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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-914982-04-0
EAN 9781914982040
Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. Without the tremendous influences of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, the author of The Canterbury Tales might never have assumed his place as the 'father' of English literature. Nevertheless, Richard Owen's Chaucer's Italy begins in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-1199-6
EAN 9781529111996
From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture. 'One of the greatest writers of our age' Neil GaimanAcross a wide variety of subjects, Rushdie delves into the nature of storytelling ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4091-8928-2
EAN 9781409189282
Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives - but not everyone regularly sees themselves reflected on the pages of a book. In this timely anthology, Glory Edim, founder of the online community, Well-Read ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-816749-3
EAN 9780008167493
Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. 'The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.' How does one survive the death ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-860108-9
EAN 9780008601089
A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms and number-lovers alike will discover much they didn't know about the creative interplay between stories, structure and sums.' - Alex Bellos We often think of ...
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**A Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Irish Times, Refinery29, TLS and The White Review Book of the Year 2018**A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be?Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-823838-4
EAN 9780008238384
The true story of how the First Folio creators made 'Shakespeare' The year 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, x{0026} Tragedies, known today simply as the First Folio. It is difficult to imagine a world without The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale and Macbeth, but these ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-01590-3
EAN 9780349015903
A brilliant collection of acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious essays from New York icon Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-1-399-80689-3
EAN 9781399806893
Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. When Cara left the Dominican Republic for America, she thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when the Great Recession hits, she is left unemployed and struggling with the rising rent.To survive, Cara must start again. Set ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-038-6
EAN 9781784700386
A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine. In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his groundbreaking ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-5748-0
EAN 9781526657480
WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHIn this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return to time and again and that helped make them the writers they are. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-83976-509-4
EAN 9781839765094
For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, Taking a Long Look illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: that the painful process of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80499-138-1
EAN 9781804991381
A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF THE ULTIMATE NORA EPHRON COLLECTION, PACKED WITH WIT, WISDOM AND COMFORT, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'The perfect introduction to the iconic writer' STYLISTINCLUDING:* Nora's much-loved essays on everything from friendship to feminism to journalism* Extracts from her bestselling novel Heartburn* Scenes from her hilarious screenplay for When Harry Met ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5451-6
EAN 9780712354516
Joke books have a long publishing history dating back to the 'Philogelos' from ancient Greece and 'Facetiae' of the 15th century. But while there are themed joke books on everything from cats to lawyers, there have surprisingly been few with a literary theme. The Book of Book Jokes includes a huge range of comic material ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-37319-2
EAN 9780571373192
Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more than merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.This paradigm shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of internationally acclaimed novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga's complex relationship with race and gender. At once ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 26,80 €
ISBN 978-0-06-294736-9
EAN 9780062947369
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.What is the role of literature in an era when one political party wages continual ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-13319-4
EAN 9780593133194
Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century--including many texts never previously in print--by the Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling authorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssaySalman Rushdie is celebrated as "a master of perpetual storytelling" (The New Yorker), illuminating truths about our society and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14190-9
EAN 9780349141909
There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the ...
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