Examining literary, historical and theological texts, the essays in Ambiguous Realities illuminate a number of important issues about women in Middle Ages and the Renaissance.Wayne State Univ.; 263 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pbVan/List Price € 23,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
Anna Akhmatova was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. She set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced.Yale, 2004; 325 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 32,00 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 69 %
The author of Pal Joey, O'Hara possessed an acute vernacular gift and a startling narrative frankness, yet he maintained a contentious relationship with The New Yorker, and ultimately failed to emerge from the shadow of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.Knopf, 2003; 376 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 30,00 Voor/Our Price € 11,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
This annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. He emerges from the shadow of Sherlock Holmes, revealing a man whose character and exploits rival that of his famous creation.Penguin, 2007; 706 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 37,95 Voor/Our Price € 10,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 71 %
How Refugees From Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing ArtsDuring the first half of the 20th century, an intellectual migration relocated thousands of artists and thinkers to the USA, including some of Europe's supreme performing artists, filmmakers, playwrights, and choreographers.Harper, 2008; 456 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 29,50 Voor/Our Price € 10,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 63 %
Nighttime, the forgotten half of history, spawned a remarkably vibrant culture with its own rules and rituals, scents, sights and sounds. Here is Ekirch's enthralling study of nighttime before the Industrial era.Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005; 447 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 35,00 Voor/Our Price € 14,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
There is an art to displaying books effectively and creatively -whether in a large library or in a corner of the living room. At Home with Books takes us into the houses of 40 booklovers to view their very personal libraries and reading spaces.Thames and Hudson, 2008; 248 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; pbpb € 23,50
Arranged under subject headings, Bamboo introduces us to articles and memoirs dealing with Boyd's childhood in Africa, his life at boarding school, his time as a TV critic as well as essays on literature on literature, art and film.Hamish Hamilton, 2005; 650 pp.; EN; index; pbVan/List Price € 26,95 Voor/Our Price € 10,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
In 1764 and '65 the irrepressible playwright Beaumarchais travelled to Madrid, where immersed himself in the life and society and returned home to create The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. Account of his visit to Madrid.Yale, 2006; 177 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 25,00 Voor/Our Price € 8,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
The distinguished Greer -The Female Eunuch- presents a composite of her latest musings on the reclaiming of Eros as personified by the Boy: the transitional state between child and man.Rizzoli, 2003; 256 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 45,00 Voor/Our Price € 17,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
Famous DetectiveThe Bedside Companion to Sherlock Holmes is packed with fascinating facts, unexpected insights, and fresh observations about Conan Doyle, Watson and everything that has anything to do with the world's greatest detective.Barnes and Noble, 2005; 216 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 19,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
This biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the greatest poets in the Western tradition, is concerned at once with both the making of poetry and its transforming power. It tracks his inner journey struggling to escape and create.Pantheon, 2007; 452 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 30,00 Voor/Our Price € 9,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 67 %
I.F. Stone,1907-1989, was a reporter, a radical, an idealist, a scholar, and a writer whose work has withstood the test of time. Even now, nearly 20 years after his death, this collection from I.F. Stone's Weekly and elsewhere is astonishingly relevant.PublicAffairs, 2006; 350 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 23,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 63 %
Dirda, a distinguished critic, continues his campaign to educate readers. This well-read, well-intentioned generalist presents a commonplace collection of excerpts from admired works gathered under topical headings.Henry Holt, 2006; 170 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 19,00 Voor/Our Price € 6,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 63 %
In this thought-provoking collection of essays, Ali unrelentingly advocates women's rights in Islamic cultures and decries even a Western tolerance that serves to encourage Islamic subjugation of women.Free Press, 2006; 187 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 21,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
Celtic myths relate epic tales of heroes from an age when the divine and mortal realms were closely intertwined. Here are the exploits of Cuchulainn and Fionn mac Cumhaill, Deirdre and Rhiannon, and other figures who still fire the imagination today.Pocket Essentials, 2008; 160 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 18,90 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 58 %
Offers a selection of Charlotte's most telling letters, revealing much about her personal life, her family relationships, and the society in which she lived. We learn also of the progress of her writing, incl. the astonishing success of Jane Eyre.Oxford, 2007; 259 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 45,00 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 78 %
Cheap Thrills is Ron Goulart's classic history of the pulps. An astonishing tome about the great pulps and pulp writers, filled with pulp cover art that inspired readers, artists, and everyone who ever read the pulps.Hermes Press, 2007; 208 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 50,00 Voor/Our Price € 21,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
Shows how a strong impulse toward historical concerns was formalized in 4 German faculties -philosophy, theology, law, medicine-biology- and focuses on the figures in whose works the sense of history was first manifested -Hegel, Niebuhr, Savigny.Cornell, 2004; 215 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 39,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 75 %
This intellectual biography of Colette by Julia Kristeva portrays a prolific novelist who celebrated sexual pleasure and invented a language for it at a time when women writers were inhibited about dealing with the topic.Columbia Univ., 2004; 521 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 75,50 Voor/Our Price € 14,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 80 %
A comprehensive year-by-year digest of 15,000 significant and represenative works of literature published in English by British authors since 1474. Each entry consists of author's names, title, crossreferences, and a short list of major historical events.Oxford, 2005; 830 pp.; EN; index; pbVan/List Price € 22,50 Voor/Our Price € 9,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
Doctorow here considers creativity in its many forms from the literary -Melville and Twain- to the comic -Harpo Marx- and the cosmic -Genesis and Einstein-. Doctorow affirms the idea that we know by what we create.Random House, 2006; 176 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 24,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
At its best Creators effortlessly mixes flavoursome biographical considerations with a committed historicism that makes one reach immediately for the work of the creator in question.Weidenfeld amd Nicholson, 2006; 310 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 23,10 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 65 %
It is hard to overstate the impact that Ford Madox Ford had on the literature of his age. This collection offers the best of Ford's essays on literature. Chronologically arranged, the pieces very nearly span forty years, covering most of his writing life.NYU, 2004; 329 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 50,00 Voor/Our Price € 10,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 78 %
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