wyszukanych pozycji: 147
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Grona gniewu
ISBN: 9788382343687 / Polski / twarda / 2022 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Porywająca lekcja historii Amerykańska klasyka w najlepszym tego słowa znaczeniu!Stany Zjednoczone, lata 30. XX wieku. Wielki kryzys zbiera tragiczne żniwo. Rodzina Joadów decyduje się opuścić rodzinną Oklahomę i w poszukiwaniu pracy przenieść się do Kalifornii. Po dotarciu na miejsce okazuje się jednak, że nie ma ono nic wspólnego z krainą mlekiem i miodem płynącą znaną z reklamowych folderów. Zamieszkujący ją farmerzy - sami dotknięci bezrobociem i ledwo wiążący koniec z końcem - są do przybywających do ich stanu nastawieni wręcz wrogo. Czy w takich...
Porywająca lekcja historii Amerykańska klasyka w najlepszym tego słowa znaczeniu!Stany Zjednoczone, lata 30. XX wieku. Wielki kryzys zbiera tragicz...
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The Red Pony
ISBN: 9780241980378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Pearl
ISBN: 9780141368979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Moon is Down
ISBN: 9780141185538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community. This book explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors.
Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit commun...
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Of Mice and Men
ISBN: 9780241620236 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Von Mäusen und Menschen : Roman
ISBN: 9783423142113 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2012 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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The Vigilante
ISBN: 9780241338957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
ISBN: 9781890771614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of California. Here he found once strong, independent farmers so reduced in dignity, sick, sullen, and defeated that they had been cast down to a kind of subhumanity. He contrasts their misery with the hope offered by government resettlement camps, where self-help communities were restoring dignity and indeed saving lives. The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration and provides the factual...
With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Ho...
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The Grapes of Wrath
ISBN: 9780141394886 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. It tells of the Joad family who travel West in search of the promised land, and find only broken dreams.
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. It tells o...
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
ISBN: 9780141186078 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 1940 John Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his friend the biologist Edward F. Ricketts to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the gulf of California. The day-to-day story of the trip is given in the log which combines science, philosophy and high-spirited adventure. This edition also includes Steinbeck's profile of his fellow traveller.
In 1940 John Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his friend the biologist Edward F. Ricketts to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of t...
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The Grapes of Wrath
ISBN: 9780141185064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of Tom Joad and his family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land.
An evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream. Set against ...
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The Red Pony
ISBN: 9780141185095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Jody Tiflin is given a red pony, and later he is promised the colt of a bay mare. Yet both of these gifts bring him tragedy as well as joy, and Jody is taught not only the harsh lessons of life and death, but made painfully aware of the fallibilty of adults.
Jody Tiflin is given a red pony, and later he is promised the colt of a bay mare. Yet both of these gifts bring him tragedy as well as joy, and Jody i...
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The Grapes of Wrath
ISBN: 9780142000663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized--and sometimes outraged--millions of readers. First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads--driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized--and sometimes outraged--millions of readers. First publish...
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Grapes of Wrath
ISBN: 9781410407856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 907 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Of Mice and Men
ISBN: 9780141396033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The childlike Lennie is lost without his guardian, George, who feels his slow-witted friend has been delivered into his keeping. Bound by their fragile dream of owning land where they will 'belong', their paradisial future is soon shattered.
The childlike Lennie is lost without his guardian, George, who feels his slow-witted friend has been delivered into his keeping. Bound by their fragil...
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The Pearl
ISBN: 9780140177374 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon." Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security.... A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of...
"There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon." Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls fr...
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The Wayward Bus
ISBN: 9780141186115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited. His passengers include Ernest, a travelling salesman out for fun, seventeen-year-old Kit, also known as Pimples, and Camille the stripper who dances at stag nights and takes the star-struck young Norma under her wing.
Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited. His passengers include Ernest, a travelling salesman out for fun, sevente...
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Była raz wojna. Bomby poszły
ISBN: 9788383910079 / Polski / twarda / 2024 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Dwie opowieści prosto z frontu, w których Steinbeck oczami jednostek ukazuje wojenne piekłoWByła raz wojnaSteinbeck opisuje nie bitwy, ale ludzi. Reportaże zamówione przez ,,New York Herald Tribune" poświęca odmalowaniu ludzkiego wymiaru drugowojennego konfliktu, którego losy wtedy nie były jeszcze przesądzone. Pisarz jadł i pił razem z żołnierzami, walczył z nimi ramię w ramię. Przebywając na pierwszej linii frontu, widział zarówno heroizm, jak i tchórzostwo. Jego teksty poruszają bardziej niż jakiekolwiek ogólne opisy batalistyczne, poznajemy w nich losy zwykłych...
Dwie opowieści prosto z frontu, w których Steinbeck oczami jednostek ukazuje wojenne piekłoWByła raz wojnaSteinbeck opisuje nie bitwy, ale ludzi....
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The Pearl
ISBN: 9780141185125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the author of Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck's The Pearl is a flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring, published with an introduction by Linda Wagner-Martin and drawings by Jose Clemente Orozco in Penguin Modern Classics. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with haunting...
From the author of Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck's The Pearl is a flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring, published with an introduc...
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