Produkty z tagiem 'MODERN CLASSICS' - Polska Ksiegarnia Internetowa

Rumpole's Return [Oprawa Miękka]
John Mortimer

A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind' Sunday Times Horace Rumpole is in a strange state that could only be described as a kind of air-conditioned purgatory: he has

€15,74

Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels [Oprawa Miękka]
Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper class, and includes an introduction by Philip Hensh

€17,15

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

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Women Race & Class [Oprawa Miękka]
Angela Y. Davis

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view

€16,41

The Last Tycoon [Oprawa Miękka]
Scott F. Fitzgerald

Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. This Penguin Modern Classics edit

€15,74

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories .. [Oprawa Miękka]
H.P. Lovecraft

More weirdly creepy and unnerving tales to unsettle any reader. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny

€15,74

The Beautiful and Damned [Oprawa Miękka]
Scott F. Fitzgerald

Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned includes an introduction by Ge

€15,74

The Thin Red Line [Oprawa Miękka]
James Jones

'Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you're not a coward?' On Guadalcanal in the south Pacific, the soldiers of C Company are about to enter the war. The men

€15,74

The Annotated Lolita [Oprawa Miękka]
Vladimir Nabokov

When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a revised and con

€23,63

Tokyo Express [Oprawa Miękka]
Seicho Matsumoto

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the couple'

€16,02

The Place of Dead Roads [Oprawa Miękka]
William S. Burroughs

This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving

€15,74

Interpreting Dreams [Oprawa Miękka]
Sigmund Freud

By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the unconscious and recognized that dreams are a conflict and compromise between c

€20,25

If Not Now, When? [Oprawa Miękka]
Primo Levi

Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisan

€17,71

Little Birds [Oprawa Miękka]
Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin's Little Birds is published in Penguin Modern Classics. Anaïs Nin's second volume of erotic short stories after Delta of Venus, Little Birds is broader in scope, encompassing the entire

€14,05

Just Above My Head [Oprawa Miękka]
James Baldwin

'This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers' Edmund White, Washington Post When Arthur Montana, world-renowned 'Emperor of Soul', is found dead in a London pub, his grief-s

€15,74

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

€20,25

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

€15,74

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

€17,15

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

€15,74

Impatience of the Heart [Oprawa Miękka]
Stefan Zweig

'The most exciting book I have ever read ... a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph 'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought t

€14,05

From Here to Eternity [Oprawa Miękka]
James Jones

'I'll never understand the fucking Army.' Prew won't conform. He could have been the best boxer and the best bugler in his division, but he chooses the life of a straight soldier in Hawaii under t

€23,35

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

€17,15

The Bird's Nest [Oprawa Miękka]
Shirley Jackson

The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived at the Castle. 'An amazing writer' Neil Gaiman Elizab

€15,74

The Trouble With Being Born [Oprawa Miękka]
E. M. Cioran

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: b

€13,92

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

€20,25

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

€15,74

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

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

Miami and the Siege of Chicago [Oprawa Miękka]
Norman Mailer

Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to

€14,69

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