wyszukanych pozycji: 117
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Cat's Cradle
ISBN: 9780575081956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it.
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, wo...
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50,87 zł |
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生存还是毁灭: 2BR02B, Chinese edition
ISBN: 9781034454250 / Chiński / Miękka / 2021 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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54,13 zł |
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Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage
ISBN: 9780425134061 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart."--New York Times
"An anthology in which Vonnegut freely quotes himself on everything from art and architecture to madness and mass murder...Uncompromising."--Los Angeles Times Here we have a collection of essays and speeches by me, with breezy autobiographical commentary serving as connective tissue and splints and bandages. Here we go again with real life and opinions made to look like one big, preposterous animal not unlike an invention by Dr. Seuss...... "Honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart."--New York Times
"An anthol... |
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97,78 zł |
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Welcome To The Monkey House and Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
ISBN: 9780099387817 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From riffs on country music, George Bush, and his mother's midnight mania, to a bittersweet tribute to a dead friend, this book demonstrates why Kurt Vonnegut is equally well known as an essayist and commentator as he is a novelist. It resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice.
From riffs on country music, George Bush, and his mother's midnight mania, to a bittersweet tribute to a dead friend, this book demonstrates why Kurt ...
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69,02 zł |
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God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
ISBN: 9780099842804 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull, the ugly, the irrelevant and the useless.
Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull, th...
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50,87 zł |
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Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945
ISBN: 9780593133019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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142,59 zł |
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Slaughterhouse 5: 50th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9781784874858 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When he did write about it, he combined his trademark humour, unfettered imagination, boundless humanity and keen sense of irony to create one of the most powerful anti-war books every written, and an enduring American classic. This special edition is published with... 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany... |
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66,14 zł |
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Bluebeard
ISBN: 9780385333511 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story--and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long I...
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73,33 zł |
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Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s
ISBN: 9780099583479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Presents a collage of author's own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Presents a collage of author's own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of t...
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58,39 zł |
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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780385312080 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey thro...
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110,00 zł |
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Typical Cynical: A Collection of Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut plus Selections from A Cynic's Word Book by Ambrose Bierce
ISBN: 9781973787266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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33,19 zł |
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Niech pana Bóg błogosławi panie Rosewater
ISBN: 9788382023992 / Polski / twarda z obwolutą / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Groteskowy, a zarazem przerażająco wierny obraz świata zbudowanego wokół kultu pieniądza
Eliot Rosewater, miłośnik alkoholu, a także prezes bajecznie bogatej Fundacji Rosewatera, nie jest w stanie znieść ciężaru fortuny, którą posiada. Wpada w obłęd i wyrusza w pijacką pielgrzymkę po całym kraju, żeby na końcu zamieszkać w ciasnym biurze w swoim rodowym miasteczku i zacząć, ku niezadowoleniu wpływowego ojca, pomagać jego mieszkańcom w codziennych potrzebach. Tymczasem przebiegły i ambitny prawnik Norman Mushari postanawia pozbawić Eliota majątku i dostać się... Groteskowy, a zarazem przerażająco wierny obraz świata zbudowanego wokół kultu pieniądza
Eliot Rosewater, miłośnik alkoholu, a także... |
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45,00 zł |
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Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
ISBN: 9780099582946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life'. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: 'I am an American fad-of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop.' Like Vonnegut's books, his letters...
This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to...
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79,64 zł |
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A Man without a Country
ISBN: 9780747586050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5
Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5
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55,97 zł |
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Palm Sunday
ISBN: 9781784877040 / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage.
In Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight ...
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53,08 zł |
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While Mortals Sleep
ISBN: 9780099529064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 'While Mortals Sleep' men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A man plays with his model trains too much until the women in his life decide to take matters into their own hands. In the title story, a hard-nosed reporter is called upon to judge the annual Christmas lights competition.
In 'While Mortals Sleep' men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A man plays with his model trains too much unt...
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53,08 zł |
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Slaughterhouse 5: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
ISBN: 9781784879693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
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Jailbird
ISBN: 9780099999003 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Walter F. Starbuck was sent to prison in 1975 for his part in the American political scandals known collectively as Watergate. Now, he is coming out of jail, into the brave new world of 1980s Manhattan. This is the story of his first 24hrs of freedom.
Walter F. Starbuck was sent to prison in 1975 for his part in the American political scandals known collectively as Watergate. Now, he is coming out o...
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53,08 zł |
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Śniadanie mistrzów audiobook
ISBN: 9788381169103 / Polski / etui / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. Ostra i wciąż aktualna satyra na amerykański styl życia.W Śniadaniu mistrzów Vonnegut w typowy dla siebie sposób obnaża bolączki współczesnego świata dehumanizację jednostki w społeczeństwie, którym rządzi technologia, spustoszenie środowiska naturalnego i ustawiczne wojny.Dwayne Hoover, bogaty sprzedawca samochodów, nagle dochodzi do wniosku, że wszyscy ludzie są maszynami. Kilgore Trout, nikomu nieznany autor powieści fantastyczno-naukowych, sądzi, że życie ma już za sobą. Spotkanie tych dwóch samotnych ludzi na szybko umierającej planecie to doskonały pretekst...
Ostra i wciąż aktualna satyra na amerykański styl życia.W Śniadaniu mistrzów Vonnegut w typowy dla siebie sposób obnaża bolączki współczesn...
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37,91 zł |
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Sucker's Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing
ISBN: 9781611099584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Available for the first time, Sucker's Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never before published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Short, sardonic, and dark, these six brief fiction stories and one non-fiction piece are consummate Vonnegut with piercing satire and an eye for life's obscene inanity. Also available for the first time is an unfinished science-fiction short story, included in the appendix. These stories trace trivial human lives and mundane desires, which is precisely where Vonnegut's inimitable perspective as a... Available for the first time, Sucker's Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never before published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the... |
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60,91 zł |