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One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks is also a provocative, entertaining and accomplished essayist. This new collection's title is drawn from D. H. Lawrence's fundamental belligerence, and how all the significant relationships in his life, including those...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-11-21
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Gary Indiana is one of America's leading cultural critics -- a public intellectual who has written key essays on every aspect of American culture. Utopia's Debris comprises selections of his very best work, revealing him to be an enormously acute, frequently scabrous,...
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Basic Books
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2008-11-11
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From the man who is practically synonymous with the form of the modern personal essay comes a delightful collection of prose, poems, and never-before-published pieces that span his career as an essayist, novelist, poet, film critic, father, son, and husband. Organized...
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Basic Books
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2008-11-05
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This collection of John Updike’s non-fiction writings includes a delightful preface, ‘Everything Considered’, in which he tells of his lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith; introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign...
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Penguin
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2008-10-30
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In 2005, The Woman at the Washington Zoo was published to major critical acclaim. The late Marjorie Williams possessed "a special voice, one capable not just of canny political observations but of tenderness and bracing intimacy," observed the New York Times Book...
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PublicAffairs
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2008-10-20
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From accidentally despoiling an exhibit at the Museum of Natural History to baking a cookie in the shape of her boss's face to win her approval, Sloane Crossley can do no right. In a sharp, original storytelling style that confounds expectations at every turn, Crossley...
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E-Penguin
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2008-09-01
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Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this...
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Penguin
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2008-08-07
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French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper Mérimée in the nineteenth century and Anne-Marie Garat in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-07-10
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French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper Mérimée in the nineteenth century and Anne-Marie Garat in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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Arguing against the prevailing view that Holocaust survivors (encouraged by a new and flourishing culture of 'witnessing') have come forward only recently to tell their stories,Writing the Holocaust examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the first...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-26
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Cristoforo Landinos Dialog "De vera nobilitate" gehört zu den Spätschriften des Autors. Er fügt sich ein in die während des ganzen 15. Jahrhunderts anhaltende Diskussion über Wesen und Begriff des "nobilitas". Dabei versucht Landino eine Definition auf der Grundlage des...
Editeur :
Librairie Droz
Parution :
2008-06-01
Collection :
Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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This is the third and final volume of a series of books devoted to design of Rabelais's Pantagrueline epics. It completes the project begun in The Design of Rabelais's Pantagruel and continued in The Design of Rabelais's Tiers Livre de Pantagruel. Its subject is...
Editeur :
Librairie Droz
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2008-06-01
Collection :
Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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Sommaire: V. Branca, «Apertura del Convegno»; G. Ricuperati, «La cultura italiana nel secondo Settecento europeo»; S. Moravia, «La filosofia degli “idéologues”. Scienza dell’uomo e riflessione epistemologica tra Sette e Ottocento»; L. Sozzi, «L’idea di illusione tra la...
Editeur :
Librairie Droz
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2008-06-01
Collection :
Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire
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In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation ofmankind' and the...
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Penguin
Parution :
2007-11-29
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‘A book full of richness, unexpected enticements, short sharp shocks and breathtaking writing’ Guardian Welcome to the real, unauthorised London: the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten. The perfect companion to the city....
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-10-25
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Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychoanalysis, remade our view of the human mind by exploring the unconscious forces that drive us. This collection of his groundbreaking writings on the psychology of love examines the nature of desire, transgression, fantasy and...
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Penguin
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2007-08-02
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A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives. 'Breathtaking, vividly written . . . reading Wildwood is an elegiac experience'...
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Penguin
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2007-05-31
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Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'.Wilde is familiar to us as the ironic critic behind the social...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2007-02-22
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Racked with fever, virtually broke and earning a precarious living through sending back to London the plumes of beautiful birds, Wallace (1823-1913) ultimately became one of the most heroic and admirable of all scientist-explorers. Whether living with Hill Dyaks or...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-02-01
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An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism.An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the deep crisis of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-09-28
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