Zbirka: Biografije: književnost
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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 € -
Looking for Theophrastus(2022) BEATTY, LAURAA strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back two thousand years to rescue from obscurity Aristotle's friend and Chaucer's inspiration, the forgotten philosopher who grandfathered botany aVezava: Trda27,32 € -
Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism(2022) HUSSEY, PROFESSOR MARK (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, PACE UNIVERSITY, USA, PACE UNIVERSITY, USA)Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Bookseller of Florence(2022) KING, DR ROSSBefore long, with the enterprising nuns working tirelessly as typesetters, the Ripoli Press began printing a series of books and pamphlets that triggered an explosion of ideas in politics, philosophy and religion.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Girl from Lamaha Street(2022) MAAS, SHARONSharon shares her incredible story of growing up in Guyana in the fifties before going off to a boarding school in England where she was the only dark-skinned girl. Covering her childhood freedom in Guyana against the backdrop of institutionalised racism,Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Aphra Behn: A Secret Life(2017) TODD, JANETAn exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.Vezava: Mehka23,15 € -
William Blake Now(2019) HIGGS, JOHN'If a thing loves, it is infinite' William BlakeA short, impassioned argument for why the visionary artist William Blake is important in the twenty-first centuryVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
William Blake vs the World(2022) HIGGS, JOHNA wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy and religion to better understand the mercurial genius William Blake in the twenty-first centuryVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Dashing for the Post(2017) FERMOR, PATRICK LEIGHA revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken RoadVezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Broken House(2022) KRUGER, HORSTHe had been, Krüger realised, 'the typical child of innocuous Germans who were never Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have been able to do their work'. This world of respectability, order and duty began to crumble when tragedy struck.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Genius and Anxiety(2020) LEBRECHT, NORMANA unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world – and it changed themVezava: Mehka16,81 €
