Zbirka: Biografije: književnost
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Bitter Herbs(2020) MINCO, MARGA‘The evening the men came I fled through the garden gate…’The Netherlands, World War IIWhen the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it's clear that life is changing for the girl and her family.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Fortunate Woman(2022) MORLAND, POLLYA moving, evocative account of a rural GP in a remote rural location.Vezava: Trda27,32 € -
Perraults(2018) RABINOVITCH, ODEDIn The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly changing world of early modern France. Today, the Perraults are best remembered for their canonical fairy taleVezava: Trda95,16 € -
Homage to Catalonia(2021) ORWELL, GEORGEIntroduced by leading historian Helen Graham, Homage to Catalonia is Orwell’s first-hand account of the Spanish Civil War.Vezava: Trda15,41 € -
Club(2020) DAMROSCH, LEOPrize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernVezava: Mehka24,70 € -
How the Just So Stories Were Made(2021) BATCHELOR, JOHNA fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling’s world-famous children’s classicVezava: Trda30,88 € -
The High Sierra(2022) ROBINSON, KIM STANLEYA "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder).Vezava: Trda49,07 € -
One Pair of Feet(2022) DICKENS, MONICAA charming, funny and fascinating account of a young trainee nurse during the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
On the Wilder Shores of Love(2017) BLANCH, LESLEY,DE CHAMBERET, GEORGIAThe story of a fascinating, bohemian - and, at times outrageous - life that spanned the twentieth century - the perfect book for fans of the Mitfords.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Thousand Laurie Lees(2014) HOROVITZ, ADAMThis is not a book about Laurie Lee, still less a biography. Taking this as a starting point, poet Adam Horovitz reaches back through myth, memory and literature to explore Laurie Lee’s impact on the Slad Valley and its people.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Bright Star, Green Light(2022) BATE, JONATHANA dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘Highly engaging … Go now, read this book’ THE TIMESVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Like a Fiery Elephant(2005) COE, JONATHANThe critically acclaimed biography of a man respected for his fierce commitment to truth and honesty, and his passionate belief in the avant-garde.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Emile Zola(2020) NELSON, BRIAN (MONASH UNIVERSITY)Émile Zola occupies a distinctive place in the great tradition of French realist fiction. Brian Nelson introduces this quintessential novelist of modernity, and explores his fascination with change, and the way he opened the novel up to new areas of repreVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Charles Williams(2017) LINDOP, GREVEL (FREELANCE WRITER, FREELANCE WRITER)A lively and readable literary biography of a remarkable personality who was a central member of the Inklings, this book rediscovers the dramatic and contradictory life of a brilliant writer and publisher from a poor London background who became a ground-Vezava: Mehka21,71 € -
Worse Place Than Hell(2021) MATTESON, JOHN (JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE)Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the American Civil War and their enduring legacy.Vezava: Trda46,56 € -
Ode to Darkness(2019) SANDBERG, SIGRIA charming meditation on our relationship with darkness, translated from the original NorwegianVezava: Trda23,82 €
