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Little House of Oxymorons: with commentaries
ISBN: 9780761851035 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume features well over 200 fresh and original oxymorons with commentaries-all with a satirical twist. As a satire, Little House of Oxymorons complements Steven Carter's The New Devil's Dictionary, a two-volume "sequel" to Ambrose Bierce's notorious The Devil's Dictionary of a century ago.
This volume features well over 200 fresh and original oxymorons with commentaries-all with a satirical twist. As a satire, Little House of Oxymorons c...
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198,48 zł |
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A Wodehouse Handbook: Vol. 2 the Words of Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781927592014 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Did people really speak like Bertie Wooster? Who was the celebrated Maisie? What does a Jubilee watering trough look like? Where is Loose Chippings? What was "Just Like Mother Makes"? Where does "the exile from home splendour dazzles in vain" come from? What was a gazeka? Why was Bertie Wooster more to be pitied than censured? When did young men-about-town start saying "What"? How did Bosher Street get its name?
While P.G. Wodehouses way with words has long set a standard for literary humour, much in his writing puzzles the modern reader. Volume Two of A Wodehouse Handbook answers many... Did people really speak like Bertie Wooster? Who was the celebrated Maisie? What does a Jubilee watering trough look like? Where is Loose Chippings? W...
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129,09 zł |
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Henry James: A Life in Letters
ISBN: 9780140435160 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philip Horne draws on a wide range of archival holdings to produce a fresh and up-to-date selection of James's correspondence, a third of which is previously unpublished. Horne attempts to present James's literary career through his letters and to illuminate - through the use of unpublished material - James's complex relations to feminism and women's writing. Horne presents edited texts and provides explanatory and textual annotation for each letter.
Philip Horne draws on a wide range of archival holdings to produce a fresh and up-to-date selection of James's correspondence, a third of which is pre...
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102,69 zł |
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Heine : Selected Verse
ISBN: 9780140420982 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heine was a restless and homeless poet, a Jew among Germans, a German in Paris, a rebel among the bourgeoisie and always, as his famous doppelganger poems show, a man divided against himself. This selection, with the German originals accompanied by English prose translations, provides an introduction to Heine.
Heine was a restless and homeless poet, a Jew among Germans, a German in Paris, a rebel among the bourgeoisie and always, as his famous doppelganger p...
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66,70 zł |
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The Life of Henry Brulard
ISBN: 9780140446111 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a telling insight into the times in which Stendhal lived and it includes criticism of the bourgeois vanity and hypocrisy of France in the early nineteenth century.
This is a telling insight into the times in which Stendhal lived and it includes criticism of the bourgeois vanity and hypocrisy of France in the earl...
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87,23 zł |
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Last Plays : "in Good King Charles's Golden Days"; Buoyant Billions; Farfetched Fables; Shakes Versus Shav; Why She Would not
ISBN: 9780140450422 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes titles such as Buoyant Billions: A comedy of no manners, Farfetched Fables in which Shaw's thoughts simplified; Shakes vs. Shav in which puppets portray Shaw and Shakespeare - the play comprises a comic argument between the two playwrights, an intellectual Punch and Judy; and, Why She Would Not, his final play.
Includes titles such as Buoyant Billions: A comedy of no manners, Farfetched Fables in which Shaw's thoughts simplified; Shakes vs. Shav in which pupp...
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66,70 zł |
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Auden
ISBN: 9780099442561 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Auden's dedication as a writer was matched only by his commitment to challenging the received view of political and personal life. This biography offers a commentary on Auden's work, ideas and life within the context of the wars, ideologies, spiritual quests and sexual attitudes of this century.
Auden's dedication as a writer was matched only by his commitment to challenging the received view of political and personal life. This biography offe...
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87,23 zł |
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Full of the Deep Bits
ISBN: 9780956392879 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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35,31 zł |
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Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals : Eleven Early Chinese Plays
ISBN: 9781603842006 / Angielski / Miękka / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This magnificent collection of eleven early [1250--1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic literature during an extraordinarily eventful period in Chinese history. Not only are the eleven plays in this volume expertly translated into lively, idiomatic English; they are each provided with illuminating, scholarly introductions that are yet fully intelligible to the educated lay reader. A marvelous volume.--Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania
This magnificent collection of eleven early [1250--1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic l...
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92,63 zł |
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READ THIS NEXT : And Discover Your 500 New Favourite Books
ISBN: 9781846143724 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering 500 books ranging from 'The Shock Doctrine' to 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', and exploring all the important issues like how to tell the difference between Naomis Wolf and Klein, whether anyone really likes Emma Bovary, and more, this book reminds you exactly why you love reading.
Covering 500 books ranging from 'The Shock Doctrine' to 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', and exploring all the important issues like how to tell the differ...
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87,23 zł |
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Fiere
ISBN: 9780330513371 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A description of the many paths our lives take, and of how those journeys are made meaningful by our companions on the road: lovers, friends, parents, children, mentors - as well as the various remarkable and chance acquaintances we would not otherwise have made.
A description of the many paths our lives take, and of how those journeys are made meaningful by our companions on the road: lovers, friends, parents,...
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50,40 zł |
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'77 Love Sonnets' is American literary celebrity Garrison Keillor's first collection of his own poetry. Included are two CDs on which he reads all the poems in the book.
'77 Love Sonnets' is American literary celebrity Garrison Keillor's first collection of his own poetry. Included are two CDs on which he reads all the...
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60,53 zł |
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Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 9781846143304 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. In this ideal marriage of subject and critic, Nabokov analyses his endlessly inventive compatriot, focusing on the masterpieces Dead Souls, The Overcoat and The Government Inspector. Misunderstood by his contemporaries, mishandled by theatre directors and ending his life mistreated by doctors - with medicinal...
Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before ...
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50,40 zł |
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Enda Walsh Plays: One
ISBN: 9781848421394 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of cutting-edge plays from award-winning Irish playwright Enda Walsh, author of Penelope, The New Electric Ballroom and The Walworth Farce.
A collection of cutting-edge plays from award-winning Irish playwright Enda Walsh, author of Penelope, The New Electric Ballroom and The Walworth Farc...
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97,50 zł |
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Humorists PB
ISBN: 9780061825927 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It is Johnson's gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would...recognize them instantly, while also illuminating what made them heroes." --Washington Post Book World on Heroes "Johnson is a clear, intelligent, forceful writer, and nothing if not thorough." --Wall Street Journal Paul Johnson, the acclaimed author of Creators, Heroes, and the New York Times bestseller Intellectuals, returns with a captivating collection of biographical portraits of the Western world's greatest wits and... "It is Johnson's gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would...recognize them instantly, while also illuminating wha... |
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65,29 zł |
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Poetry and Autobiography
ISBN: 9780415617550 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry and autobiography. Drawing on recent theories of life writing, the essays in the first part of this volume provide new analyses of works by a range of poets, dating from the early modern period to the present day. Exploring the autobiographical resonances of poems by Martha Moulsworth, Mina Loy, Anne Sexton, Joe Brainard, Edward Kamau Braithwaite, and Gwyneth Lewis, the authors here examine the extent to which discourses of truth and authenticity have been implicated in...
This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry and autobiography. Drawing on re...
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707,28 zł |
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The House of Bernarda Alba
ISBN: 9780571227570 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing. Five daughters live together in a single household with a tyrannical mother. When the father of all but the eldest girl dies, a cynical marriage is advanced which will have tragic consequences for the whole family. Lorca's fascinatingly modern play, rendered here in an English version by David Hare, speaks as powerfully as a political metaphor of oppression as it does as domestic drama. The House...
Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as ...
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55,44 zł |
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Satire
ISBN: 9780415480826 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a comic tool or a political weapon? Is Satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Combining thematic, theoretical and historical approaches, John Gilmore introduces and investigates the tradition of satire from classical models through to the present day. In a lucid and engaging style, Gilmore explores: the moral politics of satire whether satire is universal, historically or geographically limited how satire translates across genres and media the boundaries of free speech and legitimacy. Using examples including the literature...
What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a comic tool or a political weapon? Is Satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Comb...
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136,53 zł |
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The Major Victorian Poets: Reconsiderations
ISBN: 9780415667937 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1969, this collection brings together a series of essays offering a re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th century criticism. The essays concentrate upon the poets whose reputations suffered from the great redirection of energy in English criticism initiated by Eliot, Richards and Leavis.
First published in 1969, this collection brings together a series of essays offering a re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th ce...
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878,00 zł |
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Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, and Iphigenia at Aulis
ISBN: 9781603844611 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The four late plays of Euripides collected here, in beautifully crafted translations by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and Paul Woodruff, offer a faithful and dynamic representation of the playwright's mature vision.
The four late plays of Euripides collected here, in beautifully crafted translations by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and Paul Woodruff, offer a faithful ... |
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190,19 zł |
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