wyszukanych pozycji: 225
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Africa Fresh! New Voices from the First Continent
ISBN: 9781411663978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An anthology of African writing only featured on the Internet until now, this book features the collected works of writers for the G21 AFRICA section of G21.net. The eight writers represented here are from around the continent and present an exciting look at cutting-edge fiction and reporting from the first continent today.
An anthology of African writing only featured on the Internet until now, this book features the collected works of writers for the G21 AFRICA section ...
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90,47 |
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Yellow Dog
ISBN: 9780099267591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Novelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations. Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a reading of the present and the very near future. This work serves as an example of how the novel, or more particularly the comic novel, can respond to this transformation.
Novelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations. Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a reading of the pres...
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50,28 |
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Girl, 20
ISBN: 9780141194240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Girl, 20' is a merciless send-up of 1970s London's permissive society from a master of uproarious comedy.
'Girl, 20' is a merciless send-up of 1970s London's permissive society from a master of uproarious comedy.
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55,31 |
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The Old Devils
ISBN: 9780099461050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and ...
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50,28 |
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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
ISBN: 9781526640154 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How's Your Glass? In one handsome package, the book covers a full shelf of the master's riotous and erudite thoughts on the drinking arts: Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) are Amis's musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man's Diet, The Mean Sod's Guide, and (presumably as a...
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volum...
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65,37 |
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Success
ISBN: 9780099461852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Gregory leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days & nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief. But roles are reversed with both lives dramatically changed.
Gregory leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days & nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests. His foster brother, Terry, has ...
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Time's Arrow
ISBN: 9780679735724 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. "The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art."--Newsday
In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and ma...
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Mayhem at Buffalo Bill's Wild West
ISBN: 9781432831332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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89,83 |
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Koba The Dread
ISBN: 9780099438021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, this work gives us information about Stalin: Koba the Dread, losif the Terrible.
Addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal...
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66,56 |
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Take A Girl Like You
ISBN: 9780141194271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in Britain.
Twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. ...
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55,31 |
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Snatched from the Fire
ISBN: 9781926585871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Amis, portraying herself as Sabrina Matheson, was living a relatively normal, happy life when a break-up, and well-intentioned recovery trip kicked off a chain of events that would leave the life she once knew in shambles. She realizes that her step-grandmother, who influenced the spiritual aspect of ex-serial killer David Berkowitz's life also influenced her spiritual life, but in an adverse way. To help cope with a difficult break-up, Amis' father sends her on a vacation in Jamaica with her best friend. It is there that she almost instantly becomes "consumed into the fire" when she is... Amis, portraying herself as Sabrina Matheson, was living a relatively normal, happy life when a break-up, and well-intentioned recovery trip kicked... |
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House of Meetings
ISBN: 9780099488682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. This title is about one such liaison.
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spe...
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55,31 |
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Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
ISBN: 9781400032204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's award-winning memoir, Experience. Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century -- one that spread through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought: the indulgence of Communism by the intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginnings and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one-hundred...
A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's award-winnin...
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79,82 |
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The Zone of Interest
ISBN: 9781529942293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,28 |
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Stanley And The Women
ISBN: 9780099461043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Stanley Duke thinks it is safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked or just plain capricious. As they gnaw away at his composure, he wonders whether insanity is not something with which women are intimately acquainted.
Stanley Duke thinks it is safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sid...
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81,93 |
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The Folks That Live On The Hill
ISBN: 9780141194301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convival academic who devotes his life to others. When the Adams' Institute of Cultural and Commercial History in America offers him the opportunity to 'do whatever he wanted to do', he faces a choice between freedom or responsibility.
Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convival academic who devotes his life to others. When the Adams' Institute of Cultural a...
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55,31 |
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The Rachel Papers
ISBN: 9781250358745 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,22 |
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Lucky Jim
ISBN: 9781590175750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones." Kingsley Amis's scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in...
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently m...
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Lionel Asbo: State of England
ISBN: 9780099565680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful criminal - has always looked out for his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He gives him fatherly advice and introduces him to the joys of Internet porn. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books, a girl to love and to steer clear Uncle Li's psychotic pitbulls, Joe and Jeff.
Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful criminal - has always looked out for his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He gives him fatherly advice...
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50,28 |