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City of the Beasts / Isabel Allende ; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - Wydanie 2. - London : Flamingo, 2003. - [2], 406 stron ; 20 cm.

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Allende, Isabel (1942- ). Peden, Margaret Sayers (1920- ).

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An ecological romance with a pulsing heart, equal parts Rider Haggard and Chico Buarque -- one of the world's greatest and most beloved storytellers broadens her style and reach with a Amazonian adventure story which will appeal to all ages Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. With his mother in hospital, too ill to look after him, Alex is sent out to his grandmother Kate -- a fearless reporter with blue eyes 'as sharp as daggers' points'. Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon rainforest, but rather than change her plans, she simply takes Alex along with her. They set off with their team -- including a local guide and his daughter Nadia, with her wild, curly hair and skin the colour of honey -- in search of a fabled headhunting tribe and a legendary, marauding creature known to locals only as 'the Beast', only to find out much, much more about the mysteries of the jungle and its inhabitants. In a novel rich in adventure, magic and spirit, internationally-celebrated novelist Isabel Allende takes readers of all ages on a voyage of discovery and wonder, deep into the heart of the Amazon.

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Daughter of Fortune / Isabel Allende ; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - Wydanie 3. - London : Flamingo, 2000. - [4], 399 stron : mapa ; 20 cm.

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Allende, Isabel (1942- ). Peden, Margaret Sayers (1920- ).

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Chile

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Tytuł oryginału: La Hija de la fortuna.

A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of `The House of the Spirits'. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling entrepot of Valparaiso. Eliza is a spirited, sparky and ambitious romantic who becomes embroiled in a forbidden love affair with the charismatic but capricious Joaquin Andieta. When he disappears suddenly for California, and the promise of riches that rumours of gold strikes have brought him, she can but follow after him...

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The Infinite Plan / Isabel Allende ; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - London : Harper Perennial, 2008. - [2], 382 strony ; 20 cm.

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Allende, Isabel (1942- ). Peden, Margaret Sayers (1920- ).

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Isabel Allende's powerful tale of one boy's escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and poverty which is his family's lot, never questioning the validity of his father's homespun philosophy of life - the Infinite Plan. But, as manhood approaches, Gregory finds himself increasingly possessed by a yearning to escape. Hankering after worldly wealth, he longs to break away from the barrio, the teeming Hispanic ghetto of downtown Los Angeles where his family has finally settled. Gregory's quest, so different from his father's, takes him first to the killing fields of Vietnam, and thence to law school at Berkeley from where he pitches headlong into a hedonistic pursuit of the American Dream...

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My Invented Country : A Memoir / Isabel Allende ; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - London : Harper Perennial, 2004. - XV, [2], 199 stron : mapa ; 18 cm.

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Allende, Isabel (1942- ). Peden, Margaret Sayers (1920- ).

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Książki Proza Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

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Esej

Tytuł oryginału: Areté.

The life story of Isabel Allende -- one of the world's favourite writers -- is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels. Just three when her parents divorced, Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents' home in Chile. She left school at 16; and married Miguel Frias at 19. She then juggled her work as a journalist, editor, advice columnist and television interviewer with looking after her two children. But when her cousin the Chilean president Salvador Allende was assassinated in 1973 in Pinochet's right-wing military coup, her life changed profoundly. It was too dangerous to stay in Chile; and she, her husband, and their two children fled to Venezuela. During her impoverished exile, she started writing 'The House of the Spirits'. Based on her memories of her family and the political upheaval in her native country, it became an international bestseller and everything changed again!

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Portrait in Sepia / Isabel Allende ; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - London : Flamingo, 2002. - [4], 304 strony : ilustracje ; 20 cm.

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Allende, Isabel (1942- ). Peden, Margaret Sayers (1920- ).

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Portrait in Sepia' is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from 'Daughter of Fortune' and 'The House of the Spirits', two of Allende's most celebrated novels. As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by terrible nightmares. When she finds herself alone at the end of an unhappy love affair, she decides to explore the mystery of her past, to discover what it was, exactly, all those years ago, that had such a devastating effect on her young life. Richly detailed, epic in scope, this engrossing story of the dark power of hidden secrets is intimate in its probing of human character, and thrilling in the way it illuminates the complexity of family ties.

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The Painter Of Battles / Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - Wyd. 2. - London : Phoenix, 2008. - 278 s. ; 20 cm.

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Pérez-Reverte, Arturo (1951- ). Peden, Margaret Sayers (1920- ).

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Tyt. oryg.: El Pintor de Batallas.

A man lives alone in a watchtower by the sea. On the circular walls of the tower he is painting a grand mural - the timeless landscape of a battle. He is a former war photographer, and the painting is his attempt to capture the photo he was never able to take; to encapsulate, in an instant, the meaning of war.But one day a stranger knocks on his door and announces that he has come to kill him. The man is a shadow from his past, one of the myriad faces of war, and now the consequences of his actions are brought home to him. As the novel progresses, the story of both the soldier and the artist emerge, entwined with a doomed love affair, and the progress of a painting that is infused with the history of art. Intense and turbulent this is a book about art, war, love and the human capacity for both violence and empathy. It asks very profound questions about human nature and the role of the artist, but it is also has the intensity of a psychological thriller as the painter trades stories with the man who has come to kill him - like the Knight playing chess with Death in the Seventh Seal...

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The Purity Of Blood / Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. - Wyd. 3. - London : Phoenix, 2006. - 267 s. ; 20 cm.

(The Adventures of Captain Alatriste / Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; 2)

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Pérez-Reverte, Arturo (1951- ). Peden, Margaret Sayers (1920- ). Pérez-Reverte, Arturo (1951- ). Adventures of Captain Alatriste (ang.)

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Tyt. oryg.: Limpieza de sangre.

A woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled. In her hand is a pouch containing fifty escudos and a handwritten - but unsigned - note bearing the words 'For masses for her soul'. The chief constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade in arms, Diego Alatriste. Still in danger from the powerful enemies he made in his first adventure, Captain Alatriste is considering returning to Flanders where the war has just resumed. But first, his old friend Quevedo asks him for a favour. The daughter of one of his friends must be rescued from a convent, which certain 'priests' seem to be treating as little more than a harem. Then the woman who brought the girl to the convent goes missing and the connection is made to the murder at the church. It seems that Alatriste's sword is required once more.

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