wyszukanych pozycji: 31
Gravity's Rainbow
ISBN: 9780099511755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Hailed by many as the major experimental novel of the post-war period, Gravity's Rainbow is a bizarre comic masterpiece in which linguistic virtuosity creates a whole other world.
Hailed by many as the major experimental novel of the post-war period, Gravity's Rainbow is a bizarre comic masterpiece in which linguistic virtuosity...
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66,76 zł |
Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition): (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780143039945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with french claps and deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the... Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the tw...
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103,82 zł |
49 idzie pod młotek
ISBN: 9788367515955 / Polski / twarda z obwolutą / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Arcydzieło, które przetrwało kres postmodernizmu, powieść uznawana powszechnie za najbardziej przystępną spośród zawikłanych, przedziwnych dzieł Thomasa Pynchona.
Po śmierci Pierce’a Inverarity’ego, byłego kochanka i potentata na rynku nieruchomości, Edypa Maas zostaje wykonawczynią jego testamentu. Wkrótce zostaje w tej misji wciągnięta w paranoiczną plątaninę spisków, zagadek i symboli rozległych jak cała Kalifornia. Czy naprawdę odkrywa przy tym obejmujący cały kraj i setki lat spisek? Podróżując po Kalifornii wczesnych lat sześćdziesiątych Edypa... Arcydzieło, które przetrwało kres postmodernizmu, powieść uznawana powszechnie za najbardziej przystępną spośród zawikłanych, przedziwnych d...
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59,00 zł |
Bleeding Edge: A Novel
ISBN: 9780143125754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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82,19 zł |
The Crying of Lot 49
ISBN: 9780099532613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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51,35 zł |
V.
ISBN: 9780099533313 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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56,48 zł |
Mason & Dixon
ISBN: 9780312423209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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134,06 zł |
The Crying of Lot 49
ISBN: 9780060913076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Thomas Pynchon's classic post-modern satire, which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa Maas, first published in 1965. The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge. Thomas Pynchon's classic post-modern satire, which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa Maas, first published in 1965. |
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43,40 zł |
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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78,27 zł |
Mason & Dixon
ISBN: 9780099771913 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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77,04 zł |
Vineland
ISBN: 9780141180632 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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86,52 zł |
Niepojętny uczeń
ISBN: 9788366102835 / Polski / twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Być może wyobrażacie sobie, jakim ciosem dla ego jest lektura czegoś, co napisało się dwadzieścia lat wcześniej, nawet jeśli to anulowane czeki. Moją pierwszą reakcją po powtórnym przeczytaniu tych opowiadań było – "o mój Boże", czemu towarzyszyły objawy fizyczne, nad którymi nie warto się rozwodzić. Moja druga myśl dotyczyła pomysłu gruntownej przeróbki całego materiału. Te dwa impulsy wkrótce ustąpiły, a ja znalazłem się w okresie spokoju, właściwym dla średniego wieku, w którym zaczęło mi się wydawać, że wiem coś więcej o młodym pisarzu, jakim...
Być może wyobrażacie sobie, jakim ciosem dla ego jest lektura czegoś, co napisało się dwadzieścia lat wcześniej, nawet jeśli to anulowane cze...
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The Crying of Lot 49
ISBN: 9780062334411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thomas Pynchon's classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an international conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity dies and designates her the co-executor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Mass is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not-inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge. This Harper Perennial Deluxe... Thomas Pynchon's classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in what would appear to be an internationa... |
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Slow Learner: Early Stories
ISBN: 9780099532514 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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51,35 zł |
Gravity's Rainbow
ISBN: 9780099533214 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Hailed by many as the major experimental novel of the post-war period, Gravity's Rainbow is a bizarre comic masterpiece in which linguistic virtuosity creates a whole other world.
Hailed by many as the major experimental novel of the post-war period, Gravity's Rainbow is a bizarre comic masterpiece in which linguistic virtuosity...
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66,76 zł |
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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68,51 zł |
Bleeding Edge
ISBN: 9780099590361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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51,35 zł |
Against the Day
ISBN: 9780099512332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 1232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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87,31 zł |
Slow Learner: Early Stories with an Introduction by the Author
ISBN: 9780316724432 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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77,83 zł |