Produkty z tagiem 'MODERN CLASSICS'

The Star Diaries [Oprawa Miękka]
Stanisław Lem

A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York Times Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and

57,71 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

Alone in Berlin [Oprawa Miękka]
Hans Fallada

Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin begins in Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different way

55,27 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

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

58,78 zł

The Little Town Where Time Stood Still [Oprawa Miękka]
Bohumil Hrabal

Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear? A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous Uncle

44,42 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

51,10 zł

If Beale Street Could Talk [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child,

51,29 zł

The Plague [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. E

58,78 zł

Dandelions [Oprawa Miękka]
Yasunari Kawabata

The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata Ineko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiancé. The doctors call it '

54,60 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

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

58,78 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

Naked Lunch [Oprawa Miękka]
William S. Burroughs

A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunch is an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. An unnerving tale of an addict unmoored in

58,78 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

57,90 zł

Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems [Oprawa Miękka]
Allen Ginsberg

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figu

53,43 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

56,64 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

The Complete Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
Truman Capote

Including a previously-unpublished story 'The Bargain', Truman Capote's The Complete Stories is the first ever complete collection stories from one of the masters of American literature, and the auth

50,12 zł

The Myth of Sisyphus [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in Penguin Cl

59,85 zł

Think, Write, Speak [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of Lolita to the final, fascinatin

67,34 zł

A Clergyman's Daughter [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for t

57,71 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

The Great Railway Bazaar [Oprawa Miękka]
Paul Theroux

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux’s account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes – the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local,

65,20 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

The Trouble with Happiness [Oprawa Miękka]
Tove Ditlevsen

'The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is' In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denm

60,92 zł

Death in Midsummer [Oprawa Miękka]
Yukio Mishima

Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writers It was the height of summer, and there was anger in the rays of the sun A summer holiday that turns to tragedy; a moonlit jo

57,71 zł

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

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

57,71 zł

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

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