The Grand Design
ISBN: 9781504015486 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Dos Passos's literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author's frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric that sells it to the people.
"War is a time of Caesars," writes Dos Passos as he laments the death of idealistic, intelligent enterprises at the desks of elitist administrators. After witnessing the Spanish Civil War claim so many well-intentioned men, he advises caution for... John Dos Passos's literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in...
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68,67 zł |
Four Galt Novels: Annals of the Parish, The Ayrshire Legatees, The Provost, The Entail
ISBN: 9781849211475 / Angielski / Miękka / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Galt (1779-1839) has been described as the first political novelist in the English language. This edition is a development of the collection - published in 2001 by the Saltire Society in Edinburgh - which brought together the three early works 'Annals of the Parish' (1821), 'The Ayrshire Legatees' (1821) and 'The Provost' (1822). To these characteristic, and very successful, shorter novels - set in the rural Scotland of the late eighteenth century, as agricultural society was giving way to the new industrial growth - is now added 'The Entail' (1823), a full-length masterpiece. As Ian...
John Galt (1779-1839) has been described as the first political novelist in the English language. This edition is a development of the collection - pu...
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156,32 zł |
Undone
ISBN: 9781593766429 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Already hailed and persecuted for its perverse humor and wildly wicked sensibility, Undone is the tour-de-force black comedy by International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee John Colapinto. In modern day America, Dez is a former lawyer and teacher -- an ephebophile with a proclivity for teenage girls, hiding out in a trailer park with his latest conquest, Chloe. Having been in and out of courtrooms (and therapists' offices) for a number of years, Dez is adrift, at odds with a society that persecutes him over his desires. From his couch one afternoon, Dez watches an...
Already hailed and persecuted for its perverse humor and wildly wicked sensibility, Undone is the tour-de-force black comedy by International I...
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77,09 zł |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Code Keepers - Secret Personal Diary
ISBN: 9781518817069 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A FULLY ILLUSTRATED NOVEL plus A HIDDEN PERSONAL DIARY
Hidden in plain sight A secret personal diary disguised as a classic work of literature. "Keep all of your diary entries hidden, cleverly disguised so prying eyes will never find them. Works perfectly when placed on a bookshelf among other books. Continues to work even if you just leave it out on your desk. Prying eyes will never discover your secret stash of personal thoughts." This book contains the entire text of ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" by "Mark Twain." The book was written in 1884, but it remains an enjoyable... A FULLY ILLUSTRATED NOVEL plus A HIDDEN PERSONAL DIARY Hidden in plain sight A secret personal diary disguised as a classic work of literature. |
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67,55 zł |
The Haunted Vagina
ISBN: 9781621052135 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It's difficult to love a woman whose vagina is a gateway to the world of the dead..."
Steve is madly in love with his eccentric girlfriend, Stacy. Unfortunately, their sex life has been suffering as of late, because Steve is worried about the odd noises that have been coming from Stacy's pubic region. She says that her vagina is haunted. She doesn't think it's that big of a deal. Steve, on the other hand, completely disagrees. When a living corpse climbs out of her during an awkward night of sex, Stacy learns that her vagina is actually a doorway to another world. She persuades Steve... "It's difficult to love a woman whose vagina is a gateway to the world of the dead..."
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72,10 zł |
Quicksand
ISBN: 9781476797830 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fearlessly funny, outrageously inventive dark comedy about two lifelong friends is "a delightful literary novel...extraordinarily imaginative" (Psychology Today) from Man Booker Prize finalist Steve Toltz--for fans of Dave Eggers, Martin Amis, and David Foster Wallace. Liam is a struggling writer and a failing cop. Aldo, his best friend and muse, is a haplessly criminal entrepreneur with an uncanny knack for disaster. As Aldo's luck worsens, Liam is inspired to base his next book on his best friend's exponential misfortunes and hopeless quest to win back his one great love:...
This fearlessly funny, outrageously inventive dark comedy about two lifelong friends is "a delightful literary novel...extraordinarily imaginative" (<...
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73,01 zł |
Februar im Sand: Neues von der Unterhaltungsdüne
ISBN: 9783739215990 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Was tut ein Mann im besten Alter, wenn er einsam auf einer Wustendune thront? Er plaudert uber die sexuelle Evolution und Niedertracht im TV. Er mokiert sich uber Kunstler und Fahrradfahrer. Er schwarmt von Frauen und Politikern. Er schmaht Kabarettisten und Hunde. Er spricht mit Wustentieren und einem Dschinn. Er fabuliert vom Februar und Judith Tribon. Er spottet, flunkert und blodsinnt. Bizarre Geschichten und skurrile Grillen fugen sich zu einem satirischen Roman. Veredelt mit 66 schmissigen Kurzrezensionen Ein ungewohnliches Buch. Amusant, unverschamt, verwirrend, hochnasig, grotesk,...
Was tut ein Mann im besten Alter, wenn er einsam auf einer Wustendune thront? Er plaudert uber die sexuelle Evolution und Niedertracht im TV. Er mokie...
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121,30 zł |
Extreme Makeover
ISBN: 9780765385635 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dan Well's Extreme Makeover is a satirical new suspense about a health and beauty company that accidentally develops a hand lotion that can overwrite your DNA. Lyle Fontanelle is the chief scientist for NewYew, a health and beauty company experimenting with a new, anti-aging hand lotion. As more and more anomalies crop up in testing, Lyle realizes that the lotion's formula has somehow gone horribly wrong. It is actively overwriting the DNA of anyone who uses it, turning them into physical clones of someone else. Lyle wants to destroy the formula, but NewYew thinks it might be... Dan Well's Extreme Makeover is a satirical new suspense about a health and beauty company that accidentally develops a hand lotion that can ... |
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90,14 zł |
Magic Irving and His Magic Shoppe
ISBN: 9781491769232 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,68 zł |
White Hats---Dark Hearts
ISBN: 9781516916382 / Angielski / Miękka / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,97 zł |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
ISBN: 9781519725127 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,43 zł |
A Sturdy Oak: A Composite Novel Of American Politics By Fourteen American Authors
ISBN: 9781522780236 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely generous as well as gifted, should be asked to write a composite novel. As I was not present at this particular meeting, it was unanimously and joyously decided by those who were present that I should attend to the trivial details of getting this novel together. It appeared that all I had to do was: First, to persuade each of the busy authors on the list to write a chapter of the novel. Second, to keep steadily on their trails from the moment they promised...
At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely generous as wel...
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60,20 zł |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Classic Children's Novel
ISBN: 9781522930488 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,37 zł |
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
ISBN: 9781784786564 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Darkly funny account of the office worker's mindset by the celebrated French novelist A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn't offer you a seat when you go into his office? The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity--and possibly his sanity--as he tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world, with...
Darkly funny account of the office worker's mindset by the celebrated French novelist A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has su...
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85,68 zł |
Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life
ISBN: 9780807050743 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new edition of Alice Childress's classic novel about African American domestic workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First published in Paul Robeson's newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One of the Family is a wry, incisive portrait of working women in Harlem in the 1950's. Rippling with satire and humor, Mildred's outspoken accounts vividly capture her white employers' complacency and condescension--and their startled reactions to a maid who speaks her mind and refuses to...
A new edition of Alice Childress's classic novel about African American domestic workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First publishe...
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87,72 zł |
Candide
ISBN: 9781944556112 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Voltaire's masterpiece of satire Candide was written between July and December 1758 and published simultaneously in Geneva, Paris and Amsterdam in January 1759. The events in the book unlike most works of fiction are astutely based on the current state of Voltaire's contemporary world and culled from the headlines of his day. No major power center was omitted. Arbiters of social status, sex/love, money, war and religion were all lambasted within the pages of Candide. Voltaire's masterpiece of satire Candide was written between July and December 1758 and published simultaneously in Geneva, Paris and Amsterdam in ... |
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85,62 zł |
Welcome to Groove House
ISBN: 9781942828006 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When rock's former biggest rebel loses everything, he's forced to call in favors from all the rock star royalty whom he'd burned his entire career. With a trashed comeback tour, creditors on his ass, no record deal, a health issue he doesn't even know how to spell, and nothing but a few bucks from the sale of his last guitar, Mike Mays is destitute for the first time in his rock star life. He's forced to crash his estranged, uptight daughter's tidy world, and when she kicks him out, to couch-surf halfway around the world at a ragtag farmhouse in Tuscany called Groove... When rock's former biggest rebel loses everything, he's forced to call in favors from all the rock star royalty whom he'd burned his entire career.... |
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97,04 zł |
Long-Form Religious Porn
ISBN: 9781621052081 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""A funny, sexy, weird, scary book about vampire cults, murder, kinky sex, quack therapy and making movies in Los Angeles, all told with Laura Lee Bahr's blend of pants-offing charm and wicked genius.""- Francesca Lia Block When Dominique Colt brutally murdered her fiance and gay boyfriend in a bondage sex game, she had no idea the woes writer/director Madeline Hunter would endure to get a movie made about it. Mads may think she has the story, but there's a mind-blowing mystery to uncover ... if she can just avoid being bitten by the Vampire that was once her best friend. "Is... ""A funny, sexy, weird, scary book about vampire cults, murder, kinky sex, quack therapy and making movies in Los Angeles, all told with Laura Lee ... |
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86,53 zł |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
ISBN: 9781523608225 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the fictional town ...
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31,52 zł |
Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
ISBN: 9780692475676 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prejudice takes place in a plethora of forms. It sprouts a rare growth when a clerk called Coinman can't stop jingling the coins in his pocket. It's a seemingly harmless addiction, but it's one that comes to rule his life and begins to invite the wrath of virtually everyone around him. His work environment becomes increasingly hostile while his life at home begins to suffer as a result of his wife's obsession with acting. When an attempt to remedy the situation goes horribly wrong, it spurs those involved onto unexpected paths. In this eccentric tale set in a small town in northern... Prejudice takes place in a plethora of forms. It sprouts a rare growth when a clerk called Coinman can't stop jingling the coins in his pocket. It'... |
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37,61 zł |