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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,80 €
ISBN 978-1-984856-02-9
EAN 9781984856029
In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-582-4
EAN 9781784705824
Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrere has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre. For him, no form is out of reach: theology, historiography, reportage and memoir - among many others - are fused under the pressure of an inimitable combination ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 8,70 €
ISBN 978-1-9999223-7-5
EAN 9781999922375
An essay on the battle for our attention in the age of distraction. Attention pays. In today's online economy it has become a commodity to be bought and sold.Bombarding us with free smartphone apps and news websites, developers and advertisers have turned what and how focus our attention into the world's fastest growing industry. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-658-4
EAN 9781788166584
In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of his experience into a warm, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 20,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139838-9
EAN 9780141398389
The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-72642-7
EAN 9780349726427
'Magical' MINDY KALING'Funny and poignant and beautiful' JOHN MULANEY 'It made me remember I was alive' GEORGE SAUNDERS To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5371-7
EAN 9780712353717
Join Mike Ashley on a characterful tour of the most ingenious and often forgotten books from the rich history of classic British science fiction. From the enrapturing tales of H. G. Wells to the punishing dystopian visions of 1984 and beyond, the evolution of science fiction from the 1890s to the 1960s is a fascinating ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-525-57497-2
EAN 9780525574972
Pulitzer Prizewinning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares her enthusiasm for more than 100books ina series of succinct, thought-provoking essays.';Books can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures, national boundaries, and historical eras,' Kakutani writes in her introduction toExLibris.Here readers will discovernovels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers working today; ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-61185-452-7
EAN 9781611854527
Day by day, tweet by tweet, it often feels like our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism.But is it possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed series, Freeman's Love asks this question, bringing together literary heavyweights like Richard Russo, Anne Carson, Sandra Cisneros, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5333-5
EAN 9780712353335
Horror: A Literary History is the book horror readers and students need. It will hold you in its grip, leaving you replete with invaluable information about the range, longevity and mutations of the horror genre as it consistently forces you to engage with serious cultural and personal issues. Horror is unlike any other literary genre.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 20,95 €
ISBN 978-0-241-41800-0
EAN 9780241418000
The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell's memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer, living among the destitute and dispossessed. Here ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4729-5103-8
EAN 9781472951038
The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it, 'divides the world with Shakespeare, there being no third'. His, like ours, was a world of moral uncertainty and political violence, all of which made not only for the agony of exile but ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-64421-021-5
EAN 9781644210215
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84655-941-9
EAN 9781846559419
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writing on everything from his intense ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199220-4
EAN 9780141992204
The quarter century or so before the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain. Fuelled by a large new magazine readership and vigorous competition to acquire new stories and develop the careers of some of our greatest writers, these years were ones ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-910989-54-8
EAN 9781910989548
Inspired meditations on storytelling from one of the world's finest, most accomplished and adored writers. Pullman is a master of fiction and shares his thoughts on the origin of his own stories, the craft of writing and the storytellers who have meant the most to him. The art of storytelling is everywhere present in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-842997-3
EAN 9780008429973
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-913097-01-1
EAN 9781913097011
Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein, John Ruskin to Joan Didion - the book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47245-3
EAN 9780241472453
'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life'The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling of a beautiful untruth, is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 9,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47521-8
EAN 9780241475218
A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order'One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these virtuoso writings about books and language, he ...
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