"The stage hero never has any work to do. He is always hanging about and getting into trouble. His chief aim in life is to be accused of crimes he has never committed, and if he can muddle things up with a corpse in some complicated way so as to get himself reasonably mistaken for the murderer, he feels his day has not been wasted..." A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of "Stage Land". Dedicated to "that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, 'the earnest student of drama'. Jerome K Jerome (2 May 1859 - 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue 'Three Men in a Boat'.

autor: Jerome K. Jerome

issn: 978-1-84839-214-4

data: 2009.03.25

cena: 25.22 PLN

kategorie: Literatura / 

 

Katherine Mansfield was the pen name of Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888-1923), a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction. She is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are frequently collected in short story anthologies. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing. This audiobook is her classic short story "Mr Reginald Peacock"s Day", which was first published in the British literary magazine "The New Age" in 1917 and later reprinted in "Bliss and Other Stories" in 1920.

autor: Katherine Mansfield

issn: 978-1-84839-176-5

data: 2010.02.10

cena: 8.54 PLN

kategorie: Literatura / 

 

Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. This audiobook brings together two of his well known short stories. In "The Selfish Giant", a once selfish giant welcomes the children to his previously forbidden garden and is eventually rewarded by an unusual little child. "The Happy Prince" tells the tale of a metal statue who becomes friends with a migratory bird. Together they bring some happiness to others in life and in "death."

autor: Oscar Wilde

issn: 978-1-84839-175-8

data: 2010.02.10

cena: 13.00 PLN

kategorie: Literatura / 

 

It sounds daunting: all those '-isms', long technical words, weird French thinkers and incomprehensible Germans. You can't read a book now a days, it seems, without being required to refer to them. From university students to the average intelligent reader, everyone is expected to justify their 'theoretical perspective'. The problem is that defining what you mean by 'theory', let alone what you mean by 'literary', causes most people, including the theorists themselves, to mumble incoherently and shuffle their feet. And it is not as though there were just one coherent body of theory to master: there are Formalist, Structuralist, Marxist and Psychoanalytical theories; Post-structuralist, Post-colonialist, and Postmodernist theories; not to mention Feminist and Queer Theories, and even Anti-Theories! Most books providing introductions to """"Literary Theory"""" are long-winded tomes, guiding dogged readers through the twists and turns of critical analysis and logic. This small volume goes to the heart of the key concepts of """"Literary Theory"""", explaining them in clear everyday language. It provides witty and memorable comments and quotations, and enables the student of literature to raise the most pertinent and challenging questions, which even university professors have difficulty answering.

autor: David Carter

issn: 978-1-84839-224-3

data: 2009.09.18

cena: 30.41 PLN

kategorie: Literatura / 

 

The silhouette of Tintin - a young man wearing golf trousers, running with a white fox terrier by his side - is easily one of the most recognisable visual icons of the modern world. In fact Tintin is nine years older than Superman and ten years older than Batman, having first appeared in Belgium in 1929.
In this fully revised and expanded edition of this popular reference book the authors offer a comprehensive and critical overview of the Tintin series.
Starting with the character's humble origins in the children's supplement of a Belgian catholic newspaper in the 1920s, the authors track Tintin's development and success throughout the decades, including the stormy World War II years.
Each book is analyzed in detail, both in the context of the series, and in its larger framework: that of the comic's medium and of society in general. The authors also look at the massive industry that has developed round the figure of Tintin, the trivia, the anecdotes, the movies, and television series, and the multitude of Tintin spin-offs.

autor: Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier

issn: 978-1-84839-167-3

data: 2008.12.19

cena: 25.22 PLN

kategorie: Literatura /