Zbirka: Biografije: književnost
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After the Titanic(2014) ENNISS, STEPHENAfter the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon is a portrait of an artistic life in motion and stirring reflection on the capacity of great poetry to fashion something lasting of our deepest fears and insecurities.Vezava: Trda54,67 € -
Bruce Chatwin(2000) SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLASA biography of Bruce Chatwin, based on private notebooks, diaries, letters and hundreds of interviews. It illuminates the many sides of Chatwin, from Sotheby's director, archaeologist, "Sunday Times" journalist and traveller to devoted husband and activeVezava: Mehka29,43 € -
Wilkie Collins(2013) ACKROYD, PETERAs well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone – often called the first true detective novel – and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth(2021) WILSON, FRANCESThe prize-winning biography of Wordsworth's beloved sister, champion, muse who was at the heart of the Romantic movement in Britain - reissued to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Dorothy's birth. 'Genius ...Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Henry David Thoreau(2018) WALLS, LAURA DASSOWA full accounting of Thoreau’s life that takes him, his writings, and his ideas seriously and puts him in the context of his place and time.Vezava: Mehka33,86 € -
Mad World(2010) BYRNE, PAULAA terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England’s greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpieVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Vera Brittain: A Life(2022) BOSTRIDGE, MARK,BERRY, PAULTo tie-in with the new collection of letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby - Between Friends - a reissue of the definitive biography of the author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life(2023) OLUBAS, BRIGITTAThe authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Great Fire, The Transit of Venus and Greene on Capri, winner of the National Book Award, the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for The WomenVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Hyacinth Girl(2023) GORDON, LYNDALLThe revealing of the hidden muse - Emily Hale - the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem - who influenced the life and art of TS Eliot.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
At the Loch of the Green Corrie(2011) GREIG, ANDREWA fishing trip honoring a dying man's wish becomes a meditation on life, nature and friendship, a literary biography and a celebration of the beauty of the Highlands of Scotland.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Charles Dickens(2012) TOMALIN, CLAIRECharles Dickens was a phenomenon: a hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, and a great novelist. This book paints a fresh portrait of Dickens, capturing the complex characVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Molly Keane(2018) PHIPPS, SALLYA wonderfully honest and deeply accomplished tribute to a complicated, talented mother and writer - 'An Irish writer whose only equal is Elizabeth Bowen' (Bookseller) - by her daughter.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
The Essential Writings of John Marshall(2022) CHRISTMAN, HENRY M.,MARSHALL, JOHNVezava: Mehka10,50 € -
Life of Charlotte Bronte(2009) GASKELL, ELIZABETHElizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell and collated with the manuscript and the previous two edVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
John Barleycorn(2018) LONDON, JACKAs close to an autobiography as London ever wrote, this brutally frank memoir of a lifelong struggle with alcohol also offers insights into the author's life as an adventurer and popular writer.Vezava: Mehka5,60 € -
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Swing Low(2013) TOEWS, MIRIAMOne morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. But it is also a funny, winsome evocation of country life: growing up on farm, courting a wife, becoming a teacher, and rearing a happy, strong family in the midstVezava: Mehka15,41 €
