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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-3858-4
EAN 9781471138584
A Sunday Times Book of the YearShortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life' The Financial Times'A gripping saga of a double-biography' Daily Mail'A masterful portrait' The Times'Vastly enjoyable' Literary Review'Deeply absorbing and meticulously researched' The Oldie In 1815, the clever, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97756-9
EAN 9780241977569
We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realise we don't want to hold it together .. .' 'At the age of 50 and after decades of north London family-making, Levy finds herself cast adrift from her marriage and, crucially, without any desire to swim back. It is the story ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-400-1
EAN 9781782274001
In 1921, Francoise Frenkel - a Jewish woman from Poland - opens her first bookshop in Berlin. It is a dream come true. The dream lasts nearly two decades.Then suddenly, it ends. It ends after police confiscations and the Night of Broken Glass, as Jewish shops and businesses are smashed to pieces. It ends when ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-34460-6
EAN 9780241344606
A brilliantly varied new selection of D. H. Lawrence's essays, chosen and introduced by Geoff DyerFor D.H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', yet his non-fiction shows him at his most freewheeling and playful. This is a selection of his essays, on subjects including art, morality, obscenity, songbirds, Italy, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33866-5
EAN 9780571338665
The Innocence of Memories is an important addition to the oeuvre of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Comprised of the screenplay of the acclaimed film by Grant Gee from 2015 (by the same name), a transcript of the author and filmmaker in conversation, and captivating colour stills, it is an essential volume for understanding Pamuk's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-832981-5
EAN 9780008329815
From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books ...
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Probably the greatest journalist since George Orwell, Auberon Waugh produced an astonishing amount of biting satire, spoof diaries and consistently riveting observation during three of the most traumatic decades in our recent history. This celebration of his work considers his time at Private Eye, and in particular, his Diaries (which he considered his masterwork); his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-474-2
EAN 9781782274742
In 1902, the young German poet Rainer Maria Rilke travelled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He returned many times over the course of his life, by turns inspired and appalled by the city's high culture and low society, and his writings give a fascinating insight into Parisian art and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-153-9
EAN 9781783781539
Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore.Yet in The Recovering, Leslie Jamison draws on her own life and the lives of addicts of extraordinary talent - ...
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'Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining' John Banville'Excellent ... read this book' Literary Review'The best single-volume life of the author available' Irish TimesThe much mythologised author of Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited was hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 114 páginas
PVP: 8,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84749-774-1
EAN 9781847497741
Under the pseudonyms of Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins set off on a walking tour of the north-west of England, reporting back on their adventures for Dickens's magazine Household Words. A unique insight into the friendship of two of the towering figures of Victorian literature, and featuring a pair of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-374-90675-7
EAN 9780374906757
In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes both human and literary that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 38,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-32085-3
EAN 9780241320853
THE PENGUIN CLASSICS BOOK is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world. Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Japanese epics and much more in between, it encompasses 500 authors and 1,200 books, bringing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-00-758557-1
EAN 9780007585571
From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78689-621-6
EAN 9781786896216
First written as a speech, Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere celebrates how far women's rights have come, and demands that we do more to achieve true equality. Emmeline Pankhurst's address 'Freedom or Death' given over a century ago is, here, printed alongside Winterson's own call to arms.It serves as a reminder of the debt we ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-34045-5
EAN 9780241340455
Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of Mailer's key beliefs contains pieces on his war experiences in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-755372-3
EAN 9780007553723
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 FINALIST Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le Carre A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-34047-9
EAN 9780241340479
October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is Norman Mailer.From his own singular participation in the day's events and his even more extraordinary perceptions ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78669-773-8
EAN 9781786697738
During the week Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; at the weekend he retired to the house in the country he shared with his fanciful wife Elspeth and fragile son Alistair and took lengthy walks along the Thames in Berkshire, 'tempted by the treasures of hedge and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-35441-4
EAN 9780241354414
'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in UlyssesIn Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. From Wilde's doctor father, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist, who was taken to court by ...
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