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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 € -
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: Mehka15,41 € -
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 € -
Reading Chekhov(2012) MALCOLM, JANET'Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter all rolled into one ... It is the work of an iridescent and sympathetic imagination' The TimesVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Canongate Burns(2003) BURNS, ROBERT,NOBLE, ANDREW,HOGG, PATRICK SCOTTThe complete works of Robert BurnsVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Jane Austen(2012) TOMALIN, CLAIREA title that involves us so deeply that Austen's final illness and death come almost as a personal tragedy to the reader. It presents Austen as remarkably clever; sensitive, but sentimental; tough, yet observant; guarded; and a woman with the devil of a gVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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 € -
Orientalist(2006) REISS, TOMThe Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself 'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to researchVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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 €
