wyszukanych pozycji: 42
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The World and Other Places
ISBN: 9780099274537 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories that reveals various facets of an extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, it creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly strange.
A collection of short stories that reveals various facets of an extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, it creates ...
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58,85 zł |
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The World and Other Places: Stories
ISBN: 9780375702365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises.
With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is ille...
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78,80 zł |
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Orangen sind nicht die einzige Frucht
ISBN: 9783036959993 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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63,21 zł |
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The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
ISBN: 9780099598190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out.
A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her moth...
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50,76 zł |
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The Powerbook
ISBN: 9780099598299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple. An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price to pay.
The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple. An...
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53,50 zł |
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
ISBN: 9780099590019 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of pieces on modernism, autobiography, style, and painting, arguing the importance of art in our lives. The essays also discuss intimately the author's relationship to her own work and the books that she loves.
A collection of pieces on modernism, autobiography, style, and painting, arguing the importance of art in our lives. The essays also discuss intimatel...
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69,56 zł |
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
ISBN: 9781784879044 / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,76 zł |
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The Stone Gods
ISBN: 9780156035729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Playful, passionate, provocative, and frequently very funny, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods is a story about Earth, about love, and about stories themselves.
On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet--pristine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they're assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it habitable backfires,... Playful, passionate, provocative, and frequently very funny, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods is a story about Earth, about love, and ... |
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78,76 zł |
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12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love
ISBN: 9781529112979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,76 zł |
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Frankissstein: A Love Story
ISBN: 9781784709952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,76 zł |
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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
ISBN: 9780099598183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what." --Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few... Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't m...
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50,76 zł |
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Gut Symmetries
ISBN: 9781847087317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Set on board the QE2, and in New York and Liverpool, Gut Symmetries welds together sex and science into a celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess.
Set on board the QE2, and in New York and Liverpool, Gut Symmetries welds together sex and science into a celebration of love in all its frailty, conf...
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45,68 zł |
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
ISBN: 9780802120878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. -Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love.---Vogue
-Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages. . . . Singular and electric . . . Winterson's] life with her adoptive parents was often appalling, but it made her the writer she is.---The New York Times - Winterson is] one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time--searingly honest yet effortlessly lithe as she slides between forms, exuberant and unerring, demanding emotional and intellectual expansion of herself and of us. . .... -Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love.---Vogue
-Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums wi... |
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74,66 zł |
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Lighthousekeeping
ISBN: 9780156032896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For Silver, Dark's life becomes a map through her own darkness, into her own story, and, finally, into love.
One of the most original and... Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken...
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70,30 zł |
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Hansel and Greta: A Fairy Tale Revolution
ISBN: 9781784876333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.'Deep in the wood'Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest.
A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.'Deep in the wood'Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great...
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65,99 zł |
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Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
ISBN: 9781784709020 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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55,83 zł |
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Sexing the Cherry
ISBN: 9780099598176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Celebrating the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality, this book features the story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.
Celebrating the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality, this book features the story about love a...
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50,76 zł |
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Written on the Body
ISBN: 9780099598275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavi...
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50,76 zł |
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
ISBN: 9780099556091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Presents the story of an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson.
Presents the story of an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson.
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50,76 zł |
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The PowerBook
ISBN: 9780375725050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Adding to an already astounding body of work that explores the nature of love and desire, Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion) presents a stunning novel that probes the boundaries of the Internet. Ali writes stories on email for anyone who wants them. She promises "freedom just for one night," but she does not do so without a warning: the story might change you. Ask for an epic love story and you will get one, but Ali will be cast in it, too, and the lines between the real and imagined may blur. Plucking characters from...
Adding to an already astounding body of work that explores the nature of love and desire, Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry, Oranges are...
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74,66 zł |