personal experiences as a crew member of a ship in the Pacific and colorfully depicts the life of a sailor in the 19th century. In the vastness of Polynesia and aboard a whaling ship, the main character experiences various adventures. He also comes into contact with mutineers, deserters, but also natives. Will he escape imprisonment and get to Tahiti?
The novel by Herman Melville draws on the author's personal experiences as a crew member of a ship in the Pacific and colorfully depicts the life of a...
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Moby Dick
ISBN: 9781516804221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cunningly observant crew member Ishmael, Moby-Dick is the tale of the hunt for the elusive, omnipotent, and ultimately mystifying white whale-Moby Dick. On its surface, Moby-Dick is a vivid documentary of life aboard a nineteenth-century whaler, a virtual encyclopedia of whales and whaling,...
On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that featu...
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79,12 |
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Mardi and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II
ISBN: 9798330527250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
70,14 |
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Pierre, or The Ambiguities (1852). By: Herman Melville: Novel, the seventh book, by American writer Herman Melville.
ISBN: 9781542920452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
61,80 |