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Poetics and Politics of Iran's National Epic, the Sh?hn?meh
ISBN: 9780230113459 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only methodologically flawed, but are also more revealing of Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they are about the Shahnameh.
This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only me...
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192,74 zł |
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A harrowing investigation of the raw heart of addiction; its claustrophobia and momentum. From the heady narcissism of the narrator's first days with his new lover, Candy, and the relative innocence of their shared habit, this book charts their decline when smack becomes the total and only focus of their lives.
A harrowing investigation of the raw heart of addiction; its claustrophobia and momentum. From the heady narcissism of the narrator's first days with ...
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87,14 zł |
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The Dearest And The Best
ISBN: 9780099550235 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1940 the spectre of war turned into grim reality. For the Lovatt family - James, seconded on an assignment to work with Churchill, and Harry, a naval officer - and all the inhabitants of the historic villages of the New Forest, it was the beginning of the most bizarre, funny and tragic episode of their lives.
In the spring of 1940 the spectre of war turned into grim reality. For the Lovatt family - James, seconded on an assignment to work with Churchill, an...
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98,04 zł |
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Claudine At School
ISBN: 9780099422471 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Joubert twins Claudine wreaks havoc on her small school. Always clever, witty and charming Claudine is more than a match for her formidable headmistress as they fight for the attention of the pretty assistant Aimee. The horrors of examinations and good-humoured bullying are the backdrops in this immensely funny and delightful novel with which Colette established the captivating character of Claudine. Through the games, the fun and the intricacies of...
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Jouber...
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50,99 zł |
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The Storyteller
ISBN: 9780571161348 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unravelling the life and career of the Peruvian Jew, Saul Zurates, this book tells the story of his transformation from conscience-stricken liberal, obsessed with the survival of the pre-modern peoples of the Amazon, into a member of the tribe itself, their chronicler and finally their voice.
Unravelling the life and career of the Peruvian Jew, Saul Zurates, this book tells the story of his transformation from conscience-stricken liberal, o...
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56,09 zł |
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The Adventures of Sally
ISBN: 9781841591742 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pretty, impecunious Sally never dreamed a fortune could prove a disadvantage. Until she became an heiress and watched in bewilderment as her orderly existence went haywire.
Pretty, impecunious Sally never dreamed a fortune could prove a disadvantage. Until she became an heiress and watched in bewilderment as her orderly e...
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76,55 zł |
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The Engineer Of Human Souls : An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life,Women,Fate,Dreams,the Working Class, Secret Agents,Love and Death
ISBN: 9780099386414 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a story from the torn entrails of Central Europe.
Presents a story from the torn entrails of Central Europe.
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98,04 zł |
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The man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realises he won't be able to tell her. The woman rolls a joint. They smoke it. And as they drift into another state of mind, he approaches the border zones between being and nonbeing, between living and imagining. Or is it between life and death? From the acclaimed author of A Book of Memories - 'The greatest novel written in our time, and one of the great books of the century' (Susan Sontag) - we now have this unsettling and strangely beautiful exploration of the impossibility, but the...
The man has actually come to tell his lover that he wants to leave her, but as soon as he walks in he realises he won't be able to tell her. The woman...
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70,79 zł |
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Flying To Nowhere
ISBN: 9780099922605 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set on a Welsh island with a monastery, this is a story of human beings' desire for transcendency. A church agent investigates the disappearance of pilgrims visiting a sacred well, while the local abbot searches for the location of the soul. The book won the 1983 Whitbread Prize.
Set on a Welsh island with a monastery, this is a story of human beings' desire for transcendency. A church agent investigates the disappearance of pi...
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70,79 zł |
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The Friendship
ISBN: 9781846555640 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ara and Kit, two girls in the village school, seem to have nothing in common. Ara, the elder, is large, earthy and illiterate; Kit is lean, brainy and interested in abstractions like philosophy. After they leave school Ara cannot let Kit alone - she is drawn to her as a moth to a candle flame.
Ara and Kit, two girls in the village school, seem to have nothing in common. Ara, the elder, is large, earthy and illiterate; Kit is lean, brainy and...
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87,14 zł |
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The Scarlet Letter
ISBN: 9781908533333 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne's masterpiece of dark romanticism and one of the most widely taught early American novels, is now presented in a stunning teen edition.
"The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne's masterpiece of dark romanticism and one of the most widely taught early American novels, is now presented in a stunn...
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35,68 zł |
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Ablutions
ISBN: 9781847086341 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A daring, darkly funny first novel set in a seedy Hollywood bar among deranged drug addicts, determined drinkers and desperate women.
A daring, darkly funny first novel set in a seedy Hollywood bar among deranged drug addicts, determined drinkers and desperate women.
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50,99 zł |
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Licks of Love: Short Stories And a Sequel, 'Rabbit Remembered'
ISBN: 9780140298963 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel 'Rabbit Remembered' is a major work in its own right - a riveting return to Updike's most celebrated fictional world. Janice and Nelson Angstrom, plus several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium, as a number of old strands come together in entirely unexpected ways.
Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel 'Rabbit Remembered' is a major work in its own right - ...
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81,69 zł |
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A Crying Shame
ISBN: 9780552778282 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For ten-year-old Christine, home is a hostile, troubling place. Her mother reserves her affection for her younger, live-in-lover, and for Waldo, Christine's teenage brother. Christine viciously takes out her angry feelings on her Barbies and on a weaker girl in her class. Then on a family holiday in Scotland, a tragic accident occurs...
For ten-year-old Christine, home is a hostile, troubling place. Her mother reserves her affection for her younger, live-in-lover, and for Waldo, Chris...
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87,14 zł |
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VIDA
ISBN: 9781854251022 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercys classic bookend to the sixties. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters and victories of an extraordinary band of people. At the centre of the novel stands Vida Asch. She has lived underground for almost a decade.
First published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercys classic bookend to the sixties. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters and...
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56,09 zł |
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The Naguib Mahfouz Centennial Library: Celebrating One Hundred Years of Egypt's Nobel Laureate
ISBN: 9789774165030 / Angielski / Twarda / 7476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To celebrate the centenary of the birth of the great Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the AUC Press, which has been publishing English translations of Mahfouz's work since 1978, presents all his novels, three collections of short stories, and his autobiographical writings in a single library of 20 hardbound volumes, including all 42 works translated into English. From Khufu's Wisdom, first published in Arabic in 1939, to his last work of extended fiction, The Coffeehouse (1988), all thirty-five of his novels are here, along with thirty-eight short stories His Echoes of an...
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of the great Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the AUC Press, which has been publishing Engli...
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2724,75 zł |
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The Swoop! & The Military Invasion of America
ISBN: 9781841591902 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clarence Chugwater is not a Boy Scout for nothing. It is summer 1909 and everyone is too interested in the Test Match to notice that England has been invaded by the Germans. And the Russians. And the Chinese. Not to mention a 'boisterous band of the Young Turks', a mad Mullah, and a brace of North African pirates.
Clarence Chugwater is not a Boy Scout for nothing. It is summer 1909 and everyone is too interested in the Test Match to notice that England has been ...
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56,09 zł |
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The Chaal
ISBN: 9781780830162 / Perski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Short Stories by Mahmoud EtemadZadeh (M.A BehAzin)
Short Stories by Mahmoud EtemadZadeh (M.A BehAzin)
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55,43 zł |
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Diary of a Teacher: Siah Mashghhaye Yek Moalem
ISBN: 9781780830247 / Perski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,29 zł |
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Berlin Story
ISBN: 9781780830261 / Perski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collection of Short Stories by Collective Writers.
Collection of Short Stories by Collective Writers.
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69,29 zł |
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