wyszukanych pozycji: 40
More Die of Heartbreak
ISBN: 9780141188799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die ofHeartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to benear his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdown." Imagining that a settled existence will end his anguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood of new torments. As Kenneth grapples with his...
Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die ofHeartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to benear his ...
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65,84 zł |
Herzog, 1 MP3-CD : Lesung mit Werner Wölbern (1 mp3-CD), Lesung. MP3 Format
ISBN: 9783742406781 / Niemiecki / Audio (mc/cd) / 2018 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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67,57 zł |
Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780140189452 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "What Henry James did for the geographically disoriented, Bellow does for the culturally traumatized in the six stories gathered in this collection. Truly, Bellow is one of God's spies." -Los Angeles Times In six darkly comic tales, Saul Bellow presents the human experience in all its preposterousness, poignancy, and pathos. In the title story, a professor well-known for his wit struggles to animate his memoirs as he teeters on the brink of despair; in "the old System," a distinguished biochemist tries to find room in his life for love; and in "A Father to Be," a man is...
"What Henry James did for the geographically disoriented, Bellow does for the culturally traumatized in the six stories gathered in this collection...
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73,72 zł |
The Adventures of Augie March
ISBN: 9781857152159 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 627 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and poker-player who sets off from his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world, and more especially, 20th-century America.
This is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and poker-player who sets off from his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to r...
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65,84 zł |
Henderson the Rain King
ISBN: 9780141188805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. "It blazes as fiercly and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels."(San Francisco Examiner)
Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed comic novel about a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson s awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life win him the admiration of the tribe but it is his gift for making rain that turns him from mere hero into messiah. A... "It blazes as fiercly and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels."(...
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50,63 zł |
Seize the Day
ISBN: 9780141184852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow s eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase. It is Bellow s vision, his uncanny ability to seize the moment and to see beyond it. "Chicago Sun-Times"
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: He is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a... What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow s eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character i...
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45,57 zł |
Mr Sammler's Planet
ISBN: 9780141188812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Mr Artur Sammler, a lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future (moon landings, endless possibilities). His Cyclopean gaze refl
Mr Artur Sammler, a lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a "registrar of madness," a refined and civilized being caught among pe...
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55,70 zł |
Herzog: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780143107675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievements
This is the story of Moses Herzog a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, the novel was hailed as a masterpiece (The New York Times Book Review). This beautifully designed Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Herzog features an introduction by Bellow s longtime friend Philip Roth. For more than... In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievements
This is the story of Moses Herzog a great suff... |
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105,41 zł |
Ravelstein
ISBN: 9780141001760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality,...
Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political...
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95,40 zł |
Ravelstein
ISBN: 9780141188850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir or a life of him, and during the course of a celebratory trip to Paris the two share thoughts on mortality,...
Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political...
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60,01 zł |
Herzog
ISBN: 9780141184876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievements
This is the story of Moses Herzog a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, the novel was hailed as a masterpiece ("The New York Times Book Review"). This beautifully designed Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of "Herzog "features an introduction by Bellow s longtime friend Philip Roth. For more than seventy years,... In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievements
This is the story of Moses Herzog a great sufferer, j... |
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50,63 zł |
Leaving the Yellow House
ISBN: 9780241338995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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16,38 zł |
Dangling Man
ISBN: 9780141188775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. When his induction into the army is delayed, Joseph finds himself facing a year of idleness. This journal presents an account of his restless wanderings through Chicago's streets, his musings on the past, his psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him, and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.
When his induction into the army is delayed, Joseph finds himself facing a year of idleness. This journal presents an account of his restless wanderin...
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55,70 zł |
Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780141188782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Now collected for the first time in one volume and chosen by the author himself are the Nobel Prize winner's stories. "A feast . . . . One of the most rewarding collections of the year."--"San Francisco Chronicle."
Now collected for the first time in one volume and chosen by the author himself are the Nobel Prize winner's stories. "A feast . . . . One of the most...
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86,11 zł |
Ravelstein
ISBN: 9780143107576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner s moving final novel
Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow s moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in memoir form, it follows two university professors, one of whom is succumbing to AIDS, as they share thoughts on philosophy and history, loves and friends, mortality and art. This Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Viking s first publication of Ravelstein. Featuring a new introduction by Gary... In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner s moving final novel
Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow s moving last novel is ... |
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78,06 zł |
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
ISBN: 9780140233650 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Saul Bellow's fiction, honored by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now the man himself and a lifetime of his insightful views on a range of topics spring off the page in this, his first nonfiction collection, which encompasses articles, lectures, essays, travel pieces, and an "Autobiography of Ideas." It All Adds Up is a fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The London Times).
Saul Bellow's fiction, honored by a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer, among other awards, has made him a literary giant. Now the man himself and a li...
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104,08 zł |
The Actual
ISBN: 9780141188843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.
The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.
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50,63 zł |
The Adventures of Augie March
ISBN: 9780141184869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "The Adventures of Augie March" is the great American Novel. Search no further. Martin Amis
As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Augie, the exuberant narrator-hero is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Deptression. A born recruit, Augie makes himself available for a series of occupations, then proudly rejects each one as unworthy. His own oddity is reflected in the companions he encounters plungers, schemers, risk-takers, and hole-and corner operators like the would-be tycoon Einhorn or the would-be siren... "The Adventures of Augie March" is the great American Novel. Search no further. Martin Amis
As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by t... |
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60,01 zł |
The Victim
ISBN: 9780141188836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a down-at-heel stranger in the park one day and finds himself being accused of ruining the man's life, he hal
Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a d...
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54,55 zł |
There Is Simply Too Much to Think about: Collected Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780143108047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Bellow's nonfiction has the same strengths as his stories and novels: a dynamic responsiveness to character, place, and time (or era) . . . And you wonder--what other highbrow writer, or indeed lowbrow writer has such a reflexive grasp of the street, the machine, the law courts, the rackets?" --Martin Amis, The New York Times Book Review One of the supreme fiction writers of the twentieth century, Nobel laureate Saul Bellow was also deeply insightful in his lesser-known roles as essayist, critic, and lecturer. Gathered together in this stunning compilation, Bellow's..."Bellow's nonfiction has the same strengths as his stories and novels: a dynamic responsiveness to character, place, and time (or era) . . . And... |
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130,10 zł |