wyszukanych pozycji: 27
Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
ISBN: 9781399625210 / Miękka / 2024 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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57,00 zł |
The Heir
ISBN: 9788027342860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The title story concerns the change of heart of Mr Chase, and insurance clerk who falls in love with the same mansion that he is earlier to sell off. Other stories in the collection are also unique and testimony of Vita's skill as a writer: The Heir The Christmas Party Patience Her Son The Parrot
The title story concerns the change of heart of Mr Chase, and insurance clerk who falls in love with the same mansion that he is earlier to sell off. ...
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41,67 zł |
The Edwardians
ISBN: 9780525433996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An instant bestseller when it was published in 1930, this glittering satire of Edwardian high society features a privileged brother and sister torn between tradition and a chance at an independent life. Sebastian is young, handsome, moody, and the heir to Chevron, a vast and opulent ducal estate. He feels a deep love for the countryside and for his patrimony, but he loathes the frivolous social world his mother and her shallow friends represent. At one of his mother's decadent house parties, Sebastian meets two people who shake his sense of self: Leonard Anquetil, a lowborn arctic...
An instant bestseller when it was published in 1930, this glittering satire of Edwardian high society features a privileged brother and sister torn be...
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89,30 zł |
The Edwardians
ISBN: 9781784870546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A glittering portrait of fashionable Edwardian English high society seen through the lives of a brother and sister torn by ties to the past and the lure of the modern era.
Sebastian is the heir of Chevron, a vast and beautiful English country estate. As such he is a fixed part of an eternal round of lavish parties, intrigues, traditions and fashions at the cold, decadent heart of Edwardian high society. Everyone knows the role Sebastian must play, but Sebastian isn't sure he wants the part. His sister Viola, meanwhile, scorns every part of her inheritance and is searching for a way... A glittering portrait of fashionable Edwardian English high society seen through the lives of a brother and sister torn by ties to the past and the...
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51,82 zł |
Saint Joan of Arc
ISBN: 9781784873516 / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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88,32 zł |
Family History
ISBN: 9781784873479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Evelyn, deeply jealous and conventional is shocked at her lover's casual ways and his insistence on working all day. Miles's love for Evelyn is real but he cannot devote himself wholly to her whims.
Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Evelyn, deeply jealous and conventional is shocked at her lover's casu...
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51,82 zł |
Seducers in Ecuador & The Heir
ISBN: 9781784873509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Seducers in Ecuador is the story of Arthur Lomax, every bit the English gentleman in his white ducks and solar topee, enjoying the pleasures of an Egyptian cruise. Under the spell of house and garden, Peregrine's life - and heart - are transformed.
Seducers in Ecuador is the story of Arthur Lomax, every bit the English gentleman in his white ducks and solar topee, enjoying the pleasures of an Egy...
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71,75 zł |
Heritage
ISBN: 9781784873462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Ruth Pennistan is a farmer's daughter, born and brought up in Kent. Malory, the rather strait-laced guest of the family, falls head over heels in love, even whilst Ruth becomes trapped against her will in a drama of love and tragedy with another man.
Ruth Pennistan is a farmer's daughter, born and brought up in Kent. Malory, the rather strait-laced guest of the family, falls head over heels in love...
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51,82 zł |
All Passion Spent
ISBN: 9781784870553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revives youthful ambitions and gathers some very unsuitable companions.
When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But L...
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51,82 zł |
Saint Joan of Arc: Born, January 6th, 1412; Burned as a Heretic, May 30th, 1431; Canonised as a Saint, May 16th, 1920
ISBN: 9780802138163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years. At fourteen, Sackville-West published her first book, and at fourteen Joan of Arc first heard the voices. Joan was seventeen when she took command of the armies of France -- a peasant girl in the early fifteenth century in charge of a nation's forces. At nineteen she was captured by the British and tried as a witch by a church court. Before her twentieth birthday she was burned at the stake. In 1920 she was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as a...
Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years. At fourte...
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93,56 zł |
Sissinghurst
ISBN: 9783895617096 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2024 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ein Portrait eines der schönsten Gärten Englands, aus Kolumnen, Briefen und Rundfunkbeiträgen von Vita Sackville-West und Harold Nicholson zusammengestellt.
Ein Portrait eines der schönsten Gärten Englands, aus Kolumnen, Briefen und Rundfunkbeiträgen von Vita Sackville-West und Harold Nicholson zusammen...
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64,53 zł |
The Eagle and the Dove
ISBN: 9781784873523 / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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71,75 zł |
Grand Canyon
ISBN: 9781784873493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Second World War has been won - by the Germans. Lester and Helen, strangers staying at the Grand Canyon Hotel in Arizona are united by their memories of a lost England. When the fragile peace shatters, only Lester and Helen can take charge and lead their fellow guests into an uncertain future.
The Second World War has been won - by the Germans. Lester and Helen, strangers staying at the Grand Canyon Hotel in Arizona are united by their memor...
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71,75 zł |
Unerwartete Leidenschaft
ISBN: 9783803127549 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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59,92 zł |
Challenge
ISBN: 9781844087655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Challenge' was written in 1920, but at the last moment it was withdrawn from publication because of the scandal it would have caused. It was inspired by Vita's relationship with Violet Trefusis.
'Challenge' was written in 1920, but at the last moment it was withdrawn from publication because of the scandal it would have caused. It was inspired...
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57,00 zł |
Passenger to Teheran
ISBN: 9781773236407 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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37,86 zł |
Pepita
ISBN: 9781784871161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Vita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary women. Her grandmother, daughter of an old-clothes pedlar, made her fortune as a dancer and had a scandalous affair with an English diplomat. Their illegitimate daughter Victoria, Vita's mother, spent her childhood hidden in a convent. This book tells their stories.
Vita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary women. Her grandmother, daughter of an old-clothes pedlar, made her f...
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57,00 zł |
Bombay, Bagdad, Teheran : Meine Reise nach Persien
ISBN: 9783737400329 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2016 / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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82,97 zł |
Twelve Days in Persia : Across the Mountains with the Bakhtiari Tribe
ISBN: 9781845119331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A year after Vita Sackville-West first travelled to Iran - a journey described in the classic Passenger to Teheran - she returned to the land that had so captured her imagination. For twelve days, with her husband and three friends, she embarked on a difficult and often dangerous journey through the rugged and wildly-beautiful Bakhtiari Mountains of south-western Iran. It was a landscape that affected Sackville-West profoundly, inspiring what is arguably some of her most lyrical prose; in the same year she wrote her acclaimed poem, The Land. Interwoven with her magical...
A year after Vita Sackville-West first travelled to Iran - a journey described in the classic Passenger to Teheran - she returned to the land t...
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66,22 zł |