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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The Mansion
ISBN: 9781450015080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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101,83 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 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: 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 Mansion
ISBN: 9781450015097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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178,23 zł |
A House for Mr. Biswas
ISBN: 9780375707162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.
In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering... The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father...
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76,81 zł |
The Mimic Men
ISBN: 9780330522922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'The Mimic Men' is a moving novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. Naipaul is the author of 13 works of fiction and has won many prizes including the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
'The Mimic Men' is a moving novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. Naipaul is the author of 13 works of fiction and ...
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50,87 zł |
Letters Between a Father and Son
ISBN: 9780330522960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An astonishing selection of letters from V. S. Naipaul's formative years, rich with compassion, literary beauty and a genuine literary intent.
An astonishing selection of letters from V. S. Naipaul's formative years, rich with compassion, literary beauty and a genuine literary intent.
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91,88 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 |