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East of Eden
Häftad, 2000
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
179 kr
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NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING FLORENCE PUGHThe magnum opus of a giant of American literature, East of Eden is an epic, unforgettable family saga of blood ties and betrayalSet in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined …
Ways of Seeing
Av John Berger
Häftad, 2008
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
137 kr
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Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.''But there is also another sense in …
Haunting of Hill House
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (7)
152 kr
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The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna TarttAlone in the …
History of Sexuality: 1
The Will to Knowledge
Häftad, 2020
155 kr
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'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of …
East of Eden
Häftad, 2017
152 kr
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READ ALONGSIDE THE SMASH-HIT NETFLIX MINISERIES STARRING FLORENCE PUGH‘The work of a great storyteller’ WASHINGTON POSTCalifornia's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth …
Storm of Steel
Av Ernst Junger
Häftad, 2004
152 kr
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Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics.'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They …
Black Skin, White Masks
Av Frantz Fanon
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
129 kr
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'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism' Deborah LevyFrantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of …
Grapes of Wrath
Häftad, 2000
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
152 kr
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'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised …
Captive Mind
Häftad, 2001
155 kr
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Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
Giovanni's Room
Häftad, 2007
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (12)
139 kr
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Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous' Caryl PhillipsDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets …
Caliban and the Witch
Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Häftad, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
159 kr
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'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition …
Hour of the Star
Häftad, 2014
139 kr
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The audacious and haunting final novel by one of Brazil's greatest writersLiving in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her …
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Av Paulo Freire
Häftad, 2017
133 kr
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'The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression ... a transformative text' George Monbiot, GuardianArguing that 'education is freedom', Paulo Freire's radical international classic contends that traditional teaching styles keep …
Wretched of the Earth
Av Frantz Fanon
Häftad, 2001
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
133 kr
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'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela DavisWritten at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since, …
Agua Viva
Av Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser
Häftad, 2014
139 kr
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Breathless and glistening, this novel is 'pure witchcraft' from the master of Brazilian fictionIn Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their …
Of Mice and Men
Häftad, 2000
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
126 kr
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Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie …
East of Eden
Häftad, 2014
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
152 kr
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NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING FLORENCE PUGHThe magnum opus of a giant of American literature, East of Eden is an epic, unforgettable family saga of blood ties and betrayal'There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, …
Silent Spring
Häftad, 2000
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (8)
155 kr
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Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides, spurring …
Book of Disquiet
Av Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith
Häftad, 2015
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
179 kr
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Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet is a modernist masterwork that has now taken on a similar iconic status to Ulysses, The Trial or In Search of Lost Time. This complete and unabridged edition – published in Penguin Modern Classics - is edited and translated with an introduction by Richard …
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Av Franz Kafka
Häftad, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael HofmannKafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of …
Things Fall Apart
Häftad, 2001
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
152 kr
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of changeOkonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his …
Naked Lunch
The Restored Text
Häftad, 2015
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
152 kr
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Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most …
Grapes of Wrath
Häftad, 2017
129 kr
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'Drought and economic depression are …
Pearl
Häftad, 2014
125 kr
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When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and …
Feminine Mystique
Häftad, 2010
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
133 kr
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'One of the most influential non-fiction books of the twentieth century' The New York TimesWhen Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief …
Death of a Salesman
Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Häftad, 2000
139 kr
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Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life. 'A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away'Willy Loman is on his last legs. Failing at his job, …
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
160 kr
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'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of BooksThe classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. …
Call for the Dead
Häftad, 2011
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
149 kr
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The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carré's masterful creation George Smiley. After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus …
Orientalism
Häftad, 2003
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
160 kr
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The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer'Magisterial' Terry EagletonIn this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, …
Beware of Pity
Av Stefan Zweig
Häftad, 2024
179 kr
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'The most exciting book I have ever read ... a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!'Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have …
