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Told Round a Brushwood Fire
ISBN: 9780691616292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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 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. 8-10 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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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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Introducing Swedenborg
ISBN: 9780854482207 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 92 str. 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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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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The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern
ISBN: 9781789148398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
ISBN: 9780307473776 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book and From the incomparable Peter Ackroyd: a brilliant re-imagination of the classic tale that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries. A New York Times Notable Book and From the incomparable Peter Ackroyd: a bri... |
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Where's Polygon?
ISBN: 9780982981184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. WHERE'S POLYGON? is a book to help students learn geometry in a fun and interesting way at a younger level than usually embarked upon. An experienced math teacher introduces the polygon shapes and their properties in a creative story-telling way that will help stick the pictures of various geometric shapes into the minds of young students.
WHERE'S POLYGON? is a book to help students learn geometry in a fun and interesting way at a younger level than usually embarked upon. An experienced ...
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
ISBN: 9780099524137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a village near Oxford. The coroner's office provides corpses, but they are often damaged & putrefying. Then he makes contact with the Doomsday Men - the resurrectionists. Perfect specimens are hard to come by, until one day he is brought a handsome young man, & his work can truly begin.
Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a village near Oxford. The coroner's office provides corpses, but they are often damaged & putre...
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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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Shakespeare: The Biography
ISBN: 9781400075980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR |
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Charlie Chaplin
ISBN: 9780099287568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A fresh look at Chaplin from the masterful Peter Ackroyd.
He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it? Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the spotlight on Chaplin's life as well as his work, from his humble theatrical beginnings in music halls to winning an honorary Academy Award. Everything is here, from the glamour of his golden age to the murky scandals of the... A fresh look at Chaplin from the masterful Peter Ackroyd.
He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognis... |
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The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9780141442297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 'The Canterbury Tales', Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. Peter Ackroyd's fresh, modern retelling infuses 'The Canterbury Tales' with new and vigorous life.
In 'The Canterbury Tales', Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral alle...
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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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A Dictionary of Dream Symbols: With an Introduction to Dream Psychology
ISBN: 9781783253593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For fans of Wicca, a comprehensive guide to dream symbols and their interpretations.
For fans of Wicca, a comprehensive guide to dream symbols and their interpretations.
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