Raymond Williams begins his brilliantly perceptive study of the English novel in the 1840s, a period of rapid social change brought on by the Industrial Revolution, the struggle for democratic reform, and the growth of cities and towns.
Collected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades.
In Dietschreits Monographie wird Feuchtwangers Werk rekonstruiert, problematisiert und nachvollziehbar gemacht für jeden, der zum Gesamtschaffen Feuchtwangers oder zu einzelnen Fragestellungen Anregungen und Hinweise sucht.
The New York Times-bestselling critic uses his training as a classicist to tackle contemporary films, theater, literature, and more in 30 elegant essays.
An incisive demonstration of how Orwell's body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL COOKEReading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you ve ever had; a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a person with an entirely unpredictable train of thought but whose exuberance, knowledge and insight sweeps you along.
Discover the fascinating autobiography of Dick Francis, one of the greatest jockeys and thriller writers of all timeDick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys.
Leonie Marx unterrichtet über alle wesentlichen Aspekte der Kurzgeschichte - Wortgeschichte und Begriffsentwicklung, Theorie und Definition sowie über das Verhältnis zu anderen Prosagattungen.
An incisive demonstration of how Orwell's body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War.
'A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir Highly enjoyable' Sunday TimesHow might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do?
'An exuberant, breathless sprint through London in the fifties, sixties and seventies It's bright, boisterous and extremely funny' Tatler'Clancy's scapegrace adventures are described with so much vitality and scabrous wit you feel as charmed as one of his serial conquests Marvellous' Spectator'If you're searching for something to keep you on the edge of your sun lounger this summer, look no further' Daily MailIf Fielding's Tom Jones were alive in postwar England he might be Clancy Sigal, the American author of this restlessly curious memoir.
"La esfera de las rutas" es una invitación a leer no solamente el verso luminoso, alado y místico de Carlos Pellicer (1897-1977), sino también la prosa que escribió en largos epistolarios, conferencias que dictó en México y otros países, y una prosa al margen claramente poética.
Borges babilónico propone un recorrido, desde la A hasta la Z —de "1910, el año del cometa y del Centenario", pasando por los versos "A fair field full of folk", los nombres "Dabove, Santiago" o "Keaton, Buster", los términos "memoria" y "censura", los lugares "Jardín Botánico" o "Buenos Aires", hasta "Zunz, Emma"—, por más de mil entradas que permiten descifrar temas, referencias o citas que aparecen en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges.
El filósofo y poeta Édouard Glissant, nacido en la isla de Martinica, es una de las voces más influyentes del pensamiento caribeño del último tercio del siglo XX.
A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004).
The New South--replete with shopping malls, hub airports, educated African Americans, and immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Haiti--is still haunted by the Gothic ghosts of its past.
This perceptive study of a major cultural movement shows how Southern writers of 1930 t0 1955 tried to come to terms with Southern tradition, and discusses the resulting body of significant literature - fiction, poetry, memoirs, and historical writing.
From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders.
CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNERSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018'Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le CarreA visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today.
A revealing look at the power of speaking out, Writing in an Age of Silence describes Paretski's coming of age in a time of great possibility, during the civil rights movement, the peace movement, and the women's movement.
From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.
An intimate portrait of Stephen Spender's extraordinary life written by Matthew Spender, shifting between memoir and biography, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and his father's copious unpublished archives.
