Produkty z tagiem 'PENGUIN MODERN' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

Investigations of a Dog [Oprawa Miękka]
Franz Kafka

'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a c

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Letter from Birmingham Jail [Oprawa Miękka]
Martin Luther King

'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, an

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The Breakthrough [Oprawa Miękka]
Daphne du Maurier

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.' Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the aut

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The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Audre Lorde

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light. Penguin Modern: fifty new

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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer [Oprawa Miękka]
Berry Wendell

'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can' The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly. Pengu

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The Legend of the Sleepers [Oprawa Miękka]
Danilo Kis

'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworld

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Food [Oprawa Miękka]
Gertrude Stein

Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of every

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The Great Hunger [Oprawa Miękka]
Patrick Kavanagh

'I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poem

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The Haunted Boy [Oprawa Miękka]
Carson McCullers

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our

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Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? [Oprawa Miękka]
Hans Fallada

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of

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The Problem that Has No Name [Oprawa Miękka]
Betty Friedan

'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky she is to be a woman?' The pioneering Betty Friedan here identifies the strange problem plaguing A

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The Black Ball [Oprawa Miękka]
Ralph Ellison

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.' Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the aut

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The Survivor [Oprawa Miękka]
Levi Primo

'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place' A selection of poetry from the author of If this is a Man and The Periodic Table. Penguin Modern: fifty new books cel

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The Veiled Woman [Oprawa Miękka]
Anais Nin

'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writer

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The Red Tenda of Bologna [Oprawa Miękka]
John Berger

'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.' A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from

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The Garden of Forking Paths [Oprawa Miękka]
Jorge Luis Borges

'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.' Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a literary m

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The End [Oprawa Miękka]
Samuel Beckett

'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.' From the master of the absurd, th

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Letter to My Mother [Oprawa Miękka]
Georges Simenon

'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in

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Leaving the Yellow House [Oprawa Miękka]
Saul Bellow

She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car. At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an e

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Till September Petronella [Oprawa Miękka]
Jean Rhys

'I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl - all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws' In stories that span the course of a lifetime - from childhood in the Caribbean to adolescent modelling i

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The Distance of the Moon [Oprawa Miękka]
Italo Calvino

'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pione

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The Cracked Looking-Glass [Oprawa Miękka]
Katherine Anne Porter

'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate, unfulfilled woman considers her life and her marriage in this moving novella by one of America's fi

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The Gigolo [Oprawa Miękka]
Francoise Sagan

'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool, make love, create' A middle-aged woman breaks with her handsome young lover; a placid husband i

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Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathch.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Allen Ginsberg

Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber

'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?' Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great i

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The Finger [Oprawa Miękka]
William Burroughs

'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.' A deliberately severed finger, a junky's Christmas miracle an

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Notes on Camp [Oprawa Miękka]
Susan Sontag

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susa

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Death the Barber [Oprawa Miękka]
William Carlos Williams

'The alphabet of the trees is fading in the song of the leaves' Filled with bright, unforgettable images, the deceptively simple work of William Carlos Williams revolutionized American verse,

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Lance [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the rea

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Glittering City [Oprawa Miękka]
Cyprian Ekwensi

Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering

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An Advertisement for Toothpaste [Oprawa Miękka]
Ryszard Kapuscinski

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland Penguin Modern:

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