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  • The Faber Book of Reportage

    by John Carey ...
    ***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events.'Stunning . . . There are descriptions in this book so fresh that they sear themselves into the imagination.'JEREMY PAXMAN'Fascinating - there's ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • What Good are the Arts?

    by John Carey ...
    From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value of art. ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Unexpected Professor

    An Oxford Life in Books

    by John Carey ...
    Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Essential Paradise Lost

    by John Carey ...
    After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit.Now it is little read. To bring readers back to Milton's masterpiece, John Carey has shortened it to a third of its original length. In this fascinating reinterpretation, Carey reveals new insights about Milton's sources of inspiration, while exploring divided ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Duck Soup and Swansongs

    by John Carey ...
    ‘Witty, finely crafted, genuinely funny, Carey’s poems surprise with their clever double takes on society’s faults and foibles. At once erudite and bitingly topical, Carey has a keen eye for the humorous detail and the deeper resonances of global stupidity. Carey shows himself adept at both the brief political quip like the Tony Abbot-inspired “Captain’s Pick Haiku” or the longer reflective ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • The Working Bassist

    What You Really Need to Know to Survive in New York City

    by John Carey ...
    The Working Bassist, What You Really Need to Know to Survive in New York City Written for bassists and musicians alike, The Working Bassist, What You Really Need to Know to Survive in New York City, is designed to inform musicians and bassists interested in coming to New York City to pursue their musical endeavors. In addition to being informative, the series of interviews has been geared towards ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 Poets

    A Little Anthology

    by John Carey ...
    A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of PoetryA poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests. Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one-hundred greatest poets from across ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • A Little History of Poetry

    by John Carey ...
    Series series Little Histories
    A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times“[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London“Delightful.’”—New York Times Book ReviewWhat is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a... ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sunday Best

    80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews

    by John Carey ...
    A collection of John Carey’s greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews—amassed over a lifetime of writingIn 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times. In a career spanning over 40 years and upwards of 1,000 reviews, Carey has kept abreast of the brightest and best books of the day, distilling his thoughts each week ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Violent Effigy

    A Study of Dickens' Imagination

    by John Carey ...
    An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey.Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens's work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, terrible fantasy world it inhabited. It shows Dickens torn between the appeal of violence and a fanatical orderliness: he was attracted by characters who commit murder or burst into flame or ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • John Donne

    Life, Mind and Art

    by John Carey ...
    'Donne is perhaps the most intellectual of English poets, and John Carey is perhaps the most intelligent of contemporary English literary critics. The encounter, as one might expect, is fierce and enthralling... This book is sensitive, searching, powerful, exciting, provocative and witty. It is a superb achievement.' Christopher Hill, TLSJohn Donne: Life, Mind and Art is a unique attempt to see ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Thackeray

    Prodigal Genius

    by John Carey ...
    A new approach to Thackeray. Although this study embraces all his work, it switches attention from his late novels, and bases the case for his imaginative vitality on the multifarious material - reviews, travel books, burlesques, Punch articles - that he turned out, mostly under severe financial stress, at the start of his writing career. Here was the breeding ground of Vanity Fair; here we find ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD