Zbirka: Avtobiografije: književnost
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Miracles of Life(2008) BALLARD, J. G.J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, ‘Empire of the Sun’, this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Peeling the Onion(2008) GRASS, GUNTERPeeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, onVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Lions and Shadows(2013) ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHERWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London’s BohemiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
My Paper Chase(2010) EVANS, HAROLD* A moving memoir by a unique character which delivers a penetrating insight into some of the major events in post-war BritainVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Facts(2007) ROTH, PHILIPHow does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality?What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake?Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Praeterita(2012) RUSKIN, JOHNPraeterita is the autobiography of John Ruskin (1819-1900), art critic and social commentator and one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century. An elegy for lost places and people, Praeterita recounts Ruskin's childhood, and his travels aVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
In the House of the Interpreter(2013) WA THIONG'O, NGUGIWhile Ngugi enjoys scouting trips, chess tournaments and reading about Biggles at the prestigious Alliance School near Nairobi, things are changing at home. He arrives back for his first visit since starting school to find his house razed to the ground anVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Selected Letters(2009) KEATS, JOHN,MEE, JON (, MARGARET CANFIELD FELLOW IN ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD)Keats's letters are 'the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet' (T. S. Eliot). This new edition revises and updates Robert Gittings's selection and includes 170 letters, a new introduction and notes, list of correspondents and fVezava: Mehka46,95 € -
My Guru and His Disciple(2013) ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHERWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Speak, Memory(2000) NABOKOV, VLADIMIRAn autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov. It presents recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St PetersburgVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Depression(2017) STYRON, WILLIAMLITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Swimming by Roger DeakinBabies by Anne EnrightCalm by Tim ParksWork by Joseph HellerVezava: Mehka8,40 €
