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Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy
Häftad, 2009
165 kr
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1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to …
Apprentice Lover
A Novel
Av Jay Parini
E-bok, 2009
90 kr
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When Alex Massolini''s brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter -- day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself …
Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy
E-bok, 2009
108 kr
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1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press behind and heads into the wilderness. Too ill to …
Art of Teaching
Av Jay Parini
E-bok, 2005
190 kr
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Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching , writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom …
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
4 volumes: print and e-reference editions available
Av Jay Parini
Inbunden, 2004
9143 kr
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This set treats the whole of American literature, from the European discovery of America to the present, with entries in alphabetical order. Each of the 350 substantive essays is a major interpretive contribution. Well-known critics and scholars provide clear and vividly written essays that reflect …
The Art of Teaching
Av Jay Parini
Inbunden, 2005
286 kr
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Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching, writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom …
Art of Teaching
Av Jay Parini
E-bok, 2005
214 kr
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Becoming an effective teacher can be quite painful and exhausting, taking years of trial and error. In The Art of Teaching , writer and critic Jay Parini looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom …
Gore Vidal
Writer Against the Grain
Av Jay Parini
Inbunden, 1992
1378 kr
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Gore Vidal, known for such best-sellers as The City and the Pillar, Burr, Lincoln, and Myra Breckinridge, is a household name. The controversial Vidal ran for Congress in 1960, and set sparks flying with his public debates challenging William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer. Although one of America's …
The Columbia History of American Poetry
Av Jay Parini
Inbunden, 1993
1415 kr
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-- New York Times Book Review
Why Poetry Matters
Av Jay Parini
Häftad, 2009
187 kr
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A brief, passionate book about the nature of poetry and its use in the worldPoetry doesn’t matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform …
Last Station
Av Jay Parini
E-bok, 2010
156 kr
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Starring Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, & James McAvoy In 1910, Count Leo Tolstoy, the most famous writer in the world, is caught in the struggle between his devoted wife and an equally devoted acolyte over the master''s legacy. Sofya Andreyevna fears that she and the …
Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Av Gore Vidal, Jay Parini
E-bok, 2008
95 kr
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Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America''s premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an …
Promised Land
Thirteen Books That Changed America
Av Jay Parini
E-bok, 2008
126 kr
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In this lively exploration of America’s intellectual heritage, acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Jay Parini celebrates the life and times of thirteen books that helped shape the American psyche. Moving nimbly between the great watersheds in American letters—including Walden , Huckleberry Finn , …
Passages of H. M.
A Novel of Herman Melville
Av Jay Parini
E-bok, 2010
95 kr
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From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station , a stirring novel about the adventurous life and tragic literary career of Herman Melville. As The Passages of H. M. opens, we see, through the eyes of his long-suffering wife Lizzie, an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville …
Damascus Road
A Novel of Saint Paul
Av Jay Parini
E-bok, 2019
87 kr
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From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station , a superb historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history forever. In the years after Christ''s crucifixion, Paul of …
Borges and Me
An Encounter
Av Jay Parini
E-bok, 2020
158 kr
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An apprentice writer has an entirely unexpected encounter with literary genius Jorge Luis Borges that will profoundly alter his life and work. A poignant and comic literary coming-of-age memoir. In 1971 Jay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews …
Norton Book of American Autobiography
Av Jay Parini
Inbunden, 1999
462 kr
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From Mary Rowlandson's story of her capture by Indians in the mid-seventeenth century to Mary Paik Lee's story of being a pioneer Korean woman in America at the beginning of the twentieth century, the autobiographical form has provided our most vivid, intimate glimpses of daily American life and …
Benjamin's Crossing
Av Jay Parini
Häftad, 2021
266 kr
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The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks …
New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015
Av Jay Parini
E-bok, 2016
262 kr
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A new book, the first in over a decade, from acclaimed poet Jay Parini This volume revolves around his deep connection to nature and underlines his concerns about the impacts of pollution and climate change. In these beautiful, haunting poems, Parini writes about the landscapes of mining country, …
