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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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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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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

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

Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004 [Oprawa Miękka]
Czeslaw Milosz

The most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing life This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life.

63,06 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

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Tortilla Flat [Oprawa Miękka]
John Steinbeck

Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, Tortilla Flat is also his funniest novel. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, Califor

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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

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Night [Oprawa Miękka]
Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics. Born int

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Desolation Angels [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack Kerouac

Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his

56,64 zł

The Haunting of Hill House [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of t

57,71 zł

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

Lolly Willowes [Oprawa Miękka]
Warner Sylvia Townsend

Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing re

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The Plague [Oprawa Miękka]
Albert Camus

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. E

58,78 zł

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

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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

51,29 zł

Black Skin, White Masks [Oprawa Miękka]
Frantz Fanon

'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis 'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage

58,78 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

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

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Society Must Be Defended [Oprawa Miękka]
Michel Foucault

'Foucault must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists' The New York Times Book Review Society Must Be Defended is Michel Foucault's devastating critique of the s

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Think, Write, Speak [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of Lolita to the final, fascinatin

67,34 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 Soft Machine [Oprawa Miękka]
William S. Burroughs

With a dangerous blend of chemistry and magic, secret agent Lee has the ability to change bodies - his own, or with anyone he chooses. Also able to time travel, he finds himself forced to use his ski

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Boys in Zinc [Oprawa Miękka]
Svetlana Alexievich

From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the dead

57,90 zł

The Origins of Totalitarianism [Oprawa Miękka]
Hannah Arendt

'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington Post Hannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led

58,78 zł