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A Rainbow in the Desert: An Anthology of Early Twentieth Century Japanese Children's Literature: An Anthology of Early Twentieth Century Japanese Chil
ISBN: 9780765605559 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of eleven stories, a play and five poems. The authors featured were all influenced by Akai Tori (Red Bird), a Tokyo children's literary magazine and also wrote for adult audiences. The stories are striking in that they differ little in style and content from those written for adults.
A collection of eleven stories, a play and five poems. The authors featured were all influenced by Akai Tori (Red Bird), a Tokyo children's literary m...
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510,07 |
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Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out
ISBN: 9783030345396 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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523,30 |
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Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out
ISBN: 9783030345426 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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523,30 |
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The Flannery O'Connor Award
ISBN: 9780820352343 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A tribute to the art of the short story and an anthology of some of today's most exciting writers, this tenth anniversary volume brings together one story from each of the twenty-one winners of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
A tribute to the art of the short story and an anthology of some of today's most exciting writers, this tenth anniversary volume brings together one s...
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532,85 |
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50 Writers: An Anthology of 20th Century Russian Short Stories
ISBN: 9781936235148 / Angielski / Twarda / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the twentieth century. It includes the prose of officially recognized writers and dissidents, both well-known and neglected or forgotten, plus new authors from the end of the century. The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in this era: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Taken as a whole, the stories capture every major aspect of Russian life, history and culture in the...
The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the twenti...
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541,98 |
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Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
ISBN: 9780804775465 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century--fiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume makes this material accessible to English speakers for the first time, offering a selection of Jewish fiction from France, Great Britain, and the German-speaking world. The stories are remarkably varied, ranging from historical fiction to sentimental romance, to social satire, but they all engage with key dilemmas including assimilation, national allegiance, and the... Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century--fict... |
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563,50 |
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Literaturpreis Grassauer Deichelbohrer - Geheimnis
ISBN: 9783946280651 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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572,71 |
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Spoken Communication Problems of Aden University EFL Undergraduate Students. Causes and Solutions
ISBN: 9783346791764 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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582,30 |
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Rainy Days / Dias de Lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers
ISBN: 9781910572290 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was quite a while ago that writers, publishers, readers and scholars stopped apologizing for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investment, a trial-exercise for a novel or a minor entertainment, as demonstrated by exceptional writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro or Quim MonzO, amongst others. With deep roots in classic and medieval literatures, and great instances of achievement in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, the short story, which benefits from the linguistic tightness of poetry and the narrative comforts of the novel, has finally been recognized as...
It was quite a while ago that writers, publishers, readers and scholars stopped apologizing for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investme...
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585,50 |
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Georgia Voices
ISBN: 9780820352367 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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591,39 |
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Feng Menglong's Treasury of Laughs: A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour
ISBN: 9789004293229 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Treasury of Laughs is a treasure house for students of literature, psycholinguistics, history, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Feng Menglong systematically collected and edited 700-odd humourous skits that presented the entire spectrum of traditional Chinese jokes, and wrote commentaries of great philosophical insight. The anthology offers satirical caricatures of human follies from the cradle to the grave and reveals tension in all sectors of human societies and institutions. Hsu Pi-ching reconstructs the complete Ming Chinese original with meticulous editorial work, in...
The Treasury of Laughs is a treasure house for students of literature, psycholinguistics, history, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Feng M...
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616,16 |
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Literaturpreis Grassauer Deichelbohrer 2019: Nähe
ISBN: 9783946280606 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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624,60 |
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Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods: And Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories
ISBN: 9780765600325 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The stories in this anthology take issue with worn stereotypes and reflect both everyday life and the great upheavals that have marked modern Indonesian national life.
The stories in this anthology take issue with worn stereotypes and reflect both everyday life and the great upheavals that have marked modern Indonesi...
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631,52 |
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The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction: Volume One
ISBN: 9781032701516 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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655,81 |
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Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction: Contemporary Korean Fiction
ISBN: 9781563241949 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An anthology of contemporary Korean fiction including: "The Wife and Children"; "The Post Horse Curse"; "Mountains"; "Kapitan Ri"; "The Winter"; and "A Dream of Good Fortune".
An anthology of contemporary Korean fiction including: "The Wife and Children"; "The Post Horse Curse"; "Mountains"; "Kapitan Ri"; "The Winter"; and "...
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655,81 |
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Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance
ISBN: 9780195081961 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first collection ever assembled of the most distinctive, influential, and widely appreciated novels and short stories of the Harlem Renaissance, this anthology opens a window on one of the most extraordinary assertions of racial self-consciousness in Western literature. With an insightful introduction to provide historical context and a lucid biographical headnote about each of the authors, this volume brings together under one cover the Harlem Renaissance literature most widely taught. Short stories include "Sweat" (1926) and "The Gilded Six-Bits" (1933) by Zora Neale Hurston, Rudolph...
The first collection ever assembled of the most distinctive, influential, and widely appreciated novels and short stories of the Harlem Renaissance, t...
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666,15 |
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Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction in English: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780815314318 / Angielski / Twarda / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction in English draws on the wealth of writing from the old British Commonwealth, including work from African, Canadian, Australian, Pakistani and New Zealand writers. The anthology comprises 35 selections by major writers from both indigenous and settler cultures, from the nineteenth century to the present day and is organized into sets of short stories and stand-alone selections from significant novels. Colonial, postcolonial, immigrant, and personal encounters are represented. Each section includes a general introduction placing the works in historical and...
Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction in English draws on the wealth of writing from the old British Commonwealth, including work from African, Canadian, ...
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680,10 |
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Family of Fallen Leaves
ISBN: 9780820336008 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral questions about the physical, spiritual, and environmental consequences of war. Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed approximately twenty million gallons of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliants on Vietnam and Laos, exposing combatants and civilians from both sides to the deadly contaminant dioxin. Many of the exposed, and later their children, suffered from ailments including diabetes, cancer, and birth defects. This... This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral qu... |
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681,85 |
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The Star and Other Korean Short Stories
ISBN: 9780710305336 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consists of eight short stories, all of which concern the human condition. The stories are based around two characteristics of the Korean people - powerful family bonds and nostalgia for the past. Sadness and triumph are the unifying themes in the work.
Consists of eight short stories, all of which concern the human condition. The stories are based around two characteristics of the Korean people - pow...
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704,38 |
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Footnotes : Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page
ISBN: 9789057010422 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays aims to present a translation from the medium of chroeography to written text. They investigate the possibilities of the written language as invention, and use text as a means to illustrate specific tenets or describe choreographic projects.
This collection of essays aims to present a translation from the medium of chroeography to written text. They investigate the possibilities of the wri...
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704,38 |