Zbirka: Biografije: književnost
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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: Mehka22,42 € -
Fyodor Dostoevsky(2012) BIRD, ROBERTRobert Bird traces Fyodor Dostoevsky's path from a political revolutionary to one who fought his battles through the printed word. The author describes how Dostoevsky's difficult background contributed to his highly acclaimed novels such as Crime and PuniVezava: Mehka20,89 € -
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 € -
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: 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 € -
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: Mehka15,41 € -
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 € -
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: Mehka14,01 €
