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Jane Austen(2022) 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: Mehka14,01 € -
Becoming Superman(2020) STRACZYNSKI, J. MICHAELThe deeper he read, the more he came to realize that he, too, had a superpower: the ability to tell stories and make everything come out the way he wanted it.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Undertaking(1998) LYNCH, THOMASLike all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. These are essays of rare elegance and grace, full of fiVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Story of Alice(2016) DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST, ROBERTSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Romantic Outlaws(2016) GORDON, CHARLOTTE***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Franz Kafka(2022) KILCHER, ANDREAS,SCHMIDT, PAVELThe first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawingsVezava: Trda66,53 € -
P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters(2013) WODEHOUSE, P.G.'Wodehouse said letters make "a wonderful oblique form for an autobiography," and Sophie Ratcliffe's expertly edited collection amply proves the point.'SpectatorOne of the funniest and most admired writers of the twentieth century, P.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde(2018) WILDE, OSCARServing prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A savage indictment of society, and testimony to private sufferings, his prison writings illuminated by Nicholas Frankel's notes reveaVezava: Mehka31,76 € -
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures(2018) SMITH, WILBURWilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and here in his first ever memoirs he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Lewis Carroll(2014) WAKELING, EDWARDThis new biography of Carroll by leading international authority, Edward Wakeling, presents a fresh appraisal of the man based upon his social circle.Vezava: Trda105,00 € -
London Lover(2019) SIGAL, CLANCY‘An exuberant, breathless sprint through London in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies… It’s bright, boisterous and extremely funny’ TatlerVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Life in the Day(2018) DAVIES, HUNTERThe sequel to the hugely enjoyable and poignant childhood memoir by Hunter Davies – The Co-op’s Got Bananas!Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Three Brothers(2020) LIANKE, YANReading novels is an escape for Yan, and he yearns to become a writer after hearing about a woman who was allowed to remain in the city of Harbin after publishing her first novel. Caught between his obligations as a son and a brother, and his longing foVezava: Trda18,21 €
