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Who were the Fairy Tellers?In this far-ranging quest, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber unearths the lives of the dreamers who made our most beloved fairy tales: inventors, thieves, rebels and forgotten geniuses who gave us classic tales such as 'Cinderella', 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Baba Yaga'.From the Middle Ages to the birth ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-845178-3
EAN 9780008451783
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-571-36646-0
EAN 9780571366460
The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn't, between what happened and what won't. In more ways than one, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199976-0
EAN 9780141999760
Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty classic to reveal the wonders beneath, in a clear and comprehensive guide which will provide new and vital insights for everyone from students to specialists. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 47,50 €
ISBN 978-0-415-28020-4
EAN 9780415280204
The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-908213-89-1
EAN 9781908213891
Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted by his own near-death in a time of pandemic, John Burnside explores the history of the auroch (Bos primigenius), the wild cattle that has become the source of so much sacred and cultural ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,65 €
ISBN 978-1-984898-43-2
EAN 9781984898432
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition--from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man--in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom--who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-9821-8789-7
EAN 9781982187897
Described as a 21st-century Virginia Woolf in The Literary Review (UK), Siri Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic mothers, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Louise Bourgeois, to the broader meanings of the maternal in a culture shaped ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-22278-2
EAN 9780593222782
Sometimes the truth can be much scarier than fiction. And this collection is no exception. Uncover what fascinated and frightened some of our favorite horror writers of all time.Who are the people who make our hearts race and our minds spin? Why are they so good at making us fear what goes bump in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-55465-4
EAN 9780241554654
Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language. 'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust'(Ali Smith)Lydia Davis gathered a selection of her non-fiction ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-815-1
EAN 9781788168151
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.' Eimear McBrideNuanced, daring and tender, these essays from the celebrated author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior, consistently fascinate and provoke. Mary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50102-3
EAN 9780241501023
'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44160-2
EAN 9780241441602
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-342-2
EAN 9781788163422
A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge under AttackFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-00-836187-7
EAN 9780008361877
In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human.He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world - arguing that we need them now more ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 298 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-525-43627-0
EAN 9780525436270
A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate."Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric DisturbancesThe essay form is an especially democratic one, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199123-8
EAN 9780141991238
A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, ...
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Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing, the book plots a journey through the works and subjects that have inspired and influenced her. Written with the same clarity and insight that characterize her fiction, the pieces range from literary criticism and reflections ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-0-00-843000-9
EAN 9780008430009
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light 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 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-1-984878-42-7
EAN 9781984878427
From the author of How to Think and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the past to stay sane in the presentW. H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively ...
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