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The Red Badge of Courage
ISBN: 9780486264653 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. Amid the nighmarish chaos of a Civil War battle, a young soilder discovers courage, humility, and prehaps, wisdom. Widely praised for uncanny re-creation of the sights, sounds, and sense of actual combat. An eduring landmark of American fiction. Reprint of the D. Appleton & Co. New York, 1895 edition.
Small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. Amid the nighmarish chaos of a Civil War battle, a young soilder discove...
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Bartleby and Benito Cereno
ISBN: 9780486264738 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from his pen. Two of the most admired of these -- "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno" -- first appeared as magazine pieces and were then published in 1856 as part of a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales.
"Bartleby" (also known as "Bartleby the Scrivener") is an intriguing moral allegory set in the business world of mid-19th-century New York. A strange, enigmatic man employed as a clerk in a legal office, Bartleby forces his employer... Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from ...
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The Gold-Bug and Other Tales
ISBN: 9780486268750 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognized today as the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1949) revealed his genius in tales of death, terror, evil, and perversity. Highly skilled in achieving a calculated psychological effect, Poe created chilling fictional nightmares permeated by mysterious forces, grotesque creatures, and improbable hallucinations. Recognized today as the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1949) revealed his genius in tales of death, t... |
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Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
ISBN: 9780486270609 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout his richly varied literary career, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) wrote compelling short stories of enduring appeal. His first important publication, long before The Scarlet Letter, was the 1837 collection Twice-Told Tales, which brought the New England writer immediate fame and high praise from no less an authority than Edgar Allan Poe. Another compilation, Mosses from an Old Manse, followed in 1846 and achieved further success.
This volume contains six stories from those collections as well as another superb selection, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux." In... Throughout his richly varied literary career, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) wrote compelling short stories of enduring appeal. His first important p...
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Looking Backward
ISBN: 9780486290386 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1888, Looking Backward was one of the most popular novels of its day. Translated into more than 20 languages, its utopian fantasy influenced such thinkers as John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, Eugene V. Debs, and Norman Thomas. Writing from a 19th century perspective and poignantly critical of his own time, Bellamy advanced a remarkable vision of the future, including such daring predictions as the existence of radio, television, motion pictures, credit cards, and covered pedestrian malls. First published in 1888, Looking Backward was one of the most popular novels of its day. Translated into more than 20 languages, its utopian... |
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Venus in Boston and Other Tales of Nineteenth-Century City Life
ISBN: 9781558493261 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reprints for the first time since the 1850s three short works by George Thompson (1823--c. 1873), one of antebellum America's most successful and prolific authors of sensational fiction. Beginning in the 1840s, he wrote stories for sporting papers like Life in Boston and New York, edited the humorous New York weekly The Broadway Belle, and contributed regularly to the sexually explicit Venus' Miscellany. He also published dozens of novels, most of which were set in Northeastern cities. His writing blends entertainment and social protest, combining commentary on such issues as... This book reprints for the first time since the 1850s three short works by George Thompson (1823--c. 1873), one of antebellum America's most succes... |
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139,60 |
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The Mysterious Key and What It Opened
ISBN: 9783842443860 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,29 |
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Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories
ISBN: 9781731704023 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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39,69 |
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Little Women
ISBN: 9781912714292 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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101,83 |
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The King in Yellow
ISBN: 9781513267524 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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39,23 |
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The Deerslayer
ISBN: 9781513269450 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,32 |
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The Pathfinder
ISBN: 9781513269467 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,23 |
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The Pioneers
ISBN: 9781513269474 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,64 |
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The Prairie
ISBN: 9781513269481 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,64 |
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The Spy
ISBN: 9781513269498 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,72 |
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Old Christmas
ISBN: 9781513269702 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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23,52 |
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The Adventures of Captain Horn
ISBN: 9781513277585 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,86 |
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Hyperion: A Romance
ISBN: 9781513278346 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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43,16 |
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The King in Yellow
ISBN: 9781513219707 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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58,86 |
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The Mysterious Key and What It Opened
ISBN: 9781513280080 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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