Produkty z tagiem 'MODERN CLASSICS'

A Streetcar Named Desire [Oprawa Miękka]
Tennessee Williams

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and S

11,87 zł

Dark Tales [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. There's someth

59,85 zł

The Rebel [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus , Anthony Bower (Translator) , Oliver Todd (Introduction)

A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus

59,85 zł

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account [Oprawa Miękka]
Niklos Nyiszli

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fat

60,55 zł

The Grapes of Wrath [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Califo

61,99 zł

Out of Africa [Oprawa Miękka]
Karen Blixen

From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happie

57,71 zł

Homage to Catalonia [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

'An unrivalled picture of the rumours, suspicions and treachery of civil war' Antony Beevor Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, agai

49,15 zł

Of Mice and Men [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventual

49,15 zł

Women Race & Class [Oprawa Miękka]
Angela Y. Davis

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view

62,40 zł

The Haunting of Hill House [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of t

54,50 zł

Ulysses [Oprawa Miękka]
James Joyce

Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, Observer Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to the chara

54,50 zł

The Origins of Totalitarianism [Oprawa Miękka]
Hannah Arendt

'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington Post Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led

54,50 zł

The Big Sleep and Other Novels [Oprawa Miękka]
Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - a

78,41 zł

Tortilla Flat [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, Tortilla Flat is also his funniest novel. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, Califor

57,21 zł

Flight to Arras [Oprawa Miękka]
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and d

60,55 zł

The Lion and the Unicorn [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution. His full

34,17 zł

Wide Sargasso Sea [Oprawa Miękka]
Jean Rhys

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century' Mic

48,08 zł

Nobody Leaves [Oprawa Miękka]
Ryszard Kapuściński

'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary Supplemen

45,20 zł

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
H. P. Lovecraft

H P Lovecraft is credited with reinventing the horror genre in the twentieth century. In this volume, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, S T Joshi, presents a selection of the master's fiction. Thes

60,55 zł

Is God Happy? Selected Essays [Oprawa Miękka]
Leszek Kołakowski

'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth ce

50,43 zł

Child of Fortune [Oprawa Miękka]
Yuko Tsushima

Child of Fortune is deceptively gentle and dreamlike, teetering on the edge of tragedy. It covers a year in the life of a single mother with an eleven-year-old daughter, combining a complex interior

50,94 zł

The Psychology of Love [Oprawa Miękka]
Sigmund Freud

This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality - that there is no sexuality wi

80,18 zł

The Subterraneans [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian,

58,47 zł

Desolation Angels [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his

49,15 zł

Boys in Zinc [Oprawa Miękka]
Svetlana Alexievich

From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the dead

57,90 zł

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks [Oprawa Miękka]
Kerouac Burroughs , William S. Jack

In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confes

55,32 zł

The Soft Machine [Oprawa Miękka]
William S. Burroughs

With a dangerous blend of chemistry and magic, secret agent Lee has the ability to change bodies - his own, or with anyone he chooses. Also able to time travel, he finds himself forced to use his ski

22,62 zł

Invisible Man [Oprawa Miękka]
Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cu

61,99 zł

An Outline of Psychoanalysis [Oprawa Miękka]
Sigmund Freud

One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-specialist Freud for a wide readership, which goes way b

65,20 zł

The Feminine Mystique [Oprawa Miękka]
Betty Friedan

When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false b

58,78 zł

The Rebel [Oprawa Miękka] Albert Camus , Anthony Bower (Translator) , Oliver Todd (Introduction)

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks [Oprawa Miękka] Kerouac Burroughs , William S. Jack

The Rebel [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus , Anthony Bower (Translator) , Oliver Todd (Introduction)

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks [Oprawa Miękka]
Kerouac Burroughs , William S. Jack