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THREE FAMOUS SHORT NOVELS: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear
ISBN: 9780307946751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner
These short works offer three different approaches to Faulkner, each representative of his work as a whole. "Spotted Horses" is a hilarious account of a horse auction, and pits the cold practicality of women against the boyish folly of men. "Old Man" is something of an adventure story. When a flood ravages the countryside of the lower Mississippi, a convict finds himself adrift with a pregnant woman. And "The Bear," perhaps his best known shorter work, is the story of a boy s coming to... You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner
These short works offer three different appro... |
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65,32 zł |
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Light in August
ISBN: 9780679732266 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." --William Faulkner Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe..."Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and stu... |
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69,36 zł |
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The Sound and the Fury
ISBN: 9781684229505 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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45,36 zł |
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The Mansion
ISBN: 9780307946829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The Mansion completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall of this indomitable post-bellum family, who managed to seize control of the town of Jefferson within a generation. The Mansion completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also include... |
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77,07 zł |
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As I Lay Dying
ISBN: 9789390492381 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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67,92 zł |
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The Reivers
ISBN: 9780679741923 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) One of Faulkner s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family s retainers, to steal his grandfather s car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba s bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs deputies, and jail."
One of Faulkner s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-...
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69,36 zł |
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The Sound and the Fury
ISBN: 9781515463818 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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56,06 zł |
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As I Lay Dying
ISBN: 9780375504525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom , and Selected Short Stories One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfill her last...
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged har...
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100,19 zł |
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Soldiers' Pay
ISBN: 9789355220721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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86,28 zł |
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Flagi pokrył kurz
ISBN: 9788381966733 / Polski / twarda z obwolutą / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) „Flagi pokrył kurz” Williama Faulknera można uznać za niepublikowaną w Polsce powieść. To trzecia książka w dorobku giganta amerykańskiej prozy, pierwsza z cyklu poświęconego fikcyjnemu okręgowi Yoknapatawpha. W Polsce okrojona wersja powieści ukazała się w 1960 roku w tłumaczeniu Kaliny Wojciechowskiej jako "Satoris". W listopadzie nakładem PIW-u ukaże się pełna wersja powieści w nowym przekładzie Macieja Płazy.
„Flagi pokrył kurz” Williama Faulknera można uznać za niepublikowaną w Polsce powieść. To trzecia książka w dorobku giganta amerykańskiej...
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61,10 zł |
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Pylon
ISBN: 9780307946782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) One of the few of William Faulkner's works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon, first published in 1935, takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois. An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries to understand a very modern menage a trois of flyers on the brainstorming circuit. These characters, Faulkner said, "were a fantastic and bizarre phenomenon on the face of the contemporary scene. . . . That is, there was really no place for them in the culture, in the economy, yet they were there, at that time, and everyone knew that...
One of the few of William Faulkner's works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon, first published in 1935, takes place at...
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77,07 zł |
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Absalom, Absalom!
ISBN: 9780393422580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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73,12 zł |
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Big Woods
ISBN: 9780679752523 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The hunter and the hunted are portrayed in four stories with preludes and an epilogue that link the individual narratives.
The hunter and the hunted are portrayed in four stories with preludes and an epilogue that link the individual narratives.
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77,07 zł |
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Sanctuary
ISBN: 9780099541028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's imagination.
Feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple fall...
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50,40 zł |
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The Bear
ISBN: 9781429096225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) William Faulkner s short story The Bear was first published in the May 9, 1942 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The piece, considered one of the best short stories of the twentieth century, is a coming-of-age tale that weaves together themes of family, race, and the taming of the wilderness, as the young main character learns to hunt and track the huge bear known as Old Ben. Be scared. You can t help that. But don t be afraid. Ain t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. This short work is part of Applewood s American Roots, series,...
William Faulkner s short story The Bear was first published in the May 9, 1942 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The piece, considered one of the be...
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49,91 zł |
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Selected Short Stories
ISBN: 9780679424789 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published The Sound and the Fury. They explore many of the themes found in the novels and feature characters of small-town Mississippi life that are uniquely...From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying... |
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96,34 zł |
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The Sound and The Fury
ISBN: 9798350501254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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115,42 zł |
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The Sound and the Fury
ISBN: 9789355276940 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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64,69 zł |
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The Sound and the Fury
ISBN: 9780393912692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Contemporary Reception," new to the Third Edition, considers the broad range of reactions to Faulkner's extraordinary novel on publication. Michael Gorra's headnote sets the stage for assessments by Evelyn Scott, Henry Nash Smith, Clifton P. Fadiman, Dudley Fitts, Richard Hughes, and Edward Crickmay. New materials by Faulkner ("The Writer and His Work") include letters to Malcolm Cowley aboutThe Portable Faulkner and Faulkner's Nobel Prize for Literature address. "Cultural and Historical Contexts" begins with Michael Gorra's insightful headnote, which is followed by seven seminal...
"Contemporary Reception," new to the Third Edition, considers the broad range of reactions to Faulkner's extraordinary novel on publication. Michael G...
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76,97 zł |
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Light in August
ISBN: 9780099283157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new life, a determined ray of light in the author's complex and tragic world.
Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perve...
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50,40 zł |