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Told Round a Brushwood Fire
ISBN: 9780691616292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Oritaku Shiha no Ki of Arai Hakuscki (1657-1725) was the first Japanese autobiography and is often singled out as the most outstanding. As primary source material for the first half of the Tokugawa period, it constitutes a unique historical supplement to the official records. Presented here is a scholarly English translation of and commentary on this important work. Originally published in 1980. 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... The Oritaku Shiha no Ki of Arai Hakuscki (1657-1725) was the first Japanese autobiography and is often singled out as the most outstanding. As prim... |
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The Fall of Troy
ISBN: 9780099492757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Fakes, forgeries and plagiarism abound in Ackroyd's brilliant historical novel, set in the 19th century during the excavation of the Bronze Age site of Troy.
"I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the place where Hector and Achilles fought. To show you the palace of Priam. And the walls where the Trojan women watched their warriors in battle with the invader. It will stir your blood, Sophia." Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist, Herr Obermann, comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she... Fakes, forgeries and plagiarism abound in Ackroyd's brilliant historical novel, set in the 19th century during the excavation of the Bronze Age site o...
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The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend
ISBN: 9780140455656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death brought to new life for our times. The legend of King Arthur has retained its appeal and popularity through the ages - Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenever, the quest for the Holy Grail.
An immortal story of love, adventure, chivalry, treachery and death brought to new life for our times. The legend of King Arthur has retained its appe...
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The poet John Milton is transposed to the New World, where he has travelled to flee the tyranny of the Old. His adventures with his amanuensis, Goosequill, are by turns picaresque and delightful. However, Paradise Found will ultimately be lost in the most appalling and bloody circumstances.
The poet John Milton is transposed to the New World, where he has travelled to flee the tyranny of the Old. His adventures with his amanuensis, Gooseq...
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A Shetland Notebook: Norman Ackroyd
ISBN: 9781907533891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. One of Britain's foremost printmakers, Norman Ackroyd has spent a lifetime recording the coastal landscapes of the British Isles. Gorgeously printed, A Shetland Notebook contains 39 of his vivid landscape sketches in watercolor. Made in the open air, often aboard a pitching and tossing fishing boat, these lively, spontaneous works capture the unique atmosphere of these remote and beautiful islands. The notebook's unusual format is due entirely to the artist, who uses sheets of various types of paper torn to fit into a loose-leaf binder made from two pieces of wooden picture-backing; this he...
One of Britain's foremost printmakers, Norman Ackroyd has spent a lifetime recording the coastal landscapes of the British Isles. Gorgeously printed, ...
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Collectable Paper Money Guidebook with Collecting Tips: How to Collect World Bank Notes and Bank Checks (Collecting Banknotes & Cheques)
ISBN: 9781505820270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. BOOK DESCRIPTION
This information-packed illustrated handbook on collecting paper money is the work of AlanAckroyd, a banknote specialist with over 25 years of professional expertise. It provides hundreds of useful tips on how to collect bank notes and bank checks (cheques) for maximum enjoyment. It explores the various paper money collecting themes and provides advice on where to obtain your paper collectibles at the best prices. It shares insider tips that can save you - and make you - a small fortune - like where to obtain collectable bank notes at face value that are already worth... BOOK DESCRIPTION
This information-packed illustrated handbook on collecting paper money is the work of AlanAckroyd, a banknote specialist with over... |
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Introducing Swedenborg
ISBN: 9780854482207 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Plato Papers
ISBN: 9780385497695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of The Life of Thomas More, a novel that playfully imagines how the -modern- era might appear to a thinker seventeen centuries hence.
At the turn of the 38th century, London's greatest orator, Plato, is known for his lectures on the long, tumultuous history of his now tranquil city. Plato focuses on the obscure and confusing era that began in A.D. 1500, the Age of Mouldwarp. His subjects include Sigmund Freud's comic masterpiece -Jokes and Their Relation to the Subconscious, - and Charles... From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of The Life of Thomas More, a novel that playfully...
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Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
ISBN: 9780749396596 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. As Elizabeth Cree sits every day in a courtroom, on trial for the murder of her husband, the story moves from courthouse to music hall to the back alleys of Limehouse, the notorious district of Victorian London, teeming with the poorest of the poor, the most violent of criminals and helpless preyed upon immigrants, following the trail of slaughter laid by the Golem, an almost mythical predecessor of Jack the Ripper.
Fact and fiction blend effortlessly as Dan Leno, king of the music-hall comedians is dragged unwittingly into the investigation of one of London s most notorious murders. When... As Elizabeth Cree sits every day in a courtroom, on trial for the murder of her husband, the story moves from courthouse to music hall to the back all...
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The Lambs Of London
ISBN: 9780099472094 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller's son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book -- it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and red hair is no ordinary young man.
In The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world... Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life...
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Period Drama
ISBN: 9783954767014 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2024 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Fragments of Time, Body, and Sexuality Rebecca Ackroydâs (b. Cheltenham, UK, 1987; lives and works in Berlin and London) art blends abstract and surreal elements articulated in complex installations and sculptures made of synthetic resin, wood, or plaster, but also in large-format paintings: the artist combines turbines or dreaming eyes rendered in gouaches with abstracted casts of her own body or objects such as wigs, sunglasses, or cages. Based on psychoanalytic theories, her works question fundamental aspects of the human experience of time as well as of womanhood and fertility. In Period...
Fragments of Time, Body, and Sexuality Rebecca Ackroydâs (b. Cheltenham, UK, 1987; lives and works in Berlin and London) art blends abstract and surr...
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Mr Cadmus
ISBN: 9781786898944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A wickedly satirical novel, filled with mystery, revenge, outlandish killings, greed and jealousy, from the multi-award-winning author
A wickedly satirical novel, filled with mystery, revenge, outlandish killings, greed and jealousy, from the multi-award-winning author
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Three Brothers
ISBN: 9780099566038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Rapier-sharp, witty, intriguing and mysterious: a new novel from Peter Ackroyd, set in 1960s London.
"Three Brothers" follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. Marked out from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the world -- a world of dodgy deals and big business, of criminal gangs and crooked landlords, of newspaper magnates, back-biters and petty thieves. London is the backdrop and the connecting fabric of these three lives, reinforcing Ackroyd's grand theme that place and history... Rapier-sharp, witty, intriguing and mysterious: a new novel from Peter Ackroyd, set in 1960s London.
"Three Brothers" follows the fortunes of Har... |
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Fiktivní deník Oscara Wildea
ISBN: 9788090374805 / Czeski / 2006 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Současný britský spisovatel Peter Ackroyd (*1949) se inspiroval životním příběhem Oscara Wilda (1854-1900) a ve formě fiktivní autobiografie napsal Wildeův životopis, jehož mottem by mohl být Wildeův proslulý výrok Odolám všemu s výjimkou pokušení!. Oscar Wilde si deník píše v pařížském hotelu d´Alsace během několika posledních měsíců života. Deníkové zápisy zahrnují dobu od 9. srpna do 30. listopadu 1900. Wilde tu přehlíží celý svůj život, přemýšlí o svém díle, jež mělo tak oslnivý úspěch, i o vztazích k mužům, jež ho dovedly...
Současný britský spisovatel Peter Ackroyd (*1949) se inspiroval životním příběhem Oscara Wilda (1854-1900) a ve formě fiktivní autobiografie...
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Innovation: The History of England Volume VI
ISBN: 9781509896738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Plato Papers : A Novel
ISBN: 9780099289951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On ritual occasions, Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London to impart the ancient history of their city, dwelling particularly on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300). He lectures upon "The Origin of Species" by the nineteenth-century novelist Charles Dickens and on Sigmund Freud while providing a glossary of twentieth-century terms, and explaining such early myths of creation as "super-string theory'"and "relativity." But then he has a dream, or vision, or he goes on a real journey - opinions are divided - and enters a vast underground cavern, where citizens of Mouldwarp...
On ritual occasions, Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London to impart the ancient history of their city, dwelling particularly on the unhap...
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The Life of Thomas More
ISBN: 9780385496933 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political fantasy thatgave a name to a literary genre and a worldview (Utopia); and, most famously, a Catholic martyr and saint.
Born into the professional classes, Thomas More applied his formidable intellect and well-placed connections to become the most powerful man in England, second only to the king. As much a work of history as a biography, The Life of... Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of hist...
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Hawksmoor
ISBN: 9788074324260 / Czeski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Londýn počátku 18. století, pozvolna se vzpamatovávající z následků rozsáhlého ničivého požáru, je městem nuzáků i boháčů, tradičních pověr a tajných nauk i osvícenské racionality a elegance. Architekt Nicholas Dyer, pověřený výstavbou sedmi nových městských kostelů, hodlá zajistit svým stavbám nesmrtelnost krutým rituálem: v základech každé z nich má spočinout tělo zavražděného chlapce. O dvě stě padesát let později vyšetřuje londýnský detektiv Nicholas Hawksmoor záhadnou sérii brutálních vražd dětí, ke kterým postupně...
Londýn počátku 18. století, pozvolna se vzpamatovávající z následků rozsáhlého ničivého požáru, je městem nuzáků i boháčů, tradi...
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Wilkie Collins
ISBN: 9780099287476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ackroyd at his best -- gripping short life of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White.
Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, 'as if playing a certain part in the great general drama of life' Wilkie Collins looked distinctily strange. But he was none the less a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women -- and avidly read by generations of readers. Ackroyd follows his hero, 'the... Ackroyd at his best -- gripping short life of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White. |
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