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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 20,85 €
ISBN 978-0-8139-4466-1
EAN 9780813944661
Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-8139-3187-6
EAN 9780813931876
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Henry James was the final survivor of a remarkable family, and his memoir, written at the end of a long and tireless career, was prompted initially by the death of his "ideal Elder Brother," the psychologist and philosopher William James. "A Small Boy and Others" recounts the novelist's earliest years in Albany and, more importantly, ...
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After a childhood divided between America and Europe, Henry James settled with his family in New England, first in what he regarded as an outpost of Europe, Newport, and later in Cambridge. The family letters (the initial inspiration for this autobiographical enterprise), many of which recount the early career of William James at Harvard and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 190 páginas
PVP: 4,99 €
ISBN 978-0-8139-3257-6
EAN 9780813932576
In December 1966 when the Vietnam War was beginning to dominate Americas political landscape, novelist and Nobel laureate John Steinbeck went to Vietnam as a reporter for Newsday. Over the next year he wrote over 80 pieces about the war. Because these articles are not presented here in a historical context, readers will find them ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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ISBN 978-0-8139-3072-5
EAN 9780813930725
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"The Afrikaners: Biography of A People, " the first comprehensive history of the Afrikaner people based on--and critical of--the most recent scholarly work, draws on the author's own research and interviews conducted with leading political actors. Hermann Giliomee weaves together life stories and interpretation to create a highly readable narrative history of the Afrikaners.The revised ...
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Harman (English, Wellesley College) establishes the feminine political novel as a new category in Victorian fiction, studying Victorian female protagonists who participate in the public world conventionally occupied by men to reassess the public realm as the site of noble and meaningful action for women of Victorian England. She analyzes novels by five authors in ...
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Is literature dangerous? In the romantic view, writers were rebels--Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of mankind"--poised to change the world. In relation to twentieth-century literature, however, such a view becomes suspect. By looking at a range of novels about terrorism, Plotting Terror raises the possibility that the writer's relationship to actual politics may be considerably reduced in ...
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