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This Quiet Dust
ISBN: 9780099577034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A book of non-fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-wining author of "Lie Down in Darkness" and "Sophie's Choice", that addresses great moral issues with passion and precision.
A book of non-fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-wining author of "Lie Down in Darkness" and "Sophie's Choice", that addresses great moral issues with pass...
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82,27 |
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Set This House on Fire
ISBN: 9780679736745 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter both in their violence and in their maddening unreality. The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realized, ignited by a conflict between two men: Mason Flagg himself, and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg. Three events murder, rape and suicide explode in the is relentless and passionate novel, almost overwhelming in its conception of the varieties of...
The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Pet...
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84,32 |
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Sophie's Choice
ISBN: 9780099470441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Stingo, an inexperienced 22 year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There, he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, and her choice.
Stingo, an inexperienced 22 year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There, he meets ...
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55,31 |
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The Long March and in the Clap Shack
ISBN: 9780679736752 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Two extraordinary works about soldiers in a time of dubious peace by a writer of vast eloquence and moral authority. With stylistic panache and vitriolic wit, William Styron depicts conflicts between men of somewhat more than average intelligence and the military machine. In The Long March, a novella, two Marine reservists fight to retain their dignity while on a grueling exercise staged by a posturing colonel. The uproariously funny play In the Clap Shack charts the terrified passage of a young recruit through the prurient inferno of a Navy hospital VD ward. In both works,...
Two extraordinary works about soldiers in a time of dubious peace by a writer of vast eloquence and moral authority. With stylistic panache and vitrio...
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68,99 |
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Samobójcza runda Audiobook QES
ISBN: 9788361593645 / Polski / Plastikowa / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. "Samobójcza runda" to zbiór pięciu opowiadań wybitnego amerykańskiego pisarza Williama Styrona, autora słynnego "Wyboru Zofii".
Tematyka wszystkich opiera się na doświadczeniach Styrona, jakie wyniósł ze służby w Korpusie Piechoty Morskiej Stanów Zjednoczonych. Opowiadania prezentują złożony obraz życia w wojsku - zarówno jego trudy, niedostatki i niedorzeczności, jak również koleżeństwo oraz poczucie wspólnoty i solidarności żołnierskiej. Autor przyrównuje wojnę do choroby która opętała rasę ludzką. Kwintesencję wojennego żywota ukazuje portret młodego... "Samobójcza runda" to zbiór pięciu opowiadań wybitnego amerykańskiego pisarza Williama Styrona, autora słynnego "Wyboru Zofii".
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Lie Down in Darkness
ISBN: 9780679735977 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. William Styron traces the betrayals and infidelities--the heritage of spite and endlessly disappointed love--that afflict the members of a Southern family and that culminate in the suicide of the beautiful Peyton Loftis.
William Styron traces the betrayals and infidelities--the heritage of spite and endlessly disappointed love--that afflict the members of a Southern fa...
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
ISBN: 9780679736639 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The story that inspired the major motion picture The Birth of a Nation (2016)
In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery... The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The... The story that inspired the major motion picture The Birth of a Nation (2016)
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72,82 |
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Inheritance of Night: Early Drafts of Lie Down in Darkness
ISBN: 9780822313106 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From 1947 to 1949, William Styron twice attempted to write a novel under the working title Inheritance of Night. On the third attempt he produced the award-winning Lie Down in Darkness, which when published in September 1951 established him as one of the most promising writers of his generation. Duke University Press is proud to publish, in facsimile form, the long-lost drafts of Styron's earliest versions of Lie Down in Darkness.Although Styron began the narrative twice, he realized both times that his writing was derivative and his characters not yet fully conceived. These drafts show young...
From 1947 to 1949, William Styron twice attempted to write a novel under the working title Inheritance of Night. On the third attempt he produced the ...
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Lie Down In Darkness
ISBN: 9780099284994 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tells the story of a tormented family submerged in infidelity and driven by a vengeful love that is blocked, hurt and perverted.
Tells the story of a tormented family submerged in infidelity and driven by a vengeful love that is blocked, hurt and perverted.
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A Tidewater Morning
ISBN: 9780099285533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, this collection explores death, loss, war and racism.
Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, this collection explores death, loss, war and racism.
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This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings
ISBN: 9780679735960 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Styron is pre-eminent . . . in his instinct for tragedy and in his respect for the sheer force of human feeling." Alfred Kazin
In an age when much American writing was either glacially noncommittal or heremetically personal, William Styron persisted in addressing great moral issues with incendiary passion. Seriousness and ardor characterize all the essays in This Quiet Dust, the first book of nonfiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lie Down in Darkness and Sophie's Choice. In this edition, which has been updated with the inclusion of six previously... "Styron is pre-eminent . . . in his instinct for tragedy and in his respect for the sheer force of human feeling." Alfred Kazin
In an age when mu... |
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The Suicide Run
ISBN: 9780099532224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The five narratives which make up this posthumous collection draw upon William Styron's experiences in the US Marine Corps, giving the reader an insight into the early life of one of America's greatest modern writers.
The five narratives which make up this posthumous collection draw upon William Styron's experiences in the US Marine Corps, giving the reader an insig...
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66,83 |
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
ISBN: 9780679736394 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery.
A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost sui...
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A Tidewater Morning
ISBN: 9780679754497 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this brilliant collection of "long short stories, " the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, William Styron explores with new eloquence death, loss, war, and racism.
In this brilliant collection of "long short stories, " the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of...
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68,99 |
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Set This House On Fire
ISBN: 9780099285557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.
The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Pet...
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Darkness Visible
ISBN: 9780099285571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. With profound insight and remarkable candor, the author tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery and exhaustion, to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual, hard-won recovery.
With profound insight and remarkable candor, the author tracks the progress of his madness, from the smothering misery and exhaustion, to the agony of...
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50,28 |
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Sophie's Choice
ISBN: 9780679736370 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman...
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Depression: Vintage Minis
ISBN: 9781784872618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, the author describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction.
How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist had ever contemplated before. In this true account o...
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The Long March
ISBN: 9780099573555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the blaze of a Carolina summer, eight Marines are killed almost casually by misfired mortar shells. To reinstall discipline, Colonel Templeton takes his battalion on a 36-mile forced march.
In the blaze of a Carolina summer, eight Marines are killed almost casually by misfired mortar shells. To reinstall discipline, Colonel Templeton take...
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