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Subversive Copy Editor
Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-226-24007-7
EAN 9780226240077
Longtime manuscript editor and "Chicago Manual of Style" guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the rights and wrongs of prose styling. Saller realized that when these sides squared off, it was often the reader who lost. In her search for practical strategies for ...
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Conlon, Catherine; Phelan, Mary
Dear Cathy ... Love, Mary : The Year We Grew Up
Tender, Funny and Revealing Letters from 1980s Ireland
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97522-0
EAN 9780241975220
"Poignant, funny and highly readable." (Sue Leonard, Examiner). "A real snapshot in time...a celebration of female friendship...fantastic - such a good read." (Irish Times Women's Podcast). "Engaging...tender and true and spiced with wit and no little wisdom." (RTE Guide)."Heart-warming...nostalgic...the letters brim over with the kind of humour and honest reflection that only best friends exchange." ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-5013-0732-4
EAN 9781501307324
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress.Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84887-961-4
EAN 9781848879614
A. N. Wilson has been thinking about the Bible, and reading it, since he read theology for a year at university.Martin Luther King was 'reading the Bible' when he started the Civil Rights movement. When Michelangelo painted the fresco cycles in the Sistine Chapel, he was 'reading the Bible'. In The Book of the People ...
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- Dorling Kindersley, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-01546-9
EAN 9780241015469
From Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to Shelley's Frankenstein, The Literature Book documents the greatest literature ever written.Featuring over 100 best-selling books, plays and poetry from all over the world, including Latin American and African fiction, The Literature Book encompasses celebrated masterpieces from the most renowned authors to have ever lived. Stunning images and inspirational quotes ...
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The Book Lovers' Anthology
A Compendium of Writing About Books, Readers and Libraries
- Bodleian Library, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85124-248-1
EAN 9781851242481
Can books corrupt? Do badly written books sharpen or dull the minds of their readers? Ought we to take seriously the old saw that excessive reading can damage one's sight? The Book Lovers' Anthology offers answers to these questions and many more with a remarkable collection of reflections on books, readers, and libraries by writers ...
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- Routledge, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 180 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-415-73886-6
EAN 9780415738866
The Bible and Literature: The Basics provides an interpretive framework for understanding the significance of biblical allusions in literature even for readers who have little prior knowledge of the Bible. In doing so, it surveys the Bible's influence on a broad range of English, American, and other Anglophone literatures from a variety of historical periods. ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08302-6
EAN 9780393083026
A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world.The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into ...
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- Canongate, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-85786-421-5
EAN 9780857864215
"Witty, engaging and informative. The sort of book you choose for a friend and end up wanting to keep." (Rachel Joyce). "Ideal for anyone who has ever wondered what on earth to read next." (S J Watson)."Brilliant...a perfect gift." (Vogue). This is a medical handbook, with a difference. Whether you have a stubbed toe or ...
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- Pegasus, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-1-60598-844-3
EAN 9781605988443
From Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life the perfect companion for any lover of books. Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). In ...
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The Meaning of the Library
A Cultural History
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 40,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16639-1
EAN 9780691166391
From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. Generously illustrated, The Meaning of the Library examines this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the ...
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A History of American Literature
1950 to the Present
- John Wiley, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 39,70 €
ISBN 978-1-119-06252-3
EAN 9781119062523
The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st centuryCovers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novelsFeatures discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 48,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16578-3
EAN 9780691165783
This is a bold and original original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. In this wide-ranging survey, Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force behind the novel's evolution has been a rivalry between stories that idealize human behavior and those that ridicule and condemn it. Impelled by ...
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- Routledge, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 340 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-1-138-79777-2
EAN 9781138797772
It is often assumed that picturebooks are for very young readers because of their emphasis on the illustrations and their scarcity of text; however, there are increasing numbers of picturebooks where the age of the implied reader is questionable. These are picturebooks whose controversial subject matter and unconventional, often unsettling style of illustration challenge the ...
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- John Wiley, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-118-84319-2
EAN 9781118843192
Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, 30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity to what we know or think we know about one of the most important periods in literary history.Explores the various misconceptions commonly associated with Romanticism, offering provocative insights that ...
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- Random House USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-345-80319-1
EAN 9780345803191
The dramatic, never-before-told story--drawing on newly declassified files--of how a forbidden book became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout went to a village outside Moscow to visit Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's only novel, ...
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- Little&Brown, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-0678-7
EAN 9781408706787
In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, Very Good Lives offers J.K.Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life, asking the profound and provocative questions: How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our ...
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- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-725576-4
EAN 9780007255764
A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all for reading. Or so he kept telling himself.But, no matter how busy or ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5962-9
EAN 9781408859629
In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, ...
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The Mighty Dead
Why Homer Matters
- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-00-733553-4
EAN 9780007335534
Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant? 'The Mighty ...
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