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Book of Queer Prophets(2021)‘A fascinating and thoughtful exploration of faith in the modern world. If you’re wondering why it matters and how to make sense of it, read on.’ Clare BaldingVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy(2022) SCOTT-BROWN, SOPHIE (UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, UK)Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy is the first full account of Ward’s life and work. Drawing on unseen archival sources, as well as oral interviews, it excavates the worlds and words of his anarchist thought, illuminating his methods, and chartinVezava: Mehka74,12 € -
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 € -
Allegorizings(2022) MORRIS, JANPublished one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris' Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chroniclers of the Twentieth Century.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Hallelujah Junction(2016) ADAMS, JOHNPart memoir and part description of the creative process, this is an absorbing journey through the musical landscape of John Adams, one of today's most admired and frequently performed composers.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Transferred Life of George Eliot(2018) DAVIS, PHILIP (UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL)This new biography of George Eliot is not just the story of her life. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like a novelist. Philip Davis enables you not only to see through George Eliot's eyes, but also feel what it is lVezava: Mehka29,43 € -
Charles I's Killers in America(2019) JENKINSON, MATTHEW (MEMBER OF THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM, NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD)After the Restoration the men who signed Charles I's death warrant fled to New England, becoming folk heroes for America's earliest historians and novelists. This is the story of the lives and afterlives of these regicides, and the truth behind the attempVezava: Trda38,54 € -
My Bondage and My Freedom(2019) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKMy Bondage and My Freedom is the second of Frederick Douglass's full-length autobiographies. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Oh, What a Lovely Century(2021) OWEN, RODERIC FENWICKWritten by an upper class travel writer who was born in 1921, this stranger-than-fiction memoir about love, sex, war, tragedy and adventure traverses the whole of 20th century planet earth and features countless celebrities, politicians and royalty.Vezava: Trda28,04 € -
Oh, What a Lovely Century(2022) OWEN, RODERIC FENWICKWritten by an upper class travel writer who was born in 1921, this stranger-than-fiction memoir about love, sex, war, tragedy and adventure traverses the whole of 20th century planet earth and features countless celebrities, politicians and royalty.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Great Women's Speeches(2021) RUSSELL, ANNAOver 50 empowering speeches celebrating women in their own words through extracts and commissioned illustrations, spanning throughout history up to the modern day.Vezava: Trda18,21 € -
Artistic Circles(2021) HODGE, SUSIEI Know an Artist is a collection of 84 beautifully illustrated portraits that reveal the fascinating connections between famous artists throughout history.Vezava: Trda21,61 € -
Shakespeare's First Folio(2018) SMITH, EMMA (FELLOW AND TUTOR IN ENGLISH, FELLOW AND TUTOR IN ENGLISH, HERTFORD COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Just a few hundred copies of the 1623 edition of Shakespeare's collected plays exist, making it one of the most sought-after publications in history. Emma Smith explores the First Folio's post-publication life, the stories of individual copies, and the waVezava: Mehka18,91 € -
William Wordsworth(2020) GILL, STEPHEN (PROFESSOR EMERITUS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY; SUPERNUMERARY FELLOW, LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD)A second edition of Stephen Gill's acclaimed biography William Wordsworth: A Life. Completely revised and updated, this edition explores the whole of Wordsworth's life including his career, his personal relationships, and the historical circumstances thatVezava: Trda42,05 €
