Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of BridesheadIn this engrossing biography of English novelist Evelyn Waugh, Byrne presents Waugh through those friendships that mattered most to him. Far from the snobbish misanthrope of popula...9999903184959Paula Byrne
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
sábado, 7 de septiembre de 2024
From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" GuideJudy Carter, guru to aspiring comedy writers and stand-up comics, tells all about the biz of being funny and writing funny in this bright, entertaining, and totally practical guide...9999903180760Judy Carter
Fireside
miércoles, 4 de septiembre de 2024
The Amazing Adventure of TranslationHow do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This question is at the heart of David Bellos's funny, wise and life-affirming book, which shows how, from puns to poetr...9999903178415David Bellos
Editors Varis
miércoles, 21 de agosto de 2024
The Indispensable Collection of Literary Wisdom"I have all the copies of The Paris Review and like the interviews very much. They will make a good book when collected and that will be very good for the Review."--Ernest Hemingwa...9999903175193Philip Gourevitch
Picador
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
The Two Hundred Best Novels in English Since 1950This list of 194 books published since 1950 represent titles considered the best by the compilers. There are familiar names - Naipaul, Updike, Bellow and Nabokov - and more surpris...9999903175094Carmen Callil Colm Tóibín
Pan Books
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
Rudyard Kipling's genius for evoking the sights, sounds, and atmosphere of a place was crystallised in his fiction, in which he introduced Victorian and later readers to the drama ...9999903175063Rudyard Kipling
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
The SearchAn arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century "Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by th...9999903175056Benjamin Taylor
Yale University Press
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the "searching power and reflective richness" of Eliot...9999903175049Tim Dolin
Oxford University Press
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
The Art of Everyday LivingDeclan Kiberd argues that 'Ulysses', far from being the epitome of elitism, was always intended as a book for the common people. Kiberd explains that Joyce's book offers a democrat...9999903175032Declan Kiberd
Faber & Faber
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
From the moment that his debut book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won him the National Book Award, Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age...9999903175025Timothy Parrish
Cambridge University Press
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
With the publication of his seminal novel White Noise, Don DeLillo was elevated into the pantheon of great American writers. His novels are admired and studied for their narrative ...9999903175018John N. Duvall
Cambridge University Press
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
By the author who inspired Wes Anderson ??s film, The Grand Budapest Hotel Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday r...9999903174974Stefan Zweig
University of Nebraska Press
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
What is the difference between cant and jargon, or assume and presume? What is a fandango? What ??s the new name for Calcutta?How do you spell supersede? Boutros Boutros-Ghali? Is ...9999903174950Bill Bryson
DoubleDay
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
A Mighty MazeThis comprehensive new study reads both major and lesser-known texts of the period 1700-1750 in their social, cultural, historical and intellectual contexts. Each chapter introduce...9999903174936Andrew Varney
Macmillan
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellen...9999903174929Nick Rennison
Routledge
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world....9999903174868Mark Seltzer
Duke University Press
sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024
David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning. Written for playwrights...9999903173151David Edgar
Nick Hern Books
sábado, 10 de agosto de 2024
Richard Wright, Lolita, Boris Vian and Others on the Left Bank, 1946-60In the spring of 1946 the black American novelist, Richard Wright, presented himself at the rue de Fleurus apartment of Gertrude Stein Their meeting symbolized the passing of one g...9999903171874James Campbell
Mandarin
sábado, 10 de agosto de 2024
The World as a StageThis short biography of William Shakespeare by world famous writer Bill Bryson brims with the author's inimitable wit and intelligence.9999903171775Bryson, Bill
HarperPerennial
sábado, 10 de agosto de 2024
The funny, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best-known literary figures, Writing Home includes Bennett's journalism, book and theater reviews, his dia...9999903171751Alan. Bennett,
Faber Book Services
sábado, 10 de agosto de 2024
Steve Leveen draws on his own quest for a well-read life to offer book lovers a variety of successful and time-tested strategies for finding time to read and getting more from writ...9999903169260Steve Leveen
Editors Varis
miércoles, 31 de julio de 2024
The Craft and Art of Writing For more than forty years, distinguished author Roger Rosenblatt has also been a teacher of writing, guiding students with the same intelligence and generosity he brings to the pa...9999903169079Roger Rosenblatt
HarperCollins
miércoles, 31 de julio de 2024
An increasingly popular genre - addressing issues of empire, colonialism, post-colonialism, globalization, gender and politics - travel writing offers the reader a movement between...9999903161318Carl Edward Thompson
Routledge
jueves, 18 de julio de 2024
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