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Old Man's Gold and Other Short Stories
ISBN: 9780807897515 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The four novels of Pierce, published between 1953 and 1974, all won national attention and critical acclaim, and many critics believe that the importance of this writer will continue to grow. This collection of stories, written in the 1940s, show how quickly a gifted author learns and develops his craft. The collection, taken as a whole, reveals a remarkable portrait of a time and place.
Originally published in 1976. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist... The four novels of Pierce, published between 1953 and 1974, all won national attention and critical acclaim, and many critics believe that the importa...
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192,63 zł |
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Keith Douglas: The Complete Poems
ISBN: 9780571276714 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before he was killed in Normandy in 1944, Keith Douglas had achieved a considerable body of work. With an introduction from Ted Hughes, this book comprehensively brings together the poems of one of the most promising poets of World War II.
Before he was killed in Normandy in 1944, Keith Douglas had achieved a considerable body of work. With an introduction from Ted Hughes, this book comp...
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98,26 zł |
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Refuge A Collection of Four Plays
ISBN: 9780868197661 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes Home The Bridge The Yum Yum Room and, Crowded House.
Includes Home The Bridge The Yum Yum Room and, Crowded House.
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112,48 zł |
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Anna Christie
ISBN: 9781848421899 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eugene O'Neill's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness charts one woman's longing to forget the dark secrets of her past and hope for salvation.
Eugene O'Neill's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and forgiveness charts one woman's longing to forget the dark secrets of her past and hop...
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77,27 zł |
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The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets
ISBN: 9780141198705 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, that contain what we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings.
Includes poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, that contain what we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings.
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82,79 zł |
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The Poetry of Sorley MacLean: (Scotnotes Study Guides)
ISBN: 9781906841058 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emma Dymock's SCOTNOTE study guide offers a detailed study of Sorely MacLean's poetry. It also includes close readings of selected poems that best represent his key themes and ideas. This Scotnote is ideal for senior school pupils and students of all ages as a general introduction or as a starting point for more in-depth study.
Emma Dymock's SCOTNOTE study guide offers a detailed study of Sorely MacLean's poetry. It also includes close readings of selected poems that best rep...
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35,97 zł |
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Conor McPherson Plays: One
ISBN: 9781848422216 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features four plays - three monologues and a three-hander.
Features four plays - three monologues and a three-hander.
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104,88 zł |
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The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron
ISBN: 9780801477850 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering both the first major revision of satiric rhetoric in decades and a critical account of the modern history of satire criticism, Fredric V. Bogel maintains that the central structure of the satiric mode has been misunderstood. Devoting attention to Augustan satiric texts and other examples of satire from writings by Ben Jonson and Lord Byron to recent performance art Bogel finds a complicated interaction between identification and distance, intimacy and repudiation.Drawing on anthropological insights and the writings of Kenneth Burke, Bogel articulates a rigorous, richly developed...
Offering both the first major revision of satiric rhetoric in decades and a critical account of the modern history of satire criticism, Fredric V. Bog...
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183,65 zł |
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Richard II : New Critical Essays
ISBN: 9780415569965 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard II is a compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. Politically engaged and controversial, it raises crucial debates about the relationship between early modern art, audience response and state power. This collection provides a comprehensive survey of the critical and theatrical history of the play.
Richard II is a compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. Politically engaged and controversial, it raises crucial debates about t...
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760,80 zł |
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Raymond Chandler : A Biography
ISBN: 9780099533511 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in Nabraska of Irish Quaker parents, educated at Dulwich College, and in the 'mean streets' of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler - writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, and charmer - was full of contradictions as his origins. This biography puts Chandler's writing in the context of the crime and corruption in Prohibition LA.
Born in Nabraska of Irish Quaker parents, educated at Dulwich College, and in the 'mean streets' of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler...
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88,32 zł |
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
ISBN: 9781907960031 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897) is one of Mark Twain's most popular collections of essays. Containing advice on how to tell a story, with examples, criticism of a popular biography and some poorly written fiction, personal experience of the attempted reformation of public rights, the history and several versions of a story about a jumping frog, instances of telepathy, and more literary criticism, Twain's keen wit, caustic humor and incisive satire are never more strongly displayed. The contents of this English Rose edition are from the original edition: How to Tell a Story, In...
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897) is one of Mark Twain's most popular collections of essays. Containing advice on how to tell a story, with ...
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53,57 zł |
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Ian McEwan : The Essential Guide
ISBN: 9780099570547 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques of Ian McEwan. This title includes exam questions, and contexts and comparisons - as well as provides ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.
Deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques of Ian McEwan. This title includes exam questions, and contexts and comparisons - as well as pro...
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88,32 zł |
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Reliable Essays : The Best of Clive James
ISBN: 9781447241041 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introduced by Julian Barnes, Reliable Essays is the definitive choice of Clive James's essays, selected from thirty years of spellbinding prose.
Introduced by Julian Barnes, Reliable Essays is the definitive choice of Clive James's essays, selected from thirty years of spellbinding prose.
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82,79 zł |
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Entropy Slices
ISBN: 9780985246136 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humor: A long narrative collaged poem from instructions about life from Adam and Eve, health insurance forms, your remote control from your television set, Nixon's instructions on why his daughters should not campaign at a museum, nuclear remote handling manual, instructions for events on a cruise ship and other texts. Runner up in many recognized poetry contests. The entire text was performed at the Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex in 2011.
Humor: A long narrative collaged poem from instructions about life from Adam and Eve, health insurance forms, your remote control from your television...
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36,69 zł |
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Gnit
ISBN: 9781783190294 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A willfully American misreading of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, by Pulitzer-nominated playwright Will Eno.
A willfully American misreading of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, by Pulitzer-nominated playwright Will Eno.
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62,91 zł |
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Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches
ISBN: 9781617037689 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new millennium precipitated an impressive rejuvenation of scholarly interest. Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches represents the next step in this revival, providing a series of essays with fresh perspectives and contexts. First, the book shows the importance of Henry Junius Nott, a virtually unknown and forgotten writer who mined many of the principal subjects, themes, tropes, and character types associated with southern... Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset o... |
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373,21 zł |
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FILMPOCALYPSE! 52 Cinematic Visions Of The End
ISBN: 9781481158480 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In glorious celebration of our inevitable demise, Brock Wilbur reviews a different end-of-the-world film for each week of 2012, counting down cinema's history of humanity's finale. Welcome to FILMPOCALYPSE 52 Cinematic Visions Of The End. Be it genius or abysmal, Wilbur explores each environmental catastrophe, plague-like infection, zombie outbreak, alien invasion, biblical prophecy, impending asteroid, and a fair share of "other" cataclysms. Spanning 96 years and a dozen countries, our cultural fears, motivations, and values are never more obvious than in the visual representation of our...
In glorious celebration of our inevitable demise, Brock Wilbur reviews a different end-of-the-world film for each week of 2012, counting down cinema's...
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114,66 zł |
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The Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism
ISBN: 9781846554360 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.
A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.
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88,32 zł |
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Collected Poems
ISBN: 9781904246367 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Rendall was one of Orkney's best 20th-century poets. This collection includes all the poems in Rendall's four books plus many unpublished poems.
Robert Rendall was one of Orkney's best 20th-century poets. This collection includes all the poems in Rendall's four books plus many unpublished poems...
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129,35 zł |
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A Curious Invitation
ISBN: 9780062271839 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers. People love to party. And writers love to attend and document these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social commentary and satire but also as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in and out of love, or even get murdered. A Curious Invitation is a humorous and informative guide to literature's most memorable parties. Some of these parties are depictions of real events, like the Duchess of Richmond's ball on the eve of battle with... Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers. People love to party. And writers love ... |
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78,58 zł |
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