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Fêlures
ISBN: 9782322034925 / Francuski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Letters to J. D. Salinger
ISBN: 9780299178048 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite J. D. Salinger s many silencesfrom the publication of The Catcher in the Rye to his absence from the public eye after 1965 to his death in 2010the unforgettable characters of his novel and short stories continue to speak to generations of readers and writers. Letters to J. D. Salinger includes more than 150 personal letters addressed to Salinger from well-known writers, editors, critics, journalists, and other luminaries, as well as from students, teachers, and readers around the world, some of whom had just discovered Salinger for the first time. Their voices testify to...
Despite J. D. Salinger s many silencesfrom the publication of The Catcher in the Rye to his absence from the public eye after 1965 to his death...
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Letters on England
ISBN: 9781494434809 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...Newton so universal a reputation, relate to the system of the world, to light, to geometrical infinities; and, lastly, to chronology, with which he used to amuse himself after the fatigue of his severer studies. I will now acquaint you (without prolixity if possible) with the few things I have been able to comprehend of all these sublime ideas. With regard to the system...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) ...
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Etienne Péclard, une carrière en mouvement
ISBN: 9782322034888 / Francuski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. De l'enfance a nos jours, le cheminement du violoncelliste Etienne Peclard, soliste de l'Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, ancien eleve de Navarra, enseignant lui-meme depuis vingt au conservatoire de Bordeaux Jacques Thibaud et qui a joue avec les plus grands chefs d'orchestre et les solistes les plus celebres. De nombreux temoignages, des illustrations inedites forment cet album-souvenir cree a l'occasion du depart a la retraite du maestro.
De l'enfance a nos jours, le cheminement du violoncelliste Etienne Peclard, soliste de l'Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, ancien eleve de Nav...
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Wiener Briefe
ISBN: 9783732289066 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Es ergab sich, dass ich vor einiger Zeit das Privileg hatte oder wie auch immer man es bezeichnen mochte, in Deutschland arbeiten zu durfen. Und in diesen gut zwei Jahren sind mir meine dortigen Kollegen derart ans Herz gewachsen, dass ich nach meinem unvermeidlichen korperlichen Abschied zumindest den Kontakt aufrechterhalten wollte. Und was eignet sich dazu besser als sich zu schreiben. Nur damit hier keine Missverstandnisse entstehen, die Briefe wurden selbstverstandlich als E-Mails verfasst und versendet. So schon Handgeschriebenes in der Regel ist, ist mein Handgeschriebenes die...
Es ergab sich, dass ich vor einiger Zeit das Privileg hatte oder wie auch immer man es bezeichnen mochte, in Deutschland arbeiten zu durfen. Und in di...
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Bittersweet Texas: Memoirs of a Horsewoman
ISBN: 9781478721772 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does one mend a broken heart? Sally is nearing 30 years old and working part time as a bartender and songstress at her family's restaurant in Port Mansfield-one of the best-kept secrets of the wealthy and indulgent sport fishermen of Texas. It's also a popular port off the Gulf of Mexico for the oil companies and commercial fishermen, attracting quite a variety of humanity. And it's here that Sally meets a mysterious oil supply boat captain named Andy. Bittersweet Texas is the story of a young woman learning to love again, and her unexpected and complex relationship with Andy will change...
How does one mend a broken heart? Sally is nearing 30 years old and working part time as a bartender and songstress at her family's restaurant in Port...
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103,36 |
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Chemin de vie
ISBN: 9782954114934 / Francuski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philippe Ropraz, poete emerite, nous livre dans cette autobiographie son parcours hors du commun melant spiritualite et paranormal. Vous decouvrirez, parallelement a l'histoire familiale et personnelle de l'auteur, une succession de faits interpellant notre rationalite. Notamment, ses experiences dans d'autres etats de conscience. Entre autres, il se reveille apres une semaine de coma, charge de souvenirs precis d'un lieu etrange ou il aurait acquis des connaissances techniques et spirituelles. Grace a ces phenomenes inexpliques, il reflechit au but de l'existence et a la realite d'une autre...
Philippe Ropraz, poete emerite, nous livre dans cette autobiographie son parcours hors du commun melant spiritualite et paranormal. Vous decouvrirez, ...
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119,36 |
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Letters on England
ISBN: 9781483703435 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Voltaire left France, reached London in August, 1726, went as guest to the house of a rich merchant at Wandsworth, and remained three years in England. He was there when George I died, and George II became king. He published his Henriade. He wrote his "History of Charles XII." He read "Gulliver's Travels" as a new book, and might have been present at the first night of The Beggar's Opera. He was there when Sir Isaac Newton died. In 1731 he published at Rouen the Lettres sur les Anglais, which appeared in England in 1733 in the volume from which they are here reprinted.
Voltaire left France, reached London in August, 1726, went as guest to the house of a rich merchant at Wandsworth, and remained three years in England...
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51,74 |
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Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
ISBN: 9781108070553 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1888, this work reproduced for the first time in full the letters sent by the English gentlewoman Dorothy Osborne (1627 95) to Sir William Temple (1628 99) during their courtship. Osborne first met Temple on the Isle of Wight in 1648, but both their families opposed the relationship and the couple were not able to marry until 1654. Osborne's letters are highly engaging, especially notable for their political and social commentary as well as for the details they reveal about her daily life and the clandestine courtship. Only one of Temple's letters survives, since Osborne...
Published in 1888, this work reproduced for the first time in full the letters sent by the English gentlewoman Dorothy Osborne (1627 95) to Sir Willia...
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266,51 |
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The Butterfly Letters: Your story might be much more significant than you realize...
ISBN: 9781494289560 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is book one of a series of books containing compilations of letters. This first book is a compilation of 25 of my favorite letters that people have sent me. Each chapter will be a persons letter, and in the chapter there will be a scan of the original letter. Also included in the book are transcriptions of each letter in case there are parts that are hard to read. The goal is to help people see that there is more to people than just what we see them do and go through on the outside, and how important (and beautiful ) each and every persons story really is.
This is book one of a series of books containing compilations of letters. This first book is a compilation of 25 of my favorite letters that people ha...
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The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957
ISBN: 9780807882962 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The personal correspondence between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Anthony Eden during the time they were simultaneously in office tells the dramatic story of a relationship that began with great promise but ended in division and estrangement. Many of the letters have only recently been declassified, making it possible for the first time to publish this unique historic collection in its entirety.
Peter G. Boyle's introduction, annotations, and conclusion provide context for the letters--details about the personalities and careers of Eden and Eisenhower and major... The personal correspondence between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Anthony Eden during the time they were simultaneously in office ...
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195,91 |
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Autobiographie d'un inconnu
ISBN: 9782322031375 / Francuski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A travers les yeux d'un enfant "curieux de tout," vous decouvrirez la vie d'une famille avant la guerre de 1940: la boucherie des parents et les marches des Halles et de la Villette, les reunions de famille, les bals et dancings du dimanche, le cinema ambulant, les nouvelles "machines parlantes," etc. Puis la guerre de 1940 rebattant les cartes, la vie dans une ferme du Morvan. Devenu adulte, pousse par le desir de partir, l'enfant curieux s'engagera, ira a Saigon au debut de la guerre d'Indochine...
A travers les yeux d'un enfant "curieux de tout," vous decouvrirez la vie d'une famille avant la guerre de 1940: la boucherie des parents et les march...
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129,08 |
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Romy Schneider Rencontres
ISBN: 9782322034758 / Francuski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Romy Schneider est l'une des rares actrices du XXeme siecle dont les gens se souviennent encore aujourd'hui. De nombreux auteurs ont eu a c ur de relater sa vie et surtout son destin tragique. Mais on a trop souvent oublie de preciser qu'il y avait aussi une facette joyeuse et pleine de vie au milieu de cette deferlante de malheurs. Les auteurs de ce livre ont fait un fabuleux voyage qui les a amenes a rencontrer et a interroger des connaissances de Romy. Il est clair que toute leur attention s'est focalisee sur les epoques heureuses de la vie de Romy. Les multiples coups du sort qu'elle a du...
Romy Schneider est l'une des rares actrices du XXeme siecle dont les gens se souviennent encore aujourd'hui. De nombreux auteurs ont eu a c ur de rela...
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115,31 |
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Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
ISBN: 9780099582946 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life'. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: 'I am an American fad-of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop.' Like Vonnegut's books, his letters...
This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to...
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75,44 |
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Here and Now : Letters
ISBN: 9780099584223 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks off each other.' Here and Now is the result of that proposal: an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art,...
Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after,...
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87,59 |
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Letters to Elizabeth Toldridge and Anne Tillery Renshaw
ISBN: 9781614980599 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. H. P. Lovecraft did not have a great many female correspondents, but among the most notable was Elizabeth Toldridge, a poet living in Washington, D.C., who began corresponding with Lovecraft in the late 1920s. Over their decade-long exchange of letters, Lovecraft discussed at length the aesthetic basis of poetry and the methods by which poetic expression could be made relevant in an age of science. He came to recognize that his earlier attempts at writing eighteenth-century-style verse were aesthetic failures, and he attempted to put his new poetic theories into practice with Fungi from...
H. P. Lovecraft did not have a great many female correspondents, but among the most notable was Elizabeth Toldridge, a poet living in Washington, D.C....
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129,48 |
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J'aime me perdre n'importe où dans le monde
ISBN: 9782322034307 / Francuski / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Je me suis perdue a Katmandou, la capitale du Nepal, ce pays dans lequel j'ai vu la plus haute montagne du monde, Je me suis perdue dans les hauteurs de Dharamsala, en Inde, ce pays dans lequel j'ai vecu une romande a la Bollywood, Je me suis perdue en descendant du bus a Trincomale, au Sri Lanka, ce pays dans lequel j'ai nage avec une tortue geante, Je n'ai pas arrete de me perdre en voiture en Nouvelle Zelande, ce pays dans lequel j'ai fait un saut en chute libre en Terre du Milieu, Je me suis perdue lors d'une rando a Huaraz, ville du Perou, ce pays dans lequel j'ai visite l'une des 7...
Je me suis perdue a Katmandou, la capitale du Nepal, ce pays dans lequel j'ai vu la plus haute montagne du monde, Je me suis perdue dans les hauteurs ...
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197,86 |
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Jane Austen's Letters
ISBN: 9780198704492 / Angielski / Miękka / 694 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative--they read much like the novels themselves. They bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events, all with a freshness unparalleled in modern biographies. Most important, we recognize the unmistakable voice of the author of such novels as Pride and Prejudice and Emma. We see the shift in her writing from witty and amusing descriptions of the social life of town and country, to a thoughtful and constructive tone while...
Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative--they read much lik...
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115,29 |
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Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie: The Correspondence Between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin 1976-1995
ISBN: 9781443855440 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brian Medlin met the novelist Iris Murdoch at Oxford in 1961 when he joined New College as a Research Fellow, and they remained friends for the remainder of her life, though after he left Oxford they only met once again. This correspondence published here covers a period of more than twenty years. In his letters, Medlin regaled Murdoch with Australian jokes, travel stories and anecdotes, and answered her many questions about Australian flora and fauna, and the Australian vernacular. She in turn quizzed him about his radical politics, and they agreed to disagree about Marxism and the...
Brian Medlin met the novelist Iris Murdoch at Oxford in 1961 when he joined New College as a Research Fellow, and they remained friends for the remain...
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257,72 |
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The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton
ISBN: 9781480051881 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte, KB (29 September 1758 - 21 October 1805) was a flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He was noted for his inspirational leadership and superb grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics, which resulted in a number of decisive naval victories. He was wounded several times in combat, losing one arm and the sight in one eye. Of his several victories, the best known and most notable was the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during which he was shot and killed. Emma, Lady Hamilton (26...
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte, KB (29 September 1758 - 21 October 1805) was a flag officer famous for his service in the Roy...
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