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Mark Twain's Own Autobiography
ISBN: 9780299125448 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -I intend that this autobiography . . . shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method-a form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the interest all along, like contact of flint with steel.-
Thus Mark Twain began the first of the twenty-five -Chapters from My Autobiography- published in the North American Review 1906-1907. Those chapters contain a unified account of Twain's life recorded in his own unmistakable voice; in them we read his life's story as he intended it to... -I intend that this autobiography . . . shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method-a form and method whereby the p...
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Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926-7 September 1986
ISBN: 9780299136406 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In May of 1986, the poet Kamau Brathwaite learned that his wife, Doris, was dying of cancer and had only a short time to live. Responding as a poet, he began helplessly and spasmodically to record her passage in a diary. This is a collection of excerpts from that diary and other notes from this period of the Brathwaite lives.
In May of 1986, the poet Kamau Brathwaite learned that his wife, Doris, was dying of cancer and had only a short time to live. Responding as a poet, h...
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Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926--7 September 1986
ISBN: 9780299136444 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this memoir, West Indian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite conjures his wife, Doris, and tells of her death from cancer.
In this memoir, West Indian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite conjures his wife, Doris, and tells of her death from cancer.
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Intensely Family: The Inheritance of Family Shame and the Autobiographies of Henry James
ISBN: 9780299147242 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documenting the connotations of James's phrase intensely family, this text examines the shame-based psychology bred by his parents and its impact on James's literary career. It draws on a collection of James's unpublished correspondence with his sister-in-law and nephew.
Documenting the connotations of James's phrase intensely family, this text examines the shame-based psychology bred by his parents and its impact on J...
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91,04 |
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Feather : A Child's Death and Life
ISBN: 9780299153601 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poet and critic, Robert Peters, recalls the brief life and sudden death of his son, Richard, a four-year-old called Feather by his sister and brother. He describes the harrowing image of his dead son, a strained marriage, and a family during moments of transcendent joy and crushing grief.
Poet and critic, Robert Peters, recalls the brief life and sudden death of his son, Richard, a four-year-old called Feather by his sister and brother....
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Jumping the Line: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical
ISBN: 9780299157906 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An account of time served in the great battles of the 20th century - for workers' rights, against fascism, communism, and racism. William Herrick chronicles his adventures and misadventures from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War to organizing African-American sharecroppers in Georgia.
An account of time served in the great battles of the 20th century - for workers' rights, against fascism, communism, and racism. William Herrick chro...
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87,21 |
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Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet
ISBN: 9780299159702 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Readers often have regarded with curiosity the creative life of the poet. In this passionate and authoritative new study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and life of nineteenth-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of his two-hundredth birthday, still speaks to our time. He indicates how we as modern readers might "realize"-- that is, not only grasp cognitively, but feel, experience--the promethean metaphors central to the poet's intensely "sculpted" life. The Pushkin who emerges from... Readers often have regarded with curiosity the creative life of the poet. In this passionate and authoritative new study, David Bethea illustrates... |
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Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet
ISBN: 9780299159740 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Readers often have regarded with curiosity the creative life of the poet. In this study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and life of 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of this 200th anniversary, still speaks to our time. He indicates how we, as modern readers, might realize the promethean metaphors central to the poet's intensely sculpted life. The Pushkin who emerges from Bethea's portrait is one who, long unknown to English-language readers, closely resembles the original both...
Readers often have regarded with curiosity the creative life of the poet. In this study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and lif...
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Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography
ISBN: 9780299161545 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a founder of the Sierra Club and promoter of the national parks, as a passionate nature writer and as a principal figure of the environmental movement, John Muir stands as a powerful symbol of connection with the natural world. But how did Muir s own relationship with nature begin? In this pioneering book, Steven J. Holmes offers a dramatically new interpretation of Muir s formative years, one that reveals the agony as well as the elation of his earliest experiences of nature.
From his childhood in Scotland and Wisconsin through his young adulthood in the Midwest and Canada, Muir... As a founder of the Sierra Club and promoter of the national parks, as a passionate nature writer and as a principal figure of the environmental movem...
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Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
ISBN: 9780299164409 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the autobiography of Carson McCullers, published more than 30 years after it was written. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation - the author of The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - died of a stroke at the age of 50 before finishing this, her last manuscript. Editor Carlos L. Dews has brought her story back to life, complete with letters between McCullers and her husband Reeves, and an outline of her most famous novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
This is the autobiography of Carson McCullers, published more than 30 years after it was written. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her gen...
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Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
ISBN: 9780299164447 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dictated in an idiomatic, associative style, this book exposes the doubleness of Carson McCullers's life. A mine of information for anyone interested in McCullers and American literary life in the 1950s, these memoirs are also a testament to the courage and love of life of their author.
Dictated in an idiomatic, associative style, this book exposes the doubleness of Carson McCullers's life. A mine of information for anyone interested ...
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The World of Mike Royko
ISBN: 9780299165406 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An account of the life of Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko, Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author and a journalist considered by many to personify Chicago. Drawing on interviews with Royko's family and intimates, the book chronicles his rise to one of the top names in US journalism.
An account of the life of Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko, Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author and a journalist considered by many to pe...
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The Isherwood Century : Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood
ISBN: 9780299167004 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for "Goodbye to Berlin" the inspiration for the musical "Cabaret" but is also the author of plays, novels, and diaries. "The Isherwood Century "gathers twenty-four essays and interviews offering a fresh, in-depth view of Isherwood, his literary legacy, and his continuing influence as both a literary and a gay pioneer."
Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for "Goodbye to Berlin" the inspiration for th...
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The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood
ISBN: 9780299167042 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for Goodbye to Berlin the inspiration for the musical Cabaret but is also the author of plays, novels, and diaries. The Isherwood Century gathers twenty-four essays and interviews offering a fresh, in-depth view of Isherwood, his literary legacy, and his continuing influence as both a literary and a gay pioneer."
Called the best English prose writer of this century by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for Goodbye to Berlin the inspiration f...
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American Byron: Homosexuality & the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck
ISBN: 9780299168049 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed in the mid-19th century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was dubbed the American Byron and had a large general readership despite his work's infusion of homosexual themes. This biography portrays him as a prophet of the literary and sexual revolution.
Hailed in the mid-19th century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was dubbed the American Byron and had a large ge...
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Years Of Bloom: James Joyce In Trieste, 1904-1920
ISBN: 9780299169800 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the publication of Richard Ellmann's biography James Joyce in 1959, scholars have chipped away at various aspects of Ellmann's impressive edifice but have failed to construct anything that might stand alongside it. The Years of Bloom is arguably the most important work of Joyce biography since Ellmann. Based on extensive scrutiny of previously unused Italian sources and informed by the author's intimate knowledge of the culture and dialect of Trieste, The Years of Bloom documents a fertile period in Joyce's life. While living in Trieste, Joyce wrote most of the stories in Dubliners,...
Since the publication of Richard Ellmann's biography James Joyce in 1959, scholars have chipped away at various aspects of Ellmann's impressive edific...
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Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography
ISBN: 9780299177300 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a writer, Glenway Wescott (1901 1987) left behind several novels, including The Grandmothers and The Pilgrim Hawk, noted for their remarkable lyricism. As a literary figure, Wescott also became a symbol of his times. Born on a Wisconsin farm in 1901, he associated as a young writer with Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald in 1920s Paris and subsequently was a central figure in New York s artistic and gay communities. Though he couldn t finish a novel after the age of forty-five, he was just as famous as an arts impresario, as a diarist, and for the company he kept: W. H. Auden, Christopher... As a writer, Glenway Wescott (1901 1987) left behind several novels, including The Grandmothers and The Pilgrim Hawk, noted for their remarkable ly... |
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Living at the Edge: Biography of D H Lawrence & Frieda Von Richthofen
ISBN: 9780299177508 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dashingly told and meticulously researched, this double biography of D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda von Richthofen is the first to draw fully on Frieda s unpublished letters and on interviews with people who knew her well. It explores their collision with an industrial world they hated and chronicles the stormy relationship between husband and wife. The strong sexual vitality that inspired Lawrence s art brought both joy and anguish to his marriage. Here, the Lawrences emerge as proud but not conceited in their unconventional lives, staunch in the face of fierce opposition from a...
Dashingly told and meticulously researched, this double biography of D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda von Richthofen is the first to draw fully on F...
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Virginia Woolf's Women
ISBN: 9780299183400 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational friendships with the key women in her life, including the caregivers of her Victorian childhood who instilled in her a lifelong struggle between creativity and convention: her taciturn sister, Vanessa Bell; enigmatic artist Dora Carrington; complex writer Katherine Mansfield; independent novelist Vita Sackville-West; and riotous, militant composer Ethel Smyth.
This is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational friendships with the key women in her life, including the ca...
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life
ISBN: 9780299186944 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Isaac Bashevis SInger brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life. His novels, including The Family Moskat and Enemies: A Love Story and his short stories such as Yentl and Gimpel the Fool prove him to be a consummate storyteller and one of the greatest Yiddish writers of the 20th century.
Isaac Bashevis SInger brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight,...
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