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  • The Hound of the Baskervilles

    de Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and remains one of Sherlock Holmes's greatest and most popular adventures.Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella

    de Christopher Frayling ...
    An expanded, fully illustrated, and up-to-date edition of the classic cultural history of vampiresVampyres is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. It incorporates extracts from a huge range of sources—from Bram Stoker’s detailed research notes for Dracula to penny dreadfuls, to ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Innocents

    de Christopher Frayling ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Jack Clayton's gothic masterpiece The Innocents, though not a commercial success on its release in 1961, has been hailed as one of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time. Dividing reviewers with its ambiguous depiction of ghosts, the film ignited a debate about the aesthetics of horror which still rages today.In this stimulating introduction to The Innocents, Sir Christopher Frayling ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Things to Come

    de Christopher Frayling ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    The release of 'Things to Come' in 1936 was one of the key moments in the history of science fiction in the cinema. The film was the brainchild of H. G. Wells, whose worldwide reputation as a thinker had persuaded its producer, Alexander Korda, to offer him a contract giving him virtually total control over the project. Korda drafted a dazzling array of talents to render into pictures Wells's ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • On Craftsmanship

    Towards a New Bauhaus

    de Christopher Frayling ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    'Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.'The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by – among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers, quick-fix training and the cult of celebrity, it has recently re-entered public debate with a new sense ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Mad, Bad and Dangerous?

    The Scientist and the Cinema

    de Christopher Frayling ...
    Since its origin cinema has had an uneasy relationship with science and technology: scientists are almost always impossibly mad or impossibly saintly, and technology is nearly always very bad for you. In Mad, Bad and Dangerous?, Christopher Frayling explores the genealogy of the film scientist in films made in Western Europe, and especially in Hollywood after the 1930s, showing how in film the ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Yellow Peril: Dr. Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinaphobia

    de Christopher Frayling ...
    An entirely new perspective on current scaremongering about China’s global ambitions, and on the Western media’s ignorance of Chinese cultureA hundred years ago, a character who was to enter the bloodstream of 20th-century popular culture made his first appearance in the world of literature. In his day he became as well known as Count Dracula or Sherlock Holmes: he was the evil genius called Dr. ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Book of Forgotten Authors

    de Christopher Fowler ...
    'JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK' CATHY RENTZENBRINK'A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING' IRISH INDEPENDENT'THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND' STYLIST, 50 UNMISSABLE BOOKS FOR AUTUMN 2017'EXCELLENT . . . SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE WHO LOVES BOOKS' EVENING STANDARDAbsence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. It makes people thi... ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • A Factotum in the Book Trade

    de Marius Kociejowski ...
    The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction

    de Michael Moorcock ...
    Voted by the London Times as one of the best writers since 1945, Michael Moorcock was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has won almost all the major Science Fiction, Fantasy, and lifetime achievement awards including the “Howie,” the Prix Utopiales and the Stoker. Best known for his rule-breaking SF and Fantasy, including the classic Elric and Hawkmoon ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The 100 Best Novels

    In English

    Edición de Robert McCrum ...
    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 editor Robert McCrum. With a short critique on each book, this is a real delight for literary lovers. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Pleasure of Reading

    43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them

    de Lady Antonia Fraser ...
    In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD