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27 produkter
John Berger
Ways of Learning
Av Iona Heath
Inbunden, 2024
324 kr
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Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.In this book, Iona Heath writes about reading John Berger's writing over more than 50 years and her …
Samuel Beckett
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
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A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett.After a life of writing about Victorian novelists, Rosemarie Bodenheimer found herself entranced by the work of Samuel Beckett. In this book she shares her journey of discovery with readers who may or may not be familiar with Beckett's …
James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"
Av Tom Jenks
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
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A close reading of James Baldwin's short story "Sonny's Blues" that provides insight into his life and ideas about art. Tom Jenks's reading of James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" follows a scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, discussion of the pattern by which Baldwin indelibly writes "Sonny's …
Marcel Proust
Av Michael Wood
Inbunden, 2023
324 kr
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A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust.What would the world be like without this work, where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood found himself writing about Proust's work as an event and about events in relation to that work itself. The …
Honoré de Balzac
Av Peter Brooks
Inbunden, 2022
324 kr
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A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic novels of the Human …
King Lear
Shakespeare's Dark Consolations
Inbunden, 2022
324 kr
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A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'.As part of the My Reading series, King Lear is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur Frank brings a career of studying illness experience and suffering to consider how King Lear can aid people whose lives need help. …
William James
Av Philip Davis
Inbunden, 2022
324 kr
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Discusses the life and work of William James, a founder of the study of psychology.William James (1842-1910) was elder brother to the novelist Henry James and a founder of the study of psychology. But he was also a thinker who sought to work across conventional boundaries, and did not believe in …
Charles Dickens
But for you, dear stranger
Inbunden, 2022
289 kr
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A personal approach to Dickens's art that pays attention to what magnetizes Federico or strikes her as newly relevant to our own world, and to her life, as she explores what Dickens' works are emotionally about.Dickens's first concern in all his fiction is with people's feelings and their …
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea
Av John Plotz
Inbunden, 2023
324 kr
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A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned John Plotz at age eight, on the overlit and understaffed second floor of the DC library. Four decades and who knows how …
Sir Thomas Browne
The Opium of Time
Inbunden, 2023
324 kr
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In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as a medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne.Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English physician, wordsmith, and polymath who contributed hundreds of words to the English language (such as medical, …
Colette
My Literary Mother
Inbunden, 2024
324 kr
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The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling.Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and …
Samuel Beckett
Inbunden, 2022
324 kr
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A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett.After a life of writing about Victorian novelists, Rosemarie Bodenheimer found herself entranced by the work of Samuel Beckett. In this book she shares her journey of discovery with readers who may or may not be familiar with Beckett's …
Marion Milner
On Creativity
Inbunden, 2024
250 kr
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This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better—and what they have to do with one another. Specifically, it is about how these activities were put into relation by the British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst, Marion Milner (1900-1996). The guiding question of Milner's life was of how …
Octavia E. Butler
H is for Horse
Inbunden, 2025
297 kr
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An homage to the childhood genius of Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Bringing to view a selection of Butler's unpublished writings and drawings, this book traces her fascination with human-alien symbiosis to her early empathy with horses and other marginalized creatures. The figure …
James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"
Av Tom Jenks
Inbunden, 2024
324 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A close reading of James Baldwin's short story "Sonny's Blues" that provides insight into his life and ideas about art.Tom Jenks's reading of James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" follows a scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, discussion of the pattern by which Baldwin indelibly writes "Sonny's Blues" …
Émile Zola
Writing Modern Life
Inbunden, 2025
243 kr
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Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the later nineteenth century—and he went on to carry it out, with novels that look at the longings and troubles and everyday lives of people in their specific social milieux. Travelling through …
Émile Zola
Writing Modern Life
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
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Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the later nineteenth century—and he went on to carry it out, with novels that look at the longings and troubles and everyday lives of people in their specific social milieux. Travelling through …
Marion Milner
On Creativity
Häftad, 2026
214 kr
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This is a book about reading, drawing, and getting better—and what they have to do with one another. Specifically, it is about how these activities were put into relation by the British essayist, artist, and psychoanalyst, Marion Milner (1900-1996). The guiding question of Milner's life was of how …
John Berger
Ways of Learning
Av Iona Heath
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.In this book, Iona Heath writes about reading John Berger's writing over more than 50 years and her …
Colette
My Literary Mother
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling.Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and …
Honoré de Balzac
Av Peter Brooks
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie Humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.This volume is a personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic …
Charles Dickens
But for you, dear stranger
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A personal approach to Dickens's art that pays attention to what magnetizes Federico or strikes her as newly relevant to our own world, and to her life, as she explores what Dickens' works are emotionally about.Dickens's first concern in all his fiction is with people's feelings and their …
William James
Av Philip Davis
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Discusses the life and work of William James, a founder of the study of psychology.William James (1842-1910) was elder brother to the novelist Henry James and a founder of the study of psychology. But he was also a thinker who sought to work across conventional boundaries, and did not believe in …
Marcel Proust
Av Michael Wood
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust.What would the world be like without this work? Where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood found himself writing about Proust's work as an event and about events in relation to that work itself. The …
Sir Thomas Browne
The Opium of Time
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as a medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne.Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English physician, wordsmith, and polymath who contributed hundreds of words to the English language (such as medical, …
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea
Av John Plotz
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned John Plotz at age eight, on the overlit and understaffed second floor of the DC library. Four decades and who knows how …
King Lear
Shakespeare's Dark Consolations
Häftad, 2026
231 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'.As part of the My Reading series, King Lear is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur W. Frank brings a career of studying illness and suffering to consider how King Lear can aid people whose lives need help. Reading …
