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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-1402-7
EAN 9781529114027
From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times - and illuminates ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 43,60 €
ISBN 978-0-226-64135-5
EAN 9780226641355
"Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a collection of essays that meditate on what it means to keep our humanity-and witness the humanity of others-in a time of darkness. Cole is well-known as a master of the essay form, and in Black Paper he is writing at the peak of his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-982138-42-4
EAN 9781982138424
In this vividly rendered and empathetic biography of two of the greatest poets of the 20th century-Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton-"the friendship and rivalry that the pair shared-not to mention the titular cocktails at a Boston hotel-is explored in fascinating detail" (Town x{0026} Country). Introduced at a poetry workshop in Boston University, Sylvia Plath and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 172 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78770-416-9
EAN 9781787704169
"Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world." THE SUNDAY TIMESA delightful collection of original essays on reading and writing. From the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend, The Lying Life of Adults, and The Lost Daughter, come four revelatory pieces offering rare insight into the author's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-593-54153-1
EAN 9780593541531
Comic book fans will fall hard for this delightfully daffy guidebook. . . . Exuberant, optimistic, and just plain fun, How to Take Over the World will both surprise and delight. EsquireA book this informative should be a crime!Taking over the world is a lot of work. Any supervillain is bound to have questions: What's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80075-023-4
EAN 9781800750234
'Fascinating. It blew my mind!' Malcolm GladwellWonderworks reveals that literature is among the mightiest technologies that humans have ever invented, precision-honed to give us what our brains most want and need. Literature is a technology like any other.And the writers we revere - from Homer to Shakespeare, Austen to Ferrante - each made a unique ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78474-451-9
EAN 9781784744519
A 2022 Book to Look Forward To in The Times, i, Financial Times, Guardian, Evening Standard, New Statesman, Cosmopolitan and SheerLuxe **From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-525-56723-3
EAN 9780525567233
Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1938-1958 brings together, for the first time, thirty-four public statements from across Camus's career that reveal his radical commitment to justice around the world and his role as a public ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-42167-3
EAN 9780241421673
By the end of the nineteenth century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated poet, novelist, critic and thinker. Today his name is echoed as that of a 'great man' alongside Plato, Montaigne and Shakespeare. This book covers the last nine years of his life, partially spent having conversations with the young Johann ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97758-3
EAN 9780241977583
From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'. 'A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life' The Evening Standard 'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44874-8
EAN 9780241448748
After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing on her own, asking: How do we find love? How do we sustain it? ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-4349-2
EAN 9781421443492
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-845178-3
EAN 9780008451783
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-571-36646-0
EAN 9780571366460
The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn't, between what happened and what won't. In more ways than one, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199976-0
EAN 9780141999760
Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty classic to reveal the wonders beneath, in a clear and comprehensive guide which will provide new and vital insights for everyone from students to specialists. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 47,50 €
ISBN 978-0-415-28020-4
EAN 9780415280204
The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-908213-89-1
EAN 9781908213891
Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted by his own near-death in a time of pandemic, John Burnside explores the history of the auroch (Bos primigenius), the wild cattle that has become the source of so much sacred and cultural ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,65 €
ISBN 978-1-984898-43-2
EAN 9781984898432
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition--from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man--in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom--who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-9821-8789-7
EAN 9781982187897
Described as a 21st-century Virginia Woolf in The Literary Review (UK), Siri Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic mothers, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, and Louise Bourgeois, to the broader meanings of the maternal in a culture shaped ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-22278-2
EAN 9780593222782
Sometimes the truth can be much scarier than fiction. And this collection is no exception. Uncover what fascinated and frightened some of our favorite horror writers of all time.Who are the people who make our hearts race and our minds spin? Why are they so good at making us fear what goes bump in the ...
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