Produkty z tagiem 'MODERN CLASSICS' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

Rabbit is Rich [Oprawa Miękka]
John Updike

It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in pl

€12,92

The Original of Laura [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora. But in a novel,

€14,05

Herzog [Oprawa Miękka]
Saul Bellow

Herzog is alone, now that his wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend. Solitary, in a crumbling house which he shares with rats, he is buffeted by a whirlwind of mental activity. People are r

€14,98

One Fat Englishman [Oprawa Miękka]
Kingsley Amis

Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offe

€15,74

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

€15,17

Burmese Days [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives – interesting, no doubt,

€14,53

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
H. P. Lovecraft

H P Lovecraft is credited with reinventing the horror genre in the twentieth century. In this volume, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, S T Joshi, presents a selection of the master's fiction. Thes

€15,92

The Prophet [Oprawa Miękka]
Kahlil Gibran

First published in the 1920s, The Prophet, Gibran’s hugely popular guide to living, has sold millions of copies worldwide and is the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century. G

€8,97

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

€16,30

The Psychedelic Experience [Oprawa Miękka]
Timothy Leary

From Timothy Leary's first trip (on psilocybin) in Mexico in 1960, his life;s work became exploring and preaching the benefits - social, aesthetic and spiritual - that psyche-delic drugs had to offer

€12,92

The Early Stories of Truman Capote [Oprawa Miękka]
Truman Capote

In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends on the Upper East Side discuss the m

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The Day Before Happiness [Oprawa Miękka]
Luca Erri De

A young orphan boy grows up in Naples, playing football, roaming the city's streets and hidden places. The older boys call him 'monkey' because he can climb anywhere. He is alone, apart from Don Gaet

€10,38

The Encyclopedia of the Dead [Oprawa Miękka]
Danilo Kiš

A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sisters and father in a mirror bought from a gypsy; the death of a prostitute causes an unanticipated

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Collected Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer ma

€20,53

Mumbo Jumbo [Oprawa Miękka]
Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed's inspired comic fable of the ragtime era - hailed by Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred greatest books of the Western canon America, 1920s. A plague is spreading, and it's spre

€12,92

Chess [Oprawa Miękka]
Stefan Zweig

In 1941 a cruise ship is heading to Buenos Aires, and on board a group of eager passengers challenge the reigning world chess champion to a match. At first they lose pitifully, until a kind stranger

€13,77

The Colossus of Maroussi [Oprawa Miękka]
Henry Miller

'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light' Enraptured by a young woman's account of the landscapes of Gre

€12,92

On the Road The Original Scroll [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two

€17,71

The Lion and the Unicorn [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution. His full

€8,97

A History of the Crusades I [Oprawa Miękka]
Steven Runciman

'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion.' The Christian and Muslim empires of the Middle East had fought each other for centuries, two ancient, powerful c

€17,49

The Glass Menagerie [Oprawa Miękka]
Tennessee Williams

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet wit

€11,59

Perfume [Oprawa Miękka]
Patrick Suskind

Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more po

€11,51

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's H.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories

In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl cr

€14,53

Rabbit, Run [Oprawa Miękka]
John Updike

It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house

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Last Exit to Brooklyn [Oprawa Miękka]
Hubert Jr. Selby

Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn co

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Speak, Memory [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded f

€12,92

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

€13,26

A Cup of Rage [Oprawa Miękka]
Raduan Nassar

Yes, bastard, you're the one I love' A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in the Brazilian outback - spend the night together. The next day they

€7,84

Advertisements for Myself [Oprawa Miękka]
Norman Mailer

Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiog

€14,67

Difficulties With Girls [Oprawa Miękka]
Kingsley Amis

Their troubled courtship long behind them, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospital. They have reached

€14,53