wyszukanych pozycji: 23
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The Little Stranger: shortlisted for the Booker Prize
ISBN: 9781844086061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline. But are the Ayres haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, t...
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50,99 zł |
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Affinity
ISBN: 9780349018492 / Miękka / 2024 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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56,09 zł |
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Tipping The Velvet: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780349017426 / Miękka / 2023 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,99 zł |
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Dancing with Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House
ISBN: 9780061999062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "What a wonderful collection Each story is like a little treasure just waiting to be unwrapped, bringing its own unique and engaging perspective to the Austen mythos. A real treat for Jane Austen fans."
--Syrie James, bestselling author of The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen and Dracula, My Love Dancing with Mr. Darcy is a sterling collection of short stories inspired by beloved novelist Jane Austen and Chawton House, her longtime home. Edited by Sarah Waters, a bestselling author shortlisted for Great Britain's Booker Prize, this exceptional anthology... "What a wonderful collection Each story is like a little treasure just waiting to be unwrapped, bringing its own unique and engaging perspective to t...
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65,31 zł |
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The Night Watch
ISBN: 9780349018522 / Miękka / 2024 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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56,09 zł |
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The Paying Guests: shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
ISBN: 9780349004600 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional echoey plink of drips from the tap...'Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms - as something like two great waddling shillings. But this, she thought, was what it really meant to have paying guests: this odd, unintimate proximity, this rather peeled-back moment, where the only thing between herself and a naked Mrs Barber was a few feet of kitchen and a thin scullery door. An image sprang into her head: that round flesh,...
'There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional...
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56,09 zł |
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Affinity
ISBN: 9781860496929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Margaret Prior is a prison visitor in the 1870s. Set in and around Milbank, one of London's most notorious gaols for women, the story is both a both a ghost story and an intriguing literary mystery tale.
Margaret Prior is a prison visitor in the 1870s. Set in and around Milbank, one of London's most notorious gaols for women, the story is both a both a...
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56,09 zł |
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The Night Watch: shortlisted for the Booker Prize
ISBN: 9781844082414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a stunning novel that marks a departure from the 19th century.
Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a stunning novel that marks a departure from the 19th cen...
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56,09 zł |
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The Little Stranger
ISBN: 9780349018515 / Miękka / 2024 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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56,09 zł |
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Tipping The Velvet
ISBN: 9780349018485 / Miękka / 2024 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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56,09 zł |
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The Night Watch
ISBN: 9781594482304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A] wonderful novel Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character. Chicago Tribune
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners three women and a young man with a past whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event." A] wonderful novel Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character. Chicago Tribune
Moving back th... |
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69,44 zł |
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The Night Watch
ISBN: 9781350014060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. I thought everything would change, after the war. And now, no one even mentions it. It is as if we all got together in private and said whatever you do don't mention that, like it never happened. It's the late 1940s. Calm has returned to London and five people are recovering from the chaos of war. In scenes set in a quiet dating agency, a bombed-out church and a prison cell, the stories of these five lives begin to intertwine and we uncover the desire and regret that has bound them together. Sarah Waters's story of illicit love and everyday heroism takes us from a... I thought everything would change, after the war. And now, no one even mentions it. It is as if we all got together in private and said whatever... |
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64,59 zł |
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Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France
ISBN: 9781837644117 / Miękka / 2023 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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161,54 zł |
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Between Republic and Market: Globalization and Identity in Contemporary France
ISBN: 9781441172082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The rise of neo-liberal globalisation has posed major challenges for all European countries, identifying itself as the key political tension of the coming era. Yet, it is in France that globalisation has produced the deepest tensions, and it is here that it has generated its greatest political resistance. The rise of neo-liberal globalisation has posed major challenges for all European countries, identifying itself as the key political tension of the... |
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188,48 zł |
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Fingersmith
ISBN: 9781573229722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Oliver Twist with a twist...Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story."--The New York Times Book Review The Handmaiden, a film adaptation of Fingersmith, directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Tae-Ri, is now available. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty... "Oliver Twist with a twist...Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story."--The New York Times ... |
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77,61 zł |
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Fingersmith
ISBN: 9780349018508 / Miękka / 2024 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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56,09 zł |
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The Paying Guests
ISBN: 9781594633928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The volcanically sexy (USA Today) bestseller about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s London.
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a... The volcanically sexy (USA Today) bestseller about a widow and her daughter who take a young couple into their home in 1920s L...
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73,52 zł |
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Between Republic and Market: Globalization and Identity in Contemporary France
ISBN: 9781441128416 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The rise of neo-liberal globalisation has posed major challenges for all European countries, identifying itself as the key political tension of the coming era. Yet, it is in France that globalisation has produced the deepest tensions, and it is here that it has generated its greatest political resistance. The rise of neo-liberal globalisation has posed major challenges for all European countries, identifying itself as the key political tension of the... |
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1092,78 zł |
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Affinity
ISBN: 9781573228732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses. The Seattle Times
An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a seance she was conducting went... Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses. The Seattle Times
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69,44 zł |
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The Paying Guests
ISBN: 9780349018539 / Miękka / 2024 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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56,09 zł |