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ISBN 978-0-674-50438-7
EAN 9780674504387
Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-41664-2
EAN 9780674416642
John Milton is regarded as the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. Yet for sublimity and philosophical grandeur, Milton stands almost alone in world literature. His peers are Homer, Virgil, Dante, Wordsworth, and Goethe: poets who achieve a total ethical and spiritual vision of the world. In this panoramic interpretation, the distinguished Milton scholar Gordon Teskey ...
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ALSO IN THIS SERIES: Virginia Woolf, Coco Chanel and Frida Kahlo. This beautifully illustrated biography follows Jane Austen's life and work (which includes Pride x{0026} Prejudice, Sense x{0026} Sensibility and Emma) and celebrates the legacy of the much-loved literary icon. It also explores Austen's inspirations and influences, her domestic life and the society she lived ...
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ISBN 978-0-300-19578-1
EAN 9780300195781
Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay, Thomson tackles this most elusive of subjects, examining the allure of the performing arts for both the artist and the audience member while addressing the ...
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ISBN 978-1-4767-9161-6
EAN 9781476791616
In this intimate memoir of life beyond the camera, Connor Franta shares the lessons he has learned on his journey from small-town boy to Internet sensation-so far. Here, Connor offers a look at his Midwestern upbringing as one of four children in the home and one of five in the classroom; his struggles with identity, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 221 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-56478-187-1
EAN 9781564781871
A remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Founded in Paris in 1960, the Oulipo views imaginative writing as an exercise dominated by the method of "constraints." While a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-4767-5391-1
EAN 9781476753911
The instant "New York Times" bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan's posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories "sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth" ("O, The Oprah Magazine"). Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced ...
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll's imaginative creation of Wonderland-a sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era.Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates ...
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In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences-the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as ...
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ISBN 978-1-905881-87-1
EAN 9781905881871
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-137-50546-0
EAN 9781137505460
Lewis Carroll's immortal Wonderland and delightful nonsense verses have enchanted generations of children and adults alike. His wit and imagination, wisdom, sense of absurdity and fun fill his books and shine just as brightly from the many letters he wrote. Publishing to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Alice stories, The Selected Letters of Lewis ...
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From the dazzlingly original Pulitzer Prize-winning poet hailed for her ';extraordinary range and ambition' (The New York Times Book Review): a quietly potent memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.The youngest of five children, Tracy K. Smith ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-349-00599-7
EAN 9780349005997
In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover. Maya Angelou's volumes of ...
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ISBN 978-1-4165-2754-1
EAN 9781416527541
The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention: a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing building. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a masterful and endlessly entertaining history of the Chelsea and of the successive ...
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ISBN 978-1-4767-8505-9
EAN 9781476785059
From the bestselling author of "A Three Dog Life," which "shines with honest intelligence" (Elizabeth Gilbert): a fresh, exhilarating, superbly written memoir about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life. What comes next? What comes after the devastating loss of Abigail's husband, a process both sudden and slow? What form does her ...
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ISBN 978-1-78168-795-6
EAN 9781781687956
Before the age of the gas lamp, the city at night was a different place, home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctiambulators. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beautmont shines a light on the dark perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers from Shakespeare, the ecstatic strolls of William Blake, the feverish ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-73656-6
EAN 9780674736566
One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades' worth of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose-including the 2004 Jefferson Lecture-in a single volume. Taken together, they serve as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 28,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18478-5
EAN 9780300184785
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from the internationally celebrated Alberto ManguelCuriosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question Why? has appeared under ...
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ISBN 978-1-84655-724-8
EAN 9781846557248
18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84614-637-4
EAN 9781846146374
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