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Africa's Tarnished Name / Chinua Achebe. - London : Penguin Books, 2009. - 55, [3] strony ; 16 cm.

(Penguin Modern ; 28)

(Penguin Modern Classics)

Temat: Afryka ; Esej

Tytuł serii: Penguin Modern ; Penguin Modern Classics

Autor: Achebe Chinua (1930-2013)

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Electrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.

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A Class Act : The Myth of Britain's Classless Society / Andrew Adonis and Stephen Pollard. - London : Penguin Books, 1998. - XXII, 308 stron ; 20 cm.

Temat: Społeczeństwo ; Klasy społeczne ; Struktura społeczna ; Kształcenie ; Polityka ; Służba zdrowia ; Styl życia ; Wielka Brytania ; Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Autor: Adonis Andrew (1965- ) ; Pollard Stephen

Instytucja: Penguin Books

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"A Class Act" aims to explode the myth that Britain is becoming a classless society, by systematically examining the pillars of the new class structure - education, the monarchy, the armed forces, health, politics, housing and race.

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The Hazel Wood / Melissa Albert. - London : Penguin Books, 2018. - 358, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

Temat: Bajki i baśnie ; Dziewczęta ; Matki i córki ; Nastolatki ; Pech ; Uprowadzenie ; Powieść ; Fantastyka

Autor: Albert Melissa

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Na górze okładki: Stay Away From... .

The Hazel Wood series by Melissa Albert follows seventeen-year-old Alice Proserpine as she journeys into the world of her grandmother's fairy tales. Deliciously dark and mesmerizing, the Hazel Wood is just the beginning of the worlds beyond, "a place where stories and real life convene, where magic contains truth, and the world as it appears false, and where just about anything can happen, particularly in the pages of a good book".

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A Cornish Summer / Catherine Alliott. - [London] : Penguin Books, 2019. - 437, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

Temat: Poligamia ; Zdrada ; Małżeństwo ; Teściowe i synowe ; Kornwalia (Wielka Brytania ; hrabstwo) ; Powieść obyczajowa

Autor: Alliott Catherine

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Na okładce: One first wife. One second wife. One mother-in-law.

Flora's been in love with her husband for twenty years. The trouble is, he's been married to someone else for the past fifteen...Now she's been invited to spend the summer in the shady lanes and sandy coves of Cornwall. It should be blissful...

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The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays / Introduced by W. A. Armstrong. - Reprinted. - London : Penguin Books, 1987. - 224 strony ; 20 cm.

(Penguin Modern Classics)

Temat: Dramat (rodzaj)

Tytuł serii: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor: Armstrong W. A ; Yeats W. B. (1865-1939). Countess Cathleen (eng.) ; Synge John Millington (1871-1909). Playboy of the Western World (eng.) ; O'Casey Sean (1880-1964). Cock-a-doodle Dandy (eng.)

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Na dole okładki: Synge, Yeats and O'Casey.

The Countess Cathleen / W. B. Yeats. The Playboy of the Western World / J. M. Synge. Cock-a-doodle Dandy / Sean O'Casey.

Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907. Eggs, potatoes and even a slice of fruit cake were hurled at the actors during subsequent performances, and it seems unlikely that much of the actual play could have been heard in the uproar. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, with the two other plays in this volume, Yeats's The Countess Cathleen (1892) and O'Casey's Cock-a-doodle Dandy (1949), mark vital stages in the rich explosion of Irish drama that first made itself heard at the turn of the century and gathered momentum during the Easter Rising of 1916 and the Civil War.

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England in the seventeenth century / Maurice Ashley. - Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1965. - 266, [1] strona ; 18 cm.

(Pelican Books ; A268)

(The Pelican History of England ; t. 6)

Temat: Historia ; Wielka Brytania ; Publikacje naukowe

Tytuł serii: Pelican Books ; Pelican History of England

Autor: Ashley Maurice Percy

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Bibliografia na stronach 255-257. Indeks.

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Mansfield Park / Jane Austen. - London : Penguin Books, 1994. - 479 stron ; 18 cm.

(Penguin Popular Classics)

Temat: Relacje międzyludzkie ; Bogactwo ; Nierówności społeczne ; Kobieta ; Anglia (Wielka Brytania) ; Powieść

Tytuł serii: Penguin Popular Classics

Autor: Austen Jane (1775-1817)

Instytucja: Penguin Books

While Mansfield Park appears in some ways to continue where Pride and Prejudice left off, it is, as Kathryn Sutherland shows in her illuminating Introduction, a much darker work, which challenges 'the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse'.

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The Terminal Beach / J.G. Ballard. - repr. - Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1979. - 223, [1] strona ; 18 cm.

(Science Fiction)

Temat: Fantastyka ; Opowiadania i nowele ; Science fiction

Tytuł serii: Science Fiction

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Zawiera: A Question of Re-entry ; The Drowned Giant ; End-Game ; The Illuminated Man ; The Replile Enclosure ; Deep End ; The Volcano Dances ; Billennium ; The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon ; The Lost Leonardo.

We are living in J.G. Ballard’s world, that much is clear. So precise were Ballard’s not-so-future predictions that it is beyond cliché to link our current political, technological, architectural and even social states to the man’s writing.

But, outside of his great 1970s social-dystopias and his morbid retail-park nightmares of the millennial period, Ballard’s shorter writing has just as much to say about our time as his more famous novels.

The Terminal Beach is one of Ballard's most brilliant collections of short stories, ranging from the title story's disturbing picture of an abandoned atomic testing island in the Pacific to the shocking Oedipal fantasy of "The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon". At the heart of the stories lies the bitter paradox that the extraordinary creative power of man's imagination is matched only by his reckless instinct for destruction.

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Peter Pan / J.M. Barrie. - London : Penguin Books, 1995. - 185 stron ; 18 cm.

(Penguin Popular Classics)

Temat: Piotruś Pan (postać fikcyjna) ; Dorosłość ; Dzieci ; Piraci ; Wróżki (stworzenia fantastyczne) ; Nibylandia (kraina fikcyjna) ; Powieść ; Fantastyka

Tytuł serii: Penguin Popular Classics

Autor: Barrie J. M. (1860-1937)

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie Peter Pan, the mischievous boy who refuses to grow up, lands in the Darling's proper middle-class home to look for his shadow. He befriends Wendy, John and Michael and teaches them to fly (with a little help from fairy dust). He and Tinker Bell whisk them off to Never-land where they encounter the Red Indians, the Little Lost Boys, pirates and the dastardly Captain Hook.

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The Portable Saul Bellow / With a critical introduction by Gabriel Josipovici ; Compiled under the supervision of the author by Edith Tarcov. - Midllesex : Penguin Books, 1977. - XLVII, 654 strony ; 18 cm.

(The Viking Portable Library)

Temat: Antologia ; Proza ; Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka ; Dramat (rodzaj)

Tytuł serii: Viking Portable Library

Autor: Bellow Saul (1915-2005) ; Josipovici Gabriel (1940- ) ; Tarcov Edith

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Bibliografia na stronach XXXIX-XLVII.

A generous selection from the works of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist.

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The city of falling angels : [a Venice story] / John Berendt. - New York : Penguin Books, 2006. - 414 stron ; 21 cm.

Temat: Berendt, John (1939- ) ; Społeczeństwo ; Pożar Opery Fenice (1996) ; Wenecja (Włochy) ; Literatura podróżnicza

Autor: Berendt John (1939- )

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble—foundations shift, marble ornaments fall—even as efforts to preserve them are underway. The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective—inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city—while gradually revealing the truth about the fire...

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Tudor England / S.T. Bindoff. - London : Penguin Books, 1965. - 319, [1] strona ; 18 cm.

(The Pelican History of England ; t. 5)

Temat: Tudor (ród) ; Henryk VII (król Anglii ; 1457-1509) ; Henryk VIII (król Anglii ; 1491-1547) ; Dynastie ; Rody ; Anglia (Wielka Brytania) ; Walia (Wielka Brytania) ; Publikacje naukowe

Tytuł serii: Pelican History of England

Autor: Bindoff S. T. (1908-1980)

Instytucja: Penguin Books

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The author sets the scene with a picture of the England of the late 15th century and examines the utterly different personalities and achievements of Henry VII and his flamboyant son Henry VIII. Subsequent chapters provide accounts of the great crisis over the succession and papal supremacy, the religious revolution and counter-revolution under Edward VI and Mary and the dawn of Elizabethan England. Although great events like the conflict with Mary Queen of Scots, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada are described in detail, this book never neglects the deeper issues, indeed, its stress on the underlying social, commercial and institutional developments makes clear just how far the foundations of modern Britain were laid in the 16th century.

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A World of Love / Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen. - London : Penguin Books, 1988. - 149 stron ; 20 cm.

(Penguin Modern Classics)

Temat: Relacje międzyludzkie ; Zdrada małżeńska ; Sekrety rodzinne ; Irlandia ; Powieść ; Powieść psychologiczna

Tytuł serii: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor: Bowen Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (1899-1973)

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Memories shimmer like mirages in "A World of Love" ,and emotions are heightenend to breaking point. Seldom have the inarticulate sensations of women in love been so forcefully-and so poignatly-conveyed.

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The Hotel / Elizabeth Dorothea Cole. - London : Penguin Books, 1987. - 174, [1] strona 20 cm.

(Penguin Modern Classics)

Temat: Domy wypoczynkowe ; Turyści ; Relacje międzyludzkie ; Interakcje społeczne ; Włochy ; Powieść ; Powieść psychologiczna

Tytuł serii: Penguin Modern Clasics

Autor: Bowen Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (1899-1973)

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Bowen’s first novel, The Hotel, is a wonderful introduction to her disarming, perceptive style. Following a group of British tourists vacationing on the Italian Riviera during the 1920s, The Hotel explores the social and emotional relationships that develop among the well-heeled residents of the eponymous establishment. When the young Miss Sydney falls under the sway of an older woman, Mrs. Kerr, a sapphic affair simmers right below the surface of Bowen’s writing, creating a rich story that often relies as much on what is left unsaid as what is written on the page. Bowen depicts an intense interpersonal drama with wit and suspense, while playing with and pushing the English language to its boundaries.

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The House in Paris / Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen ; with an Inroduction by A.S. Byatt. - New York : Penguin Books, 1987. - 238, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

(Penguin Modern Classics)

Temat: Dzieci ; Rodzina ; Relacje międzyludzkie ; Miłość ; Samobójstwo ; Paryż (Francja) ; Anglia (Wielka Brytania) ; Powieść ; Powieść psychologiczna

Tytuł serii: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor: Bowen Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (1899-1973) ; Byatt A. S. (1936- )

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Two children, strangers, wait in a house in Paris: Leopold for his mother, whom he has never seen; Henrietta for a train. Upstairs an old woman lies dying and her sad unfulfilled daugher flutters hopelessly round her.

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The Pelican history of the United States of America / Hugh Brogan. - London : Penguin Books, 1986. - VIII, 740 stron : mapy ; 20 cm.

Temat: Polityka ; Historia ; Stany Zjednoczone (USA) ; Monografia

Autor: Brogan Hugh (1936- )

Instytucja: Penguin Books

Bibliografia na stronach [692]-698. Indeks.

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Shirley / Charlotte Brontë. - London : Penguin Books, 1994. - 665, [1] strona ; 18 cm.

(Penguin Popular Classics)

Temat: Klasy społeczne ; Konflikt społeczny ; Miłość ; Włókiennictwo ; Wojny napoleońskie (1803-1815) ; Yorkshire (Wielka Brytania ; hrabstwo) ; Powieść

Tytuł serii: Penguin Popular Classics

Autor: Brontë Charlotte (1816-1855)

Instytucja: Penguin Books

A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations of Jane Eyre, Shirley demonstrates the full range of Brontë's literary talent.

Charlotte Brontë imagined a new form of power, equal to that of men, in a confident young woman whose extraordinary freedom has accustomed her to think for herself....Shirley is Brontë's most feminist novel."

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