Zbirka: Od 1900 do danes
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Edith Wharton(2013) LEE, HERMIONEHer brilliant, disturbing fiction shows her deep understanding of the longing and struggle in women's lives. This masterly new biography draws on new material and delves into every aspect of Wharton's extraordinary life-story.Vezava: Mehka42,06 € -
Country Girl(2013) O'BRIEN, EDNAI thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, toVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Boy(2011) DAHL, ROALDTells the story of unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain's favourite storyteller and also speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Kafka – A Life in Prague(2011) WAGENBACH, KLAUSA biography that provides a meticulously researched insight into the author's family background, his education and employment, his attitude to his native city, his literary influences, and his relationships with women.Vezava: Trda17,81 € -
Memoirs(2004) AMIS, KINGSLEYElegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes).Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Literature Of Their Own(2009) SHOWALTER, ELAINE* Revised and expanded edition with a new introduction and postscript, published to coincide with Elaine Showalter's new hardback, A JURY OF HER PEERSVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
D. H. Lawrence and Italy (Penguin Classics)(2007) LAWRENCE, D. H.In these impressions of the Italian countryside: "Twilight in Italy", "Sea and Sardina", and "Etruscan Places", the author transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Selected Poems of W B Yeats (York Notes Advanced) English Literature Study Guide - for 2026, 2027 exams(2000) JEFFARES, DERRY'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce stuVezava: Mehka12,34 € -
Kafka's Other Trial(2012) CANETTI, ELIASOffers insights into the creativity of Franz Kafka and the torment he suffered as a man, a lover, and a writer. This book explores the letter that Kafka wrote to his fiancee, from their first tender moments together to his final letter and his refusal toVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Summing Up(2001) MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSETAutobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Little Wilson and Big God(2002) BURGESS, ANTHONYThese are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; Little Wilson and Big God moves from Moss Side to Malaya recalling Burgess's time as an education officer in the tropics, his tempestuous first marriage,Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Mortgaged Heart(1985) MCCULLERS, CARSONA collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. It contains theVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Love From Nancy(1994) MOSLEY, CHARLOTTEContains Nancy Mitford's humorous letters to her family and friends. Mitford never wrote an autobiography, but this collection of letters provides a portrayal of her life and the times in which she lived.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
How Novels Work(2008) MULLAN, JOHN (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)This book draws on the author's column in The Guardian, 'Elements of Fiction'. Using examples from well-known recent novels, it examines the techniques by which fiction works. It will widen the vocabulary of anyone interested in contemporary fiction, notVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Miracles of Life(2008) BALLARD, J. G.J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, ‘Empire of the Sun’, this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Peeling the Onion(2008) GRASS, GUNTERPeeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, onVezava: Mehka26,62 €
