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- Icon Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-338-8
EAN 9781785783388
Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Miserables in an attic in Guernsey and Noel Coward wrote that most English of plays, Blithe Spirit, in the Welsh holiday village of ...
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- Routledge, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 170 páginas
PVP: 24,75 €
ISBN 978-1-138-66905-5
EAN 9781138669055
Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience.The ...
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- Head Of Zeus, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 597 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78669-126-2
EAN 9781786691262
Everybody knows about Sherlock Holmes, the unique literary character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has remained popular over the decades and is more appreciated than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor back in the 1880s, into such a great success? This is the fascinating ...
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The Book Thieves
The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
- Penguin USA, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7352-2123-9
EAN 9780735221239
A chilling reminder of Hitler's twisted power. --BBCFor readers of The Monuments Men and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the story of the Nazis' systematic pillaging of Europe's libraries, and the small team of heroic librarians now working to return the stolen books to their rightful owners.While the Nazi party was being condemned by much ...
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- Two Roads, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-9080-1
EAN 9781444790801
Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape into another reality? For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world, to become a better person, and to find the answers to the big (and small) questions about ...
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- Harper Collins USA, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-828468-8
EAN 9780008284688
Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate.The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. In this now legendary journey into the hinterland ...
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Born A Crime
Stories from a South African Childhood
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-3530-2
EAN 9781473635302
WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZEThe compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-24080-1
EAN 9780393240801
The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destiny for centuries. Stemming from a few verses in an ancient book, it became not just the foundation of three major world faiths, but has evolved through art, philosophy and science to serve as the mirror in which we seem to ...
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- Routledge, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 222 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-1-138-70127-4
EAN 9781138701274
The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding and Henry James may be instructive in the art of moral living. Some go further and argue that Emile Zola and Harriet Beecher Stowe played a part in ameliorating the lives of those existing in harsh circumstances. However, as Derek ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 66,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15772-6
EAN 9780691157726
This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar. Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most distinguished authorities on French literature, has gathered a transatlantic group of more than thirty leading scholars who ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17574-4
EAN 9780691175744
From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its ...
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- Routledge, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 204 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-415-71370-2
EAN 9780415713702
Modernism: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the study of modernism in its global dimensions. Examining the key concepts, history and varied forms of the field, it guides the reader through the major approaches, outlining key debates, to answer such questions as:What is modernism?How did modernism begin?Has modernism developed differently in different media?How is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-9016-5
EAN 9781408890165
How do you clothe a book?In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what ...
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The most-trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections and helpful editorial apparatus, The Norton Anthology of American Literature features a cover-to-cover revision. The ninth edition introduces new General Editor Robert Levine and three new-generation editors who have reenergised the volume across the centuries. Fresh scholarship, new authors-with an emphasis on contemporary writers-new topical clusters and ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1264 páginas
PVP: 40,72 €
ISBN 978-0-393-61458-9
EAN 9780393614589
The most-trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections and helpful editorial apparatus, The Norton Anthology of American Literature features a cover-to-cover revision. The ninth edition introduces new General Editor Robert Levine and three new-generation editors who have reenergised the volume across the centuries. Fresh scholarship, new authors-with an emphasis on contemporary writers-new topical clusters and ...
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The Age of the Crisis of Man
Thought and Fiction in America, 1933 1973
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17329-0
EAN 9780691173290
In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a ...
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One Toss of the Dice
The Incredible Story of how One Poem made us Modern
- Liveright, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 42,95 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-663-7
EAN 9780871406637
In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today. It was the forerunner of our digital age, improbably a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-1-5013-1320-2
EAN 9781501313202
Journalist and literary critic Charlie Lee-Potter explores the links between the novel and journalism-and the place of both in responding to traumatic cultural events-in the aftermath of 9/11. Writing the 9/11 Decade investigates the relation of the novel to journalism, and the role of both in shaping culture, by looking at novelists' journalistic responses to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-226-41910-7
EAN 9780226419107
In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine is not as stupid as she ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54544-1
EAN 9780674545441
Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account is nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of innovation from Edisons recitation of 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' for his tinfoil phonograph in ...
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