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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61,99 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

59,85 zł

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

The Big Sleep and Other Novels [Oprawa Miękka]
Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - a

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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

59,80 zł

The Secret Life of Walter Mitt [Oprawa Miękka]
James Thurber

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he - a wear

40,30 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

45,20 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

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

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 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

Into the War [Oprawa Miękka]
Italo Calvino

Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the t

57,71 zł

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

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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

The Written World and the Unwritten World [Oprawa Miękka]
Italo Calvino

The difference between life and literature; the good intentions of holiday reading; the avante-garde; the fate of the novel; the fantastical; the art of translation: these are just some of the ideas

64,13 zł

Of Mice and Men [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventual

49,15 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

54,50 zł

Another Country [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story o

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Take A Girl Like You [Oprawa Miękka]
Kingsley Amis

In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This per

59,85 zł

Averno [Oprawa Miękka]
Louise Glück

This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolatio

49,15 zł

We Have Always Lived in the Castle [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson's masterpiece: the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible lunatic. 'Her greatest book ... at once whimsical and harrowing, a m

50,12 zł

Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of .. [Oprawa Miękka]
Hannah Arendt

Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of Evil

The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpiece Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of a

67,34 zł

Giovanni's Room [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vac

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The Volcano Lover [Oprawa Miękka]
Susan Sontag

A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of

71,62 zł

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

59,85 zł

The Age of Reason [Oprawa Miękka]
Jean-Paul Sartre

The first volume in his Roads to Freedom trilogy, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Age of Reason is a philosophical novel exploring existentialist notions of freedom, translated by Eric Sutton with an introduc

59,85 zł

Requiem for a Dream [Oprawa Miękka]
Hubert Jr. Selby

Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion and best friend Tyrone C Love, and making the most of all the hash, poppers

53,43 zł

Reading Lolita in Tehran [Oprawa Miękka]
Azar Nafisi

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. As they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, T

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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

Americana [Oprawa Miękka]
Don DeLillo

His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream. Prosperous, good-l

59,85 zł