Dedalus hippocrene books (9 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Excellent. 8vo, 540pp. Softcover, in excellent condition. A clean, tight, copy. Previous owner's small ink stamp to corner of front endpaper, otherwuse unmarked. Covers are in great shape with hardly any wear.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. 224pp, [8]pp publisher's ads. Laminated light card covers. 12mo. Light chipping to edges and wear to covers, corners starting to curl. Text block edges tanning, just affecting page margins. Otherwise internally, neat, clean and tight.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Dedalus / Hippocrenen: 1997. Octavo. Soft cover. Previous owner's signature on the first free end paper. Very good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Paperback: Good+ Condition. No Jacket. Pages Bright, Clean And Unmarked. Foxing To Topleaf-Edges. Binding Tight And Secure. Clean Covers, Minimal Wear. Creased Spine Photograph Is Added By Selling Site And Not Ours, Therefore May Not Reflect This Edition Or Condition. Please Contact Us For Pictures If Desired. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very good. Paperback. Previous owner's ink name on front free endpaper, else very good in publisher's wraps.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-.

Facsimile reprint, 8vo., pp.536, paperback; partial sunning to wrappers, crease to spine, internally clean and very good, a good+ copy.

First Hippocrene Edition (Orriginal published in Poland in 1890) 702 p. (Orig. paperback, some pages bit creased, but still VERY GOOD copy) The Doll (Polish: Lalka) is the second of four acclaimed novels by the Polish writer Boles?aw Prus (real name Aleksander G?owacki). It was composed for periodical serialization in 18871889 and appeared in book form in 1890. Bo?eslaw Prusis often compared to Chekhov, and Prus's masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century Warsaw, which is also a prophetic reckoning with some of the social forcesimperialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism among themthat would soon convulse Europe as never before. But The Doll is above all a briljant novel of character, dramatizing conflicting ideas through the various convictions, ambitions, confusions, and frustrations of an extensive and varied cast. At the center of the book are three men from three different generations. Prus's fatally flawed hero is Wokulski, a successful businessman who yearns for recognition from Poland's decadent aristocracy and falls desperately in love with the highborn, glacially beautiful Izabela.Wokulski's story is intertwined with those of the incorrigibly romantic old clerk Rzecki, nostalgic for the revolutions of 1848, and of the bright young scientist Ochocki, who dreams of a future.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. (Translated from the Catalan with an introduction by E. P. Peers and Edited by Robert Irwin; Wrappers have light edge- wear; Text is clean, neat and tight). Book.