Produkty z tagiem 'PENGUIN MODERN' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

Letter from Birmingham Jail [Oprawa Miękka]
Martin Luther King

'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, an

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Confessions of a Mask [Oprawa Miękka]
Yukio Mishima

'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain' A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Se

57,71 zł

Great Expectations [Oprawa Miękka]
Kathy Acker

Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original Great Expectations. Both familiar and unfamiliar, our orphaned narrator is transplanted

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The Haunted Boy [Oprawa Miękka]
Carson McCullers

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our

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The Veiled Woman [Oprawa Miękka]
Anais Nin

'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writer

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The Great Hunger [Oprawa Miękka]
Patrick Kavanagh

'I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poem

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Madame du Deffand and the Idiots [Oprawa Miękka]
Javier Marias

'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.' Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues)

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The Dialogue of Two Snails [Oprawa Miękka]
Federico Garcia Lorca

My heart brims with billows and minnows of shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new tran

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Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? [Oprawa Miękka]
Hans Fallada

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of

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The Survivor [Oprawa Miękka]
Levi Primo

'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place' A selection of poetry from the author of If this is a Man and The Periodic Table. Penguin Modern: fifty new books cel

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The Missing Girl [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

' "Of course, no one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." ' Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling

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The Legend of the Sleepers [Oprawa Miękka]
Danilo Kis

'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworld

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Childhood Youth Dependency The Copenhagen Trilogy [Oprawa Miękka]
Tove Ditlevsen

Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portr

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Dark Days [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded' Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race,

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Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady [Oprawa Miękka]
Clarice Lispector

'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house' Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature. Penguin Mo

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Africa's Tarnished Name [Oprawa Miękka]
Chinua Achebe

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. H

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Create Dangerously [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompani

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Investigations of a Dog [Oprawa Miękka]
Franz Kafka

'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a c

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Lance [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

'The illegible signature of teetering disaster' Three great stories--The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance--the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the rea

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Four Russian Short Stories [Oprawa Miękka]

' "Another hour gone. But I'm not afraid. There's only one thing I regret: that I've lived for so many years without knowing where human happiness is to be found" ' In these stories, four writers

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The Cracked Looking-Glass [Oprawa Miękka]
Katherine Anne Porter

'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate, unfulfilled woman considers her life and her marriage in this moving novella by one of America's fi

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The Gigolo [Oprawa Miękka]
Francoise Sagan

'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool, make love, create' A middle-aged woman breaks with her handsome young lover; a placid husband i

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Death the Barber [Oprawa Miękka]
William Carlos Williams

'The alphabet of the trees is fading in the song of the leaves' Filled with bright, unforgettable images, the deceptively simple work of William Carlos Williams revolutionized American verse,

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Glittering City [Oprawa Miękka]
Cyprian Ekwensi

Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering

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An Advertisement for Toothpaste [Oprawa Miękka]
Ryszard Kapuscinski

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland Penguin Modern:

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Notes on Nationalism [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote abou

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I Have More Souls Than One [Oprawa Miękka]
Fernando Pessoa

'But no, she's abstract, is a bird Of sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumbered Because the song's what makes her sing.' Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct

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Food [Oprawa Miękka]
Gertrude Stein

Sadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of every

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Piers of the Homeless Night [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...' Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation. Penguin Modern

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Letter to My Mother [Oprawa Miękka]
Georges Simenon

'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in

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