Works of george bolster

Works of George Bolster

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George Grosz in Berlin

A penetrating reevaluation of the period in which the German Expressionist George Grosz created his best-known, most searing satirical works

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The Classic George Orwell Collection - George Orwell

Anotace: This covetable five-volume boxset brings together selected works from one of the most acclaimed writers of the 20th century, George Orwell. Best known for his chilling dystopia Nineteen-Eighty Four and the disturbing parable of Animal Farm, Orwell also turned his attention to subjects as wide-ranging as life amidst abject poverty, the strictures of a religious ...

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The Classic George Orwell Collection - George Orwell

<p>This covetable five-volume boxset brings together selected works from one of the most acclaimed writers of the 20th century, George Orwell. Best known for his chilling dystopia Nineteen-Eighty Four and the disturbing parable of Animal Farm, Orwell also turned his attention to subjects as wide-ranging as life amidst abject poverty, the strictures of a religious u...

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How It Works Out

What if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship, again and again, in the hopes that it would work out?'A cause for celebration' GEORGE SAUNDERS'Delightfully bizarre... We loved it' TEGAN AND SARA'Utterly brilliant' DAISY JOHNSON'Madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good' KELLY LINKWhen Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, ...

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Classic George Orwell Collection - George Orwell

This covetable five-volume boxset brings together selected works from one of the most acclaimed writers of the 20th century, George Orwell. Best known for his chilling dystopia Nineteen-Eighty Four and the disturbing parable of Animal Farm, Or

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George Orwell's 1984

284 pages, thousands of illustrations, two years of work resulting in a world-class graphic novel. Undisputably one of the best works in the world of

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1984 - George Orwell

<p>'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police are employed to ensure that no individual thinking is allowed. Winston Smi...

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1984 - Grafický román - George Orwell

<p>Jedno z nejznámějších děl světové literatury v sobě pojí prvky společensko-politického a vědecko-fantastického románu. Je obžalobou diktatury ve všech jejích podobách. Čtenář se ponoří do osudů čestného, citlivého a uvažujícího Winstona Smitha, který se vzepře systému, za což zaplatí krutou daň. Orwell touto knihou předpověděl společenský vývoj a neustále vzbuzuj...

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The War of the Worlds, 1. vydání - Herbert George Wells

<p>When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rul...

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The Island of Doctor Moreau - Herbert George Wells

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>“That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities far worse than any definite fear.”</p> <p>Edward Prendick, the sole survivor of a sh...

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Gershwin, George: Portrait (10x CD) - CD (223491)

Hudební CD - Komplet 10 CD s legendárními nahrávkami Geoerge Gershwina Komplet 10 CD s legendárními nahrávkami Geoerge Gershwina Seznam stop CD 1 Gershwin plays Gershwin - Rare Recordings 1932-35 / CD 2: George Gershwin: Instrumental works for the concert hall / CD 3: Gershwin on Screen I: „Girl Crazy” & "Rhapsody In Blue / CD 4: Gershwin On Screen ...

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The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his publisher - to write a book about unemployment and social conditions in the economically depressed north of England. Revolutionary f...

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The Classic H. G. Wells Collection - Herbert George Wells

This handsome box set brings together the most celebrated works of H.G. Wells, presented in five paperback volumes with striking contemporary cover designs. H.G. Wells was a pioneer of the science fiction genre and a man of boundless imaginati

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The Classic H. G. Wells Collection - Herbert George Wells

Anotace: This handsome box set brings together the most celebrated works of H.G. Wells, presented in five paperback volumes with striking contemporary cover designs. H.G. Wells was a pioneer of the science fiction genre and a man of boundless imagination. Whether describing marvelous new technologies, the vagaries of space flight or the risks of scientific development, ...

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The Invisible Man (Collins Classics) - Wells Herbert George

Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man - the mystery, the power, the freedom." Griffin, a stranger, arrives at the local inn of an English village, entirely shrouded in bandages. Forbidding and unfr...

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The Time Machine, 1. vydání - Herbert George Wells

<p>A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying cityscape, leads the scientist to believe that they are the remnants of a once great civilization. He is forced to revise this asse...

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The Common Reader: First Series (Collins Classics) - Herbert George Wells

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out' In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon - Jane Austen, Geo...

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Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1. vydání - George Orwell

<p></p><p style="text-align:justify;"> Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;"> One of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party.</...

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The Richest Man In Babylon - George S. Clason

<p>Beloved by millions, George S. Clason's timeless classic reveals the financial principles that hold the key to personal wealth. THE SUCCESS SECRETS OF THE ANCIENTS--AN ASSURED ROAD TO HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY Countless readers have been helped by the famous "Babylonian parables," hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift...

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The Invisible Man (Collins Classics) - Herbert George Wells

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>“I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man – the mystery, the power, the freedom.”</p> <p>Griffin, a stranger, arrives at the local inn of an English village, entirely shrouded in bandages. ...

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The Classic H. G. Wells Collection: 5-Book paperback boxed set - Herbert George Wells

<p>This handsome box set brings together the most celebrated works of H.G. Wells, presented in five paperback volumes with striking contemporary cover designs. H.G. Wells was a pioneer of the science fiction genre and a man of boundless imagination. Whether describing marvelous new technologies, the vagaries of space flight or the risks of scientific development, h...

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) - Orwell George

Anotace: Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy. Working in a small bookshop and living in a bedsit in London, he dreams of completing an ambitious poem in rhyme royal and devoting his life to literature. But when poverty begins to damage his...

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) - George Orwell

<p>Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy. Working in a small bookshop and living in a bedsit in London, he dreams of completing an ambitious poem in rhyme royal and devoting his life to literature. But when poverty begins to damage his ...

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Island of Dr Moreau

The Island of Dr Moreau is the fourth of six full-cast adaptations in 2017 of the works of British Sci-Fi writer extraordinaire Herbert George Wells

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The Secret History of the World - Jonathan Black

<p>Jonathan Black examines the end of the world and the coming of the Antichrist – or is he already here? How will he make himself known and what will become of the world when he does? – and the end of Time. Having studied theology and learnt from initiates of all the great secret societies of the world, Jonathan Black has learned that it is possible to reach an al...

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Thinking through the image: The visual events of Miroslav Petříček - Jitka Hlavicová

<p>"Images are names for we cannot name,” says the philosopher, teacher, and translator Miroslav Petříček, who written on visual art for several decades. He has summarized his observations in, among other things, the book Thinking Through the Image: A Guide to Contemporary Philosophical Thought for the Non-Intermediate (2009), which formed the impulse for the 2...

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Thinking through the image: The visual events of Miroslav Petříček - Miroslav Petříček,Jitka Hlavicová,Milena Bartlová,Jiří Přibáň,Jaroslav Janošek

Anotace: "Images are names for we cannot name," says the philosopher, teacher, and translator Miroslav Petříček, who written on visual art for several decades. He has summarized his observations in, among other things, the book Thinking Through the Image: A Guide to Contemporary Philosophical Thought for the Non-Intermediate (2009), which formed the impulse for the ...

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Time Machine

The Time Machine is the fifth of six full-cast adaptations in 2017 of the works of British Sci-Fi writer extraordinaire Herbert George Wells.

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Romola

Although not among George Eliot's most admired works, this story is set in Florence at the end of the 15th century. It re-creates the picturesque comp

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Telephone Girls

1936. George Street, West Yorkshire, houses a gleaming, brand-new telephone exchange where a group of capable girls works the complicated electrical s

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Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction

Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley expounds on the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victor

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Coming Up for Air Oxford University Press

Set at the beginning of the Second World War, Coming Up for Air describes suburban insurance agent George Bowling's return to his birthplace, a sedate Oxfordshire village. This new edition of one of George Orwell's early pre-war works explores the historical and political context of the novel....

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The Richest Man in Babylon (0451205367)

Kniha - autor George Samuel Clason, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor George Samuel Clason, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Read by millions, this timeless book holds that the key to success lies in the secrets of the ancients. Based on the famous "Babylonian principles," it's been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thr...

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Four Great Restoration Comedies

Characterized by witty and satirical dialogue among "plain folks," these 4 comedy classics defined a new era in drama. The Country Wife by William Wycherley; The Man of Mode by Sir George Etheredge; The Rover by Aphra Benn; and The Relapse by Sir John Vanbrugh remain popular works among drama and English Literature students.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (9780141036144)

Kniha - autor George Orwell, 336 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale. One of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth i...

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Notes on Camp - Susan Sontag

<p>'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a con...

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Magnum Magnum - Brigitte BLardinois

<p>Magnum Magnum showcases the best of Magnum Photos, celebrating the vision, imagination and brilliance of its photographers – from the acknowledged 20th-century greats to the modern masters and rising stars of our time. Since its founding in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David ‘Chim’ Seymour, Magnum Photos - the legendary co-operat...

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Philosophical and Mathematical Logic

This book was written to serve as an introduction to logic, with in each chapter - if applicable - special emphasis on the interplay between logic and philosophy, mathematics, language and (theoretical) computer science. The reader will not only be provided with an introduction to classical logic, but to philosophical (modal, epistemic, deontic, temporal) and intuitionist...

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Black Leopard, Red Wolf : Dark Star Trilogy Book 1, 1. vydání - Marlon James

<p>THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLEREscape into a world of magic and danger with THE DARK STAR TRILOGY. Drawing on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history, this is the story of a lost child, an extraordinary hunter, and a mystery with many answers . . .*Perfect for fans of Pratchett, George R. R. Martin and Octavia Butler*'The kind of novel I never...

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The Common Reader: First Series - Virginia Woolfová

Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. `A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out' In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon - Jane Auste...

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Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World - Helen Czerski

<p>FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.'Professor Alice Roberts'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic.'Tristan Gooley, author of How to Read Water'Blue Machine is quite simply one of the best books I have ever read.'Dr George McGavin,...

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Mario Testino. SIR. 40th Anniversary Edition - Mario Testino

<p>Mario Testino selects his finest male portraiture from the past 30 years. As costume, gender play, photojournalism, and fashion collide, this Eden of male allure is testimony both to Testino’s unfailing eye for immediacy and elegance, and to the evolution of male self-expressionover the past three decades.</p> <p>A gallery of men from photography’s ma...

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The Sisterhood - Katherine Bradley

<p>‘Frightening and timely, Bradley’s The Sisterhood is the book everyone should read this year. If you thought it ended with Orwell, think again . . .' CHRISTINA DALCHERVox meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this feminist reimagining of 1984 In Oceania, whoever you are, Big Brother is always watching you and trust is a luxury that no one has. Julia is the seemingly per...

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