MODERN CLASSICS

The Trouble with Happiness

Autor: Tove Ditlevsen

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

'The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is'In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from o...

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48,98 zł 56,00 zł

- 18 %

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Autor: De Beauvoir Simone

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling ...

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49,48 zł 60,00 zł

- 14 %

Collected Stories

Autor: Singer Isaac Bashevis

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together th...

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73,12 zł 85,00 zł

A View from the Bridge

Autor: Arthur Miller

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.Eddie Carbon...

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30,13 zł 49,00 zł

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Autor: Muriel Spark

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''A sublimely funny book ... it is a book to be read by all ... unforgettable and universal' Candia McWilliamRomantic, hero...

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30,13 zł 49,00 zł

The Sheltering Sky

Autor: Paul Bowles

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' Michael Hoffman.Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated Americ...

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33,50 zł 55,00 zł

- 18 %

The Star Diaries

Autor: Stanisław Lem

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York TimesStanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon...

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45,88 zł 55,65 zł

- 14 %

Life Among the Savages

Autor: Shirley Jackson

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrifi...

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52,51 zł 61,00 zł

The Samurai

Autor: Shusaku Endo

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

In 1613 the missionary Father Pedro Velasco's dream comes true. For the first time, the Japanese are going to cross the Pacific Ocean. And he is going with them. As he sets sail with a group of Sam...

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48,12 zł 55,00 zł

The Sound of the Mountain

Autor: Yasunari Kawabata

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his li...

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48,12 zł 55,00 zł

Americana

Autor: Don Delillo

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

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

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33,34 zł 55,00 zł

Mr Ma and Son

Autor: Lao She

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled in a quiet street by St Paul's Cathedral in London, where, far from their native Peking, they struggle to navigate the bustling pavements and m...

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51,62 zł 59,00 zł

The Volcano Lover

Autor: Susan Sontag

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

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 o...

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57,74 zł 66,00 zł

The Trouble With Being Born

Autor: Cioran E. M.

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

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 ex...

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48,12 zł 55,00 zł

A Christmas Memory

Autor: Truman Capote

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Selected from across Capote's writing life, the stories range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South ...

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51,62 zł 59,00 zł

Plexus

Autor: Henry Miller

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life workExploring one man's desperate desire for freedom, Plexus is the central volume ...

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48,12 zł 55,00 zł

Dark Tales

Autor: Shirley Jackson

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best.Ther...

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48,12 zł 55,00 zł

Wide Sargasso Sea

Autor: Jean Rhys

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Ce...

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38,48 zł 44,00 zł

- 38 %

The Chosen

Autor: Chaim Potok

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Seria: MODERN CLASSICS

Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brou...

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35,28 zł 57,00 zł