wyszukanych pozycji: 85
The Dream Lover: Short Stories
ISBN: 9780747592297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of twenty-four tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.
A collection of twenty-four tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.
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60,35 zł |
Gabriel's Moon
ISBN: 9780241542057 / Twarda / 2024 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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103,25 zł |
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd
ISBN: 9780241987339 / Miękka / 2023 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,74 zł |
The New Confessions: A rich exploration into one man’s life from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart
ISBN: 9780141046914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. 'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction ... John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel Edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the Western Front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in London, to the electric excitements of the Berlin film-world of the...
The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of...
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51,58 zł |
Any Human Heart: A BBC Two Between the Covers pick
ISBN: 9780141044170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the story of Logan Mountstuart, told through his journals. His travels take the reader from Uruguay to Oxford, Paris, the Bahamas, New York and Africa. This is the story of a life lived to the full - and a journey deep into a very human heart.
This is the story of Logan Mountstuart, told through his journals. His travels take the reader from Uruguay to Oxford, Paris, the Bahamas, New York an...
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51,58 zł |
Any Human Heart: A BBC Two Between the Covers pick
ISBN: 9780241981450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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46,42 zł |
Brazzaville Beach
ISBN: 9780061956317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Utterly engaging....A novel of ideas, of big themes....William Boyd is a champion storyteller." - New York Times Book Review William Boyd's classic Brazzaville Beach has been called as a "bold seamless blend of philosophy and suspense... that] nevertheless remains accessible to general readers on a level of pure entertainment." (Boston Globe). Released to coincide with Boyd's latest novel, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Brazzaville Beach tells the story of a British primate-researcher who relocates to war-torn Africa in the wake of her... "Utterly engaging....A novel of ideas, of big themes....William Boyd is a champion storyteller." - New York Times Book Review Willi... |
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78,58 zł |
The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
ISBN: 9781421418780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, pine trees had become the region's number one cash crop, and the South dominated national and international production of pulp and paper based on the intensive cultivation of timber. In The Slain Wood, William Boyd chronicles the dramatic growth of the pulp... When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched ... |
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260,85 zł |
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth, Audio-CD : CD Standard Audio Format, Lesung. Ungekürzte Ausgabe
ISBN: 9780241984734 / Angielski / CD-Audio / 2018 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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109,83 zł |
Gabriel's Moon
ISBN: 9780241542071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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77,39 zł |
Der Romantiker
ISBN: 9783311100492 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Mit sechzehn Jahren erfährt Cashel Greville, dass er nicht ist, wer er glaubte zu sein. 1799 im irischen Cork geboren, hätte er seine Eltern früh bei einem Schiffsunglück verloren, hat seine Tante Elspeth ihm gesagt. Jetzt eröffnet sie ihm: Sie selbst ist seine Mutter, er der uneheliche Sohn eines Adeligen. Sein ganzes Dasein eine himmelschreiende Lüge! Immerhin, sagt er sich, gehört sein Schicksal jetzt ihm, und keiner kann ihn daran hindern, sich neu zu erfinden. Und das tut er nicht zu knapp im Lauf seines Lebens, das das gesamte 19. Jahrhundert währt und Cashel um den ganzen...
Mit sechzehn Jahren erfährt Cashel Greville, dass er nicht ist, wer er glaubte zu sein. 1799 im irischen Cork geboren, hätte er seine Eltern früh b...
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128,48 zł |
An Ice-cream War
ISBN: 9780241953563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd who would go on to be recognized as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastian Faulks). It follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East Africa during the First World War, their lives converging amid battle, betrayal, love, comedy and tragedy.
An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd who would go on to be recognized as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastian Faulks)...
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56,74 zł |
Ruhelos
ISBN: 9783311150299 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. »Eines Tages kommt jemand und bringt mich um«, hat Sally Gilmartin ihrer Tochter schon vor Jahrzehnten gesagt. Nun, da sie alt ist, macht Ruth sich ernsthaft Sorgen und fragt sich, ob ihre Mutter unter Wahnvorstellungen leidet. Schließlich offenbart Sally ihrer Tochter, dass sie in Wahrheit nicht Sally Gilmartin heißt, sondern Eva Delektorskaja, und dass sie als russische Emigrantin 1939 in Paris vom britischen Geheimdienst angeworben wurde. Wahrend alles, was Ruth je meinte, über ihre Mutter gewusst zu haben, langsam in sich zusammenfallt, spürt sie schon bald, dass ihre Mutter ihr...
»Eines Tages kommt jemand und bringt mich um«, hat Sally Gilmartin ihrer Tochter schon vor Jahrzehnten gesagt. Nun, da sie alt ist, macht Ruth sich ...
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64,24 zł |
Brazzaville Beach
ISBN: 9780141044194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa.' On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling honesty that not only intrigues and disturbs but is also completely enthralling.
'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one...
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51,58 zł |
Trio
ISBN: 9780241295977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami)
An elating read' Sunday TimesA producer. A novelist. An actress. An elating read' Sunday TimesA prod... |
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51,58 zł |
The Argument
ISBN: 9781474236508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. That's why we shout and scream at each other. Clears the air. A kind of truth begins to emerge. We see clearer. As their families and friends become embroiled in Pip and Meredith's separation, past prejudices, harsh judgements and painful truths come to light. The arguments that... That's why we shout and scream at each other. Clears the air. A kind of truth begins to emerge. We see clearer. |
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65,85 zł |
An Ice-cream War
ISBN: 9780241970751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Primarily a gripping story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, William Boyd's magnificently entertaining novel also elicits the cruel futility and tragedy of it all.
Primarily a gripping story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, William Boyd's magnificently entertaining novel also elic...
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46,42 zł |
Die Fotografin : Die vielen Leben der Amory Clay. Roman
ISBN: 9783492311762 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der funkelnde Lebensroman einer Fotografin quer durch das 20. Jahrhundert
Der funkelnde Lebensroman einer Fotografin quer durch das 20. Jahrhundert
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55,06 zł |
On the Yankee Station: Stories
ISBN: 9780375705113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his first collection of stories, William Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives. From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life's inequities. Stranded in an African hotel during a coup, an oafish Englishman impresses a young stewardess with stories of an enchanted life completely at odds with his sordid existence in The Coup. In the title story, an arrogant, sadistic American pilot in Vietnam...
In his first collection of stories, William Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem ...
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65,52 zł |