wyszukanych pozycji: 41
Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook
ISBN: 9780300229707 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen
Television and TV viewing are not what they once were--and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in the very manner in which TV is watched. Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, providing a brilliant, eminently entertaining... A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen
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54,65 zł |
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
ISBN: 9780393333541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Finally in paperback after six hardcover printings, this international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. Soaring to Montaigne-like heights, Cultural Amnesia is precisely the book to burnish these memories of a Western civilization that James fears is nearly lost."
Finally in paperback after six hardcover printings, this international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece the perfect introduction to the v...
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86,93 zł |
North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs
ISBN: 9780330481274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Taking us from Fleet Street to Clive James on TV, from Russian department stores to Paris fashion shows via fatherhood, some killer bees, and a satire starring Anne Robinson as Mrs Thatcher, this book is the story of a life lived to the full.
Taking us from Fleet Street to Clive James on TV, from Russian department stores to Paris fashion shows via fatherhood, some killer bees, and a satire...
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51,46 zł |
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin
ISBN: 9781529028850 / Miękka / 2021 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Renowned critic, bestselling author and award-winning poet Clive James offers an exploration and celebration of one of his favourite writers, Philip Larkin.
Renowned critic, bestselling author and award-winning poet Clive James offers an exploration and celebration of one of his favourite writers, Philip L...
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51,46 zł |
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin
ISBN: 9781529028829 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A love letter from one of the world's best living writers to one of its most cherished poets. Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time. The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by the opprobrium attaching to his personal life and his private opinions. James writes about Larkin's poems, his novels, his jazz and literary criticism; he also considers the two major biographies,...
A love letter from one of the world's best living writers to one of its most cherished poets. Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Phi...
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66,92 zł |
The Revolt of the Pendulum : Essays 2005-2008
ISBN: 9780330457392 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of essays shows James at his most dazzling and versatile. From the rules of grammar to the fundamentals of religion, from the culture of fandom to the cult of the critic, it's all there: his customary wit, learning and understanding.
This collection of essays shows James at his most dazzling and versatile. From the rules of grammar to the fundamentals of religion, from the culture ...
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92,95 zł |
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume One
ISBN: 9781529090765 / Book / 2022 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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77,22 zł |
Reliable Essays : The Best of Clive James
ISBN: 9781447241041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Introduced by Julian Barnes, Reliable Essays is the definitive choice of Clive James's essays, selected from thirty years of spellbinding prose.
Introduced by Julian Barnes, Reliable Essays is the definitive choice of Clive James's essays, selected from thirty years of spellbinding prose.
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82,01 zł |
May Week Was In June: More Unreliable Memoirs
ISBN: 9780330315227 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Clive goes to Pembroke College, Cambridge to study. Here he joined the Footlights review, participated in film reviewing, wrote poetry and fell in love on several occasions. The book also details his period as a literary editor of Granta, the articles he wrote for The New Statesman and the period when he took Footlights to the Edinburgh Fringe. Then during May week, which was not only in June but was two weeks long, he married. This book follows Unreliable Memoirs and Falling Towards England. Clive James has published two novels, Brilliant Creatures and The Remake, four books of literary...
Clive goes to Pembroke College, Cambridge to study. Here he joined the Footlights review, participated in film reviewing, wrote poetry and fell in lov...
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71,06 zł |
Sentenced to Life
ISBN: 9781447284055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Sentenced to Life was critically acclaimed on publication and went on to be the bestselling original poetry collection in the UK in 2015.
Sentenced to Life was critically acclaimed on publication and went on to be the bestselling original poetry collection in the UK in 2015.
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56,62 zł |
Falling Towards England: More Unreliable Memoirs
ISBN: 9780330294379 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'Unreliable Memoirs' part two: the story continues.
'Unreliable Memoirs' part two: the story continues.
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51,46 zł |
The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years
ISBN: 9780330457378 / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) However you think of Clive James, & whatever you remember him for, 'The Blaze of Obscurity' is perhaps his most brilliant book yet. It tells the inside story of his years in television, shows Clive on top form both then and now, and proves that Clive has a definite way with words.
However you think of Clive James, & whatever you remember him for, 'The Blaze of Obscurity' is perhaps his most brilliant book yet. It tells the insid...
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51,46 zł |
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust
ISBN: 9781509812356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Filled with Clive James's typical wit, warmth, erudition and enthusiasm, this is a brilliant and original tribute to one of his great literary loves, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu.
Filled with Clive James's typical wit, warmth, erudition and enthusiasm, this is a brilliant and original tribute to one of his great literary loves, ...
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103,01 zł |
The River in the Sky
ISBN: 9781509887248 / Miękka / 2022 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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56,62 zł |
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008
ISBN: 9780393337358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Opal Sunset marks the exuberant introduction of Clive James's poetry to an American audience. Praised after the publication ofCultural Amnesia as one of the finest prose stylists of his generation, Clive James is now, with the publication of this collection, being granted recognition as the poet he has always been. For much of his long career it was hard to realize that James's gift for poetry underlay his achievements in other fields. First as a television critic on Fleet Street, and later as a television personality in his own right, he achieved such fame for writing the...
Opal Sunset marks the exuberant introduction of Clive James's poetry to an American audience. Praised after the publication ofCultural Am...
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86,93 zł |
The Meaning of Recognition: Essays 2001-2005
ISBN: 9781447248835 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Dazzling in its breadth, this collection shows renowned broadcaster, author and poet Clive James at his hilarious, illuminating best.
Dazzling in its breadth, this collection shows renowned broadcaster, author and poet Clive James at his hilarious, illuminating best.
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82,01 zł |
Sentenced to Life: Poems
ISBN: 9781631491726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this new collection of "technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems" (Spectator) including "Japanese Maple," which was published in The New Yorker to great acclaim Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which for all their grappling with death and his current illness are primarily a celebration of what is treasurable and memorable in our time here. Again and again, James reminds us that he is not only a poet of effortless wit and lyric... In this new collection of "technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems" (Spectator) including "Japanese Maple," which was published i... |
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156,65 zł |
Latest Readings
ISBN: 9780300223552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death
In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would "live, read, and perhaps even write." James is the award-winning author of dozens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list. A look at... An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death
In 2010, Clive James was d... |
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60,12 zł |
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008
ISBN: 9780393067071 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With this coruscating work, James, swimming through cultural debris both high and low, dispenses with his reputation as a perennial court jester, establishing himself as a poet of enduring power and resonance.
from "Angels Over Elsinore" How many angels knew who Hamlet was When they were summoned by Horatio? They probably showed up only because The roster said it was their turn to go. Another day, another Dane. Too bad, But while they sang their well-rehearsed lament They noticed... With this coruscating work, James, swimming through cultural debris both high and low, dispenses with his reputation as a perennial court jester, esta...
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114,83 zł |
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud
ISBN: 9781529042085 / Twarda / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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103,01 zł |