wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Otherwise Fables: Gobble-Up Stories/Chi-Po and the Sorcerer/The History of Sigismund, Prince of Poland
ISBN: 9781938849213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Dazzlingly witty" --CYNTHIA OZICK Otherwise Fables is the first complete collection of Oscar Mandel's fiction, including the Gobble-Up Stories and the novellas The History of Sigismund, Prince of Poland, and Chi Po and the Sorcerer. As witty as Sedaris and as profound as Calderon, Mandel's little moral tales are full of unexpected points, deep lessons, ethical ambiguity, and dry wit. Slyly subversive tales of magicians, princes, and animals will delight readers young and old with intellectually sophisticated examples of philosophical allegory and...
"Dazzlingly witty" --CYNTHIA OZICK Otherwise Fables is the first complete collection of Oscar Mandel's fiction, including the Gob...
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65,18 zł |
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Complete Theatre: twenty plays, forty-three fables
ISBN: 9781947322103 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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183,33 zł |
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The Book of Elaborations: Essays
ISBN: 9780811210232 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Like Montaigne before him, Mandel examines the antic mind of his fellowmen, vain, various, and ever-changing, and its peculiar manifestations in an age that embraces ugliness and irrationality. The sixteen pieces in the collection are, literally, 'elaborations' discursive, associative, meditative of the author's earlier lyric poems and epigrams, arranged by him to move in an easy way from the autobiographical to matters more general and abstract."
Like Montaigne before him, Mandel examines the antic mind of his fellowmen, vain, various, and ever-changing, and its peculiar manifestations in an ag...
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53,08 zł |
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Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry
ISBN: 9781850758372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry takes the reader on a journey that sets out with a consideration of the various arts humankind has created, and then focuses on the special art of poetry: what poetry is, what it does and must do in order to 'succeed' for whom it does what it does, and, in detail, how it goes about doing what it tries to do. Twenty-two chapters deal with subjects like 'The Constituencies for Art', 'What Meaning Means', 'Acceptable and Unacceptable Propositions', 'The Right Word in the Right Place', 'The Sounds that Matter in Poetry', 'Energetic Metaphor: the Major Figure'... Fundamentals of the Art of Poetry takes the reader on a journey that sets out with a consideration of the various arts humankind has created, and t... |
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403,79 zł |
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Annotations to Vanity Fair, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780819171870 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This second edition of a unique companion to Thackeray's great novel enables the reader to follow the novelist step by step through the maze of his erudition, clarifying the immense range of references in the novel. Since these annotations are keyed to Thackeray's chapters, not to the page numbers of any particular edition of the novel, they can be consulted in connection with any edition of Vanity Fair the reader happens to own. Within each chapter of this book, the entries follow the order in which they appear in the novel. In addition to the words, phrases, and allusions which obviously or...
This second edition of a unique companion to Thackeray's great novel enables the reader to follow the novelist step by step through the maze of his er...
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331,35 zł |
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Otherwise Poems
ISBN: 9781938849558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,22 zł |
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The Theatre of Don Juan: A Collection of Plays and Views, 1630-1963
ISBN: 9780803281370 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 731 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Many good things are provided for our instruction and delight in this handsome volume. Chief among them perhaps, and most keenly wanted in a collection of this sort . . . are sanity and wit." The Romanic Review "A most interesting literary history of the Don Juan theme with the plays or works themselves serving as illustrations. Professor Mandel's general introduction and his shorter introductions and commentaries throughout the book are solid, wise, and engaging." Robert E. Taylor, Renaissance News "This anthology is exhaustive and informative, expertly... "Many good things are provided for our instruction and delight in this handsome volume. Chief among them perhaps, and most keenly wanted in a colle... |
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227,14 zł |