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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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From journalist Michelle Dean, winner of the National Book Critics Circle's 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, Sharp combines biography, original research, and critical reading into a powerful portrait of ten writers who managed to make their voices heard amidst a climate of sexism and nepotism, from the 1920s to the 1990s.Dorothy Parker, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955449-3
EAN 9780099554493
How does the novel represent human consciousness on the page? In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the last 200 years - from Charles Dickens to Martin Amis, Henry James to Philip Roth - David Lodge pursues this question with characteristic verve and wit. One of the best novelists and critics ...
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- Everyman's Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 408 páginas
PVP: 24,10 €
ISBN 978-1-101-90798-6
EAN 9781101907986
On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of one of the best and most famous memoirs of the conflict.Good-bye to All That was published a decade after the end of the first World War, as the poet and novelist Robert Graves was preparing to leave England for good. ...
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The Timothy Leary Project
Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment
- Abrams, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 26,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4197-2646-0
EAN 9781419726460
The first collection of Timothy Leary's (1920 1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase turn on, tune in, drop out, Leary cultivated interests that ranged across experimentation with ...
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Rosie
Scenes from a Vanished Life
- Chatto & Windus, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78474-227-0
EAN 9781784742270
Rose Tremain grew up in post-war London, a city of grey austerity, still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed. The girl known then as Rosie' and her sister Jo spent their days longing for their grandparents' farm, buried deep in the Hampshire countryside, a green paradise of feasts and freedom, ...
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The Best Minds of my Generation
A Literary History of the Beats
- Penguin UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139901-0
EAN 9780141399010
A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation - ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-800-4
EAN 9781782398004
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde theatre, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers and moments ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98308-9
EAN 9780241983089
Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood.Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake ...
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