wyszukanych pozycji: 66
Paradise Postponed
ISBN: 9780141193397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in very different ways. Henry, novelist and former 'angry young man' turned grumpy old reactionary, decides to fight the will and prove their father was insane. Younger brother Fred, a mild-mannered country doctor, takes a different approach, quietly digging in Simeon's past, only to uncover an entirely unexpected explanation for the legacy. An exquisitely drawn saga of ancient rivalries and class struggles, featuring a...
When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, th...
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59,89 zł |
Summer's Lease
ISBN: 9780141034874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent
It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the...
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92,59 zł |
Zerah Colburn - Spirit of Darkness
ISBN: 9781845491963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Zerah Colburn was a well-known nineteenth century locomotive engineer, journalist and publisher. In life he mixed with the famous men of engineering in America and Britain. And he was among 200 leading Americans nominated for New York University's Hall of Fame. But Colburn was an enigma, a dark and irascible man with a violent temper. His work colleagues in London called him the 'Spirit of Darkness'.
Zerah Colburn was a well-known nineteenth century locomotive engineer, journalist and publisher. In life he mixed with the famous men of engineering i...
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222,35 zł |
One to Another
ISBN: 9780573070211 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,91 zł |
The Collected Stories of Rumpole
ISBN: 9780141198293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome She Who Must Be Obeyed. These collected stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time, are a definitive introduction to one of the wisest and wittiest characters...
Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole b...
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81,69 zł |
Rumpole and the Old Familiar Faces: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation - audiobook
ISBN: 9781787534537 / Angielski / Compact Disc / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Desmond Barrit stars as Horace Rumpole in this full-cast, feature-length radio dramaRumpole has no special objection to Christmas - except that with the Old Bailey closed, he has no opportunity to exercise his skills in court.
Desmond Barrit stars as Horace Rumpole in this full-cast, feature-length radio dramaRumpole has no special objection to Christmas - except that with t...
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56,33 zł |
Automotive gas turbines
ISBN: 9781326884116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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92,19 zł |
Collected Plays : Vol 2: The Wrong Side of the Park, Mill Hill, Bermondsey, Knightsbridge, Marble A
ISBN: 9781840022773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. John Mortimer is best known as the creator of Rumpole QC, hero of the Rumpole of the Bailey television series. In this second volume of his Collected Plays published by Oberon, these five plays combine London settings with the complexities of relationships between the sexes. Includes: The Wrong Side of the Park, Mill Hill, Bermondsey, Knightsbridge, Marble Arch and Edwin. John Mortimer is best known as the creator of Rumpole QC, hero of the Rumpole of the Bailey television series. In this second volume of his Coll... |
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103,49 zł |
The nearly engine
ISBN: 9781326177072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book traces the post-war development of gas turbine engines for use in passenger cars and commercial vehicles in the UK, Germany, Italy and the USA. It is based on interviews with leading engineering figures of the day as well as reports by journalists. The work also contains photographs of engines and vehicles as well as diagrams of various gas turbine engines.
This book traces the post-war development of gas turbine engines for use in passenger cars and commercial vehicles in the UK, Germany, Italy and the U...
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222,82 zł |
Rumpole at Christmas
ISBN: 9780141039770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Rumpole's idea of a good Christmas is exchanging presents with She Who Must Be Obeyed before settling round the fire at Froxbury Mansions for the traditional turkey with all the trimmings. But, as Rumpole will soon discover, the criminal fraternity never rests.
Rumpole's idea of a good Christmas is exchanging presents with She Who Must Be Obeyed before settling round the fire at Froxbury Mansions for the trad...
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70,79 zł |
Clinging to the Wreckage : A Part of Life
ISBN: 9780140063837 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother.
Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly uncon...
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92,59 zł |
A Voyage Round My Father
ISBN: 9780573014819 / Miękka / 1972 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed from the trellis surrounded, as if for protection, by an enormous garden. The tale grows in turns and twists upon allusion and reversals, all crisply dramatic and really not so comical as at first glance. We see the son in his childhood with a friend named Reigate and a teacher named Noah, then as a man who has been told all he is meant to feel sudden freedom growing up, the end of dependence the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than...
There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed fro...
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92,22 zł |
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
ISBN: 9780141035086 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tells the story of the "Penge Bungalow Murders" case in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold, accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a German officer's gun; an
Tells the story of the "Penge Bungalow Murders" case in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending y...
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87,14 zł |
Zerah Colburn the Spirit of Darkness
ISBN: 9781845490249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Zerah Colburn was a well-known nineteenth century locomotive engineer, journalist and publisher. In life, he mixed with the famous men of engineering in America and Britain. But Colburn was an enigma, a dark and irascible man with a violent temper. But why did he shoot himself at the age of 38 at the height of his career?
Zerah Colburn was a well-known nineteenth century locomotive engineer, journalist and publisher. In life, he mixed with the famous men of engineering ...
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351,08 zł |
Angel in the house
ISBN: 9781326286378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Seeking independence from her family in Brewer Street, Soho, London in 1858, Elizabeth Susanna Browning responds to an advertisement placed by 'Zeta' in The Times newspaper. Within days, Elizabeth is appointed housekeeper to 'Zeta', a strange but charismatic American engineer and newspaper editor, Zerah Colburn. Before long, 'Lizzy' as she is called by Mr. Colburn, and her new employer are sailing to New York on the iron steamer, Great Eastern. The couple marry in New York but a turbulent married life unfolds in Philadelphia where Zerah Colburn has launched a weekly newspaper. Hit by the 1860...
Seeking independence from her family in Brewer Street, Soho, London in 1858, Elizabeth Susanna Browning responds to an advertisement placed by 'Zeta' ...
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92,48 zł |
CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
ISBN: 9780141193847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. As a boy dreaming of a tap-dancing career on the stage and forming a one-boy communist cell at boarding school, his father pushes him to pursue the law, where Mortimer embarks on the career that was to inspire his...
Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countrys...
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92,59 zł |
Rumpole's Return
ISBN: 9780241474440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,99 zł |
Rumpole: The Teenage Werewolf & other stories: Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations
ISBN: 9781787534490 / Angielski / Compact Disc / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Timothy West takes on the role of Rumpole in this collection of cracking court cases. The stories included are:Rumpole and the Teenage Werewolf: Rumpole leaves London to defend a case in the Home Counties, where he meets up with Ben, a teenager accused of sending emails deemed to be sexually harassing.
Timothy West takes on the role of Rumpole in this collection of cracking court cases. The stories included are:Rumpole and the Teenage Werewolf: Rumpo...
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85,04 zł |
Rumpole: The Way Through the Woods & other stories: Three BBC Radio 4 dramatisations
ISBN: 9781787534735 / Angielski / Compact Disc / 2019 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Julian Rhind-Tutt stars as Horace Rumpole in this sixth collection of courtroom dramas. Rumpole and the Way Through the Woods Rumpole is surprised to discover he's a dog lover at heart - and perplexed as he defends a man who insists he's guilty of murder. Rumpole and the Prosecution Rumpole's client asks him to do something he's always sworn he will not do - appear for the prosecution. But this case is a little different: the injured party is dead and cannot speak for herself. Rumpole and the Quacks It's 1966, and Rumpole meets a wise and kindly Asian Doctor who, unexpectedly...
Julian Rhind-Tutt stars as Horace Rumpole in this sixth collection of courtroom dramas. Rumpole and the Way Through the Woods Rumpole is surprised...
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70,17 zł |
A Rumpole Christmas
ISBN: 9780143117919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Rumpole is one of the immortals of mystery fiction."
-San Francisco Chronicle Of the late Sir John Mortimer's many beloved characters, it is widely agreed that Horace Rumpole was his greatest fictional creation. Here, collected in book form for the first time, are five delightful tales that capture the beleagured barrister at his grumpy, yet warm-hearted best. Rumpole isn't particularly fond of Christmas Day-he finds it has a horrible habit of dragging on as She Who Must Be Obeyed leads him through the usual rituals. But at least the criminal fraternity rarely... "Rumpole is one of the immortals of mystery fiction."
-San Francisco Chronicle Of the late Sir John Mortimer's many beloved c... |
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96,79 zł |