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The Wrong World: Selected Stories and Essays
ISBN: 9780776606965 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avantgardist, successfully experimenting in literature, visual arts, film, and theatre. Brooker brought all of his experimental ambitions to his short fiction and prose. The Wrong World presents a rich sampling of his prose work, much of it previously unpublished, which adds new insight into his aesthetic ambitions. Working...Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive,... |
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95,89 zł |
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Writing Lovers: Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women
ISBN: 9780773527973 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is it possible to capture something as ephemeral as love with mere words? Meira Cook draws on Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, and Kristeva to wrestle with the theoretical problems of representing the unrepresentable. In "Writing Lovers", she searches for a language adequate to articulating the discourse of passion, desire, and longing in the love poetry of Dionne Brand, Elizabeth Smart, Daphne Marlatt, Dorothy Livesay, Kristjana Gunnars, and Nicole Markotic. In writings by the French post-structuralists, rhetorical tropes such as speechlessness, fragmentation, and deflection testify to the writer's...
Is it possible to capture something as ephemeral as love with mere words? Meira Cook draws on Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, and Kristeva to wrestle with th...
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486,78 zł |
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All Bush Pilots Lie: Flying The Bush In North-West Ontario, Flying With The Best !
ISBN: 9781438250694 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 38 shorts, in a Float Plane against weather, sometimes wierd guests, pretty geologists and upright natives. First hand account, flying with the best
38 shorts, in a Float Plane against weather, sometimes wierd guests, pretty geologists and upright natives. First hand account, flying with the best ...
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61,54 zł |
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Un art de vivre par temps de catastrophe
ISBN: 9780888645531 / Francuski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "L'interrogation n'a pas chang? ? 56 ans: pourquoi ne profite-t-on pas de tout ce qui nous arrive pour changer notre vie?" -Dany Laferri?re "The question I have been asking myself remains the same now that I am 56: why do we not take advantage of everything that happens to us in order to transform our lives?" -Dany Laferri?re Le 5 mars 2009, le Centre de litt?rature canadienne de l'Universit? de l'Alberta recevait l'auteur acclam?, Dany Laferri?re dans le cadre de la conf?rence comm?morative Henry Kreisel. La University of Alberta Press et le Centre de litt?rature canadienne sont fiers de...
"L'interrogation n'a pas chang? ? 56 ans: pourquoi ne profite-t-on pas de tout ce qui nous arrive pour changer notre vie?" -Dany Laferri?re "The quest...
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50,40 zł |
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Campus Chills
ISBN: 9780973568813 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirteen original tales of terror set on campuses across Canada. Welcome to the world of Campus Chills. Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: This anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and perhaps something even more horrifying in the student cafeteria.
Thirteen original tales of terror set on campuses across Canada. Welcome to the world of Campus Chills. Prepare to have your blood run cold, your hear...
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76,82 zł |
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A Walk in Fields of Gold: An Anthology of Prose & Poetry
ISBN: 9780968198193 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A selection of prose and poems from members of the Headwaters Writers' Guild. From beginning and emerging writers to published and prize winning authors, you will experience humour, pathos, joy, and gems of delight as you dip into this diverse collection.
A selection of prose and poems from members of the Headwaters Writers' Guild. From beginning and emerging writers to published and prize winning autho...
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60,32 zł |
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The Secrets of Rare Moon Tickle
ISBN: 9780986500619 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christianna Cormack and Joe Indigo meet and their connection is immediate and profound and well beyond their understanding. After they are ripped apart by his misguided choices they attempt to move forward without each other. When Christianna moves to Rare Moon Tickle, Newfoundland, she is informed that there are no secrets in a small town but she proves this adage wrong when destiny colludes with nature to ensure her inevitable reunion with Joe Indigo. Their love is now forbidden and one lie leads to another. As if suspended from cosmic puppet strings, Christianna cannot escape the web of...
Christianna Cormack and Joe Indigo meet and their connection is immediate and profound and well beyond their understanding. After they are ripped apar...
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88,78 zł |
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Dear Sad Goat
ISBN: 9781553656876 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,57 zł |
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Short Stories by Thomas Murtha
ISBN: 9782760343412 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of the published and previously unpublished short stories by Thomas Murtha, a Canadian writer born and raised in Ontario. Murtha was one of the notable experimental writers of the 1920s, but his work has been largely ignored by literary historians. Thomas Murtha was a classmate and colleague of other notable Canadians including former prime minister Paul Martin, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister. Callaghan, Murtha, and Knister greatly influenced each others' work. Complete with a biographical introduction from Murtha's son, William, this collection provides insight...
This is a collection of the published and previously unpublished short stories by Thomas Murtha, a Canadian writer born and raised in Ontario. Murtha ...
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71,68 zł |
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Native Writers and Canadian Writing: Canadian Literature Special Issue
ISBN: 9780774803717 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on literature by and about Canada's native peoples and contains original articles and poems by both native and non-native writers. Directs the reader to the underlying traditions - largely misunderstood by the non-native community - of myths, rituals and songs.
Focuses on literature by and about Canada's native peoples and contains original articles and poems by both native and non-native writers. Directs the...
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136,25 zł |
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Twin Loyalties: From The Chronicles Of Tar Ponds City
ISBN: 9781440453939 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens when the loved one of a person without money or influence disappears? Orphaned Katie finds out when her estranged identical twin sister, Eve, disappears and no one, who should help her, will help her. Confronted by Vancouver City Police who avoid responsibility for investigating her sister's disappearance, Katie follows Eve's trail on a cross-continent bus trip and into a world of political corruption as well as a past and a heritage the twins' late grandfather had tried to leave behind. With her only clue an ancient North American Native script written on a fragile scroll, 21...
What happens when the loved one of a person without money or influence disappears? Orphaned Katie finds out when her estranged identical twin sister, ...
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68,55 zł |
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A Cup of Roses, Stories by 8 Writers
ISBN: 9780995284715 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Cup of Roses, Stories by 8 Writers brims with tales of joy, passion, humour, tragedy, history, food writing and poetry. These compelling narratives will surprise and provoke the reader to view life through unexpected perspectives. In 2012, award winning author and artist Ruth Frankel-Graner formed a writer’s group in Toronto. When Ruth suddenly died, author Fiona Gold Kroll assumed the helm and began the process of bringing Ruth’s dream of publishing an anthology to life. Four books have been published by individual group members along with short stories... A Cup of Roses, Stories by 8 Writers brims with tales of joy, passion, humour, tragedy, history, food writing and poetry. These compelling... |
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46,07 zł |
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Of Water & Wine
ISBN: 9781530462377 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,52 zł |
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Island Pieces (pbk)
ISBN: 9780988017641 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,08 zł |
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In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman
ISBN: 9780773541955 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the late 1960s Sheila Fischman has worked tirelessly at making the best works of Quebecois literature available to English-language readers. Anglophones who have read works by Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Yves Beauchemin, Francois Gravel, Anne Hebert, Roch Carrier, and Marie-Claire Blais most likely know these works only through Fischman's subtly and faithfully crafted translations. In Translation celebrates Fischman's more than 150 book-length translations from French to English. It combines essays on the friendships created through translation with essays on the art of translation...
Since the late 1960s Sheila Fischman has worked tirelessly at making the best works of Quebecois literature available to English-language readers. Ang...
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486,78 zł |
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In Translation: Honouring Sheila Fischman
ISBN: 9780773541962 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the late 1960s Sheila Fischman has worked tirelessly at making the best works of Quebecois literature available to English-language readers. Anglophones who have read works by Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Yves Beauchemin, Francois Gravel, Anne Hebert, Roch Carrier, and Marie-Claire Blais most likely know these works only through Fischman's subtly and faithfully crafted translations. In Translation celebrates Fischman's more than 150 book-length translations from French to English. It combines essays on the friendships created through translation with essays on the art of translation...
Since the late 1960s Sheila Fischman has worked tirelessly at making the best works of Quebecois literature available to English-language readers. Ang...
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131,39 zł |
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Voices in Time
ISBN: 9780773524941 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The works of a seminal Canadian writer, available again.
The works of a seminal Canadian writer, available again.
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82,71 zł |
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan
ISBN: 9781533044112 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892, though the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between June 1891 and July 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. As with all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories, those contained within The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are told by a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr. Watson.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It...
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47,82 zł |
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Nonsense Novels
ISBN: 9781533040701 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk
Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or n...
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32,25 zł |
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Canadian Wild Flowers
ISBN: 9781532815997 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An observance of the hand of God in his providences, as well as of his Spirit in the written Word and in the human heart, has led to the publication of this book. Though more than twenty years hare passed since Miss JOHNSON died, her name is like "an ointment poured forth." Many who never knew her personally seem to know her well from her poetic writings: for "as fragrance to the sense of smell, music to the ear, or beauty to the eye, so is poetry to the sensibilities of the heart, --it ministers to a want of our intellectual nature; this is the secret of its power and the pledge of its...
An observance of the hand of God in his providences, as well as of his Spirit in the written Word and in the human heart, has led to the publication o...
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27,24 zł |
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