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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24022-1
EAN 9780300240221
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic-its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our ...
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- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-529-2
EAN 9781781255292
Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain and Europe, as she coped with debt, infidelity and the deaths of three ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-948872-9
EAN 9780099488729
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport, Las Vegas, John Travolta and the ...
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- Grove Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-61185-492-3
EAN 9781611854923
A frank, smart and endearing literary memoir of growing up as the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs in the rapidly changing Silicon Valley of the tech boom. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents - artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs - Lisa Brennan-Jobs' childhood was marked by two ...
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Karl Marx
Greatness and Illusion
- Harvard University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 720 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97161-5
EAN 9780674971615
As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communisms patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era dominated by extraordinary challenges and new notions about God, human ...
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Call them by their True Names
American crises (and Essays)
- Granta Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-497-4
EAN 9781783784974
Beginning with the election of Donald Trump ("The Loneliest Man in the World") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, violence against the individual, the denormalizing of misogyny and the rehumanizing of public space. The ultimate focus of the book is climate and feminist activism, bringing Solnit's trademark deep analysis to bear on ...
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- Faber, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-34091-0
EAN 9780571340910
'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.'So begins this extraordinary book, a collection of diary pieces that Jan Morris wrote ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-565-7
EAN 9781784705657
A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writerLate Essays gathers together J.M. Coetzee's literary essays from 2006 to 2017. The subjects covered in this stunning collection range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth.Coetzee has ...
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The Dark Interval
Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
- Modern Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-0-525-50984-4
EAN 9780525509844
Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this book collects the poet's best writings on grief and loss in one place for the first time. The result is a profound vision of the mourning process and a meditation on death's place in our lives, as well as a compilation of sensitive and moving expressions ...
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One Hot Summer
Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23866-2
EAN 9780300238662
A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured the Great Stink across one hot summerWhile 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in ...
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Conan Doyle for the Defense
A Sensational Murder, the Quest for Justice and the World's Greatest Detective Writer
- Profile Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 21,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-356-4
EAN 9781781253564
Just before Christmas 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old spinster, was found bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow home. A valuable diamond brooch was missing, and police soon fastened on a suspect - Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant who was rumoured to have a disreputable character. Slater had an alibi, but was nonetheless convicted and ...
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- Virago, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00636-9
EAN 9780349006369
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels. We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. 'Outsider', 'outlaw', 'outcast': a ...
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- Oneworld, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-354-9
EAN 9781786073549
An Observer book of the yearHAUNTED! By endless tiny humiliations. STRUGGLING! To resurrect the corpse of his literary career. ENSNARED! In a loving yet bamboozling marriage.A man at odds with the universe, Anthony McGowan stumbles from one improbable fiasco to the next. On the mean streets of West Hampstead he reflects upon all that is ...
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Testament of Youth
An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
To mark the centenary of the end of the first world war, Virago reissue an anniversary edition - with a new introduction by Mark Bostridge - of the testament that has become one of the most famous autobiographies of the first world war - much filmed, much studied and much loved.
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- William Collins, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-00-828331-5
EAN 9780008283315
Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service. Living out of a trailer, Abbey captures in rapt, poetic prose the landscape of the desert; a world of terracotta earth, empty skies, arching rock formations, cliffrose, juniper, pinyon pine and sand ...
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An Odyssey
A Father, A Son and an Epic
- Harper Collins, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-754513-1
EAN 9780007545131
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading - and reliving - Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old retired scientist Jay unexpectedly enrols in his estranged classicist son Daniel's course on the Odyssey, the journey of a lifetime commences. ...
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Theft by Finding
Diaries 1977-2002
- Back Bay Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-316-15473-4
EAN 9780316154734
David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making.For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-226-56455-5
EAN 9780226564555
Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American quest for an imaginary France of the intelligence.But ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-26649-6
EAN 9780241266496
The Sunday Times bestseller Paul Theroux collects a rich feast of his writing and essays - from travel to personal memoir - published all together here for the first timeDrawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth ...
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- Pan, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-0564-8
EAN 9781509805648
When law student Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is asked to work on a death-row hearing for convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley, she finds herself thrust into the tangled story of his childhood. As she digs deeper and deeper into the case she realizes that, despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story is unsettlingly, ...
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