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The Comforters
ISBN: 9780811223003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a diabolic bookseller, human evil.
With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a...
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68,39 zł |
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The Finishing School
ISBN: 9781400077397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located, for now, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into Rowland s creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a red-haired literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots, has...
From Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved The Prim...
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87,15 zł |
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The Bachelors
ISBN: 9781782117551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, Wilde and Wodehouse. It demands rediscovery. 'It's easy to see why Waugh admired The Bachelors. On one level, it is a blithely carnivorous satire in the Waugh mould. The bachelors of the title - almost the only men we meet in the narrative - are the thirty-something male barristers, teachers, journalists and museum attendants of a small patch of West London. They lead inturned, doddery, superannuated lives, pottering between... The Bachelors displays the best of Sparkian satire, placing her at the heart of a great literary tradition alongside Waugh and Trollope, ... |
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50,99 zł |
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The Abbess of Crewe: A Modern Morality Tale
ISBN: 9780811212960 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An elegant fable about intrigue, corruption, and electronic surveillance, 'The Abbess of Crewe' (1974) is set in an English Benedictine convent. Steely and silky Abbess Alexandra has bugged the convent, and rigged her election. But the cat gets out of the bag, and--plunged into scandal--the serene Abbess faces a Vatican inquiry.
An elegant fable about intrigue, corruption, and electronic surveillance, 'The Abbess of Crewe' (1974) is set in an English Benedictine convent. Steel...
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60,12 zł |
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The Public Image: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844089673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect image must be carefully cultivated, whatever the cost. Beneath the facade, though, her husband cannot bear her or their vapid existence. Envious of her success, he plots his revenge and stages a scandal even Annabel will find a challenge to recover from.
Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under h...
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50,99 zł |
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Loitering With Intent
ISBN: 9781844082483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life.
This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life.
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50,99 zł |
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye
ISBN: 9780141188355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye and brings lies, tears, blackmail and even murder into the lives of all he meets, from Miss Merle Coverdale, head of the typing pool, to Beauty, the resident femme fatale, and even Mr Druce, the unsuspecting Managing Director himself.
A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, b...
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50,99 zł |
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A Far Cry From Kensington
ISBN: 9780349019581 / Miękka / 23-01-2025 / 208 str. Książka dostępna od: 23-01-2025 |
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48,44 zł |
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A Far Cry from Kensington
ISBN: 9780811223027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rich and slim, the celebrated author Nancy Hawkins takes us in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London, where she spends her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher ( of very good books ) and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington rooming house. Everywhere Mrs. Hawkins finds evil: with aplomb, however, she confidently sets about putting things to order, to terrible effect."
Rich and slim, the celebrated author Nancy Hawkins takes us in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London, where she spends her ...
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69,50 zł |
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The Girls Of Slender Means
ISBN: 9780241989128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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45,89 zł |
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Territorial Rights
ISBN: 9780811222655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Layers of intrigue; triangulating love affairs; murders; international spy-craft; adultery; parental interference; the sweet careless rapture of youth; unmarked graves Territorial Rights claims much ground and Muriel Spark enjoys a wicked dance on it."
Layers of intrigue; triangulating love affairs; murders; international spy-craft; adultery; parental interference; the sweet careless rapture of youth...
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71,06 zł |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN: 9780061711299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, and--most important--in her dedication to -her girls, - the students she selects to be her creme de la creme. Fanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie set--Eunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandy--is -famous for something, - and Miss... At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in h... |
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78,39 zł |
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The Finishing School
ISBN: 9781782117575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep the funds flowing. When a seventeen-year-old student's writing career begins to show great promise, tensions run high. A keen portrait of devouring regret, psychological unravelling and the glittering promise of youth, The Finishing... 'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Mu... |
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50,99 zł |
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Memento Mori
ISBN: 9781844085521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Muriel Spark's 'Memento Mori', first published in 1959, is among the finest novels by one of the most witty and inclusive British writers of recent times. It tells the acidly funny story of a group of elderly people who start to receive threatening phone calls telling them 'remember, you must die'.
Muriel Spark's 'Memento Mori', first published in 1959, is among the finest novels by one of the most witty and inclusive British writers of recent ti...
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50,99 zł |
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The Girls Of Slender Means
ISBN: 9780241963999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, The Girls of Slender Means 'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions' In the May of Teck Club - a London hostel 'three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit' - the young lady residents do their best to act as if the war never happened. They practice elocution, and jostle one another over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. But behind the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations they hide some tragically painful secrets and wounds.'You girls are my...
Beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, The Girls of Slender Means 'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England w...
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50,99 zł |
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Memento Mori
ISBN: 9780811223041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled, and many an old unsavory secret is dusted off.
In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. ...
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71,06 zł |
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Memento Mori
ISBN: 9780349010342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times). Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.
A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times). Published as part of a beautifully desi...
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56,09 zł |
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye
ISBN: 9780811222990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a wickedly farcical tale of an English factory town turned upside-down by a Scot who may or may not be in league with the Devil. Dougal Douglas is hired to do human research into the lives of the workers, Douglas stirs up mutiny and murder. "
The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a wickedly farcical tale of an English factory town turned upside-down by a Scot who may or may not be in league...
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51,98 zł |
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Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography
ISBN: 9780811219235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Muriel Spark s bracingly salty memoir is a no-holds-barred trip through an extraordinary writer s life.
Muriel Spark s bracingly salty memoir is a no-holds-barred trip through an extraordinary writer s life.
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65,59 zł |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN: 9781509843701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. An elegant collector's edition of Muriel Spark's classic novel of one teacher's terrible, far-reaching influence on the lives of her students.
An elegant collector's edition of Muriel Spark's classic novel of one teacher's terrible, far-reaching influence on the lives of her students.
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56,09 zł |
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