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PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-55465-4
EAN 9780241554654
Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language. 'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust'(Ali Smith)Lydia Davis gathered a selection of her non-fiction ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-815-1
EAN 9781788168151
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.' Eimear McBrideNuanced, daring and tender, these essays from the celebrated author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior, consistently fascinate and provoke. Mary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 624 páginas
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44160-2
EAN 9780241441602
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 4,60 €
ISBN 978-0-00-836187-7
EAN 9780008361877
In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human.He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world - arguing that we need them now more ...
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Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing, the book plots a journey through the works and subjects that have inspired and influenced her. Written with the same clarity and insight that characterize her fiction, the pieces range from literary criticism and reflections ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-0-00-843000-9
EAN 9780008430009
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-9698-1
EAN 9781509896981
When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became his 'book of life', an endless source of inspiration through ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 37,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-36280-6
EAN 9780571362806
This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - dramatic and poetic - as a single, tightly integrated, evolving organism. Hughes supports his thesis with erudition and a painstakingly close analysis of language, plots and ...
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ISBN 978-0-525-57533-7
EAN 9780525575337
We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America were challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a racist president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-664-7
EAN 9781782276647
A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling, S.N. Behrman, Luc Sante, Joseph Mitchell, and Lillian Ross; plus, portraits of their editors William Shawn and New Yorker founder Harold Ross.Together: they invented modern magazine journalism. Includes an introductory interview by Susan ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5324-3
EAN 9780712353243
Exploring the gardens, monuments, museums, and churches with walks both urban and rural, from the Bronte parsonage in Haworth to Zadie Smith's North London and Shakespeare's Stratford, The Book Lover's Bucket List takes you through some 100 wonderfully described literary sites and landscapes, complete with colour destination photographs and illustrations from the British Library collections. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 120 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-61180-686-1
EAN 9781611806861
A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.German poet Rainer Maria Rilke's (1875 1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke's personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living urge an aspiring poet to look inward, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78733-194-5
EAN 9781787331945
Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, including several never previously in print, Languages of Truth chronicles a period of momentous cultural shifts. Across a wide variety of subjects, Rushdie delves into the nature of storytelling as a deeply human need, and what emerges is a love letter to literature itself. Throughout, Rushdie shares his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-241-26801-8
EAN 9780241268018
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 dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,34 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-5711-1
EAN 9781509857111
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-2765-5
EAN 9781529027655
In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century. Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, examining its role in our political and emotional lives. She ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78474-431-1
EAN 9781784744311
'Consistently illuminating... considered, compassionate and appreciative... This book is a wonderful tribute to a family and to an idea' Guardian63 rue de Monceau, ParisDear friend, As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident.I know your street rather well. Count Moise de Camondo lived a few doors away from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-36095-6
EAN 9780571360956
Laura Lippman's first job in journalism was a rookie reporter in Waco, Texas. Two decades later she left her first husband, quit the newspaper business, and became a full time novelist. I had been creating villains on the page for about seven years when I finally became one.Her fiction has always centered on complicated women, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 10,73 €
ISBN 978-1-78733-310-9
EAN 9781787333109
In The Hard Crowd, she 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 the themes and real-life terrain that underpin her fiction.In nineteen razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-525-56733-2
EAN 9780525567332
The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in the arts inspired a flowering of literary culture. At the same time, the many problems that confronted mid-century America racism, sexism, nuclear threat, war, poverty, ...
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