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Down and Out in Paris and London(2021) ORWELL, GEORGEGeorge Orwell’s famous account of his own experience living in poverty in Paris then London. With an introduction by Lara Feigel.Vezava: Trda15,41 € -
Under Cover(2018) ROBSON, JEREMYFull of enticing anecdotes culled from a fifty-year career, this is an engrossing book that provides an insider's view of the changing world of publishing. Jeremy Robson has published an extraordinary range of household names; writers, poets, actors, sinVezava: Trda26,73 € -
L.E.L.(2020) MILLER, LUCASTAA famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron' On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of prVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Ian Fleming's War(2020) SIMMONS, MARKThe first book to explore in detail the link between the work of Ian Fleming at Naval Intelligence during the Second World War and the 007 plotsVezava: Trda28,04 € -
Violet Hour(2017) ROIPHE, KATIEFrom one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes an arresting and wholly original account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak and James Salter.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Philip Roth(2021) NADEL, IRA (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA)This new biography of the controversial, influential, and prize-winning American novelist Philip Roth, a writer with an international reputation for inventive, original novels from Portnoy's Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, isVezava: Trda39,94 € -
Life of Samuel Johnson(2008) BOSWELL, JAMESA biography of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature.Vezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Afterlives of the Roman Poets(2019) GOLDSCHMIDT, NORA (UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM)Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin poetry and reception studies, this interdisciplinary book will interest all those working on life-writing. Individual chapters focus on toVezava: Trda143,59 € -
Mary Shelley(2022) GORDON, CHARLOTTE (DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT ENDICOTT COLLEGE)Famous for her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley was also infamous in her own time for breaking social and literary conventions, and taking a political and philosophical stance advocating for the rights of women. Charlotte Gordon explores the context and kVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Jane Austen(2020) KEYMER, TOM (, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)Jane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian writers to have a large popular following. This book situates Austen in the literary and historical context of her time, and combines criticalVezava: Trda18,91 € -
These Fevered Days(2021) ACKMANN, MARTHAAn engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson that sheds new light on her ground-breaking poetry.Vezava: Mehka21,61 € -
Elizabeth Bishop(2022) POST, JONATHAN F. S. (DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UCLA)Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the published poems at the core of her remarkable canon of verse, along with her letters and other writings, and drawsVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Autumn Journal(2013) MACNEICE, LOUISWritten between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
