wyszukanych pozycji: 34
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Slow Learner: Early Stories with an Introduction by the Author
ISBN: 9780316724432 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Thomas Pynchon's literary career was launched not with the release of his widely acclaimed first novel, V., but with the publication in literary magazines of the five stories collected here. In his introduction to Slow Learner the author reviews his early work with disarming candor and recalls the American cultural landscape of the early post-Beat era in which the stories were written. Time magazine described this introductory essay as Pynchon's first public gesture toward autobiography.
Thomas Pynchon's literary career was launched not with the release of his widely acclaimed first novel, V., but with the publication in literary magaz...
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69,32 |
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Výkřik techniky
ISBN: 9788025721742 / Czeski / 2017 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Výkřik techniky (Bleeding Edge) – Thomas Pynchon Je jaro roku 2001, v New Yorku rozkvétají hrušně a Maxine Tarnowová, forenzní auditorka, vede své dva syny do školy. Když dorazí do kanceláře, čeká tam na ni kamarád Reg se záhadným případem – je něco shnilého v internetové firmě hashslingrz. Jakmile začne Maxine rozkrývat její podezřelé finanční toky, objevují se na scéně softwaroví kouzelníci ze Silicon Valley, bohaté korporace z Perského zálivu, neevidovaný supertajný agent CIA, ruská mafie i Mossad. Kdo z nich bude mít nakonec na svědomí...
Výkřik techniky (Bleeding Edge) – Thomas Pynchon Je jaro roku 2001, v New Yorku rozkvétají hrušně a Maxine Tarnowová, forenzní auditorka, ve...
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79,64 |
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Against the Day
ISBN: 9780099512332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 1232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, and elsewhere.
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorad...
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85,50 |
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Crying of Lot 49: A Novel
ISBN: 9780063289529 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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115,61 |
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Schattennummer
ISBN: 9783498008222 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Milwaukee, 1932: Amerika steckt in der Großen Depression, die Aufhebung der Prohibition steht kurz bevor, Al Capone sitzt im Knast. Hicks McTaggart, Privatdetektiv, nimmt einen Routinejob an: Er soll die ausgebüxte Erbin eines Käse-Fabrikanten ausfindig machen und nach Hause bringen. Doch unversehens findet er sich auf einem Ozeandampfer wieder und landet schließlich fern jedem Seehafen in Ungarn, wo eine Sprache wie von einem anderen Stern gesprochen wird und es genug Backwaren gibt, um einen Detektiv bis ans Lebensende zu versorgen, aber jede Spur von der flüchtigen Erbin fehlt. Als... Milwaukee, 1932: Amerika steckt in der Großen Depression, die Aufhebung der Prohibition steht kurz bevor, Al Capone sitzt im Knast. Hicks McTaggar... |
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116,30 |
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The Crying of Lot 49
ISBN: 9780099532613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oepida in isolation.
Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detect...
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50,28 |
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Vineland
ISBN: 9780749391416 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This political novel is about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years.
This political novel is about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years.
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55,31 |
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Vineland
ISBN: 9780141180632 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate unresolved subplots, corny songs ("Floozy with an Uzi"), movie spoofs (Pee-wee Herman in The Robert Musil Story), and illicit sex (including a macho variation on the infamous sportscar scene in...
Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomic...
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80,92 |
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Bleeding Edge
ISBN: 9780099590361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left.
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost t...
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55,31 |
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Mason & Dixon: A Novel
ISBN: 9780312423209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and... Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania a... |
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119,42 |
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V.
ISBN: 9780099533313 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V.?
The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V....
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55,31 |
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Sterblichkeit und Erbarmen in Wien
ISBN: 9783990272671 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Im Frühjahr 1959 erschien in Epoch, der Literaturzeitschrift der Cornell University, unter dem rätselhaft schönen Titel Mortality and Mercy in Vienna eine Erzählung, deren Autor, 22 Jahre alt, wenige Jahre später mit den Romanen V. (1963) und Die Versteigerung von No. 49 (1966) berühmt werden sollte. Es war seine zweite Veröffentlichung, und auch wenn Thomas Pynchon damals noch nicht der Autor war, den heute alle Welt kennt, ist darin doch schon Vieles von dem angelegt, was uns an seine späteren Bücher erinnert. Sterblichkeit und Erbarmen in Wien - der Titel ist ein Zitat aus...
Im Frühjahr 1959 erschien in Epoch, der Literaturzeitschrift der Cornell University, unter dem rätselhaft schönen Titel Mortality and Mercy in Vien...
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67,10 |
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Slow Learner: Early Stories
ISBN: 9780099532514 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A compilation of five short stories which include: The Small Rain, Lowlands, Entropy, Under the Rose, and The Secret Integration.
A compilation of five short stories which include: The Small Rain, Lowlands, Entropy, Under the Rose, and The Secret Integration.
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50,28 |
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Mason & Dixon
ISBN: 9780099771913 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland known as the Mason-Dixon Line. This book provides a fictional account of their story.
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and ...
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cena:
75,44 |
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V.
ISBN: 9780060930219 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and "V.," the unknown woman of the title. The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose -- and... |
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77,03 |
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Bleeding Edge: A Novel
ISBN: 9780143125754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left. Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be...
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost ...
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cena:
73,22 |
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Die Enden der Parabel, 13 Audio-CD : Gravity's Rainbow: Hörspiel. CD Standard Audio Format
ISBN: 9783957131317 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
cena:
178,88 |