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The Bookseller of Florence
Vespasianno da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance
- Vintage UK, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-937-2
EAN 9781784709372
In the mid-1400s, Vespasiano da Bisticci's bookshop in Florence was said to contain all the wisdom of the world. Vespasiano and his team of scribes and illuminators produced exquisite manuscripts for popes and princes across Europe, rediscovering and disseminating some of the most significant texts from classical antiquity. But in 1476 a new technology arrived ...
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- Orion, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1578-5
EAN 9781474615785
MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today.In this authoritative and entertaining book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other ...
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- Pan, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-1233-0
EAN 9781529012330
The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and therapeutic power of the written word . . .defiant and cautiously optimistic' Financial Times' An incredible chronicle . . .The book tells the kind of story that often gets buried beneath images of violence' LitHub In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally ...
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The Fairy Tellers
A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales
Who were the Fairy Tellers?In this far-ranging quest, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber unearths the lives of the dreamers who made our most beloved fairy tales: inventors, thieves, rebels and forgotten geniuses who gave us classic tales such as 'Cinderella', 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Baba Yaga'.From the Middle Ages to the birth ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50102-3
EAN 9780241501023
'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-342-2
EAN 9781788163422
A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge under AttackFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with ...
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- Penguin USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 298 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-525-43627-0
EAN 9780525436270
A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate."Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric DisturbancesThe essay form is an especially democratic one, ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199123-8
EAN 9780141991238
A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, ...
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Breaking Bread with the Dead
A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
- Penguin USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-1-984878-42-7
EAN 9781984878427
From the author of How to Think and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the past to stay sane in the presentW. H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively ...
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- Allen Lane, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,34 €
ISBN 978-0-241-37423-8
EAN 9780241374238
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, ...
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Dear Reader
The Comfort and Joy of Books
- Macmillan, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-9155-9
EAN 9781509891559
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to reading and to finding the comfort and joy in stories. 'Exquisite' - Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups'A warm, unpretentious manifesto for why books matter' - Sunday ExpressGrowing up, Cathy Rentzenbrink was rarely seen without ...
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The Short Story of the Novel
A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and Techniques
- Laurence King, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78627-744-2
EAN 9781786277442
The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend. In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations of why they are ...
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
- Penguin USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-525-52231-7
EAN 9780525522317
From leading Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, a timely and insightful examination of what the world's greatest dramatist can teach us about life in an America riven by conflictThe plays of William Shakespeare are rare common ground in the United States. They are read at school by almost every student, staged in theaters across the land, ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78954-877-8
EAN 9781789548778
. A lively and wide-ranging exploration of a literary masterwork and its influence on writers, poets, artists and film-makers up to our own time. Dante has no equal as he sings of other-worldly horror and celestial beatitude alike.Yet for all our distance from medieval theology, the Florentine poet's allegorical journey through hell, purgatory and paradise ...
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- Yale University Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 37,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23041-3
EAN 9780300230413
The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the creation of the greatest library of the Renaissance, with ambitions to be universal--that is, to bring together ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 52,15 €
ISBN 978-1-83851-004-6
EAN 9781838510046
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a cultural phenomenon. First published in 1865, it has never been out of print and has been translated into 170 languages. But why does it have such enduring and universal appeal for both adults and children?Beginning by plunging the reader into the spectacular new wonderland of acclaimed illustrator Kristjana ...
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- Random House USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-1-57826-892-4
EAN 9781578268924
Highlighting the wonders of our planet and ways on how best we can save it, The Earth Lover's Treasury of Quotations includes quotes ranging from poet Henry David Thoreau to activist Greta Thunberg. This quote collection will help show all of us how to cherish the environment and key ways to protect our fragile planet ...
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A Place For Everything
The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-8158-1
EAN 9781509881581
Once we've learned it as children few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order if the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays a major role in our adult lives. From the school register to the telephone book, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to ...
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The Ministry of Truth
A Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-9075-0
EAN 9781509890750
'If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture, you should not miss this engrossing, enlightening book.' John Carey, Sunday TimesGeorge Orwell's last novel has become one of the iconic narratives of the modern world. Its ideas have become part of the language - from 'Big Brother' to ...
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Consider This
Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
- Corsair, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-5553-5
EAN 9781472155535
Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling. In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing ...
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