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Leonard Woolf: A Biography
ISBN: 9781582434117 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This meticulously researched and compassionately rendered portrait of Leonard Woolf, the "dark star" of Bloomsbury, is the first to capture his troubled relationship with his wife, his own intellect, and the tumultuous world of artists and eccentrics around him. A man of extremes, Woolf was by turns ferocious and tender, violent and repressed, opinionated and nonjudgmental, always an outsider of sorts within the exceptionally intimate, fractious, and sometimes vicious society of brilliant but troubled friends and lovers. In telling Woolf's story, Victoria Glendinning traces the development of...
This meticulously researched and compassionately rendered portrait of Leonard Woolf, the "dark star" of Bloomsbury, is the first to capture his troubl...
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95,64 zł |
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Family Business: An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership
ISBN: 9780008273781 / Miękka / 2022 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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55,97 zł |
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Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography
ISBN: 9780307277404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist whose literary achievements were equaled only by her unbounded gift for living. Taking us from Elizabeth Bowen's ancestral home in Ireland, Bowen s Court, to Oxford where she met Yeats and Eliot, to her service as an air-raid warden in London during World War II, this penetrating biography lifts the thin veil between Bowen's imaginative world and the complex emotional life that fired her shimmering novels. We see her at elegant parties, where such friends as Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and...
In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist whose literary achievements were equaled only by h...
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87,15 zł |
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Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity
ISBN: 9781788160902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the founder of Singapore and Governor of Java, having left school in his early teens to become a clerk for the British East India Company. Charismatic and daring, Raffles forged an extraordinary path for himself in South East Asia - refusing to be satisfied with the trading posts available to the British, he defied Dutch governors and wrangled with warring local rulers to establish what is now a world city. An ardent linguist and zoologist, Raffles spoke fluent Malay and found time to write The History of Java, as well as...
By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the founder of Singapore and Governor of Java, having left school in his early teens...
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66,14 zł |
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Provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother.
Provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother.
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98,23 zł |
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Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
ISBN: 9780755650439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst. In her Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Glendinning documents Vita's extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband, and her two sons together with her unpublicised...
The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she ma...
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86,51 zł |
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Cousin Rosamund
ISBN: 9780140101300 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Two young women come of age in a novel "unbelievably rich in character, incident, and observation." -- The Boston Globe
Their childhood and adolescence were overshadowed by the Great War. Now, in its lonely aftermath, Rose and Mary Aubrey find themselves deprived of the guiding strength of their cousin Rosamund when she marries a man of dubious morals and intolerable vulgarity. Retreating to an inn on the Thames, they find a haven of security with old friends. Into this fragile Eden a new, disruptive force is introduced; Rose discovers the power of love, and, confronting her... Two young women come of age in a novel "unbelievably rich in character, incident, and observation." -- The Boston Globe
Their childhood an... |
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104,58 zł |
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