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Pistache Returns

Pistache Returns

Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publishing date: 2016
Robinson Crusoe discovers thousands of 'half-naked savages' having it large on Ibiza. James Bond is on a mission, as a 24-hour call-out plumber. 'The young stable lad is a moody fellow,' say reviewers of Wuthering Heights in The Good Hotel Guide. Hans Christian Andersen gets into the subprime mortgage racket. Stephen King attempts a love story that doesn't involve buckets of blood. Robbie Burns cheers on Andy Murray at Wimbledon. And Harry Potter is left high and dry when Ginny kicks him out and keeps the house. Re-mixed and re-imagined, this is literature but not as you know it.
56.00 zł
The Great War in Portraits

The Great War in Portraits

Author: Paul Moorhouse
Sebastian Faulks
Publishing date: 2014
In viewing the Great War through the portraits of those involved, Paul Moorhouse looks at the bitter-sweet nature of a conflict in which valour and selfless endeavour were qualified by disaster and suffering, and examines the notion of identity - how various individuals associated with the war were represented and perceived. The narrative is structured chronologically, with thematic sections devoted to conflicting pairs - `Royalty and the Assassin', `Leaders and Followers', `The Valiant and the Damned' - which reveal the radical differences between those caught up in the conflict in terms of their respective roles, aspirations, experiences, and, ultimately, their destinies. `Leaders and Followers', for example, examines the dichotomy between the representation of
118.00 zł