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Autor: de Sade Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1988 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3085-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 87.2 zł | |
"An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Candy--all pale beside Juliette."--Library Journal więcej... | ||
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Autor: David Wojnarowicz Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1996 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3504-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł | |
The late author, a gay activist, artist, and writer, presents a collection of his early works of autobiographical fiction, written as short monologues delivered by a variety of characters from the highways of America. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Ivan Klima Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-1625-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 97 zł | |
When a beautiful married woman walks into Pastor Daniel Vedra's life and conjures up memories of his first wife, Jitka, he struggles with the chaos the affair creates for his wife, his children, his vocation, and his future. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Mirra Ginsburg Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1987 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3015-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 48 zł | |
A selection of short stories and parables dealing with life in Communist Russia by 18 noted Russian writers. więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Mamet Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1987 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-8021-3028-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł | |
House of Games is a psychological thriller in which a young woman psychiatrist falls prey to an elaborate and ingenious con game by one of her patients who entraps her in a series of criminal escapades. Ties in with movie to be released in September. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Acker Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1989 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3192-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
Kathy Acker więcej... | ||
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Autor: de Sade Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1990 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3218-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 87.2 zł | |
No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century -- from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevksy, and Kafka -- is indisputable. This volume contains the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine; Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Rabe Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1993 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-8021-3345-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 48 zł | |
In this volume, Streamers, the story of a group of paratroopers desperately attempting to cope with the chaos of their emotions when they are ordered to Vietnam, is paired with The Orphan, a brilliant synthesis of classic Greek drama and the conflicted character of contemporary America. War is not a political phenomenon but an elemental force, a human inevitability, like love or death, and Rabe's plays encompass it as such. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Tutuola Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1994 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3363-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 63.7 zł | |
When Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it was presented without introduction yet aroused exceptional worldwide interest. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Andrzej Szczypiorski Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1993 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3402-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł | |
A medieval outbreak of witch-burning and anti-Semitism provides the basis for Polish novelist Szczypiorski's stunning political allegory of the ever-present danger of totalitarianism. The PEN Club Award-winning author depicts this historical episode through the eyes of the guilt-ridden Jan, a Christian intellectual who participates in the mass hysteria but later escapes the herd mentality after he finds himself suspected of heresy. This resonant story is a timely meditation on crimes committed in the name of religion and więcej... | ||
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Autor: Jerzy Kosinski Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1995 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3423-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł | |
According to his widow, Polish emigre novelist Kosinski had been working on this collection of essays, lectures and fragments when he committed suicide in Manhattan in 1991. While the selections would be improved by contextualizing introductions, they portray a man who was impassioned about literature and who saw his role as confronting ``life's threatening encounters.'' He finds inspiration, he writes, from an intertwining of the Polish, Hasidic and American literary traditions, and considers America ``the last society więcej... | ||
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Autor: Kenzaburo Oe Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1995 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3464-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
Japanese novelist Oe, who won a Nobel Prize in 1994, wrote these searching essays between 1963 and 1965, when he made frequent visits to the rebuilt city of Hiroshima and interviewed survivors. The collection, now reissued on the 50th anniversary of the bombing, examines the moral and political implications of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Oe explores how A-bomb survivors maintained their dignity despite shattered health resulting from radiation exposure. He writes about the courage of Hiroshima's doctors and nurses who więcej... | ||
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Autor: J. Barnes Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1978 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3479-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 48 zł | |
Eva Peron's life is once more an obsession with the scheduled release of the movie version of Andrew Lloyd Weber's hit Broadway musical, Evita. Now the classic biography of her fascinating life--including 16 pages of photographs--is back in print. Whore, feminist, tyrant, and saint, Evita was the beautiful and legendary woman who rose from poverty to become First lady of Argentina. więcej... | ||
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Autor: P. Ackroyd Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1987 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3480-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 48 zł | |
In this remarkable detective novel Peter Ackroyd investigates the death of Thomas Chatterton, the eighteenth-century poet-forger and genius, who died at the tender age of eighteen under extremely strange circumstances. Fusing themes of illusion and imagination, delusion and dreams, the author weaves strands from three centuries. The cast is a motley crew of Dickensian eccentrics and rogues, from the outrageous, gin-sipping Harriet Scrope to the tragic Charles Wychwood, on a personal quest for Chatterton's deepest secrets więcej... | ||
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Autor: Andrzej Szczypiorski Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1997 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3502-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł | |
The omniscient author tells a story of survival during WW II, wonders at the inscrutable ways of God, and attempts unsuccessfully to divine why the world was so unjust and cruel to the Jews. He also portrays Polish national stereotypes and then endeavors to remold them. The loosely connected tales of Polish, Jewish, and German lives serve him as a vehicle for putting forward his divagations on suffering and death. Also, this book of memories shows Warsaw and its people in the period before they found themselves crushed by więcej... | ||
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Autor: John O'Brien Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1997 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3507-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 57.8 zł | |
Carroll Mine, a lonely man who has difficulty relating to people, hangs out at Indiscretions, a strip club in Southern California, in hopes of making some kind of connection. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Jerzy Kosinski Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1997 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3554-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
As he moves among heads of state, renowned scientists, national heroes, sex scavengers, and jet-setters, George Levanter, involved with enterprises as businessman, gamesman, and lover, is faced with complex moral choices and emotional shocks. więcej... | ||
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Autor: B. Hannah Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3569-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł | |
Inspired by the great Geronimo's brash, outrageous rampage through the Old West, high school graduate Harry Munroe tackles the America of the 1950s and '60s, living through the sex, love, lies and lunacies of an adolescent awakening. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Robert Coover Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3666-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 48 zł | |
A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out. The lonesome stranger reaches the town - or rather, it reaches him - and he becomes part of its gunfights, saloon brawls, bawdy houses, train robberies, and, of course, the choice between the saloon chanteuse or the sweet-faced schoolmistress whom he loves. Throughout, Robert Coover reanimates the Western epics of Zane Grey więcej... | ||
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Autor: J. Rechy Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 2001 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3847-7 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 53.9 zł | |
In The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, Amalia Gomez thinks she sees a large silver cross in the sky. A miraculous sign, perhaps, but one the down-to-earth Amalia does not trust. Through Amalia, we take a vivid and moving tour of the "other Hollywood," populated by working-class Mexican Americans, as John Rechy blends tough realism with religious and cultural fables to take us into the life of a Chicano family in L.A. Epic in scope and vision, The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez is classic Rechy. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Jerzy Kosinski Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3965-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 41.2 zł | |
A searing novel from a writer of international stature, The Devil Tree is a tale that combines the existential emptiness of Camus's The Stranger with the universe of international playboys, violence, and murder of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. Jonathan Whalen's life has been determined from the start by the immense fortune of his father, a steel tycoon. Whalen's childlike delight in power and status mask a greater need, a desire to feel life intensely, through drugs, violence, sex, and attempts at meaningful więcej... | ||
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Autor: Kenzaburo Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3968-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
A remarkable portrait of the inexpressible bond between a famous writer and his cipher of a son, this magnificent novel of startling candor is from a Nobel Prize-winning Japanese master. As the man struggles to understand his family, he must evaluate himself as he deals with parenting a disabled child. więcej... | ||
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Autor: W. Riviere Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 2003 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-3973-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
Kate Fenn, a great English beauty, marries a young left-wing Italian doctor and moves to Tuscany where she relishes the beauty of the countryside and the strong family ties of the D'Alessandrias. In the passionate private life she shares with her husband, she calls herself Kate Caterina, trying to wed the two conflicting parts of herself, although to everyone else she is simply Caterina. It is the time of Mussolini, jack-booted Black Shirts, and nationalist fervor." Caterina's best friend and beautiful sister-in-law więcej... | ||
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Autor: Kenzaburo Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 2004 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-4045-6 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
Kenzaburo Oe is internationally recognized as one of the world's finest writers, and his achievements have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'Somersault, the first new novel he published since winning the Nobel, departs radically from the autobiographical fiction he was known for, in a magnificent story of the charisma of leaders, the danger of zealotry, and the mystery of faith. A decade before the story opens, two men referred to as the Patron and Guide of mankind were leaders of an influential religious movement więcej... | ||
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Autor: H. Pinter Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 2005 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-4225-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
Throughout his life, playwright and political activist Harold Pinter has consistently cast light on the hypocrisy of conformist truths in pure and simple terms. Death etc. brings together Pinter's most poignant and political writings. From chilling psychological portraits of those who commit atrocities in the name of a higher power, to essays on the state-sponsored terrorism of present-day regimes, to solemn hymns commemorating the faceless masses that perish unrecognized, Mr. Pinter's writings are as essential to the preservation więcej... | ||
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Autor: Banana Yoshimoto Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 2006 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-4244-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 67.6 zł | |
With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Kitchen is an enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine, is an orphan raised więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Mamet Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1977 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-8021-5057-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
Three crooks in a junk shop plot to steal a coin collection in this award-winning drama by an acclaimed new American playwright. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Mikhail Bulgakov Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1968 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-5059-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł | |
This early novella from Mikhail Bulgakov, published in 1925, already shows the surreal comic genius that later produced The Master and Margarita, the writer's masterpiece. A kind of Frankenstein parable, Heart of a Dog is the story of a stray dog that gains a human intelligence after a prominent Moscow professor transplants human glands into the unfortunate canine's body. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Kenzaburo Oe Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1969 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-5061-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
A Personal Matter is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Samuel Beckett Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1967 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-5062-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
Characters relate in detail the experiences which shaped their personalities or reflect them vividly. więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Mamet Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1985 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-5104-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 53.9 zł | |
Brief plays and sketches deal with the relationship between men and women, the past, communication, country life, and mortality. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Kenzaburo Oe Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1985 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-5184-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł | |
An anthology of stories about Japan after the atom bomb is edited by an acclaimed writer and surveys Japan's best storytellers on the bomb's impact on the daily lives of peasants, artists, and children. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Kenzaburo Oe Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1977 Kategoria: popularnonaukowe ISBN: 978-0-8021-5185-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 48 zł | |
This collection includes: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, and Aghwee, the Sky Monster. więcej... | ||
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Autor: Octavio Paz Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1985 Kategoria: Literatura piękna ISBN: 978-0-8021-5186-5 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 38.2 zł | |
Collects samplings of the writings of thirty-five influential Mexican poets ranging from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Mamet Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 2000 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-80213-091-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action -- where closing a sale can mean a brand new cadillac but losing one can mean losing it all więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Mamet Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1990 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-80213-171-3 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
This book is about five plays written by someone who likes old television. więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Mamet Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1995 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-80213-351-9 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 53.9 zł | |
This edition contains the definitive versions of these works, a foreword in which Rabe examines the interwoven relationship of the plays, and an afterword in which he discusses the process of their construction. więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Rabe Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1998 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-80213-549-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 44.1 zł | |
This volume presents the text of a play that focuses on two gay lovers, one in an exhausting battle with AIDS, and two friends who join together to help the man with AIDS end his life. więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Mamet Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1986 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-80215-011-0 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 53.9 zł | |
Two young couples sort out their sex lives in a world of office files and singles bars, and two old men sitting on a park bench reveal their attitudes toward life while discussing the mating habits of ducks. więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Mamet Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1987 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-80215-109-4 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 53.9 zł | |
Three plays deal with the relationship of a young man and woman who spend the night in a widerness cabin, the eight crew members of a merchant ship, and an unfulfilling marriage. więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Mamet Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1990 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-80215-171-1 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 34.3 zł | |
In two plays, a man and his daughter seem to meet each other for the first time when they are united after twenty years, and while traveling by car a father relates a mythical tale to his child. więcej... | ||
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Autor: D. Mamet Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1985 Kategoria: albumy ISBN: 978-0-80215-172-8 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 34.3 zł | |
A small-time mystic trying to bilk a bereaved woman of her inheritance and a card game on a violent train ride are the bases for two new plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. więcej... | ||
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Autor: H. Foster Wydawnictwo: Grove Press Data wydania: 1990 Kategoria: Inne ISBN: 978-0-87113-376-2 Ilość stron: 0 Cena : 6.9 zł | |
The heart of this book is the essay collection detailing 100 plant generations over 40 years. The soul of the book is the heartwarming story of how the Fosters came to Millstream House in 1949 and turned a woodland mountainside into an enchanting private rock garden. Color photographs, illustrations. więcej... | ||
