Produkty z tagiem 'MODERN CLASSICS' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

Wind, Sand and Stars [Oprawa Miękka]

In 1926 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (author of the classic The Little Prince) began flying for the pioneering airline Latécoere - later known as Aéropostale - opening up the first mail routes across the

€14,18

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [Oprawa Miękka]
Muriel Spark

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'A sublimely funny book ... it is a book to be read by all ... unforgettable and universal' Candia McWilliam Romantic, heroic, comic and trag

€13,88

The Complete Short Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
H. Munro Saki

Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically you

€16,94

The Trouble With Being Born [Oprawa Miękka]
E. M. Cioran

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: b

€15,55

The Samurai [Oprawa Miękka]
Shusaku Endo

In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true. For the first time, the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific Ocean. And he is going with them. As he sets sail with a group of Samur

€15,55

Eroticism [Oprawa Miękka]
Georges Bataille

A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of t

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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

€18,61

The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit [Oprawa Miękka]
Elias Canetti

Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In The Voices of Marrakesh, he captures the essence of

€15,55

Rumpole's Return [Oprawa Miękka]
John Mortimer

A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind' Sunday Times Horace Rumpole is in a strange state that could only be described as a kind of air-conditioned purgatory: he has

€15,55

The Lottery and Other Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most t

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Caligula and Other Plays [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

Caligula reveals some aspects of the existential notion of 'the absurd' by portraying an emperor so mighty and so desperate in his search for freedom that he inevitably destroys gods, men and himself

€20,01

Tales from the Underworld [Oprawa Miękka]
Hans Fallada

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering;

€15,55

The Annotated Lolita [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and con

€23,35

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 Last Tycoon [Oprawa Miękka]
Scott F. Fitzgerald

Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. This Penguin Modern Classics edit

€15,55

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories .. [Oprawa Miękka]
H.P. Lovecraft

More weirdly creepy and unnerving tales to unsettle any reader. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny

€15,55

The Beautiful and Damned [Oprawa Miękka]
Scott F. Fitzgerald

Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned includes an introduction by Ge

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Laughter in the Dark [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces hims

€15,55

My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
Frank Oconnor

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's u

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Vanity of Duluoz [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Jus

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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

€20,01

The Place of Dead Roads [Oprawa Miękka]
William S. Burroughs

This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving

€15,55

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

€18,61

My Name is Asher Lev [Oprawa Miękka]
Chaim Potok

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and t

€16,11

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

€23,90

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

€17,50

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

€17,50

Vile Bodies [Oprawa Miękka]
Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering surface of the high life. In the years following the Fi

€15,55

Little Birds [Oprawa Miękka]
Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin's Little Birds is published in Penguin Modern Classics. Anaïs Nin's second volume of erotic short stories after Delta of Venus, Little Birds is broader in scope, encompassing the entire

€13,88

The Night of the Hunter [Oprawa Miękka]
Davis Grubb

'What kind of a man would have his fingers tattooed that way? ... What kind of a man? What kind of a preacher?' One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter centres on the ferocious, unf

€14,72