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  • The American Sentence

    From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction

    by Ira Nadel ...
    A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask what is an American sentence and how has it changed?While sentences have become the subject of their own form, literary histories, cultural narratives, and personal writings ... Read more

    $26.29 CAD

  • Alcatraz

    History and Design of a Landmark

    by Donald MacDonald, Ira Nadel ...
    This illustrated volume by the authors of Golden Gate Bridge explores the history and design of San Francisco's infamous island prison.Award-winning architect Donald MacDonald and acclaimed author Ira Nadel present the first complete history of Alcatraz told through its architecture. In friendly illustrations and accessible text, Alcatraz reveal the design decisions that have shaped the island ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philip Roth

    À la recherche de Marcel Proust

    by Ira Nadel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This work examines the literary and biographical connections between Marcel Proust and Philip Roth against the backdrop of European and American cultural change through a social and literary narrative involving war, literature and fashion. It emphasizes the parallel treatment of memory, place, history, illness, music and sex by Proust and Roth. The authors also possessed a mutual dependence on the ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD

  • Various Positions

    A Life of Leonard Cohen

    by Ira B. Nadel ...
    Reissued with a new afterwordLeonard Cohen is back! With a #1 bestselling poetry collection, The Book of Longing, flying off bookshelves; Lian Lunson’s acclaimed documentary, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, in theatres this summer (the DVD will release this fall); and the superb soundtrack in music stores everywhere, Leonard Cohen proves he is Canada’s most enduring icon. Now, in the newly reissued ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Cathay

    Ezra Pound's Orient: Penguin Specials

    by Ira Nadel ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    At the turn of the twentieth century, London was a breeding ground for the avant-garde. Modernist writers like T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound became infatuated with the Orient. Pound in particular was inspired by the clarity and precision of Eastern poetry to rethink the nature of an English poem. Published in 1915, Cathay, Pound's collection of fourteen experimental translations of classic ... Read more

    $10.19 CAD

  • Leon Uris

    Life of a Best Seller

    by Ira B. Nadel ...
    Series series Jewish History, Life, and Culture
    The first biography of the massively popular author of Exodus and Trinity, who "was as feisty as any of his fictional creations" ( Publishers Weekly).As the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Exodus, Mila 18, QB VII, and Trinity, Leon Uris blazed a path to celebrity with books that readers couldn't put down. Uris's thirteen novels sold millions of copies, appeared in fifty languages, and w... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bay Bridge

    History and Design of a New Icon

    by Donald MacDonald, Ira Nadel ...
    "A must-have for any design, architecture, or Bay Area enthusiast." — Front Door/HGTVAn innovative landmark a quarter century in the making, the eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge represents the latest spectacular chapter in the history of this storied structure. The new bridge's architect, Donald MacDonald, teams up with author Ira Nadel to create this illuminating book. With ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Golden Gate Bridge

    History and Design of an Icon

    by Donald MacDonald, Ira Nadel ...
    An award-winning architect explores the history and engineering of a modern marvel with "easygoing prose [and] dozens of delightfully accessible sketches" (SFGate.com).Nine million people visit the Golden Gate Bridge each year, yet how many know why it's painted that stunning shade of "international orange"? Or that ancient Mayan and Art Deco buildings influenced the design? Current bridge ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love and Russian Literature

    From Benjamin to Woolf

    by Ira Nadel ...
    Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • The Business of Ballet

    Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde

    by Ira Nadel ...
    The Business of Ballet: Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde explores how a remarkable, internationally recognized ballet company, the Ballets Russes, was able to survive for twenty years without stable funding. Focusing on Ballets Russes’s founder, Serge Diaghilev, and his talent for discovering monies through an uncanny ability to secure funds from aristocrats, ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Singapore Flings

    Literary Stopovers from Chekhov to Tagore

    by Ira Nadel ...
    Literary greats have long visited Singapore, fascinated by its culture and history. Explore the experiences of writers like Anton Chekhov, Rabindranath Tagore, Noël Coward, Isabella Bird, Pablo Neruda and Joseph Conrad, among others, and discover how Singapore remained a lasting part of their creative imagination. ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Virginia Woolf

    by Ira Nadel ...
    Series Book 71 - Critical Lives
    Virginia Woolf was one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century, and when she died was perhaps the best-known woman novelist in the English-speaking world. Her distinctive writing style inspired a whole generation of writers while her moving novels, such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando remain hugely influential today. Featuring new details about Woolf’s ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD