wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Crepuscule
ISBN: 9781411613119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "I can see it with my eyes: my innocence - broken and dead and lost forever on a filthy street in Paris." Crepuscule is a poetic panorama of life among the Parisians and the expatriates in the French capital. An intense drama flowing with passion, Crepuscule is the epic story of romance, love, freedom, and survival - where the reader is taken on an expedition to the heights of hope and the depths of despair. "The miracle of Roman Payne's] tales is that, with all that he has inherited, he brings something beautiful and inimitable to the human legacy." - Author, Matthew L. Paris
"I can see it with my eyes: my innocence - broken and dead and lost forever on a filthy street in Paris." Crepuscule is a poetic panorama of life amon...
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97,62 zł |
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Rooftop Soliloquy
ISBN: 9780578032818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written entirely in Paris over a two year span during which its author lived every conceivable metropolitan passion and inspiration, Rooftop Soliloquy is a novel as vibrant and alive as the city where it was given seed and a place to grow. The first-person narrative follows the adventures and misadventures of a mysterious individual: an artist, flaneur, composer of operas, and incorrigible rake, who wanders the districts of Paris seducing girls, drinking wine, and looking for that new idea with which to complete his 'hero's tale.' Rooftop Soliloquy is remarkable for the ease and pleasurable...
Written entirely in Paris over a two year span during which its author lived every conceivable metropolitan passion and inspiration, Rooftop Soliloquy...
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78,08 zł |
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Cities & Countries
ISBN: 9780615137872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Cities & Countries is a book about travel, about searching and wandering, about finding greatness in the midst of the world." Strange adventures meet Alexis when he wanders far from his familiar home in a quest to become a man of the world. What begins as a search for the "Great City," leads to a wayward and whimsical, romantically poignant, and at times powerfully despairing, jaunt through various cities and countries, far and wide. Along the way, he meets soldiers and hunchbacks, criminals and revolutionaries, madmen and fishermen, goatherds and opium smokers, charlatans, fanatical holy...
"Cities & Countries is a book about travel, about searching and wandering, about finding greatness in the midst of the world." Strange adventures meet...
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84,23 zł |
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Hope and Despair
ISBN: 9780615186504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A feast of sensuality, Payne's third epic novel narrates the story of the beautiful young Nadja, and her brooding lover Nikolai, as the two come of age in a springtime garden. When their world of earthly delights fades with the dying season, the two are exiled from their pastoral romance into a fiery world of seedy urban haunts, intoxicated dreams and electric lights. When tragedy heralds the birth of a new day, light is shed on everyone's fate as the greatest adventure of all begins: a cunning swindler sets off on a heroic voyage to find the love of his youth. Through tears of hope and...
A feast of sensuality, Payne's third epic novel narrates the story of the beautiful young Nadja, and her brooding lover Nikolai, as the two come of ag...
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78,77 zł |
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The Basement Trains (a 21st century poem)
ISBN: 9780615135762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The poem begins in 'an ancient garden in the midnight city, ' where a nocturnal recollection of the past begins an epic voyage traversing centuries of ideas and continents of profound imagery. "The Basement Trains," Payne's greatest long poem, written when he was 28 years old, conjures up a wealth of poetic legacies: from Dante's visit to the underworld, to TS Eliot's 'Mind of Europe.' Here, one sees William Blake, Milton, the Catholic Bible, Greek and Roman myth, Russian folklore; and, beyond this, one hears the voice of Roman Payne in its purest poetic form. This bilingual first-edition...
The poem begins in 'an ancient garden in the midnight city, ' where a nocturnal recollection of the past begins an epic voyage traversing centuries of...
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28,77 zł |
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The Wanderess
ISBN: 9780985228132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A gothic mystery novel and story of passion and romance set against the backdrop of a timeless Mediterranean landscape, The Wanderess tells of the notorious adventurer Saul and his passion for the beautiful Saskia, a mysterious young orphan girl whom he meets and vows to protect as his child. When Saul's pursuit of pleasure and fortune gets tangled with the quest of this -Wanderess- for her long-lost friend and her own fortune, the two find themselves on a picaresque path that leads them through Spain, France, Italy and beyond; their adventures weaving them deeper and deeper into a web of...
A gothic mystery novel and story of passion and romance set against the backdrop of a timeless Mediterranean landscape, The Wanderess tells of the not...
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cena:
98,51 zł |