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Victorian Literature: 1830-1900

ISBN: 9780155071773

563,16 PLN (BRUTTO)
This new anthology emphasizes Victorian nonfiction prose and verse with a generous, fresh selection of pieces from authors within the canon as well as outside of it.
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

ISBN: 9780156001250

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
In these "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays (Atlantic Monthly), "the Andy Rooney of academia" (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33-function watches, soccer fans, and more. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism

ISBN: 9780156003650

66,67 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. "Brimming with insight, thoughtfulness, and sincerity" (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Helen Lane.
Dreaming of Hitler

ISBN: 9780156006118

97,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
"Lush and uncensored" essays (Village Voice) on spanking during sex, shopping, Martin Scorcese, Israel, breast reduction, Gary Gilmore, depression, and other matters, by "one of the few contemporary essayists who have (and deserve) a following" (New York). "Everything Daphne Merkin writes is so smart, it shines" (Washington Post Book World).
Wasn't the Grass Greener?: Thirty-Three Reasons Why Life Isn't as Good as It Used to Be

ISBN: 9780156011761

72,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
Liquor cabinets and pianos have vanished from homes. It's been over fifty years since the last worthwhile war. Doctors never visit and no one hangs their clothes out to dry anymore. In Wasn't the Grass Greener?, Barbara Holland shares her sentiments on these deplorable results of "progress," where entertainment has come to replace idleness and children are skipping childhood. Written with impeccable style and a sharp wit, Holland's all-original essays are laugh-out-loud funny, whether or not you're old enou
Five Moral Pieces

ISBN: 9780156013253

55,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Embracing the web of multiculturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in today's world. What good does war do in a world where the flow of goods, services, and information is unstoppable and the enemy is always behind the lines?
In the most personal of the essays, Eco recalls experiencing liberation from fascism in Italy as a boy, a
Abinger Harvest

ISBN: 9780156026109

97,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
This collection of articles, essays, reviews, and poems, written by the author of A Passage to India, contains such well-known pieces as "Notes on the English Character, ' 'Adrift in India," and "Me, Them and You." Also collected are essays on literary figures whose work Forster especially admired.
Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

ISBN: 9780156027670

52,81 PLN (BRUTTO)
Reflections on literature and science fiction; three stories; and the beginning chapters of a novel. Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.
The Common Reader

ISBN: 9780156027786

52,81 PLN (BRUTTO)
Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as "Modern Fiction" and "The Modern Essay." Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
Present Concerns

ISBN: 9780156027854

49,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
Nineteen essays-on democratic values, threats to educational and spiritual fulfillment, literary censorship, and other topics all displaying Lewis's characteristic sanity and persuasiveness. Introduction by Walter Hooper.
The Second Common Reader: Annotated Edition

ISBN: 9780156028165

72,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
Here, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield's letters and De Quincey's autobiography. She writes, too, about the life and art of women. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

ISBN: 9780156033077

57,85 PLN (BRUTTO)
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead.

"All Art Is Propaganda "follows Orwell as he demonstr

Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

ISBN: 9780156033138

57,85 PLN (BRUTTO)

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge--in short, to think--as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent."

"Facing Unpleasant Facts "charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrativ

Classics for Pleasure

ISBN: 9780156033855

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
This is not your father's list of classics. In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books. Writing with affection as well as authority, Dirda covers masterpieces of fantasy and science fiction, horror and adventure, as well as epics, history, essay, and children's literature. Organized thematically, these are works that have shaped our imaginations. "Love's Mysteries" moves from Sappho and Arthurian romance to Soren Kierkegaar
Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, 1925-1928

ISBN: 9780156035224

96,74 PLN (BRUTTO)
This fourth volume of the first complete edition of Virginia Woolf's essays and reviews celebrates her maturing vitality and wonderfully reveals her prodigious reading, wit and original intelligence. Written while she worked on TO THE LIGHTHOUSE and ORLANDO, these pieces explore subjects ranging from the world's greatest books to obscure English lives. THE COMMON READER, First Series, in which she influentially revives women's place in history, comprises a quarter of the volume. Contributions to American jo
Biographical Essays

ISBN: 9780156126168

86,26 PLN (BRUTTO)
Thirty-five sketches, including pieces on Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, and Sarah Bernhardt, by one of the great biographical writers of this century. Companion volume to Strachey's Literary Essays. Index.
Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biography Writings of Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780156135603

69,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Forty-eight essays from the literary and biographical writings. Selected, edited, and with a Preface by Mary Lyon.
The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays

ISBN: 9780156153959

77,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired. "This book contains...the same delicious things to read as always....Virginia Woolf was a great artist, one of the glories of our time, and she never published a line that was not worth reading" (Katherine Anne Porter). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
A Collection of Essays

ISBN: 9780156186001

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
In this bestselling compilation of essays, written in the clear-eyed, uncompromising language for which he is famous, Orwell discusses with vigor such diverse subjects as his boyhood schooling, the Spanish Civil War, Henry Miller, British imperialism, and the profession of writing.
Collect Essay Orwell: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol. 4, 1945-1950

ISBN: 9780156186230

125,45 PLN (BRUTTO)
A record of a great writer's nonfiction work and an evolving picture of the last years of his life, during the time when he published Animal Farm and 1984. "A magnificent tribute to the probity, consistency and insight of Orwell's topical writings....A remarkable self-portrait" (Alfred Kazin, Book World). Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus; Index.
Convergences: Essays on Art & Lit

ISBN: 9780156225861

86,26 PLN (BRUTTO)
Engrossing essays that reflect the author's vast and subtle knowledge of the world. Topics range from the religious rites of the Aztecs to modern american painting, from Eastern art and religion to love and eroticism. Translated by Helen Lane.
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

ISBN: 9780156252348

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary Supplement (London)). "Exquisitely written" (New Yorker); "The riches of this book are overwhelming" (Christian Science Monitor). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
Dickens, Dali & Others

ISBN: 9780156260534

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
Ten celebrated essays by a man universally regarded as a master of the essay form. Included are such classics as "Charles Dickens," "The Art of Donald McGill," "Boys' Weeklies," "Raffles and Miss Blandish," and "Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali."
Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1904-1912

ISBN: 9780156290548

103,06 PLN (BRUTTO)
Nonfiction pieces dating from 1904, when she was twenty-three, to 1912, the year of her marriage to Leonard Woolf. "These are polished works of literary journalism-shrewd, deft, inquisitive, graceful, and often sparkling" (Library Journal). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
Essays of Virginia Woolf Vol 2 1912-1918: Vol. 2, 1912-1918

ISBN: 9780156290555

97,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
Essays beginning at the time of her marriage to Leonard Woolf and ending just after the Armistice. More than half have not been collected previously. "In these essays we see both Woolf's work and her self afresh" (Chicago Tribune). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1919-1924

ISBN: 9780156290562

125,45 PLN (BRUTTO)
During the period in which these essays were written, Woolf published Night and Day and Jacob's Room, contributed widely to British and American periodicals, and progressed from straight reviewing to more extended critical essays. "Excellently edited, the essays reconfirm Woolf's] major importance as a twentieth-century writer" (Library Journal). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
The Evening Colonnade

ISBN: 9780156290609

89,06 PLN (BRUTTO)
Critical and autobiographical essays by a noted British reviewer and literary journalist. " Connolly] has the wonderful capacity for enthusiasm, for exciting in us his own unflagging joy in the presence of genius"(New Yorker). Index.
Granite and Rainbow: Essays

ISBN: 9780156364751

72,27 PLN (BRUTTO)
A posthumous collection of twenty-five essays on the art of fiction and the art of biography. "These are aristocrats among essays...witty, beautifully mannered and mellow" (Rumer Godden, New York Herald Tribune). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

ISBN: 9780156444453

63,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.
Janet Flanner's World: Uncollected Writings 1932-1975

ISBN: 9780156459716

75,21 PLN (BRUTTO)
The pieces collected here include an early profile of Hitler, reports on the Nuremberg trials, portraits of Thomas Mann, Bette Davis, Picasso, and concerts and art exhibits. Edited by Irving Drutman. Preface by William Shawn.
Literary Essays

ISBN: 9780156527811

66,81 PLN (BRUTTO)
A companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey's finest critical essays, "Shakespeare's Final Period" and "English Letter Writers." Index.
Living by the Word

ISBN: 9780156528658

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
In meditative and passionate prose, these provocative essays explore feminist, environmental, and political issues and shed new light on racial debates, including the controversy surrounding Walker's bestseller, The Color Purple.
Misreadings

ISBN: 9780156607520

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. "A scintillating collection of writings" (Los Angeles Times). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Moment and Other Essays

ISBN: 9780156619004

75,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
A selection of twenty-nine essays. " Woolf's] essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everything she writes about novelists, like everything she writes about women, is fascinating.... Her well-stocked, academic, masculine mind is the ideal flint for the steel of her uncanny intuitions to strike on" (Cyril Connolly, New Yorker). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
Selected Writings: 1950-1990

ISBN: 9780156806367

119,86 PLN (BRUTTO)
In these essays celebrating a career of forty years, Howe provides the lineage for modern literary tastes, social attitudes, and political persuasions. An invaluable record of a stunningly original and consistently idealistic American mind. Foreword by Michael Walzer.
The Star Thrower

ISBN: 9780156849098

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
A collection of the author's favorite essays and poems. This volume includes selections that span Eiseley's entire writing career and provide a sampling of the author as naturalist, poet, scientist, and humanist. "Loren Eiseley's work changed my life" (Ray Bradbury). Introduction by W. H. Auden.
Three Guineas

ISBN: 9780156901772

50,23 PLN (BRUTTO)
The author received three separate requests for a gift of one guinea-one for a women's college building fund, one for a society promoting the employment of professional women, and one to help prevent war and "protect culture, and intellectual liberty." This book is a threefold answer to these requests-and a statement of feminine purpose.
Two Cheers for Democracy

ISBN: 9780156920254

97,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
Essays that applaud democracy's toleration of individual freedom and self-criticism and deplore its encouragement of mediocrity: "We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two."
Writing on the Wall & Other Lit Essays

ISBN: 9780156983907

69,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Literary criticism that ranges from Shakespeare to Salinger.
The Oxford Book of Friendship

ISBN: 9780192141903

299,15 PLN (BRUTTO)
"Friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship"--so wrote Cole Porter for the musical DuBarry Was A Lady--a song and a sentiment we all can harmonize with. We all have friends, and if some writers have been more than a bit cynical--Emerson thought that friendship resembled the immortality of the soul "in that it is too good to be true," and Schopenhauer compared friendship to a sea serpent, "no one knows whether they are fabulous or really exist somewhere"--for the most part the world's literature and ou
The Oxford Book of Money

ISBN: 9780192142009

299,15 PLN (BRUTTO)
Money. Rhino. The long green. It is "the most important thing in the world" (George Bernard Shaw). It is "power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings" (Carl Sandburg). It is "the alienated essence of man's work and existence" (Karl Marx). It is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a standard of deferred payment. It is "better than poverty, if only for financial reasons" (Woody Allen). It is "the final enemy that will never be subdued" (Samuel Butler).
Few things occupy as c
Representative Spanish Authors: Volume I

ISBN: 9780195013269

277,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
Representative Spanish Authors: Volume II

ISBN: 9780195014334

277,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume III: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

ISBN: 9780195016147

234,34 PLN (BRUTTO)
Mao's Harvest: Voices from China's New Generation

ISBN: 9780195034998

191,44 PLN (BRUTTO)
This volume is one of the first collections to reach the West of the stories, essays, and poems published by writers of the "Mao Generation"--the first generation of Chinese to grow up under socialism. Drawn from both official Chinese literary journals and underground magazines, these previously untranslated stories provide a fascinating portrait of China in the seventies.
Four Girls at Cottage City

ISBN: 9780195052428

385,28 PLN (BRUTTO)
Essays

ISBN: 9780195052473

385,28 PLN (BRUTTO)
The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks

ISBN: 9780195061963

320,68 PLN (BRUTTO)
Highly spiritual, the work in this collection represents both previously published and unpublished material by Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, a notable and neglected black woman writer. Including short fiction, poetry, and drama, her work fills a lacuna in the understanding of the literature of the nineteenth century.
Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimke

ISBN: 9780195061994

337,91 PLN (BRUTTO)
Centered around the themes of death, women as objects of desire, lost love, motherhood, and children, the poems in this selection offer insight into the work of this well-known abolitionist and advocate of women's rights. Including Grimke's prose and drama, which often focus on lynching, this volume sheds new light on a perspective characterized by the African-American experience of racial pride and the reaction against racists acts.
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"

ISBN: 9780195066388

445,58 PLN (BRUTTO)
A fiery speaker, Sojourner Truth was among the foremost women evangelists. This reprint of her original 1878 publication sheds light into the life of this well-known ex-slave and ardent abolitionist.

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