wyszukanych pozycji: 21
The Bookman's Tale
ISBN: 9781853119804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ronald Blythe has spent his life among the artists and writers of his native Suffolk. His books, especially the bestselling "Akenfield," have given East Anglia a distinctive literary voice. Here we accompany Ronald through the lanes of Constable country, we observe him in his study following his early morning writing routine, we meet John Clare, Traherne and countless other writers who continue to influence him, we join him in the ancient tradition of Anglican worship season by season, and luxuriate in the simple beauty of his ancient farmhouse and its garden, made by the artist John Nash....
Ronald Blythe has spent his life among the artists and writers of his native Suffolk. His books, especially the bestselling "Akenfield," have given Ea...
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104,54 zł |
The Circling Year: Perspectives from a Country Parish
ISBN: 9781853114311 / Miękka / 2001 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Open the ancient door of an old church, says Ronald Blythe, and framed in the silence is a house of words where everything has been said: centuries of birth, marriage and death words, gossip, poetry, philosophy, rant, eloquence, learning, nonsense, the language of hymn writers and Bible translators - all of it spoken in one place. This work contains words spoken by Ronald Blythe in the churches he serves as a Reader in the Church of England, and as the local writer expected to add his own distinctive voice. Originating as addresses given at Matins or Evensong, they follow various paths into...
Open the ancient door of an old church, says Ronald Blythe, and framed in the silence is a house of words where everything has been said: centuries of...
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74,08 zł |
Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside
ISBN: 9781399804691 / Miękka / 2024 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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66,30 zł |
The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh 1955-1958
ISBN: 9780571290956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The Time by the Sea is about Ronald Blythe's life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into Benjamin Britten's circle and began working for the Aldeburgh Festival. Although befriended by Imogen Holst and by E M Forster, part of him remained essentially solitary, alone in the landscape while surrounded by a stormy cultural sea. But this memoir gathers up many early experiences, sights and sounds: with Britten he explored ancient churches; with the botanist Denis Garrett he took delight in the marvellous...
The Time by the Sea is about Ronald Blythe's life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writ...
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56,09 zł |
Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford
ISBN: 9781853118548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times," where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in Constable country.
An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times," where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comi...
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78,39 zł |
Under a Broad Sky
ISBN: 9781848254749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With reverence and love, Britain's most admired rural writer chronicles daily life in the Stour valley village, finding beauty and significance in its sheer ordinariness as well as in its many literary, artistic and historic associations. The year takes its shape from the seasons of nature and the feasts and festivals of the Christian year. Each informs and illuminates the other in this loving celebration of nature's gifts and neighbourly friendship. Literature, poetry, spirituality and memory all merge to create an exquisite series of stories of our times.
These delightful essays first... With reverence and love, Britain's most admired rural writer chronicles daily life in the Stour valley village, finding beauty and significance in its...
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104,54 zł |
Talking to the Neighbours
ISBN: 9781853115530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ronald Blythe invites us into the company of his neighbours and friends to hear his reflections on the natural and local history, the liturgy, stories, village events and gossip that shape and unite their lives. Though intimately local, his voice is that of a poet, transcending boundaries of place and time with a universal appeal. 'Man of letters, man of faith, Suffolk man: Ronald Blythe is all of these.' Tiimes Literary Supplement
Ronald Blythe invites us into the company of his neighbours and friends to hear his reflections on the natural and local history, the liturgy, stories...
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78,39 zł |
A Year at Bottengoms Farm
ISBN: 9781853118333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Features a collection of sixty -Word From Wormingford- columns from the back page of the -Church Times-, published in the autumn of 2006. This work presents mini essays that reflect the natural landscape, the changing seasons, village life, art, poetry, the stories that ancient churches tell.
Features a collection of sixty -Word From Wormingford- columns from the back page of the -Church Times-, published in the autumn of 2006. This work pr...
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78,39 zł |
Borderland: Continuity and Change in the Countryside
ISBN: 9781853118517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the -Church Times-, where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in Constable country.
An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the -Church Times-, where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comi...
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78,39 zł |
Village Hours
ISBN: 9781848252370 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Britain's best loved rural writer chronicles the progress of the seasons in the Stour valley village where he has lived and worked among artists, writers, farmers and, increasingly, commuters. For all the changes in the contemporary countryside, timeless qualities remain and both are captured here with a poet's understanding and imagination. The year takes its shape from the seasons of nature and the feasts and festivals of the Christian year. Each informs and illuminates the other in this loving celebration of nature's gifts and neighbourly friendship. Literature, poetry, spirituality and...
Britain's best loved rural writer chronicles the progress of the seasons in the Stour valley village where he has lived and worked among artists, writ...
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104,54 zł |
The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age
ISBN: 9781853115929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ronald Blythe followed up his famous 'Akenfield' with this book. In it he allows people from all walks af life to reflect in their own words on what it it like to be old. The result is a facinating and moving series of confidences which we are priviledged to share. Whether philosophical, resigned or despairing of their long years, Ronald Blythe discovers in their talk much that helps us undersand the natural but isolating effects of old age. This book provides us with a gentle, perceptive and profound memoir and a deeper understanding of the pattern of our lives. Ronald Blythe is one of...
Ronald Blythe followed up his famous 'Akenfield' with this book. In it he allows people from all walks af life to reflect in their own words on what i...
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100,22 zł |
Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year
ISBN: 9781853118456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times," where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comings and goings of the rural world he sees from his ancient farmhouse in Constable country.
An illustrated collection of the author's regular weekly column on the back page of the "Church Times," where, with a poet's eye, he observes the comi...
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78,39 zł |
Akenfield
ISBN: 9780141187921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. Providing insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared.
This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of surviv...
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50,99 zł |
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
ISBN: 9781590178300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpieceof twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythe s wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech."
Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpieceof twentieth-century English litera...
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100,00 zł |
The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age
ISBN: 9781848257023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'The View in Winter' is a timeless and moving study of the perplexities of living to a great age, as related by a wide range of men and women: miners, villagers, doctors, teachers, craftsmen, soldiers, priests, the widowed and long-retired. Their voices are set in the context of what literature, art, religion and medicine over the centuries have said about ageing. The result is an acclaimed and compelling reflection on an inevitable aspect of our human experience.
'The View in Winter' is a timeless and moving study of the perplexities of living to a great age, as related by a wide range of men and women: miners,...
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139,44 zł |
The Circling Year: Perspectives from a Country Parish
ISBN: 9781848257184 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Open the ancient door of an old church, says Ronald Blythe, and framed in the silence is a house of words where everything has been said: centuries of birth, marriage and death words, gossip, poetry, philosophy, rant, eloquence, learning, nonsense, the language of hymn writers and Bible translators - all of it spoken in one place. This work contains words spoken by Ronald Blythe in the churches he serves as a Reader in the Church of England, and as the local writer expected to add his own distinctive voice. Originating as addresses given at Matins or Evensong, they follow various paths into...
Open the ancient door of an old church, says Ronald Blythe, and framed in the silence is a house of words where everything has been said: centuries of...
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117,65 zł |
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
ISBN: 9780553210354 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1981 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the... Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careeri...
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30,28 zł |
The Awkward Age
ISBN: 9780140432978 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Nanda Brookenham is 'coming out' in London society. Thrust suddenly into the vicious, immoral circle that has gathered round her mother, she even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires. Light and ironic in its touch, The Awkward Age nevertheless analyzes the English character with great subtlety.
The Awkward Age, which has been much praised for its natural dialogue and the delicacy of feeling it conveys, exemplifies Conrad's remark that James 'is never in deep gloom or in violent sunshine. But he feels deeply and vividly every... Nanda Brookenham is 'coming out' in London society. Thrust suddenly into the vicious, immoral circle that has gathered round her mother, she even find...
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60,12 zł |
By the North Sea: An Anthology of Suffolk Poetry
ISBN: 9781848612853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'Here, where Time brings pasture to the sea' - the eminent Victorian A.C. Swinburne, from whose long work about the lost city of Dunwich this collection takes its title, was not the first or last poet to be struck by the landscape, and history, of Suffolk. Until almost within living memory Suffolk was a farming-fishing place, not all that far from London, yet strangely remote. Perhaps for this reason its coast was already something of a haven for writers and artists before Benjamin Britten made Aldeburgh the base for his annual music festival. The county's climate appeared to make artists and...
'Here, where Time brings pasture to the sea' - the eminent Victorian A.C. Swinburne, from whose long work about the lost city of Dunwich this collecti...
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87,15 zł |
The Oaken Heart: The Story of an English Village at War
ISBN: 9781899262038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Written during the 'noisy, bomb-filled winter' of 1940, Margery Allingham's 'The Oaken Heart' records the events and emotions of the Essex village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy during the war. This illustrated edition of features previously unpublished diaries, letters and photos.
Written during the 'noisy, bomb-filled winter' of 1940, Margery Allingham's 'The Oaken Heart' records the events and emotions of the Essex village of ...
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76,50 zł |