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- The British Library, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 64 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5703-6
EAN 9780712357036
First published in 1900, this is the original comportment guide for the aristocracy. The want of a literature appealing only to those moving in the highest social circles, and practically incomprehensible to such as have not enjoyed the same advantages of birth, fortune and cellars, has long been regretted by the families of the aristocracy. ...
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- The British Library, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5891-0
EAN 9780712358910
In the summer of 1923 Virginia Woolf's nephews, Quentin and Julian Bell, started a family newspaper, The Charleston Bulletin. Quentin decided to ask his aunt Virginia for a contribution: 'it seemed stupid to have a real author so close at hand and not have her contribute.' Woolf joined forces with Quentin, and from 1923 until ...
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- The British Library, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5890-3
EAN 9780712358903
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- The British Library, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-0969-1
EAN 9780712309691
'I wondered what I personally had done which, having done it, I could write about. I discovered that I had done nothing at all except live for twenty-two consecutive years.' Journalist and author Keith Waterhouse was well known as a columnist, as the writer of the play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell, and for his novel ...
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- The British Library, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7123-5889-7
EAN 9780712358897
Artists have been drawn to the plays of Shakespeare for more than three centuries. For the artist, the challenge was to re-create the characters and the drama not on the living stage, but to freeze them into images that were timeless, and not bound within the walls of a theatre. Painters as varied as Hogarth, ...
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Books as History
The Importance of Books Beyond Their Texts
- The British Library, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7123-5888-0
EAN 9780712358880
People usually think of books in terms of their contents, their texts, with less thought for books as artefacts. In fact books may possess all kinds of potentially interesting qualities beyond their texts, as designed or artistic objects, or because they have unique properties deriving from the ways they have been printed, bound, annotated, beautified ...
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Following the success of its first set of authors reading their own short stories, The British Library is proud to present a second volume featuring a further fifteen stories. As before, the majority of the recordings take the form of historic broadcasrs sourced from the BBC, to which a handful of rare live recordings have ...
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- The British Library, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7123-5876-7
EAN 9780712358767
Beloved by adults and children of all ages, Edward Lear's nonsense songs and stories are instantly recognizable for their humorous flights of fancy. In this new compilation, fifteen of the best-loved tales are presented alongside the original artworks that Lear produced. In addition to the classic tale of 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat' the book ...
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The British Library and the Royal Shakespeare Company join forces to publish this remarkable treasury of live Shakespeare recordings. Selected from an extensive collection of recordings made by the "British Library Sound Archive", this set offers scenes and speeches from some of the most celebrated Shakespeare productions in the history of the Royal Shakespeare Company. ...
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Short Stories (3 CDs)
English and Irish Authors Read their Own Work
In the years after the Second World War the BBC invited some of the leading British and Irish writers of short stories to read selected works of their own on the radio. For the first time this unrivalled archive of recordings is now being made available for wider distribution. This 3-CD set includes a wide ...
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- The British Library, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5834-7
EAN 9780712358347
Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) the immensely talented writer, artist, poet and playwright,is best-known for his gothic masterpiece, the Gormenghast trilogy, and his stunning illustrations for Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass. He was a prolific and astonishingly original writer, who touched at one time or another on almost every literary form. Peake's Progress ...
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The Hunting of the Snark (facsimile)
An Agony in Eight Fits
- The British Library, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 100 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5813-2
EAN 9780712358132
The peculiar wit and imagination of Lewis Carroll are once again in evidence in The Hunting of the Snark, his epic nonsense poem which first appeared in 1876. Unlike the earlier Alice books, this is a much darker work, in which ten characters whose names begin with B, disappear, go mad and generally find themselves ...
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- The British Library, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 64 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5805-7
EAN 9780712358057
First published in 1884, The Golden Primer is a stunning example of Victorian book illustration by one of the foremost artists and illustrators of his day, Walter Crane. The primer uses methods for teaching children to read that are recognisable today: encouraging the child to interact with the words and pictures, pointing out the printed ...
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Magnificent Maps
Power, Propaganda and Art
- The British Library, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 23,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5093-8
EAN 9780712350938
Display maps have had a significant impact throughout history, yet since extremely few have survived this has not always been fully appreciated. These often magnificent maps, expressing an enormous variety of differing world views, used size and beauty to convey messages of status and power. This book takes the best surviving examples to re-establish manuscript, ...
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The Bloomsbury Group remains of great public interest for its influence on art, literature and politics in the first half of the 20th century. Recordings of this informal association of writers, artists and intellectuals, which included Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant among others, are brought together for the first ...
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This three CD set includes recordings of 27 celebrated American writers, starting from the earliest generation whose voices survive. The majority of the recordings derive from BBC radio broadcasts, in which the writers talk about their careers, their art and their politics. From historic recordings of Gertrude Stein, Eugene O'Neill and F Scott Fitzgerald to ...
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This three CD compilation forms part of the British Library's series of documentary recordings by English-language authors and playwrights. 30 writers are represented, talking about their lives and work. The recordings derive primarily from BBC broadcasts, the earliest of them dating from the 1930s, and include historic recordings of the first generation of writers whose ...
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- The British Library, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 16,19 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-4991-8
EAN 9780712349918
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Listen to historic recordings of celebrated people in the arts, the sciences, sport and exploration. Notable items include recordings from Arthur Conan Doyle, Malcolm Campbell and Sigmund Freud.Track ListingDisc One1. Maud: A Monodrama - final stanza from Part 1 - Alfred Tennyson2. The greatest show on earth - Phineas T aylor Barnum3. Thoughts from the ...
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