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09.12.2019
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Product info / Cechy produktu
Rodzaj (nośnik) / Item type
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książka / book
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Dział / Department
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Książki i czasopisma / Books and periodicals
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Autor / Author
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Richard Flanagan
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Tytuł / Title
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Wanting
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Język / Language
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angielski
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Wydawca / Publisher
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Vintage
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Rok wydania / Year published
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2016
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Rodzaj oprawy / Cover type
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Miękka
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Wymiary / Size
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12.5x19.5 cm
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Liczba stron / Pages
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260
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Ciężar / Weight
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0,1950 kg
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ISBN
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9781784702922 (9781784702922)
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EAN/UPC
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9781784702922
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Stan produktu / Condition
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nowy / new - sprzedajemy wyłącznie nowe nieużywane produkty
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Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen’s Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. But when Franklin dies on an Arctic expedition, Lady Jane writes to Charles Dickens, asking him to defend Franklin’s reputation amid rumours of his crew lapsing into cannibalism.
Dickens responds by staging a play in which he takes the leading role as Franklin, his symbol of reason’s triumph, only to fall in love with an eighteen-year-old actress. As reason gives way to wanting, the frontier between civilisation and barbarity dissolves, and Mathinna, now a teenage prostitute, goes drinking on a fatal night.