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'One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class' Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian...
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Penguin
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2018-11-08
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Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and...
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Penguin
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2018-11-01
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La violenza “inapparente” dimostra con ostinazione la sua natura inafferrabile e infinita, poiché nasce, inconsapevole, nella scrittura, nella materia viva e immateriale, che rende un testo scritto un oggetto artistico solido, capace di comprendere e riflettere la...
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Quodlibet
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2018-10-22
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Quodlibet Studio. Lettere. Ultracontemporanea
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Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON‘What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?’ Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity – a room of one’s own. All things denied to most...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-06-28
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The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the best fromThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Radical Chic, From Bauhaus to Our House,The Right Stuff and the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-06-21
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Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer.'Knausgaard unearths the mysteries of the commonplace' Observer In Summer, Karl Ove...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-04-30
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As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a purely scientific view of the world. Even as a teenager, experimenting in his own laboratory, he was impressed by the logic and materiality of the universe, which is governed by a small number of disembodied forces and...
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Corsair
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2018-04-05
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A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, discover the powerful second memoir in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography'. 'I can't think of...
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Penguin
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2018-04-05
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Die Sprache der öffentlichen Kommunikation in der Bundesrepublik, die Analyse des politischen Diskurses, die Frage nach der sprachlichen Einheit im geteilten und im vereinten Deutschland, die Rolle der Sprache zur Wende 1989, die Kritik an Fällen von sprachlichem...
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Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle via OpenEdition
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2018-03-13
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Monde germanophone
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This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the edition demonstrates the breadth of the author of some...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-01
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'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can'The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away'The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love, fame and beauty.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating...
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Penguin
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2018-02-22
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New essays by the Women's Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson impels us to action and offers us hope.'Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human'...
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Virago
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2018-02-20
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In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in - or...
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Fleet
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2018-02-01
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'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.'
Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative gives the author's account of his...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-04
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'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.'
Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative gives the author's account of his...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-04
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La tela di fondo su cui si rappresenta la gamma dei sentimenti sembra mostrare che i territori dell’arte e quelli della letteratura implichino uno spazio di energie in continua tensione, sottoposto ad una trasformazione imprevedibile e ad un continuo scontro tra...
Editeur :
Quodlibet
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2017-11-21
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Quodlibet Studio. Lettere. Ultracontemporanea
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Un “fantasma” sembra aggirarsi nella letteratura francese a partire dagli anni Cinquanta del Novecento e pare destinato a rimanere tale per mezzo secolo, con una latente e, poi, dagli anni Ottanta, con una più riconoscibile capacità di produrre nuove forme o nuovi...
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Quodlibet
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2017-11-21
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Quodlibet Studio. Lettere. Ultracontemporanea
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La letteratura – come del resto tutte le forme artistiche – è capace di far emergere aspetti oscuri dell’esperienza umana, trasformandoli spesso in risorse vitali. Così è anche per la solitudine, condizione particolare attraversata da ogni individuo: le solitudini sono...
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Quodlibet
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2017-11-21
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Quodlibet Studio. Lettere. Ultracontemporanea
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