Rebel at the End of Time
ISBN: 9780956567741 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A NEW ADVENTURE IN MICHAEL MOORCOCK'S 'END OF TIME' UNIVERSE
21st-century revolutionary Leo finds himself at the End of Time, surrounded by decadent sorcerers whose childlike incomprehension is his worst nightmare. How to be effective when consequence is removed? What can have meaning when everything is transformed into fashion? Can love exist here? Leo storms through this lurid land in search of meaning, a cause, and a meal he can recognise. " the most original voice in the literary scene" - Michael Moorcock Steve Aylett has been described as "utterly original" (SFX), "an... A NEW ADVENTURE IN MICHAEL MOORCOCK'S 'END OF TIME' UNIVERSE
21st-century revolutionary Leo finds himself at the End of Time, surrounded by decad... |
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Truth in Advertising: A Novel
ISBN: 9781451675559 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A quick-witted, wry sendup of the advertising industry and corporate culture...A clear-eyed, sympathetic story about complex family ties and the possibility of healing" (The Washington Post). Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn't know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a Madison Avenue ad agency, he's a bit of a mess and closing in on forty. He's recently called off his wedding. Now, a few days before Christmas, he's forced to cancel a long-postponed vacation in order to write, produce, and...
"A quick-witted, wry sendup of the advertising industry and corporate culture...A clear-eyed, sympathetic story about complex family ties and th...
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73,32 zł |
Black Genesis: Mission Earth Volume 2
ISBN: 9781619861756 / Angielski / Miękka / 477 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,92 zł |
Gulliver's Travels
ISBN: 9781434103406 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,62 zł |
Disaster: Mission Earth Volume 8
ISBN: 9781619861817 / Angielski / Miękka / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,92 zł |
Villainy Victorious: Mission Earth Volume 9
ISBN: 9781619861824 / Angielski / Miękka / 419 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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110,92 zł |
Village of the Mermaids
ISBN: 9781621050889 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MERMAID mur-meyd] "noun" -- a rare species of fish evolved to resemble the appearance of a woman in order to attract male human prey.
Mermaids are protected by the government under the Endangered Species Act, which means you aren't able to kill them even in self-defense. This is especially problematic if you happen to live in the isolated fishing village of Siren Cove, where there exists a healthy population of mermaids in the surrounding waters that view you as the main source of protein in their diet. The only thing standing between you and the ravenous sea women is the... MERMAID mur-meyd] "noun" -- a rare species of fish evolved to resemble the appearance of a woman in order to attract male human prey.
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The Kyoto Man
ISBN: 9781935738299 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the Stick Figure War, civilization lapsed into obscurity. Fallout ravaged the fabric of space and time. History digested reality and reality exhumed the future as survivors tried and failed to create a new beginning ... Amid the chaos, one man experiences a terminal affliction, a revolution of the self: the chronic transformation into the city of Kyoto, Japan. Each transformation further plunges the world into darkness, but he's helpless against the lethal clockwork of his body, his psyche, his mindscreens-and nothing, not even Fate itself, can stop him from becoming God ... In...
In the wake of the Stick Figure War, civilization lapsed into obscurity. Fallout ravaged the fabric of space and time. History digested reality and re...
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72,26 zł |
Little Greed Men
ISBN: 9780985135232 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when a town's local resident spots a UFO? Silverville sees nothing but dollar signs. First an amusement park and museum and then a celestial motif for the whole town. Con artists and embezzlers, tourists and kooks all get caught up in the frenzy, some hoping to make a quick buck, others seeking a spiritual message from beyond the stars. Ride along on this irreverent adventure that reveals Colorado mountain culture at its most outrageous, where nothing is sacred and everyone shares in the madness of money, murder and mayhem.
What happens when a town's local resident spots a UFO? Silverville sees nothing but dollar signs. First an amusement park and museum and then a celest...
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86,76 zł |
Four Notable Works by Jonathan Swift (complete and Unabridged), Including: Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
ISBN: 9781781393833 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, satirist, essayist and political pamphleteer. Enjoy these four complete and unabridged books in a single volume. Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver travels to various previously undiscovered and fantastic worlds, enabling Swift to challenge, question, rebuke and poke fun at all manner of political, religious, social, scientific and philosophical groups, ideologies and dogma. Swift is scathing and witty, this work is one of shear caustic genius. A Modest proposal: This essay is considered by many to be the pinnacle of satire....
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, satirist, essayist and political pamphleteer. Enjoy these four complete and u...
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286,92 zł |
Between the Acts
ISBN: 9781447479109 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virginia Woolf is undoubtedly one of the finest authors of the 20th century and this is her final novel, published after her suicide. Written on the eve of the Second World War, this is a story laden with hidden meaning and allusion to the fear and confusion of war.
Virginia Woolf is undoubtedly one of the finest authors of the 20th century and this is her final novel, published after her suicide. Written on the e...
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82,12 zł |
Teeth and Tongue Landscape
ISBN: 9781621050391 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,45 zł |
Baron Trigault's Vengeance (The Count's Millions Part II)
ISBN: 9781447478966 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Emile Gaboriau was originally published in the late 19th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Baron Trigault's Vengeance' is one of Gaboriau's novels of crime and mystery. Emile Gaboriau was born in the small town of Saujon, Charente-Maritime, France. During his twenties, he became a secretary to Paul Feval - a an author now regarded as one of the fathers of modern crime fiction, whose Jean Diable (1862) is seen as the world's first modern detective novel."
This early work by Emile Gaboriau was originally published in the late 19th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Bar...
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140,12 zł |
Psychos: A White Girl Problems Book
ISBN: 9781476734156 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this hysterical follow-up to the New York Times bestseller White Girl Problems, Babe Walker travels the globe as she tries to figure out the answer to the question foremost on everyone's mind--including hers: Who is Babe Walker? If you're one of the hundreds of thousands who devoured Babe Walker's New York Times bestselling novel White Girl Problems or one of the million people who read her blog or follow her on Twitter daily, then you've obviously been waiting with bated breath for her hilarious follow-up novel, Psychos. Fresh from a...
In this hysterical follow-up to the New York Times bestseller White Girl Problems, Babe Walker travels the globe as she tries to figure ...
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The Warden
ISBN: 9780099528654 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book in Anthony Trollope's funny, warm, well-loved Barchester Chronicles perfect for Austen fansThe tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a church-run almshouse for elderly men. In the ensuing furor, Septimus Harding, the almshouse's well-meaning warden, finds himself pitted against his daughter's suitor Dr. John Bold, a zealous local reformer. Matters are not improved when Harding's abrasive son-in-law, Archdeacon Grantly, leaps into the fray to defend him against a campaign Bold begins...
The first book in Anthony Trollope's funny, warm, well-loved Barchester Chronicles perfect for Austen fansThe tranquil atmosphere of the cathed...
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43,04 zł |
The Warden
ISBN: 9780140432145 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first of Trollope s popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope s most memorable characters. When Harding is accused of mismanaging church funds, his predicament lays bare the complexities of the Victorian world and of nineteenth-century provincial life. And, as Louis Auchincloss observes in his Introduction, The theme of The Warden presents the kind of social problem that always fascinated Trollope: the inevitable clash of ancient privilege with modern social...
The first of Trollope s popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cler...
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Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
ISBN: 9780140437508 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks. Denounced as vulgar by the literary establishment, Three Men in a Boat nevertheless caught the spirit of the times. The expansion of education and the increase in office workers created a new mass readership, and Jerome's book was especially popular among the 'clerking classes' who longed to be 'free from that fretful haste,...
When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie a...
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48,43 zł |
The Bostonians
ISBN: 9780140437669 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death'
Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wealthy feminist, in Boston when he accompanies her to a meeting on the subject of women's emancipation. One of the speakers is Verena Tarrant, and although he disapproves of all she claims to stand for, Basil is immediately captivated by her and sets about 'reforming' her with his traditional views. But Olive has already made Verena her protegee, and soon a battle is under way for... 'There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death'
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47,47 zł |
Black Mischief
ISBN: 9780141183985 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with the aid if Minister of Modernization Basil Seal, Seth plans to introduce his people to the civilized ways of the west - but will it be as simple as that?
'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azan...
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51,70 zł |
Demons
ISBN: 9780141441412 / Angielski / Miękka / 880 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A superb new translation of Dostoyevsky's chilling and prophetic novel of revolutionary fanaticism
Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society, and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to lay down their lives to accomplish their goals. But when the group is threatened with exposure, will their recruits be willing to kill one of their own to cover their tracks? Savage and powerful yet lively and often comic, Demons was inspired by a real-life political murder and... A superb new translation of Dostoyevsky's chilling and prophetic novel of revolutionary fanaticism
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67,22 zł |