wyszukanych pozycji: 63
Living on Paper : Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995
ISBN: 9780701187057 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Offers a portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. This title reveals author's personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its intriguing complexity: her emotional hunger and her tendency to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable.
Offers a portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. This title reveals author's personal life, the subject of much spec...
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137,29 zł |
The Good Apprentice
ISBN: 9780141186689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram. Funny and compelling, The Good Apprentice is at once a supremely sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry into the spiritual crises that afflict the modern world. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic...
Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a halluc...
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105,53 zł |
The Sandcastle
ISBN: 9780099433583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The quiet life of schoolteacher Bill Mor and his family is disturbed when Rain Carter arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor becomes aware of new desires and his wife and children fight discreetly and ruthlessly against Rain and her influence over him.
The quiet life of schoolteacher Bill Mor and his family is disturbed when Rain Carter arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. M...
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56,62 zł |
The Book and the Brotherhood
ISBN: 9780140104707 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A story about love and friendship and Marxism
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends commissioned one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest? Rose Curtland asks. The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history, Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement. Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide... A story about love and friendship and Marxism
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends commissioned one of their number to write a political... |
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92,86 zł |
The Time Of The Angels
ISBN: 9780099429098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Carel Fisher is a priest who is experiencing doubt and beginning to feel hate for God. The novel explores the forces of good and evil, and studies a religious man transferring his faith from one force to the other.
Carel Fisher is a priest who is experiencing doubt and beginning to feel hate for God. The novel explores the forces of good and evil, and studies a r...
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51,46 zł |
A Severed Head
ISBN: 9780140020038 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love
Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional reeducation. He attempts to behave beautifully and sensibly. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendor at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. As his Medusa informs him, "this is nothing to do with happiness." A Severed Head was adapted for a successful stage... A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love
Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a d... |
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67,54 zł |
A Fairly Honourable Defeat
ISBN: 9780099285335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With a new introduction by Susan Hill.
In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and honestly." With a new introduction by Susan Hill.
In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual... |
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56,62 zł |
The Philosopher's Pupil
ISBN: 9780099283591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the healing waters of Ennistone the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing. To this town of subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. And there he exerts an almost magical influence, especially over George McCaffrey, his old pupil.
In the healing waters of Ennistone the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing. To this town of subterranean insp...
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56,62 zł |
The Bell (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)
ISBN: 9781784875206 / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Charming, indolent Dora arrives in their midst, and half-unwittingly conjures these submerged things to the surface.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRYVINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
Charming, indolent Dora arrives in their midst, and half-unwittingly conjures these submerged things to the surface.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERR...
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56,62 zł |
The Italian Girl
ISBN: 9781504049221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,16 zł |
The Good Apprentice
ISBN: 9780099285250 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend. He dreams sometimes of redemption, sometimes of suicide.
Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a pr...
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98,79 zł |
The Black Prince
ISBN: 9780142180112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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67,54 zł |
The Red and the Green
ISBN: 9780099429135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Introduction by Declan Kiberd The scene is Dublin in 1916. As rebellion looms, tension mounts in the sombre, rain-soaked Dublin streets. A single Anglo-Irish family provides the diverse characters: Pat Dumay, a Catholic and an Irish patriot; his pious mother pursuing her private war with his step-father; Pat's English-Protestant cousin Andrew Chase-White, an officer in King Edward's Horse and Frances, the girl he loves. Weaving between them all moves Millie Kinnard - fast, feminist, and only just respectable.
Introduction by Declan Kiberd The scene is Dublin in 1916. As rebellion looms, tension mounts in the sombre, rain-soaked Dublin streets. A single ...
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56,62 zł |
The Nice and the Good
ISBN: 9780140030341 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice and being good.
John Ducane, a respected Whitehall civil servant, is asked to investigate the suicide of a colleague. As he pursues his inquiry, he uncovers a shabby, evil world of murder, blackmail, and black magic. He begins to feel more trapped than trapping. In contrast to a stagnant summer in London, Octavian and Kate Gray s adoring community on the Dorset coast seems to offer Ducane refuge, but even here the after-effects of... From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea comes a story about revenge and reconciliation, and the difference between being nice ...
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92,86 zł |
Nuns and Soldiers
ISBN: 9780099285359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Tim is a different sort of soldier. He plans to live off rich friends. Who will judge whom in this story?
Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Tim is a different sort of soldier. He plans...
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56,62 zł |
The Sea, The Sea
ISBN: 9780099284093 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When Charles Arrowby, a 60+ demi-god of the theatre, retires from his glittering London world in order to become a hermit, it is to the sea that he turns. He hopes at least to escape from the women. He unexpectedly meets one whom he loved long ago.
When Charles Arrowby, a 60+ demi-god of the theatre, retires from his glittering London world in order to become a hermit, it is to the sea that he tu...
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56,62 zł |
Henry And Cato
ISBN: 9780099429081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The story of two prodigal sons that questions the nature of love, whether it is a route to salvation or a type of demonic possession.
The story of two prodigal sons that questions the nature of love, whether it is a route to salvation or a type of demonic possession.
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87,81 zł |
Something Special
ISBN: 9780099422655 / Miękka / 2001 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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71,34 zł |
The Sacred And Profane Love Machine
ISBN: 9780099433576 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Presents a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither.
Presents a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither.
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87,81 zł |