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Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet
ISBN: 9780393323627 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although Ted Hughes ended his days as England's beloved poet laureate, his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. He never entirely recovered from the suicide of his wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, for which many have held his adultery responsible. In this insightful biography, the first written since Hughes's death, Elaine Feinstein explores an altogether more complex situation, throwing new light on his relationship with his lover Assia Wevill, who later killed herself along with their young daughter.
Although Ted Hughes ended his days as England's beloved poet laureate, his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. He never entirely recovered fro...
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87,23 |
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Iris: The Life of Iris Murdoch
ISBN: 9780393324013 / Angielski / Miękka / 770 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Iris: A Life of Iris Murdoch is already regarded as the standard, authorized biography of one of the most important female novelists and thinkers of the twentieth century. Three years after her death, Iris Murdoch has begun to fascinate a whole new generation of readers, and a movie about her life was released in early 2002. In this critically acclaimed biography, Peter Conradi assesses the intellectual and cultural legacy of a remarkable woman "at the center of our culture" (A. S. Byatt). Published in hardcover as Iris Murdoch: A Life. "Conradi's infectious fascination with...
Iris: A Life of Iris Murdoch is already regarded as the standard, authorized biography of one of the most important female novelists and thin...
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152,04 |
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Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, a Biographical Portrait
ISBN: 9780393325478 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sixty years after his murder by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz, one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers, is experiencing a renaissance in part occasioned by this biography by the renowned Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski. Widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on Schulz, Ficowski reconstructs the author's life story and evokes the fictional vision of his best-known works, The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Including many of Schulz's paintings and letters as well as new information on the Mossad's removal of Schulz's murals from...
Sixty years after his murder by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz, one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers, is experiencing a renaiss...
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83,43 |
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Occasions of Sin (Revised)
ISBN: 9780393327212 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1959, when Sandra Scofield was fifteen, she came home to stay in West Texas after years in Catholic boarding schools. She believed her presence would inspire her invalid mother to live. What she found--a fractured family; a distracted, dying mother--nudged her into the tumult of late adolescence and the awakening of her sexuality. More than forty years later, Scofield looks back on her Catholic girlhood and the ways in which her relationship with her mother was grounded in their intertwined aspirations for holiness, achievement, and love. Writing on the brink of old age, she looks back...
In 1959, when Sandra Scofield was fifteen, she came home to stay in West Texas after years in Catholic boarding schools. She believed her presence wou...
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83,43 |
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Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
ISBN: 9780393327533 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text discusses how Mary Lamb, incarcerated within madhouses after killing her mother, became the confidante of such Romantics as Coleridge and Wordsworth and accessed literature in a way that would have been normally impossible for a woman of her class and time. This text discusses how Mary Lamb, incarcerated within madhouses after killing her mother, became the confidante of such Romantics as Coleridge and... |
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94,84 |
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Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
ISBN: 9780393329353 / Angielski / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author of the landmark Cancer Journals, created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality to this day. Drawing from the private archives of the poet's estate and numerous interviews, Alexis De Veaux demystifies Lorde's iconic status, charting her conservative childhood in Harlem; her early marriage to a white, gay man with whom she had two children; her emergence as an outspoken black feminist lesbian; and her canonization as a seminal poet of American literature.
During her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author of the landmark Cancer Journals, created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality ...
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113,84 |
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The Adventures of Conan Doyle: The Life of the Creator of Sherlock Holmes
ISBN: 9780393331103 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,03 |
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Gather Together in My Name
ISBN: 9780394486925 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a continuation of Maya Angelou's personal story, begun in her bestselling I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
This is a continuation of Maya Angelou's personal story, begun in her bestselling I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
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83,62 |
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A Very Easy Death
ISBN: 9780394728995 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death -shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence- (The Sunday Telegraph). A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mot... |
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57,02 |
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Burning the Days: Recollection
ISBN: 9780394759487 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this brilliant book of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to life an entire era through one man's sensibility. Scenes of love and desire, friendship, ambition, life in foreign cities and New York, are unforgettably rendered here in the unique style for which James Salter is widely admired.
Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most... In this brilliant book of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to l...
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72,22 |
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Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780394759845 / Angielski / Miękka / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit, creativity, and charm of the psychologically and sexually complicated writer, as well as the darker aspects of his personality and life. Covering everything from Wilde's rise as a young...
Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and ...
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98,83 |
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Noel Coward in His Own Words
ISBN: 9780413774415 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one in the twentieth century used language with the same precision and wit as Noel Coward. In his plays, his verse, his song lyrics, stories and in everyday life, he chose his words to uniquely stylish and truthful effect. This affectionate portrait of Coward's life includes not only his best-loved witticisms and lyrics, but also excerpts from private papers and hidden gems from unpublished material. Barry Day Delves into the whole range of Coward's talents, as well as his thoughts on a wide variety of subjects - including the theatre, England, the Arts, religion, love and death -... No one in the twentieth century used language with the same precision and wit as Noel Coward. In his plays, his verse, his song lyrics, stories and... |
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178,61 |
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Collected Works of Francis Bacon
ISBN: 9780415143035 / Angielski / Twarda / 5216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Francis Bacon, statesman, essayist and philosopher, studied law and rose to high office as Lord Chancellor. He had enormous influence on the change of direction for scientific method from being speculative and philosophical in the Aristotelian tradition to making it experimental and factual. Bacon's philosophical influence extended to Locke and through him to subsequent English schools of psychology and ethics. Abroad, his influence also extended to Leibniz, Huygens and Voltaire who called him la pere de la philosophie experimentale. This study contains all Bacon's philosophical works as...
Sir Francis Bacon, statesman, essayist and philosopher, studied law and rose to high office as Lord Chancellor. He had enormous influence on the chang...
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11634,84 |
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Hélène Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing
ISBN: 9780415155410 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to Cixous's theory and her fiction, tracing her development as a writer and intellectual whose remarkable prespicacity and electrifying poetic force are known world-wide.
Unprecedented in its form and content this collection breaks new ground in the theory and practice of auto/biography. Cixous's creative reflections on the past provide occasion for scintillating forays into the future. The... Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene C...
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678,70 |
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Helene Cixous, Rootprints : Memory and Life Writing
ISBN: 9780415155427 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in this volume in English, this autobiography traces Helene Cixous's development as a writer and intellectual and serves also as an introduction to her theory and fiction. It includes an extended interview between Cixous and Calle-Gruber and a revealing collection of photographs taken from Cixous's family album.
Published in this volume in English, this autobiography traces Helene Cixous's development as a writer and intellectual and serves also as an introduc...
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189,02 |
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Sylvia Plath
ISBN: 9780415159425 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media.
The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available ...
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Raymond Williams
ISBN: 9780415187169 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his life, Raymond Williams played many parts: child of the Black Mountains, adult lecturer, Cambridge professor, folk hero and guru of the left. In this biography, Fred Inglis has spoken to those who knew Williams at every stage of his life, from his boyhood in the Welsh border country to his brief years of retirement. The book is written by someone who knew Williams personally and shared in many of the events chronicled within.
In his life, Raymond Williams played many parts: child of the Black Mountains, adult lecturer, Cambridge professor, folk hero and guru of the left. In...
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232,65 |
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Charles Dickens: Family History
ISBN: 9780415222334 / Angielski / Twarda / 1744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This set gives an insight into Charles Dickens' life, through the writings of relatives and friends. Collecting hard to find material together in one place, this snapshot of one of our greatest literary figures should provide the background necessary for enhancing the study of his writings.
This set gives an insight into Charles Dickens' life, through the writings of relatives and friends. Collecting hard to find material together in one ...
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4241,87 |
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Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine : Biography, Celebrity, Politics
ISBN: 9780415335560 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In early nineteenth-century Britain, there was unprecedented interest in the subject of genius, as well as in the personalities and private lives of creative artists. This was also a period in which literary magazines were powerful arbiters of taste, helping to shape the ideological consciousness of their middle-class readers. Romantic Genius and the Literary Magazine considers how these magazines debated the nature of genius and how and why they constructed particular creative artists as geniuses.
Romantic writers often imagined genius to be a force that transcended the realms of politics... In early nineteenth-century Britain, there was unprecedented interest in the subject of genius, as well as in the personalities and private lives of c...
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702,94 |
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Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk
ISBN: 9780415345668 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing Across Worlds brings together a selection of interviews with major international writers previously featured in the pages of the magazine. Conducted by a wide constituency of distinguished critics, writers and journalists, the interviews offer a unique insight into the views and work of a remarkable array of acclaimed authors. They also chart a slow but certain cultural shift: those once seen as 'other' have not only won many of the establishment's most revered literary prizes but have also become central figures in contemporary literature, writing across and into all our... Writing Across Worlds brings together a selection of interviews with major international writers previously featured in the pages of the m... |
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702,94 |
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