wyszukanych pozycji: 221
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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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90,96 |
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London Fields
ISBN: 9781841593623 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The narrator of this tale, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, an undesirable public house, and finds the main characters of his drama waiting to begin.
The narrator of this tale, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, an undesirable public house, and finds the main characters of his drama waiting to be...
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75,26 |
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Difficulties With Girls
ISBN: 9780141194226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospital. They have reached a certain level of maturity, or so they think.
Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny te...
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50,16 |
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Lucky Jim
ISBN: 9780141182599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England'.
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department ...
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55,19 |
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I Want It Now
ISBN: 9780141194257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents in the company of braying aristocrats, Greek shipping magnates and American dandies.
The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupie...
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50,16 |
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Money
ISBN: 9780099518754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Green Man
ISBN: 9780099461074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. "Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities -- including superb sexual comedy." "Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities -- including superb sexual comedy." |
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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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The Zone of Interest
ISBN: 9780804172899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookRiot
-Powerful and electric. . . . A book that may stand for years as the triumph of his career.- --NPR -This is a novel that will endure. . . . A novel whose adventurousness is at the level of its ethical register, its attempt . . . to imagine the unimaginable.- --The Guardian (London) -A tour de force of sheer verbal virtuosity, and a brilliant, celestially upsetting novel inspired by no less than a profound... A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune,...
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68,80 |
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The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
ISBN: 9780099422228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A selection of Martin Amis' reviews and essays over the past quarter century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Lowry, Nabokov, Waugh, Gore Vidal, Michael Crichton, and John Updike to name a few.
A selection of Martin Amis' reviews and essays over the past quarter century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, ...
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75,26 |
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That Uncertain Feeling
ISBN: 9780141194288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams, who is married to a member of the local Council.
Competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of dauntin...
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50,16 |
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The Pregnant Widow
ISBN: 9780099488736 / Miękka / 2011 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Summer 1970. A long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution.
Summer 1970. A long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sex...
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55,19 |
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The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America
ISBN: 9780099461869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog.
At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion-makers, leaders and crackpots with characteristic discernment and wit. Included in a gallery of Great American Novelists are Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Joseph Heller, William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Paul Theroux,... A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog.
At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Prince... |
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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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Strefa interesów
ISBN: 9788383381596 / Polski / broszurowa / 2024 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Film na podstawie poruszającej powieści mistrza prozy brytyjskiej.Miłość w czasach Zagłady.Golo Thomsen, oficer SS, zakochuje się w Hannah Doll, żonie komendanta obozu koncentracyjnego. Paul Doll dowiaduje się prawdy i obojgu grozi wielkie niebezpieczeństwo. Doll knuje intrygę, w której jedną z głównych ról ma odegrać niejaki Szmul - więzień obozu.To tylko powierzchnia, pod którą kotłuje się hitlerowska noc Walpurgi.Amis mierzy się w tej powieści z jedną z największych tragedii nowożytnego świata. Powojenny finał jest nie mniej poruszający niż tło akcji -...
Film na podstawie poruszającej powieści mistrza prozy brytyjskiej.Miłość w czasach Zagłady.Golo Thomsen, oficer SS, zakochuje się w Hannah Doll...
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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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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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80,26 |
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Lucky Jim
ISBN: 9780241956847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without. If he can just deliver a lecture on Merrie England, a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple...
Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without. If he can just deliver a lecture on ...
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