wyszukanych pozycji: 77
A Writer's People : Ways of Looking and Feeling
ISBN: 9780330522984 / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 'A Writer's People', V.S. Naipaul brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel.
In 'A Writer's People', V.S. Naipaul brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel.
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70,25 zł |
The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Colonial Societies
ISBN: 9780330522953 / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is the author's account of his journey in 1960 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. He has recorded his impressions of Trinidad and former colonies in the West Indies and South America.
This is the author's account of his journey in 1960 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. He has recorded his impressions o...
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55,97 zł |
Half a Life
ISBN: 9780330522854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Willy Chandran's father married a low caste woman, and soon came to loathe the sight of her. From this unhappy union, Willy and his sister were born. It is from here that 'Half A Life' takes off as we follow Willy's journey to find a place in the world.
Willy Chandran's father married a low caste woman, and soon came to loathe the sight of her. From this unhappy union, Willy and his sister were born. ...
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50,87 zł |
Magic Seeds
ISBN: 9780330522878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Willie Chandran - whom we first meet in 'Half a Life' - succumbs to the demanding encouragement of his sister and joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to unfettering the lower castes. After several years in prison, he returns to England where he comes to see himself as a man.
Willie Chandran - whom we first meet in 'Half a Life' - succumbs to the demanding encouragement of his sister and joins an underground movement in Ind...
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59,43 zł |
The Writer and the World: Essays
ISBN: 9780330523691 / Miękka / 2011 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This collection of V.S. Naipul's essays, the first of two volumes, features pieces taken from his earlier books - 'The Overcrowded Barracoon', 'The Return of Eva Peron' and 'Finding the Centre' and other essays. It concentrates on his writings about India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora.
This collection of V.S. Naipul's essays, the first of two volumes, features pieces taken from his earlier books - 'The Overcrowded Barracoon', 'The Re...
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66,14 zł |
Fireflies
ISBN: 9780141197234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Vimla Lutchman is a member of the powerful and wealthy Khoja family. As her disastrous marriage to a local bus driver unravels, she scrapes a living by running a roadside vegetable stall and finds compensation in trading, in her children, in fortune-tellers and finally in solitude.
Vimla Lutchman is a member of the powerful and wealthy Khoja family. As her disastrous marriage to a local bus driver unravels, she scrapes a living b...
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70,25 zł |
Dancing Moon Under the Peepal Tree: A Novel Set in Trinidad at Fifty
ISBN: 9781469145532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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178,23 zł |
North of South
ISBN: 9781982151140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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88,89 zł |
The Mansion
ISBN: 9781450015080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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101,83 zł |
Sangam: The Jhansi Legacy
ISBN: 9781491862247 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. SANGAM: The Jhansi Legacy, captures the struggles of exiled peoples of the Indian subcontinent in the Caribbean known hitherto as "indentured coolies" but who are revealed in the novel as representative classes of Indians of differing socio-economic backgrounds who had created a strong opposition to British rule of the Indian subcontinent. It is a moving story that captures the struggles of these people in the hostile environment of sugar plantations where injustice, lack of decency, and oppression of the worst kind prevailed. At first, there seemed little that could be done to alleviate the...
SANGAM: The Jhansi Legacy, captures the struggles of exiled peoples of the Indian subcontinent in the Caribbean known hitherto as "indentured coolies"...
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129,64 zł |
The Chip-Chip Gatherers
ISBN: 9780141197227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. At the centre of this story of a crowded, ramshackle community in Trinidad stands Egbert Ramsaran, the proud owner of the Ramsaran Transport Company. Sheer bloody-minded strength of will has made Egbert the richest man in the Settlement."
At the centre of this story of a crowded, ramshackle community in Trinidad stands Egbert Ramsaran, the proud owner of the Ramsaran Transport Company. ...
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70,25 zł |
Dancing Moon Under the Peepal Tree: A Novel Set in Trinidad at Fifty
ISBN: 9781465308719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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101,83 zł |
Sangam: The Jhansi Legacy
ISBN: 9781491862223 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. SANGAM: The Jhansi Legacy, captures the struggles of exiled peoples of the Indian subcontinent in the Caribbean known hitherto as "indentured coolies" but who are revealed in the novel as representative classes of Indians of differing socio-economic backgrounds who had created a strong opposition to British rule of the Indian subcontinent. It is a moving story that captures the struggles of these people in the hostile environment of sugar plantations where injustice, lack of decency, and oppression of the worst kind prevailed. At first, there seemed little that could be done to alleviate the...
SANGAM: The Jhansi Legacy, captures the struggles of exiled peoples of the Indian subcontinent in the Caribbean known hitherto as "indentured coolies"...
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173,13 zł |
The Mansion
ISBN: 9781450015097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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178,23 zł |
Suwan and the Circle of Seven
ISBN: 9781436367097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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84,85 zł |
The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections
ISBN: 9780330522861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Taking its title from a picture by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, this is the story of a young Indian from the Crown Colony of Trinidad, who arrives in post-imperial England. He observes the gradual but profound changes wrought on the English countryside by the march of progress.
Taking its title from a picture by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, this is the story of a young Indian from the Crown Colony of Trinidad, who a...
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50,87 zł |
The Enigma of Arrival
ISBN: 9780394757605 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The story of a writer's singular journey from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another this is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel."
The story of a writer's singular journey from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and fro...
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80,85 zł |
Magic Seeds
ISBN: 9780375707278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A stunning novel of the present moment that takes us into the hearts and minds of those who use terrorism as an ideal and a way of life, and those who aspire to the frightening power of wealth.
Abandoning a life he felt was not his own, Willie Chandran (the hero of Half a Life) moves to Berlin where his sister's radical political awakening inspires him to join a liberation movement in India. There, in the jungles and dirt-poor small villages, through months of secrecy and night marches, Willie -- a solitary, inward man -- discovers both the idealism and brutality of guerilla warfare. When... A stunning novel of the present moment that takes us into the hearts and minds of those who use terrorism as an ideal and a way of life, and those who...
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88,94 zł |
A House for Mr Biswas
ISBN: 9781529013016 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul's best-loved novel. With an introduction by writer Teju Cole.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul's best-loved novel. With an introduction by writer Teju Cole.
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66,14 zł |
Literary Occasions: Essays
ISBN: 9781400031306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul brings his signature gifts of observation, his ferocious impatience with received truths, and his masterfully condensed prose to these eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity which have been brought together for the first time.
Here the subject is Naipaul s literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child; the books he wrote as a young man; the omnipresent predicament of trying to master an essentially metropolitan, imperial art form as an Asian colonial from a New World plantation island. He assesses Joseph Conrad, the writer most frequently... Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul brings his signature gifts of observation, his ferocious impatience with received truths, and his masterfully condensed p...
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72,77 zł |