wyszukanych pozycji: 53
Death on the Installment Plan
ISBN: 9780811200172 / Angielski / Miękka / 1971 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Celine's earlier novel Journey to the End of Night.
Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Celine's earlier novel Journey to the End of Night.
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85,29 zł |
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
ISBN: 9781474261227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today. Written during the Second World War in 1941, the play was one of the Berliner Ensemble's most outstanding box-office successes in 1959, and...
Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hi...
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152,02 zł |
Local Anaesthetic
ISBN: 9780156529402 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Starusch, a bachelor aged forty teaching "German and history" (two inseparable subjects), undergoes protracted treatment by a dentist who uses TV to distract his patients. Gagged in his chair, the patient projects onto the screen his past and present with the fluidity and visual quality of the movies. Reality and fantasy, the actual and the repressed, overrun the screen in a mirror image of German history. Thus among other episodes we see Krings, one of Hitler's most ferocious "fight-to-the-finish" generals, return from Russian captivity and engage in sandbox reconstructions of Germany's...
Starusch, a bachelor aged forty teaching "German and history" (two inseparable subjects), undergoes protracted treatment by a dentist who uses TV to d...
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73,01 zł |
Across
ISBN: 9780374527648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Handke's novel tells the story of a quiet, organized classics teacher named Andreas Loser. One night, on the way to his regularly scheduled card game, he passes a tree that has been defaced by a swastika. Impulsively yet deliberately, he tracks down the defacer and kills him. With this act, Loser has crossed an invisble threshold, and will be stuck in this secular purgatory until he can confess his crime. Handke's novel tells the story of a quiet, organized classics teacher named Andreas Loser. One night, on the way to his regularly scheduled card ga... |
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64,42 zł |
Dog Years
ISBN: 9780156261128 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A novel set in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two friends from the prewar years in Germany through an apocalyptic period and its startling aftermath. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
A novel set in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two friends from the prewar years in Germany thr...
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167,28 zł |
The Flounder
ISBN: 9780156319355 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will ar...
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115,95 zł |
Repetition
ISBN: 9781250767271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,01 zł |
The Call of the Toad
ISBN: 9780156153409 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A German art historian and a Polish art restorer find adventure and love in the cemetery business. Their vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
A German art historian and a Polish art restorer find adventure and love in the cemetery business. Their vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those G...
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68,50 zł |
Absence
ISBN: 9780374527631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city. "A remarkably abstract book even for the very abstract Handke ...Slippery but engrossing work, silkily translated." - Kirkus Reviews The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier... |
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64,42 zł |
Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi
ISBN: 9780691642604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian. A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is... A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian. A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the... |
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959,56 zł |
The Four Wise Men
ISBN: 9780801857331 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem--and audaciously imagines a fourth, -the eternal latecomer-' whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has tasted an exquisite confection, rachat loukoum, and is so taken by the flavor that he sets out to recover the recipe. His quest takes him across Western Asia and finally lands him in Sodom, where he is... Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their p... |
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114,68 zł |
The Play of the Eyes
ISBN: 9780374530617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The third volume of his acclaimed autobiographical memoirs, The Play of the Eyes ambles along unpredictably, mingling character sketches, cafe conversations, dramatic readings of his plays, trips to Prague and Strasbourg, musings on the power of crowds and what makes the good man ... Canetti uses a dramatist's gifts here to achieve emotional depth; his mother's death, sketched simply against the backdrop of a crumbling Europe, takes on a tragic dignity." - Publishers Weekly
"The third volume of his acclaimed autobiographical memoirs, The Play of the Eyes ambles along unpredictably, mingling character sketches, cafe...
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120,25 zł |
The Weight of the World: A Journal
ISBN: 9781250767295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,01 zł |
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype
ISBN: 9780691097428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Neumann examines how the Feminine has been experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time. Appearing as goddess and demon, gate and pillar, garden and tree, hovering sky and containing vessel, the Feminine is seen as an essential factor in the dialectical relation of individual consciousness, symbolized by the child, to the ungraspable matrix, symbolized by the Great Mother.
Neumann examines how the Feminine has been experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time. Appearing as goddess and dem... |
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186,69 zł |
From the Diary of a Snail
ISBN: 9780156339506 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The German novelist's experiences campaigning for Willy Brandt provide a portrait of Grass the family man, writer, and concerned citizen, and a meditation on his nation's history and civilization's progress. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
The German novelist's experiences campaigning for Willy Brandt provide a portrait of Grass the family man, writer, and concerned citizen, and a medita...
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73,01 zł |
The Afternoon of a Writer
ISBN: 9781250767264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,42 zł |
Rosshalde
ISBN: 9780312422295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hermann Hesse's Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society. Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his wife and stifled by the unhappy union. Veraguth's love for his young son and his fear of drifting rootlessly keep him bound within the walls of his opulent estate, Rosshalde. Yet, when he is shaken by an unexpected tragedy, Veraguth finally finds the courage to leave the desolate safety of Rosshalde and... Hermann Hesse's Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment t... |
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81,60 zł |
Lectures on the Essence of Religion
ISBN: 9781532646232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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188,96 zł |
Efraim's Book
ISBN: 9780811212625 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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47,95 zł |
Shadowd In Paradise
ISBN: 9780449912485 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A haunting classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadows in Paradise reveals the deepest scars of the men and women who experienced the Holocaust.
After years of hiding and surviving near death in a concentration camp, Ross is finally safe. Now living in New York City among old friends, far from Europe s chilling atrocities, Ross soon meets Natasha, a beautiful model and fellow emigre, a warm heart to help him forget his cold memories. Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still pursue him. Whether... A haunting classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadows in Paradise reveals the deepest scars of the men and women who...
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73,01 zł |