wyszukanych pozycji: 86
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. 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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51,46 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. |
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46,32 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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64,06 zł |
Love is Blind, Audio-CD : Ungekürzte Ausgabe, Lesung
ISBN: 9780241979808 / Angielski / CD-Audio / 2018 / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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108,15 zł |
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth
ISBN: 9780241295885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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77,83 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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128,18 zł |
The Romantic
ISBN: 9780241542033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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77,83 zł |
An Ice-cream War
ISBN: 9780241953563 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 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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51,46 zł |
Stars und Bars
ISBN: 9783311150305 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Der schüchterne britische Kunsthistoriker Henderson Dores reist nach New York. Alles, was er will, ist dazugehören, Teil der amerikanischen Gesellschaft werden, denn amerikanisch sein, so denkt er, heißt, ein unbeschwertes Leben führen. Keine leichte Aufgabe für einen steifen Briten, wie Dores einer ist, verloren in einem Land voller extrovertierter Sonderlinge, wie ihm scheint. Seine Reise führt ihn von New York City bis in den Süden Atlantas. Seine Versuche, die kulturellen Unterschiede zu begreifen - zwischen seiner englischen Heimat und den USA, zwischen New York und den...
Der schüchterne britische Kunsthistoriker Henderson Dores reist nach New York. Alles, was er will, ist dazugehören, Teil der amerikanischen Gesellsc...
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64,09 zł |
Brazzaville Beach
ISBN: 9780141044194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. '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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51,46 zł |
The Argument
ISBN: 9781474236508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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71,57 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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108,15 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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64,10 zł |
Restless
ISBN: 9780747586203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The major and stunning new novel about wartime espionage from bestselling author William Boyd
The major and stunning new novel about wartime espionage from bestselling author William Boyd
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51,46 zł |
Wie Schnee in der Sonne
ISBN: 9783311150312 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2021 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Es ist das Jahr 1914, in Deutsch- und Britisch-Ostafrika gehen Deutsche und Engländer in dieselben Bars. Dann bricht der Erste Weltkrieg aus, hält Einzug in den Alltag, und aus Freunden werden Feinde. Der Krieg verändert das Leben aller: Der Amerikaner Temple Smith verliert von einem Tag auf den anderen seine Farm an einen Nachbarn und schwört Rache. Gabriel und Felix Cobb stammen aus einer alten britischen Offiziersfamilie. Während Gabriel pflichtbewusst in den Krieg zieht, will Felix in Oxford bleiben, doch die Wirren des Krieges holen auch ihn ein. Alle Beteiligten versuchen einen...
Es ist das Jahr 1914, in Deutsch- und Britisch-Ostafrika gehen Deutsche und Engländer in dieselben Bars. Dann bricht der Erste Weltkrieg aus, hält E...
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68,67 zł |
The Blue Afternoon
ISBN: 9780141046907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in celebration of a glorious, undying love.
Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. With...
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51,46 zł |
The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
ISBN: 9781421418780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 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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256,86 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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54,94 zł |
The Blue Afternoon, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780679772606 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, he plunges readers into a tale of grisly murders and an illicit passion that still obsseses him 30 years later.
"A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrati...
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81,20 zł |