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Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier
ISBN: 9780141185019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best... Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait ...
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68,61 |
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Wallace Stegner: Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780143039792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. Each of the thirty-one stories contained in this volume embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction, demonstrating why the author is acclaimed as one of America's master storytellers. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works...
In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century Ameri...
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95,29 |
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Wolf Willow
ISBN: 9780141392363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920. In a recollection of his years there, Stegner applies childhood remembrances and adult reflection to create an enduring portrait of pioneer life.
Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded f...
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All the Little Live Things
ISBN: 9780141392400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a California retreat. And although their new home looks like Eden, it also has serpents.
Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a Cal...
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56,43 |
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The Spectator Bird
ISBN: 9780525431879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteemed literary minds of the last century and a beloved chronicler of the West.
Joe Allston is a cantankerous, retired literary agent who is, in his own words, -just killing time until time gets around to killing me.- His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, has not been his choice. He has passed through life as a spectator,... This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteem...
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64,80 |
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Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel
ISBN: 9780525435419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Wallace Stegner's remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his trial, imprisonment, and final martyrdom. Blending fact with fiction, Wallace Stegner retells the story of Joe Hill--the Wobbly bard who became the stuff of legend when, in 1915, he was executed for the alleged murder of a Salt Lake City businessman. Organizer, agitator, "Labor's Songster"--a rebel from the skin inwards, with an absolute faith in the One Big Union--Joe...
Wallace Stegner's remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the mo...
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76,23 |
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Angle of Repose
ISBN: 9780141188003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks on a search to rediscover his grandmother, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a 100 years earlier.
Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the...
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65,53 |
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Crossing to Safety
ISBN: 9780375759314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and... Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams
Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a "magnificently crafted story . . . b... |
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Recapitulation
ISBN: 9780141392394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) An intimate portrait of a man confronting his life's experiences in light of his past.
An intimate portrait of a man confronting his life's experiences in light of his past.
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Recapitulation
ISBN: 9780525435426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A classic novel from Wallace Stegner, and the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety--this is his the incredible, moving sequel to the bestselling Big Rock Candy Mountain. Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City not for his aunt's funeral, but to encounter after forty-five years the place he fled in bitterness. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward and lonely childhood, sealed himself off from the thrills and torments of adolescence to become...
A classic novel from Wallace Stegner, and the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ang...
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80,04 |
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The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West
ISBN: 9780525435433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner emerged as an important conservationist and novelist. This collection is divided into two sections: the first features eloquent sketches of the West's history and environment, directing our imagination to the sublime beauty of such places as San Juan and Glen Canyon; the concluding section examines the state of Western literature, of the mythical past versus the diminished present,...
The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid ch...
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72,42 |
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Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780141392387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A collection of 31 short stories from one of America's master storytellers. Here are tales of young love and older wisdom, of the order and consistency of the natural world and the chaos, contradictions and continuities of the human being.
A collection of 31 short stories from one of America's master storytellers. Here are tales of young love and older wisdom, of the order and consistenc...
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76,97 |
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Crossing to Safety
ISBN: 9780141394954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the late 20th century. When two young couples meet for the first time during the Great Depression, they quickly find they have much in common: Charity Lang and Sally Morgan are both pregnant, while their husbands Sid and Larry both have jobs in the English department at the University of Wisconsin. Immediately a lifelong friendship is born, which becomes increasingly complex as they share decades of love, loyalty, vulnerability and...
A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American wri...
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50,40 |
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Ansel Adams: Letters, 1916 - 1984
ISBN: 9780821226827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In his early years in Yosemite, Ansel Adams formed the habit of writing letters at every opportunity. Among the family, friends, and colleagues with whom he corresponded rank such eminent names as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Jimmy Carter.
In his early years in Yosemite, Ansel Adams formed the habit of writing letters at every opportunity. Among the family, friends, and colleagues with w...
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120,02 |
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain
ISBN: 9780525435235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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80,04 |
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
ISBN: 9780803292130 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Other Bison Books by Wallace Stegner include Mormon Country, Recapitulation, Second Growth, and Women on the Wall."
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death but unique in American history...
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95,10 |
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The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America
ISBN: 9780874809527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) We can refresh ourselves with our own best image, and renew our image of America: not as Perfection, not as Heaven on Earth, not as New Jerusalem, but as flawed glory and exhilarating task.' -from The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America
The occasions of the centennial of Wallace Stegner s birth on February 18, 1909, and the University of Utah Press s announcement of the Wallace Stegner Publication Prize in Environmental and American Western History have provided the impetus for the re-publication of 'The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and... We can refresh ourselves with our own best image, and renew our image of America: not as Perfection, not as Heaven on Earth, not as New Jerusalem, but...
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Second Growth
ISBN: 9780803291577 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A New England village, untouched by history since the American Revolution, is the unquiet arena containing, but just barely, the aloof natives and the summer residents. Their paths cross, happily or disastrously, in a book that seems too real to be fiction. As Wallace Stegner writes, the conflict on this particular frontier "has been reproduced in an endlessly changing pattern all over the United States." Wallace Stegner (1909-93) was one of America's most distinguished novelists and essayists. His works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and The Spectator Bird, winner of the...
A New England village, untouched by history since the American Revolution, is the unquiet arena containing, but just barely, the aloof natives and the...
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Clarence Edward Dutton: An Appraisal
ISBN: 9780874808650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "A finger smashed in a car door and a missed geology examination at the University of Utah led Wallace Stegner to a special assignment about Clarence E. Dutton, thence to John Wesley Powell, and finally in 1954 to publication of what is arguably the single best nonfiction book dealing with the American West. "Beyond the Hundredth Meridian" remains in print fifty-two years after its initial appearance. Not many books have survived that length of time and thrived, despite competing works on the same subject.
This combination of biography, history, and environmental primer written with the... "A finger smashed in a car door and a missed geology examination at the University of Utah led Wallace Stegner to a special assignment about Clarence ...
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102,39 |
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The Women on the Wall
ISBN: 9780803291102 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Written during World War II and its immediate aftermath, the eighteen stories of The Women on the Wall move from women to war and back again, but it is the women who remain central. There are Alma, a war bride who runs a farm better than the neighbor men; Lucy, a former WAAF, working through college; Tamsen, who keeps her husband drunk so she can do as she pleases; and the women on the wall, who, with nothing to do but wait for their husbands to return from the war, find their private consolations. To these stories Wallace Stegner brings the same skill and thoughtfulness that won him the...
Written during World War II and its immediate aftermath, the eighteen stories of The Women on the Wall move from women to war and back again, but it i...
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97,50 |
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