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The Informed Air: Essays
ISBN: 9780811221597 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Spark s scope is amazing, and her striking, glancing insights are precise and unforgettable. From the mysteries of Job s sufferings, she glides to Dame Edith Sitwell s cocktail advice about how to handle a nasty publisher, and on to the joys of success. "Spark s scope is amazing, and her striking, glancing insights are precise and unforgettable. From the mysteries of Job s sufferings, she glides to ... |
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108,94 zł |
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Symposium
ISBN: 9781844082476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Seemingly banal dinner-party chat reveals strange tales of the guests' dodgy pasts and unreliable futures. Symposium is Muriel Spark at her wicked best.
Seemingly banal dinner-party chat reveals strange tales of the guests' dodgy pasts and unreliable futures. Symposium is Muriel Spark at her wicked...
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50,99 zł |
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A Far Cry From Kensington
ISBN: 9780140108743 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mrs Hawkins, a fat young war widow worked for a mad, is a near-bankrupt publisher in 1950s London. Looking back on shady literary doings and a deadly enemy, anonymous letters, blackmail and suicide, the thin and successful Mrs Hawkins recalls how she came through it all.
Mrs Hawkins, a fat young war widow worked for a mad, is a near-bankrupt publisher in 1950s London. Looking back on shady literary doings and a deadly ...
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70,79 zł |
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The Leaf Sweeper
ISBN: 9781913111625 / Miękka / 2024 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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30,58 zł |
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Robinson
ISBN: 9780811215183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. January Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane crashes, blazing, on Robinson's island. Presumed dead for months, the three survivors must wait for the annual return of the pomegranate boat. Robinson, a determined loner, proves a fair if misanthropic host to his uninvited guests; he encourages January to keep a journal: as "an occupation for my mind, and I fancied that I might later dress it up for a novel. That was most peculiar, as things transpired, for I did not then anticipate how the...
January Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane ...
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70,79 zł |
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Territorial Rights: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844089659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for an academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to Venice to escape one lover and seek out another: the enigmatic Bulgarian refugee Lina Pancev. In Venice, Robert encounters a grand carnival of lust, lies, blackmail, cocktail parties and regicide. As he chases Lina, his heart's desire, the city itself provides a priceless education in love, art and beauty.
Robert wants nothing more than to become a serious art historian. But his hopes for an academic life are put on hold when he's driven from London to V...
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50,99 zł |
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A Far Cry From Kensington
ISBN: 9781844085279 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. * 'The divine Spark is shining at her brightest ... Pure delight' Claire Tomalin, Independent
* 'The divine Spark is shining at her brightest ... Pure delight' Claire Tomalin, Independent
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76,50 zł |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN: 9780241956779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition. 'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .' Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the creme de la creme, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games and extracurricular...
Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials ...
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45,89 zł |
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Loitering with Intent
ISBN: 9780811223034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job on the grubby edge of the literary world at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association s pompous director steals Fleur s manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life."
Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job on the grubby edge of the lit...
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51,78 zł |
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The Bachelors
ISBN: 9780811222983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs, the cozy bachelors (as any Spark reader might guess) are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough, the men are variously tormented defrauded or stolen from, blackmailed or pressed to attend horrid seances and then plunged into the nastiest of lawsuits."
First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs, the cozy bachelors (as any Spark reader might guess) are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon e...
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70,79 zł |
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The Bachelors
ISBN: 9781846974298 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,99 zł |
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Not to Disturb: A Novel
ISBN: 9780811218672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A winter s night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is the secretary dressed in furs with a bundle of cash, then the Baron, and finally the Baroness. They lock themselves in the library with specific instructions not to be disturbed for any reason. Soon, shouts and screams emerge from the library; the Baron s lunatic brother starts madly howling in the attic; two of the secretary s friends are left waiting in a car; a reverend s services are needed for an impromptu wedding and despite all that the servants obey their orders as they pass the time playing...
A winter s night; a luxurious mansion near Geneva; a lucrative scandal. The first to arrive is the secretary dressed in furs with a bundle of cash, th...
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54,44 zł |
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John Masefield
ISBN: 9781784101329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. John Masefield (1878-1967) lived a life as varied as his work. At the age of fifteen he went to sea as an apprentice in a windjammer and made the voyage round Cape Horn. The next three years he spent in New York, in a bakery, a livery stable, a saloon and a carpet factory. Back in England, he wrote for the Guardian and in the First World War served with the Red Cross. Throughout these years he had been writing poetry, and when in 1923 his Collected Poems appeared they sold over 200,000 copies. In 1930 he succeeded Robert Bridges as Poet Laureate.
John Masefield (1878-1967) lived a life as varied as his work. At the age of fifteen he went to sea as an apprentice in a windjammer and made the voya...
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81,69 zł |
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The Comforters
ISBN: 9781844085538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Caroline Rose has a very unusual problem. She knows that she is a character in a novel. She is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and a strange detached narration of her thoughts and actions.
Caroline Rose has a very unusual problem. She knows that she is a character in a novel. She is plagued by the tapping of typewriter keys and a strange...
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50,99 zł |
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The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN: 9780241964002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Beautifully packaged reissue of Muriel Spark's best loved novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So when she decides to transform a group of 'special girls' into the creme de la creme at Marcia Blaine School they are soon known, perhaps suspiciously, as the Brodie set. Introduced to an unsettling world of adult games and curious intrigues, the Brodie Set know that...
Beautifully packaged reissue of Muriel Spark's best loved novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you ...
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54,44 zł |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN: 9780141181424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - 'the creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie 'set', introduced to a privileged world of adult games that they will never forget. Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted into a successful stage play, and later a...
Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction by Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic, comic and trag...
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45,89 zł |
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The Comforters
ISBN: 9780811223003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a diabolic bookseller, human evil.
With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a...
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68,12 zł |
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The Finishing School
ISBN: 9781400077397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located, for now, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into Rowland s creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a red-haired literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots, has...
From Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved The Prim...
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87,99 zł |
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Complete Poems
ISBN: 9781784101244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In her foreword to All The Poems (2003) Muriel Spark wrote, 'Although most of my life has been devoted to fiction, I have always thought of myself as a poet. I do not write -poetic- prose, but feel that my outlook on life and my perceptions of events are those of a poet.' Including previously uncollected work, this new edition demonstrates her ear for the rightness of a line and her eye for the telling detail, her command of poetic forms and her ability to rise to the different challenges of freer verse. Spark's poems are witty, idiosyncratic and haunting, transforming the familiar...
In her foreword to All The Poems (2003) Muriel Spark wrote, 'Although most of my life has been devoted to fiction, I have always thought of mys...
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81,69 zł |
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The Abbess of Crewe: A Modern Morality Tale
ISBN: 9780811212960 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An elegant fable about intrigue, corruption, and electronic surveillance, 'The Abbess of Crewe' (1974) is set in an English Benedictine convent. Steely and silky Abbess Alexandra has bugged the convent, and rigged her election. But the cat gets out of the bag, and--plunged into scandal--the serene Abbess faces a Vatican inquiry.
An elegant fable about intrigue, corruption, and electronic surveillance, 'The Abbess of Crewe' (1974) is set in an English Benedictine convent. Steel...
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59,89 zł |
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