wyszukanych pozycji: 22
In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991
ISBN: 9780826348166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of selected works by N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the Kiowa nation, conveys the deep sense of place of the Native American oral tradition. Here are dream-songs about animals (bear, bison, terrapin) and life away from urban alienation, an imagined re-creation based on Billy the Kid, prose poems about Plains Shields (and a fascinating discussion of their background), and new poems that utilize primary colors ('forms of the earth') to... "In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of selected works by N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. Hi... |
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85,89 zł |
The Ancient Child
ISBN: 9780060973452 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday shapes the ancient Kiowa myth of a boy who turned into a bear into a timeless American classic. The Ancient Child juxtaposes Indian lore and Wild West legend into a hypnotic, often lyrical contemporary novel--the story of Locke Setman, known as Set, a Native American raised far from the reservation by his adoptive father. Set feels a strange aching in his soul and, returning to tribal lands for the funeral of his grandmother, is drawn irresistibly to the fabled bear-boy. When he... In his first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday shapes the ancient Kiowa myth of a boy who turne... |
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90,36 zł |
House Made of Dawn
ISBN: 9781474616959 / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece set against the landscape of the American Southwest. 'Superb' New York Times
The Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece set against the landscape of the American Southwest. 'Superb' New York Times
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55,39 zł |
House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed]
ISBN: 9780062909954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,14 zł |
House Made of Dawn
ISBN: 9780061859977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native American, Abel has come home from a foreign war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world -- modern, industrial America -- pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his soul, goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust. And the young man, torn in two, descends into... The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native American, Abel has come home from a for... |
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68,84 zł |
Circle of Wonder: A Native American Christmas Story
ISBN: 9780826367396 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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68,67 zł |
In the Bear's House
ISBN: 9780826348401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,89 zł |
The Way to Rainy Mountain, 50th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780826361219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,98 zł |
Dům z úsvitu
ISBN: 9788072033867 / Czeski / 2001 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Indiánský autor z Nového Mexika získal za svůj román Dům celý z úsvitu z roku 1966 prestižní Pulitzerovu cenu. Kniha se stala nejvýznamnějším dílem moderní indiánské literatury, byla také první knihou psanou o Indiánech Indiánem, která se prosadila celonárodně. Životní osud Indiána Abela, mladého navažského hrdiny, je vylíčením konkrétního lidského života, ale zároveň je symbolem historického osudu všech Indiánů na území Ameriky. Román vyznívá jako obžaloba americké civilizace, která ničí životadárné spojení člověka s...
Indiánský autor z Nového Mexika získal za svůj román Dům celý z úsvitu z roku 1966 prestižní Pulitzerovu cenu. Kniha se stala nejvýznamn...
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49,81 zł |
Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
ISBN: 9780063009332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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86,06 zł |
Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows
ISBN: 9780806138282 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning "House Made of Dawn" and his celebration of his Kiowa ancestry, "The Way to Rainy Mountain." Momaday has also made his mark in theater through two plays and a screenplay. Published here for the first time, they display his signature talent for interweaving oral and literary traditions. "The Indolent Boys" recounts the 1891 tragedy of runaways from the Kiowa Boarding School who froze to death while trying to return to their families. The play explores the consequences, for... Long a leading figure in American literature, N. Scott Momaday is perhaps best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning "House Made of Dawn" and his ce... |
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128,94 zł |
The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780062961167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,06 zł |
Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows
ISBN: 9780806164526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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119,06 zł |
Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780826348432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This first book of his poems to be published in over a decade, Again the Far Morning comprises a varied selection of new work along with the best from his four earlier books of poems: Angle of Geese (1974), The Gourd Dancer (1976), In the Presence of the Sun (1992), and In the Bear's House (1999). To read Momaday's poems from the last forty years is to understand that his focus on Kiowa traditions and other American Indian myths is further evidence of his spectacular...
Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This first book of his po...
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156,98 zł |
The Journey of Tai-me
ISBN: 9780826348210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'Tai-Me' is a traditional medicine bundle used by the Kiowa in their Sun Dance. The bundle has been handed down from generation to generation, through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. The author set out on his quest to learn and document the Kiowa heritage, stories, and folklore. This book gathers these stories.
'Tai-Me' is a traditional medicine bundle used by the Kiowa in their Sun Dance. The bundle has been handed down from generation to generation, through...
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85,89 zł |
Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind
ISBN: 9780063218116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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67,53 zł |
Owl in the Cedar Tree
ISBN: 9780803281844 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Haske, a Navaho boy, is torn between the past of his people's rich, self-sustaining culture and a present that opens up new possibilities. His parents propel him in one direction, his grandfather in another, his teacher in still another. The boy has a secret wish, but its fulfillment seems beyond reach. At night he listens to the hoot of the owl in the cedar tree and wonders if good fortune or bad is in store. This beautifully written story finally supplies the answer. The author, Natachee Scott Momaday, was born in Kentucky of French, Cherokee Indian, and English lineage. She spent much of...
Haske, a Navaho boy, is torn between the past of his people's rich, self-sustaining culture and a present that opens up new possibilities. His parents...
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57,89 zł |
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
ISBN: 9780878059607 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When his first novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969, N. Scott Momaday was virtually unknown. Today he is the most acclaimed Native American writer, working at the peak of his creative power and gaining stature also as an important painter. His first retrospective was held in 1993 at the Wheel-wright Museum in Santa Fe. The son of a Kiowa artist and a Cherokee-Anglo mother, Momaday synthesizes multiple cultural influences in his writing and painting. While much of his attention focuses on the difficult task of reconciling ancient traditions with...
When his first novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969, N. Scott Momaday was virtually unknown. Today he is...
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187,11 zł |
Spirit Woman: The Teachings of the Shields
ISBN: 9781585425761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lynn V. Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of others. Join her as she is initiated into the Sisterhood and creates her own shield, which will show her the nature of her spiritual path (Spirit Woman). Follow her to the Yucatan, where the medicine wheel leads her, and she is faced with the terrifying reality of the butterfly tree (Jaguar Woman). Enter the Dreamtime with her, where she emerges in medieval England as Catherine, and encounters the Grandmother, who offers to show...
Lynn V. Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of ot...
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103,32 zł |
La Dague des sylves
ISBN: 9781731484215 / Francuski / Miękka / 2018 / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,54 zł |