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Create Dangerously [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompani
19,68 zł

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
20,40 zł

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:
15,54 zł

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
15,54 zł

I Have More Souls Than One [Oprawa Miękka]
Fernando Pessoa

'But no, she's abstract, is a bird Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumbered Because the song's what makes her sing.' Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct
18,12 zł

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,
15,54 zł

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
7,07 zł

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
15,54 zł

Four Russian Short Stories [Oprawa Miękka]

' "Another hour gone. But I'm not afraid. There's only one thing I regret: that I've lived for so many years without knowing where human happiness is to be found" ' In these stories, four writers
7,07 zł

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
7,07 zł

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

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
20,40 zł

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
15,54 zł

The Vigilante [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales
20,40 zł

Notes on Nationalism [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote abou
20,40 zł

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
7,07 zł

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
20,40 zł

Three Japanese Short Stories [Oprawa Miękka]

'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply maca
20,40 zł

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
14,94 zł

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

'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
15,54 zł

New York City in 1979 [Oprawa Miękka]
Kathy Acker

'INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD' A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker Penguin Modern: fifty new
15,54 zł

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
7,07 zł

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
15,54 zł

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
15,54 zł

Piers of the Homeless Night [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...' Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation. Penguin Modern
7,07 zł

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
20,40 zł

The Missing Girl [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling
15,54 zł

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
15,54 zł

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
15,54 zł

The Three Electroknights [Oprawa Miękka]
Stanislaw Lem

'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventor
15,54 zł

The Dialogue of Two Snails [Oprawa Miękka]
Federico Garcia Lorca

My heart brims with billows and minnows of shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new tran
15,54 zł
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