Produkty z tagiem 'MODERN CLASSICS' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

Clock Without Hands [Oprawa Miękka]
Carson McCullers

In this thoughtful and moving novel, four men find themselves inextricably bound together by their past histories. The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, Jes

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Under the Volcano [Oprawa Miękka]
Malcolm Lowry

It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta in full swing. In the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate...and the ugly pariah dogs roam the streets. Geoffrey Firm

55,27 zł

Seize the Day [Oprawa Miękka]
Saul Bellow

Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from h

50,21 zł

The Periodic Table [Oprawa Miękka]
Primo Levi

A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young

48,64 zł

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter [Oprawa Miękka]
Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely

61,99 zł

SS-GB [Oprawa Miękka]
Len Deighton

It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and ke

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The Apple in the Dark [Oprawa Miękka]
Clarice Lispector

Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece 'All I've got is hunger. And that instable w

78,35 zł

Forbidden Colours [Oprawa Miękka]
Yukio Mishima

Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who l

76,97 zł

Six Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
Stefan Zweig

‘One of the masters of the short story’ Guardian These six stories of obsession, secrets, delusions and desires from one of the greatest European writers show individuals caught up in forces beyon

56,64 zł

Great Italian Stories 10 Parallel Texts [Oprawa Miękka]

This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in t

64,13 zł

Great Spanish Stories 10 Parallel Texts [Oprawa Miękka]

This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in S

64,13 zł

The Volcano Lover [Oprawa Miękka]
Susan Sontag

A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of

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Shosha [Oprawa Miękka]
Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with the chance of riches and a passport to Americ

67,34 zł

In America [Oprawa Miękka]
Susan Sontag

The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year

71,62 zł

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter [Oprawa Miękka]
Simone de Beauvoir

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as

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The Aleph [Oprawa Miękka]
Jorge Luis Borges

Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams

60,43 zł

The Drowning Pool [Oprawa Miękka]
Ross Macdonald

When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the Slocums arou

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Snow Country [Oprawa Miękka]
Yasunari Kawabata

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is

53,97 zł
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The Franchise Affair [Oprawa Miękka]
Josephine Tey

Marion Sharpe and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the Franchise. Everything changes when a local schoolgirl accuses them of kidnap and abu

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Americana [Oprawa Miękka]
Don DeLillo

His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream. Prosperous, good-l

59,85 zł

Collected Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the

91,95 zł

Enemies A Love Story [Oprawa Miękka]
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Published in 1972, Enemies, A Love Story is an astonishing novel that blends humour and pathos to create a rich, humane portrayal of a man who cannot escape his past. Herman Broder, a refugee and

67,34 zł

Journey into Fear [Oprawa Miękka]
Eric Ambler

It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots we

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Snow Country [Oprawa Miękka]
Yasunari Kawabata

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is

53,43 zł

Kafka's Other Trial [Oprawa Miękka]
Elias Canetti

In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancée Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen i

59,85 zł

Cities of the Red Night [Oprawa Miękka]
William S. Burroughs

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic

71,62 zł

Black Skin, White Masks [Oprawa Miękka]
Frantz Fanon

'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis 'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage

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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

57,90 zł

K. [Oprawa Miękka]
Roberto Calasso

What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery

64,57 zł

Mr Ma and Son [Oprawa Miękka]
Lao She

Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled in a quiet street by St Paul's Cathedral in London, where, far from their native Peking, they struggle to navigate the bustling pavements and myr

57,19 zł
64,13 zł