Zbirka: Biografije: književnost
899 rezultatov
-
Performing Flea(2014) WODEHOUSE, P.G.In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots.Vezava: Trda21,03 € -
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake(2013) QUINDLEN, ANNAIn Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen shares the events of her own life to illuminate our own. From childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, Quindlen tells life as she hasVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Living to Tell the Tale(2024) GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ , GABRIEL MARGUEZ GARCIA , MARQUEZ GABRIEL GARCIAVezava: Mehka14,18 € -
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters(2014) VONNEGUT, KURTThis collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote – from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Shakespeare(1996) BURGESS, ANTHONYAmong Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben JoVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Cold Cream(2009) MOUNT, FERDINANDA pitch-perfect memoir, brilliantly funny, wise and moving, of family, friends and political life over the last sixty yearsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
In Search Of Shakespeare(2005) WOOD, MICHAELAlmost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
What Am I Doing Here?(1998) CHATWIN, BRUCEIn this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journeyVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
George Eliot(2008) UGLOW, JENNY* A fascinating insight into the contradictions between Eliot's private life and her writingsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Country Girl(2013) O'BRIEN, EDNAI thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, toVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Boy(2011) DAHL, ROALDTells the story of unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain's favourite storyteller and also speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Kafka – A Life in Prague(2011) WAGENBACH, KLAUSA biography that provides a meticulously researched insight into the author's family background, his education and employment, his attitude to his native city, his literary influences, and his relationships with women.Vezava: Trda17,81 € -
Lives of the Poets(2009) JOHNSON, SAMUELThe Lives of the Poets is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most diverting. This is the only one-volume paperback edition to make available Johnson's most substantial Lives in unabridged form. Texts are drawn from Roger LVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Secret Life of Oscar Wilde(2004) MCKENNA, NEILDeals with Oscar's astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London's sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven personally and creatively by his powerful desires for sex with men, in this book, the author argues that Oscar's Wilde's life aVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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 €
