Produkty z tagiem 'MODERN CLASSICS' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels [Oprawa Miękka]
Raymond Chandler

Philip Marlowe, the original hard-boiled private eye, returns to walk the mean streets of the American underworld again in these three classic novels. In The Lady in the Lake a business tycoon sets M

€19,49

Ulysses [Oprawa Miękka]
James Joyce

For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed moderni

€27,91

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

€12,81

Travels with Charley [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

In 1960, when he was almost sixty years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people. Acco

€17,01

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

€8,90

A Rage in Harlem [Oprawa Miękka]
Chester Himes

Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police an

€11,41

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

€14,85

The Graduate [Oprawa Miękka]
Charles Webb

As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale or Harvard, get a good job and enjoy a life of money, cocktails and p

€11,41

The Wild Boys [Oprawa Miękka]
William S. Burroughs

In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and

€14,41

Badenheim 1939 [Oprawa Miękka]
Aharon Appelfeld

'A masterpiece ... the greatest novel of the Holocaust' The Guardian A haunting, dreamlike portrayal of the encroaching horror of the Holocaust onto a genteel MittelEuropean resort town Badenhe

€15,05

Complete Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
Kingsley Amis

The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis's short fiction

€20,09

Lady Sings the Blues [Oprawa Miękka]
Billie Holiday

Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law

€13,94

The Forsyte Saga [Oprawa Miękka]
John Galsworthy

The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy’s magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material tr

€20,09

Music for Chameleons [Oprawa Miękka]
Truman Capote

At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chil

€15,61

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich [Oprawa Miękka]
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics.

€13,94

Humboldt's Gift [Oprawa Miękka]
Saul Bellow

For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a f

€17,01

Call for the Dead [Oprawa Miękka]
Carré John le

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his o

€14,77

The Drowning Pool [Oprawa Miękka]
Ross Macdonald

When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the Slocums arou

€14,77

SS-GB [Oprawa Miękka]
Len Deighton

It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and ke

€14,77

London Belongs to Me [Oprawa Miękka]
Norman Collins

Also known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to Me is a Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve of the Second World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition include

€17,01

How I Came to Know Fish [Oprawa Miękka]
Ota Pavel

How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the two finest fishermen in the world - he takes a peac

€14,50

The Ballad of the Sad Café [Oprawa Miękka]
Carson McCullers

Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the S

€15,61

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

€15,61

Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson [Oprawa Miękka]
Eugene Ionesco

These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutalit

€17,01

Too Much of Life [Oprawa Miękka]
Clarice Lispector

'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, Clarice Lispector wrote weekly dispatches from her desk in Rio for the Jornal do

€22,04

Babette"s Feast and Other Stories [Oprawa Miękka]
Isak Dinesen

These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, ‘Babette’s Feast’, which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a

€15,61

Shooting an Elephant [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looki

€15,61

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

€20,09

Beast in the Shadows [Oprawa Miękka]
Edogawa Rampo

A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind a suspicious trail of blackmailing letters to a former lover. Another detective novelist, his rival, is the only

€14,77

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

€17,01