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A War Imagined : The First World War and English Culture
ISBN: 9780712650410 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s, World War I opens like a gap in history, separating one world of beliefs and values from another, and changing not only the map of Europe, but the ways in which men and women imagined reality itself. England after the war was a different place: the arts were different; history was different; sex, society and class were all different.
Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s, World War I opens like a gap in history, separating one world of beliefs and values from another, a...
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94,02 zł |
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The Auden Generation
ISBN: 9780712652506 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood and Orwell among them - writing became a form of action. In the process a generation discovered itself and found its own expression.
This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time...
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94,02 zł |
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Edwardian Turn Of Mind
ISBN: 9780712650281 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. This book offers a portrait of a tumultuous time - out of which contemporary England was made.
The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and ...
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94,02 zł |
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On War and Writing
ISBN: 9780226468785 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Retired fighter pilot and English professor combines lifelong interests in war and literature in essays on how writers struggled to comprehend warfare.
Retired fighter pilot and English professor combines lifelong interests in war and literature in essays on how writers struggled to comprehend warfare...
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110,67 zł |
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The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War
ISBN: 9780374535582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The vivid story of the young Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I The vivid story of the young Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I |
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83,99 zł |
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The Pattern of Hardy's Poetry
ISBN: 9781469609126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The pattern in Hardy's poetry is the eternal conflict between irreconcilables that was, for him, the first principle, and indeed the only principle, of universal order. Hynes analyzes this pattern as it is manifested in the philosophical context of the poems, their structure, diction, and imagery. Originally published in 1961.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are... The pattern in Hardy's poetry is the eternal conflict between irreconcilables that was, for him, the first principle, and indeed the only principle, o...
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278,49 zł |
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Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator
ISBN: 9780142002902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War," directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes.
"The War" is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007. Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those... Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War," directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes.
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106,09 zł |
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The Return of the Soldier
ISBN: 9780141180656 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust... Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of...
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61,89 zł |
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A Gun for Sale
ISBN: 9780143039303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes and when the first of these is traced, Raven becomes a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossing him and attempts to elude the police, he becomes both hunter and hunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange kind of social justice. In doing so, he sets the stage for Greene's next novel,...
Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions...
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75,15 zł |
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Romance and Realism: A Study in English Bourgeois Literature
ISBN: 9780691620817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg, a British journalist and professional writer who became an important philosopher and critic in the 1930's, author of Illusion and Reality and Studies in a Dying Culture. In the mid-thirties Caudwell joined the Communist Party; he died in 1937 in the defense of Madrid, leaving the manuscript of Romance and Realism unpublished. This short but comprehensive book is a Marxist interpretation of English literature from Shakespeare to Spender. The author follows the course of English history-the end... Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg, a British journalist and professional writer who became an important philoso... |
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217,53 zł |
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Sagittarius Rising
ISBN: 9780143107347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A memoir by a WWI fighter pilot, with the adventurous spirit of War Horse and the charm of The Little Prince
A singular, lyrical book, Sagittarius Rising is at once an exuberant memoir from the Lost Generation and a riveting tale of the early days of flight during World War I. Cecil Lewis lied his way into the British Army s Royal Flying Corps at age sixteen and was ordered to a squadron on the Western Front only a year later. At the time, flying was so new that designers hadn t even decided on basic mechanics such as how many wings a plane should have. Despite... A memoir by a WWI fighter pilot, with the adventurous spirit of War Horse and the charm of The Little Prince
A singular, lyri... |
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79,57 zł |
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Romance and Realism: A Study in English Bourgeois Literature
ISBN: 9780691647531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg, a British journalist and professional writer who became an important philosopher and critic in the 1930's, author of Illusion and Reality and Studies in a Dying Culture. In the mid-thirties Caudwell joined the Communist Party; he died in 1937 in the defense of Madrid, leaving the manuscript of Romance and Realism unpublished. This short but comprehensive book is a Marxist interpretation of English literature from Shakespeare to Spender. The author follows the course of English history-the end... Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg, a British journalist and professional writer who became an important philoso... |
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535,02 zł |
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The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy: Volume 1: Wessex Poems, Poems of the Past and the Present, Time's Laughingstocks
ISBN: 9780198127086 / Angielski / Twarda / 1983 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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705,52 zł |
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The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy: Volume IV: The Dynasts, Parts First and Second
ISBN: 9780198127857 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Volumes IV and V of the Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, which complete the edition, contain all of his dramatic works in verse. In addition to the two major dramas--The Dynasts and The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall--these volumes include Hardy's versions of two folk-pieces and the rustic operetta "O Jan, O Jan, O Jan" (here published for the first time).
Volumes IV and V of the Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, which complete the edition, contain all of his dramatic works in verse. In addition t...
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1450,54 zł |
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