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17 produkter
The Story of English: Third Revised Edition
Av Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil
Häftad, 2002
406 kr
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Wodehouse
A Life
Häftad, 2005
424 kr
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To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a pig). Equally impressive is the range of his devotees: Dorothy Parker, John Updike, Ludwig Wittgenstein, …
Globish
How English Became the World's Language
Häftad, 2011
175 kr
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It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. In this provocative new look at the course of empire, Robert McCrum shows how the language of the …
My Year Off
Recovering Life After a Stroke
Häftad, 2026
296 kr
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On the morning of July 29, 1995, Robert McCrum - 42 years old, just two weeks newly married, at the top of his profession as one of British publishing's most admired editors, in what he thought was the full bloom of health - awoke to find himself totally paralyzed on the left side, the victim of a …
Story of English
Häftad, 2011
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171 kr
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The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; today, in one form or another, it is spoken by a billion people around the world. More …
My Year Off
Rediscovering Life After a Stroke
Häftad, 2015
163 kr
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With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmMy brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of …
My Year Off
Rediscovering Life After a Stroke
E-bok, 2015
195 kr
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With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmMy brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of …
Every Third Thought
On life, death and the endgame
Inbunden, 2017
172 kr
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AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke, the subject of his acclaimed memoir My Year Off. Ever since that …
Every Third Thought
On Life, Death, and the Endgame
Häftad, 2018
116 kr
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As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and …
Every Third Thought
On life, death and the endgame
E-bok, 2017
163 kr
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As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and …
Shakespearean
On Life & Language in Times of Disruption
Häftad, 2021
148 kr
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‘Enchanting’ - Simon Russell Beale ‘Remarkable’ - James Shapiro‘Wonderful . . . compulsively readable’ - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, …
Shakespearean
On Life & Language in Times of Disruption
E-bok, 2020
204 kr
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‘Enchanting’ - Simon Russell Beale ‘Remarkable’ - James Shapiro‘Wonderful . . . compulsively readable’ - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, …
John McConnell
Design
Inbunden, 2021
170 kr
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John McConnell's list of collaborators includes many household names - Boots, Faber & Faber, Halfords, Clarks, John Lewis. The man behind the Biba logo (for which hewon the D&AD Silver in 1969), the logo of the National Grid and thecovers of a Penguin student textbook series from the early '70s has …
100 Best Novels
In the English Language
Av Robert McCrum, Robert Mccrum m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
169 kr
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100 Best Novels
In English
Häftad, 2016
132 kr
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Everybody loves a list but this is a list of major ambition: namely, to select the best 100 novels in the English language, published from the late 17th century to the present day. This list has been built up week by week in The Observer since September 2013, and selected by writer and Observer …
Penalty Kick
The Story of a Gamechanger
Inbunden, 2024
192 kr
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'Football in the 1880s was an unruly, rough, and often dangerous game. To curb the state the sport was in, William McCrum proposed a new and drastic sanction. He called it a penalty kick.'In 1891, a contentious new measure against an excess of foul play, Rule 13, was proposed to the FA by an …
Globish
How the English Language Became the World's Language
Inbunden, 2010
261 kr
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It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. Equally unlikely, a colony of that island nation, across the Atlantic, grows into the military and …
