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My Bondage and My Freedom
ISBN: 9781548575519 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass), discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Following this liberation, Douglass, a former slave, went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speaker, author, and publisher.
My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobi...
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Rupert Brooke in the First World War
ISBN: 9781942954347 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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586,70 |
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Molly Keane: A Life
ISBN: 9780349007540 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Hailed as the Irish Nancy Mitford in her day; as well as writing books she was the leading playwright of the '30s, her work directed by John Gielgud. Between 1928 and 1956, she wrote eleven novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M.J. Farrell. In 1981, aged seventy, she published Good Behaviour under her own name. The manuscript, which had languished in a drawer for many years, was...
Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which was shortlist...
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Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
ISBN: 9781101974261 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own...
The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, ...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
ISBN: 9781974210299 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Full text The memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. Born into a family of slaves, Frederick Douglass educated himself through sheer determination. His unconquered will to triumph over his circumstances makes his one of America's best and most unlikely success stories. Douglass' own account of his journey from slave to one of America's great statesmen, writers, and orators is as fascinating as it is inspiring. Full text The memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. Born into a famil... |
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My Bondage and My Freedom
ISBN: 9781974238118 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,00 |
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Becoming Earth
ISBN: 9781597099110 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,23 |
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Blue Moon Vegetarian: Reflections, Recipes, and Advice
ISBN: 9781945419126 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paula Coomer started 2010 as a vegetarian. And she hasn't gone back since. Paula Coomer started 2010 as a vegetarian. And she hasn't gone back since. |
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Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book
ISBN: 9780198819998 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just a few hundred copies of the 1623 edition of Shakespeare's collected plays exist, making it one of the most sought-after publications in history. Emma Smith explores the First Folio's post-publication life, the stories of individual copies, and the way readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, and booksellers have interacted with them.
Just a few hundred copies of the 1623 edition of Shakespeare's collected plays exist, making it one of the most sought-after publications in history. ...
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Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
ISBN: 9780226564692 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alice in Space reveals the contexts within which the Alice books first lived, bringing back the zest to jokes lost over time and poignancy to hidden references.
Alice in Space reveals the contexts within which the Alice books first lived, bringing back the zest to jokes lost over time and poignancy to hidden r...
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Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
ISBN: 9780226565361 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A biography of the novel that tells us how this poor, sickly young writer from Algeria happened to write perhaps the century's most ubiquitous novel.
A biography of the novel that tells us how this poor, sickly young writer from Algeria happened to write perhaps the century's most ubiquitous novel.
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92,23 |
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
ISBN: 9780143110880 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York Times Bestseller A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it...
New York Times Bestseller A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authorita...
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Egoists: A Book of Superman
ISBN: 9781947488120 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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118,11 |
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Picturing Identity: Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text
ISBN: 9781469640693 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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399,16 |
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Picturing Identity: Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text
ISBN: 9781469640709 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,98 |
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Ernest Hemingway & Gary Cooper in Idaho: An Enduring Friendship
ISBN: 9781540226358 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,93 |
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Christopher Okigbo 1930-67: Thirsting for Sunlight
ISBN: 9781847011794 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first biography is now in paperback marking the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nigeria-Biafra War and the anniversary of the death of Christopher Okigbo, the most anthologized modern African poet.
This first biography is now in paperback marking the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nigeria-Biafra War and the anniversary of the death of Chris...
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Congratulations, Who Are You Again?: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780062843302 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,38 |
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Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James
ISBN: 9780271077727 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the ghost stories of writer and academic Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936). Focuses on the intersection between his scholarly work and his fiction, arguing that his two careers are intriguingly intertwined.
Examines the ghost stories of writer and academic Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936). Focuses on the intersection between his scholarly work and his fi...
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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780198707035 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin lives of missionaries, prelates, and princes to high medieval lives of scholars and visionaries to late medieval lives of authors and laypeople.
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Angl...
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