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Vanity Fair
Av William Thackeray, John Carey
Inbunden, 2013
312 kr
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designIn William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, no one is better …
Vanity Fair
Av William Thackeray, John Carey
Häftad, 2003
152 kr
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William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and international chaos. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John Carey.No one …
Selected Poetry
Av John Donne, John Carey
Häftad, 2008
118 kr
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John Donne (1572-1631) is perhaps the most important poet of the seventeenth century. In his day it seemed to his admirers that Donne had changed the literary universe, and he is now widely regarded as the founder of the metaphysical `school'. Donne's poetry is highly distinctive and individual, …
Faber Book of Reportage
Av John Carey, John Carey
E-bok, 2022
246 kr
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***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events.'Stunning . . . There are descriptions in …
Pure Pleasure
A Guide to the 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books
Av John Carey
Häftad, 2000
166 kr
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Pure Pleasure gives us fifty of the most enjoyable books of the twentieth century, chosen on a single principle - the pleasure they inspire. Pure Pleasure is an idiosyncratic antidote to the 'definitive' lists of twentieth-century classics. John Carey, one of Britain's most respected literary …
Vanity Fair
Av William Thackeray, John Carey
E-bok, 2006
74 kr
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No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make …
What Good Are the Arts?
Av John Carey
Inbunden, 2006
504 kr
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Hailed as "exhilarating and suggestive" (Spectator), "thought-provoking and entertaining" (David Lodge, Sunday Times), and "incisive and inspirational" (Guardian), What Good are the Arts? offers a delightfully skeptical look at the nature of art. John Carey--one of Britain's most respected literary …
English Renaissance Studies
Presented to Dame Helen Gardner in honour of her seventieth birthday
Av John Carey
Inbunden, 1979
1661 kr
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English Renaissance Studies Presented to Dame Helen Gardner in honour of her seventieth birthday
John Donne - The Major Works
Av John Donne, John Carey
Häftad, 2008
142 kr
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This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Donne's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by rarely published letters and extracts from Donne's …
A Revolution in Three Acts
The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge
Inbunden, 2021
204 kr
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Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and PublishersBert Williams—a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged the stereotypes of minstrelsy. Eva Tanguay—an entertainer with the signature song “I Don’t Care” who …
A Revolution in Three Acts
The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge
Häftad, 2023
204 kr
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Winner - 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and PublishersBert Williams—a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged the stereotypes of minstrelsy. Eva Tanguay—an entertainer with the signature song “I Don’t Care” who …
100 Poets
A Little Anthology
Av John Carey
Inbunden, 2021
338 kr
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A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry “Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not.”—The Times A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the …
100 Poets
A Little Anthology
Av John Carey
Häftad, 2022
171 kr
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A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry “Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not.”—The Times A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the …
Sunday Best
80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews
Av John Carey
Häftad, 2023
158 kr
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A collection of John Carey’s greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews—amassed over a lifetime of writing In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times. In a career spanning over 40 years and upwards of 1,000 reviews, …
Little History of Poetry
Av John Carey
Häftad, 2025
158 kr
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A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present Poetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the …
When Media Are New
Understanding the Dynamics of New Media Adoption and Use
Häftad, 2010
609 kr
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"John Carey and Martin Elton are among the most skilled and insightful researchers studying the dynamic changes in technology and the impacts on consumer attitudes and behaviors. Their comprehensive and actionable observations make this a must read for anyone interested in understanding the current …
Faber Book of Reportage
Av John Carey, John Carey
Häftad, 1996
251 kr
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***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events.'Fascinating - there's funny stuff, …
The Intellectuals and the Masses
Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939
Av John Carey
Häftad, 1992
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166 kr
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Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, …
Faber Book of Science
Av John Carey, John Carey
Häftad, 2005
183 kr
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The Faber Book of Science introduces hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos. In his acclaimed anthology, John Carey plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory. The emphasis is on the scientists themselves and their …
Faber Book of Utopias
Av John Carey, John Carey
Häftad, 2000
251 kr
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Every age has its utopias, from Plato's Republic to contemporary sci-fi visions. In this spellbinding anthology John Carey charts the course of every conceivable dream world - whether communist, fascist, anarchist, green, golden age, techno-fantastic or hermaphroditic - combining a broad historical …
What Good are the Arts?
Av John Carey
Häftad, 2006
149 kr
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From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value of art.
William Golding
The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies
Av John Carey
Häftad, 2010
153 kr
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William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being a schoolmaster in Salisbury. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an …
Thackeray
Prodigal Genius
Av John Carey
Häftad, 2008
270 kr
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A new approach to Thackeray. Although this study embraces all his work, it switches attention from his late novels, and bases the case for his imaginative vitality on the multifarious material - reviews, travel books, burlesques, Punch articles - that he turned out, mostly under severe financial …
John Donne
Life, Mind and Art
Av John Carey
Häftad, 2008
317 kr
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'Donne is perhaps the most intellectual of English poets, and John Carey is perhaps the most intelligent of contemporary English literary critics. The encounter, as one might expect, is fierce and enthralling... This book is sensitive, searching, powerful, exciting, provocative and witty. It is a …
Violent Effigy
A Study of Dickens' Imagination
Av John Carey
Häftad, 2008
298 kr
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An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey.Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens's work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, terrible fantasy world it inhabited. It shows Dickens torn between the appeal of violence …
William Golding
The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies
Av John Carey
E-bok, 2012
137 kr
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William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards he returned to being a schoolmaster in Salisbury. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an …
The Intellectuals and the Masses
Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939
Av John Carey
E-bok, 2012
131 kr
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Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, …
What Good are the Arts?
Av John Carey
E-bok, 2012
132 kr
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From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value of art.
