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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

A Room of One's Own [Oprawa Miękka]
Virginia Woolf

'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?' A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited

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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

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

57,71 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

East of Eden [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hope

58,78 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

In This Sign [Oprawa Miękka]
Joanne Greenberg

Two young deaf people, Abel and Janice, elope from their punitive school in the 1920s and begin married life with high hopes. But navigating ‘Outside’, the world of the hearing, is harder than they a

58,78 zł

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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Maigret and the Headless Corpse [Oprawa Miękka]
Georges Simenon

The discovery of a dismembered body in the Canal Saint Martin leads Maigret into a tangled, baffling case involving a taciturn bistro-owner and a mysterious inheritance. This is a matchless descripti

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Pleasure of Thinking [Oprawa Miękka]
Wang Xiaobo

'A very captivating book. Wang Xiaobo's unique blend of rationality, serenity, candor, and sense of humour serves as an embodiment of the liberalism he ardently believes in' Ai Weiwei The dazzling

71,62 zł

The Experience of Pain [Oprawa Miękka]
Carlo Emilio Gadda

The first novel from one of Italy’s most innovative writers of the 20th century 'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are wha

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Committed Writings [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

'To create today means to create dangerously' This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the

65,20 zł

Golden Age [Oprawa Miękka]
Wang Xiaobo

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation 'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your balls crushed.'

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The Defense [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov's early novel about a chess-playing genius, reissuing in Modern Classics as part of the Nabokov relaunch Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet

57,71 zł

Right-Wing Women [Oprawa Miękka]
Andrea Dworkin

Feminism is hated because women are hated’ Why do some women support Right-wing movements, even though they curtail their freedoms? Andrea Dworkin’s timeless, visionary analysis goes to the heart

63,06 zł

The Grapes of Wrath [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Califo

61,99 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

58,78 zł

Hell's Angels [Oprawa Miękka]
Hunter S. Thompson

The first rock-star writer' Guardian With ‘long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips … and Harleys flashing chrome’, the Hell’s Angels erupted into 1960s America,

58,78 zł

Out of Africa [Oprawa Miękka]
Karen Blixen

From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happie

58,78 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 Man in the High Castle [Oprawa Miękka]
Philip K. Dick

Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually

57,71 zł