Produkty z tagiem 'MODERN CLASSICS' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

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

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61,99 zł

Goodbye to All That [Oprawa Miękka]
Robert Graves

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and

49,15 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

58,78 zł

The Great Gatsby [Oprawa Miękka]
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life' Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will alway

47,01 zł

Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 [Oprawa Miękka]
Czeslaw Milosz

The most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing life This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life.

63,06 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

Night [Oprawa Miękka]
Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics. Born int

46,45 zł

Queer [Oprawa Miękka]
William S. Burroughs

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story

58,78 zł

Civilization and Its Discontents [Oprawa Miękka]
Sigmund Freud

In his final years, Freud devoted most of his energies to a series of highly ambitious works on the broadest issues of religion and society. As early as 1908, he produced a powerful paper on the r

51,29 zł

Breakfast at Tiffany's [Oprawa Miękka]
Truman Capote

Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a del

51,29 zł

The Fountainhead [Oprawa Miękka]
Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. First published in 1943, this best-selling novel is a passionate defense o

56,68 zł

Brideshead Revisited [Oprawa Miękka]
Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic

57,71 zł

To the Lighthouse [Oprawa Miękka]
Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the shadow of war, and a meditation on marriage, on parent

45,94 zł

Just an Ordinary Day [Oprawa Miękka]

A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the

55,27 zł

Finnegans Wake [Oprawa Miękka]
James Joyce

A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Pengui

76,97 zł

The Outsiders [Oprawa Miękka]
S.E. Hinton

The bestselling American classic of youthful rebellion and coming of age on the streets, adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola The Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are at war on

60,92 zł

Second-Class Citizen [Oprawa Miękka]
Buchi Emecheta

'Fresh, timeless ... a lively work of art' Observer 'Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women's writing . . . powerful fictions written from and about our lives' Bernardine Evarist

59,85 zł

How I Came to Know Fish [Oprawa Miękka]
Ota Pavel

How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the two finest fishermen in the world - he takes a peac

57,71 zł

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

59,85 zł

Beauty and Sadness [Oprawa Miękka]
Yasunari Kawabata

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that

59,85 zł

Other Voices, Other Rooms [Oprawa Miękka]
Truman Capote

When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see

59,85 zł

The Sheltering Sky [Oprawa Miękka]
Paul Bowles

The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' Michael Hoffman. Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple,

59,85 zł

Native Realm [Oprawa Miękka]
Czeslaw Milosz

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how

66,51 zł

The Wretched of the Earth [Oprawa Miękka]
Frantz Fanon

'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, F

58,78 zł

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

Plexus [Oprawa Miękka]
Henry Miller

Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work Exploring one man's desperate desire for freedom, Plexus is the central volume of Henry M

59,85 zł

Lady Sings the Blues [Oprawa Miękka]
Billie Holiday

Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law

59,85 zł

The Chosen [Oprawa Miękka]
Chaim Potok

Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brough

61,99 zł

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

The Age of Reason [Oprawa Miękka]
Jean-Paul Sartre

The first volume in his Roads to Freedom trilogy, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Age of Reason is a philosophical novel exploring existentialist notions of freedom, translated by Eric Sutton with an introduc

59,85 zł