The Expedition Of Humphry Clinker
ISBN: 9789358018028 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Apphia Peach, George Lord Lyttelton, and 'The Correspondents':: An Annotated Edition of a Forgotten Gem (1775)
ISBN: 9781839991516 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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634,43 zł |
Letters to the Purple Satin Killer
ISBN: 9781960988096 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,04 zł |
A Letter to the Luminous Deep
ISBN: 9780316565530 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,35 zł |
Return to Summerville
ISBN: 9781944286842 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,81 zł |
The Stories of Paul Bowles
ISBN: 9780061137044 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry--possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at Tecate," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In "Call at Corazon," an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their honeymoon in a South American jungle. In "Allal," a boy's drug-induced metamorphosis into a deadly serpent leads to his violent death. Here also... The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by tur... |
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86,69 zł |
In the Country of Last Things
ISBN: 9780140097054 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel - a spare, powerful, intensely visionary novel about the bare-bones conditions of survival
In a distant and unsettling future, Anna Blume is on a mission in an unnamed city of chaos and disaster. Its destitute inhabitants scavenge garbage for food and shelter, no industry exists, and an elusive government provides nothing but corruption. Anna wades through the filth to find her long-lost brother, a one-time journalist who may or may not be alive. New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York... From the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel - a spare, powerful, intensely visionary novel about the bare-bones conditions of surviv...
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95,40 zł |
Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady
ISBN: 9780140432152 / Angielski / Miękka / 1536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Oh thou savage-hearted monster What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance "
Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed... "Oh thou savage-hearted monster What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance "
Pressured by her unscrupulous... |
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117,09 zł |
Herzog
ISBN: 9780142437292 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption.
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him--he has failed as a writer and teacher, as a father, and has lost the affection of his wife to his best friends--Herzog sees himself as a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. He writes unsent letters to friends and enemies,... In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the ...
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86,73 zł |
Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy
ISBN: 9780143039068 / Angielski / Miękka / 357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), follows the progress of Judy's former orphanage, now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges hope and a new life.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles,... One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whos...
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81,08 zł |
Dangling Man
ISBN: 9780143039877 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow--now with an introduction by J. M. Coetzee
Expecting to be inducted into the army to fight in World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Saul Bellow's first novel documents Joseph's psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading... An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow--now with an introduction by J. M. Coetzee
Expecting to be inducted into the army to ... |
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65,05 zł |
A Dictionary of Maqiao
ISBN: 9780385339353 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the daring imagination of one of China's greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality-the story of a young man "displaced" to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, A Dictionary of Maqiao is a novel of bold invention-and a fascinating, comic, deeply moving journey through the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution.
Entries trace the wisdom and absurdities of Maqiao: the petty squabbles, family grudges, poverty, infidelities, fantasies, lunatics, bullies,... From the daring imagination of one of China's greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality-the story of a young man "disp...
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99,74 zł |
Ella Minnow Pea
ISBN: 9780385722438 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from... Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, autho...
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73,72 zł |
The Christmas Letters
ISBN: 9781565123762 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends during the holidays. It's a down-home Christmas story about tradition, family, and the shared experiences of women.
Here, in a letter of her own, Lee Smith explains how she was inspired to write this celebrated epistolary novel: Dear Friends, Like me, you probably get Christmas letters every year. I read every word and save every letter. Because every Christmas letter is the story of a life, and what story can be more... In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends ...
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43,14 zł |