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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
- Viking, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-35441-4
EAN 9780241354414
'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in UlyssesIn Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. From Wilde's doctor father, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist, who was taken to court by ...
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- Penguin USA, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-593-08754-1
EAN 9780593087541
Sasha Sagan's parents the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer Ann Druyan taught her that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty, and that science reveals truths more wondrous than any myth or fable. When Sagan herself became a mother, she began her own hunt for the phenomena behind ...
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- Everyman's Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 840 páginas
PVP: 19,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-387-6
EAN 9781841593876
Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, swimming with crocodiles, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or publishing groundbreaking bestsellers. Ahead of his time, he recognized nature as an interdependent whole and he saw before anyone ...
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Essential Essays
Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
- Norton, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 27,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-65236-9
EAN 9780393652369
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of her most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice, her prophetic ...
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- Penguin UK, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97577-0
EAN 9780241975770
A Marias sentence is a place of infinite richness and surprises, full of fascinating byways and glimpses of a distant landscape that hoves into view and then fades away' Independent'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this' Daily TelegraphA new and exhilarating collection of writings from the author ofThe Infatuations andA Heart So WhiteInternationally ...
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- Everyman's Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 900 páginas
PVP: 19,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84159-379-1
EAN 9781841593791
When Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began writing in 1660 he was a young clerk living in London, struggling to pay his rent. Over the next nine years as he kept his journal, he rose to be a powerful naval administrator. He became eyewitness to some of the most significant events in seventeenth-century English history, among them, ...
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- Yale University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 104 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22151-0
EAN 9780300221510
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Administered by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the series publishes works based on the lecture given by the event's keynote speaker.The series launched in 2017 ...
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- Liveright, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-653-8
EAN 9780871406538
A Miscellany, confined to a private edition for decades, sheds further light on the prodigious vision and imagination of the most inventive poet of the twentieth century: E.E. Cummings.Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings's groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited ...
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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: 14,25 €
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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- Vintage USA, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-345-80621-5
EAN 9780345806215
ANew York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club PickFrom award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: 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 Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on ...
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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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