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33 produkter
Orwell and Politics
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
Häftad, 2020
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179 kr
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Including Animal Farm'Orwell is the most influential political writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThroughout his life George Orwell aimed, in his words, to make 'political writing into an art'. This collection brings together the best of his matchless political essays and …
George Orwell: A Life in Letters
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
Häftad, 2011
198 kr
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With such varied correspondents as T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, for nearly forty years George Orwell wrote and received the letters that are now collected together in A Life in Letters, edited with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics.Personal as well as …
Orwell Diaries
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
E-bok, 2010
136 kr
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George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, while …
Four Histories
Av Peter Davison, Stanley Wells m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
125 kr
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The volume contains Richard II, Henry IV Part One, henry IV Part Two, and Henry V. Each play possesses its own distinctive mood, tone and style, and together they inhabit the turbulent period of change from the usurpation of the throne of Richard II by Bolingbroke to the triumph of heroic kingship …
Four Histories
Av Peter Davison, Stanley Wells m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
215 kr
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The volume contains Richard II, Henry IV Part One, henry IV Part Two, and Henry V. Each play possesses its own distinctive mood, tone and style, and together they inhabit the turbulent period of change from the usurpation of the throne of Richard II by Bolingbroke to the triumph of heroic kingship …
Orwell Diaries
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
Häftad, 2010
176 kr
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George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, while …
Orwell and Politics
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
E-bok, 2001
170 kr
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Including Animal Farm'Orwell is the most influential political writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThroughout his life George Orwell aimed, in his words, to make 'political writing into an art'. This collection brings together the best of his matchless political essays and …
Orwell's England
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
E-bok, 2001
147 kr
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Including The Road to Wigan Pier'No one wrote better about the English character than Orwell' New York Review of BooksMuch of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory attitude to England. In the brilliantly perceptive The …
Orwell and the Dispossessed
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
E-bok, 2001
170 kr
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Including Down and Out in Paris and London'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' SpectatorThe powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and …
Collected Non-Fiction
Essays, Articles, Diaries and Letters, 1903-1950
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
E-bok, 2017
170 kr
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The twelve edited volumes of Orwell's non-fiction, collected for the first time in one invaluable ebook. A rich treasure trove of material, this unique collection includes Orwell's reviews, broadcasts, notebooks, wartime diaries, articles on socialism and censorship, correspondence with luminaries …
George Orwell: A Life in Letters
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
E-bok, 2016
144 kr
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Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son Richard's developing teeth, the death of his wife Eileen, and his own illness. Candid portraits of Barcelona during the Spanish …
Orwell and the Dispossessed
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
Häftad, 2020
190 kr
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Including Down and Out in Paris and London'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' SpectatorThe powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and …
Orwell in Spain
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
Häftad, 2020
170 kr
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Including Homage to Catalonia'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, GuardianGeorge Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete …
Orwell's England
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
Häftad, 2020
179 kr
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Including The Road to Wigan Pier'No one wrote better about the English character than Orwell' New York Review of BooksMuch of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory attitude to England. In the brilliantly perceptive The …
Breathing Room
Poems
E-bok, 2012
82 kr
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"Peter Davison, for years, has pondered with clear insight the perspectives of affection, attachment, loss, and memory, his language spare and his tone classical and deceptively quiet. The poems of this new collection look at the same world with surprise and speak of it with a startled and …
Fading Smile
Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,
E-bok, 2013
240 kr
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"A beautiful and richly instructive book, a worthy and welcome sequel to Eileen Simpson''s Poets in Their Youth." Louis S. Auchincloss An intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in …
Great Ledge
E-bok, 2013
80 kr
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James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison''s last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, '' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poets.'' That sense of this poet''s singularity is …
Poems of Peter Davison
l957-l995
E-bok, 2013
288 kr
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The poetry of Peter Davison, of which this is the ninth volume, covers a broad range of subject matter. Musical and supple, with rewards for the eye, the ear, and the mind, concerned as much with country as with city matters, Davison''s poems move past personality. They open questions of identity, …
Othello
Häftad, 1988
623 kr
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Even productions of Othello based on very different conceptions of the play can prove successful ad deeply moving. Among critics, however, Othello has roused furous critical disagreement, remarkable for the degree of animosity exposed. After an Introduction in which the problems of analysing this …
Fading Smile
Poets in Boston, 1995-1960, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath
Häftad, 1996
361 kr
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This extraordinary account, by a participant who knew them all, offers vivid reminiscences of Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and many others who interacted with each other and shaped American poetry at mid-century.
The First Quarto of King Richard III
Av William Shakespeare, Peter Davison
Häftad, 2007
748 kr
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Shakespeare's Richard III presents difficult textual problems. There are 2,000 verbal differences between the text of the first quarto (1597) and the version in the First Folio (1623). Although the narrative of the two plays is virtually identical, each has lines which are not found in the other, …
The First Quarto of King Richard III
Av William Shakespeare, Peter Davison
Inbunden, 1996
2153 kr
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Shakespeare's Richard III presents difficult textual problems. There are 2,000 verbal differences between the text of the first quarto (1597) and the version in the First Folio (1623). Although the narrative of the two plays is virtually identical, each has lines which are not found in the other, …
Diaries
Av George Orwell, Peter Davison
Inbunden, 2012
408 kr
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This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell’s …
Othello
E-bok, 1988
610 kr
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Even productions of Othello based on very different conceptions of the play can prove successful ad deeply moving. Among critics, however, Othello has roused furous critical disagreement, remarkable for the degree of animosity exposed. After an Introduction in which the problems of analysing this …
Gift of the Hit: Collected Stories - Volume 1, Life Happens: Then You Get to Choose
E-bok
85 kr
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Is There Life Outside The Box?
An Actor Despairs
E-bok, 2016
85 kr
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His fans have spoken, but despite their requests, Peter Davison has gone ahead and written his autobiography anyway. It wasn''t the book they tried to stop—it was more like the book they didn''t want him to start. An aspiring singer-songwriter, once dubbed Woking''s answer to Bob Dylan (by his mum, …
