Editorial Liveright
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- Liveright, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-653-8
EAN 9780871406538
A Miscellany, confined to a private edition for decades, sheds further light on the prodigious vision and imagination of the most inventive poet of the twentieth century: E.E. Cummings.Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings's groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited ...
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One Toss of the Dice
The Incredible Story of how One Poem made us Modern
- Liveright, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 42,95 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-663-7
EAN 9780871406637
In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today. It was the forerunner of our digital age, improbably a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, ...
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Something in the Blood
The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
- Liveright, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 672 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-010-1
EAN 9781631490101
A groundbreaking biography reveals the haunted origins of the man who created Dracula and traces the psychosexual contours of late Victorian society. Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead Count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world ...
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- Liveright, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-341-6
EAN 9781631493416
This "historically engaging and pressingly relevant" biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature and revives the life and work of a neglected master.Still known to millions primarily as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916 1965) has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of ...
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- Liveright, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 32,55 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-680-4
EAN 9780871406804
From Delmonicos to Sylvias to Chez Panisse, a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through ten legendary restaurants. Combining a historians rigor with a foodie s palate, Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself. Whether charting ...
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Mary Astor's Purple Diary
The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936
- Liveright, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-023-1
EAN 9781631490231
In a hilarious send-up of sex, scandal, and the Golden Age of Hollywood, legendary cartoonist Edward Sorel brings us a story (literally) ripped from the headlines of a bygone era.In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel was living in a $97-a-month railroad flat on Manhattans Upper East Side. Resolved to ...
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On Augustine
The Two Cities
- Liveright, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-707-8
EAN 9780871407078
No philosopher speaks more immediately to the excesses of our twenty-first-century world and the limits of human reason than Augustine. It would be almost impossible to exaggerate the influence of Augustine-the once-hedonistic pagan turned ascetic theologian and defender of the early Christian Church-over all the subsequent history of Europe. Augustine 's political philosophy is pregnant ...
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On Hobbes
Escaping the War of All Against All
- Liveright, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-848-8
EAN 9780871408488
A guiding light to America's Founding Fathers, Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy. In Leviathan, one of the greatest works of political philosophy of all time, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes created the idea of a "social contract" and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of ...
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- Liveright, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-438-1
EAN 9780871404381
In this episodic narrative of intellectual and artistic development, famed American composer Glass describes his involvement in the avant-garde music and art scenes in New York in the 1950s through the 1980s, as well as learning harmony and counterpoint in Paris from the brilliant composer and conductor Nadia Boulanger in the 1960s. He recounts touring ...
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- Liveright, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-385-8
EAN 9780871403858
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career both his successes and his failures and his motivations for becoming a biologist. ...
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- Liveright, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-169-4
EAN 9780871401694
Fresh and candid, but turns earthy, defiant, and romantic, E. E. Cummings' poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.
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