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  • V. S. Naipaul, Man and Writer

    de Gillian Dooley ...
    An introduction to the uncompromising artistic vision of the internationally acclaimed writerA survey of the life and work of the 2001 Nobel Laureate for Literature, V. S. Naipaul, Man and Writer introduces readers to the writer widely viewed as a curmudgeonly novelist who finds special satisfaction in overturning the vogue presuppositions of his peers. Gillian Dooley takes an expansive look at ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Trim, The Cartographer's Cat

    The ship's cat who helped Flinders map Australia

    de Matthew Flinders, Gillian Dooley, Philippa Sandall ...
    Not many ships' cats have even one memorial statue, let alone six. But Trim does, including one outside Euston Station in London, proudly unveiled by Prince William on the bicentenary of Matthew Flinders's death – 19 July 2014.Trim was the ship's cat who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from 1801 to 1803. He lived quite the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • She played and sang

    Jane Austen and music

    de Gillian Dooley ...
    Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen ‘played and sang’. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her books to illuminate characters’ personalities and highlight the contrasts between them.Until recently, our knowledge of Austen’s musical inclinations was limited to the recollections of relatives who were still in their youth when she passed ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Matthew Flinders: The Man behind the Map

    de Gillian Dooley ...
    Born at the end of the Age of Enlightenment and growing up as Romanticism took hold of European culture, Matthew Flinders was the embodiment of these seemingly irreconcilable movements. His achievements as a navigator and leader are impressive, but he was much more than an action hero, idolised by generations of admirers.In Matthew Flinders: The Man behind the Map Gillian Dooley looks to the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Listening to Iris Murdoch

    Music, Sounds, and Silences

    de Gillian Dooley ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    When we think of Iris Murdoch’s relationship with art forms, the visual arts come most readily to mind. However, music and other sounds are equally important. Soundscapes – music and other types of sound – contribute to the richly textured atmosphere and moral tenor of Murdoch’s novels. This book will help readers to appreciate anew the sensuous nature of Iris Murdoch’s prose, and to listen for ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals

    Edición de Nora Hämäläinen, Gillian Dooley ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals was Iris Murdoch’s major philosophical testament and a highly original and ambitious attempt to talk about our time. Yet in the scholarship on her philosophical work thus far it has often been left in the shade of her earlier work. This volume brings together 16 scholars who offer accessible readings of chapters and themes in the book, connecting them to Murdoch’s ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

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  • Jane Austen's Bookshelf

    A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

    de Rebecca Romney ...
    From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring “your favorite author’s favorite authors” (Today)—the women who inspired Jane Austen—that’s “a meditation on reading and writing, on honesty and self-discovery—and on what books can teach us, if we let them” (The Washington Post).Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Flinders

    The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS and HUDSON FYSH

    de Grantlee Kieza ...
    The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the mapIn 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by the deprivations of years of imprisonment by the French. Four years later, at the age of just 40, he would be dead - a premature, tragic end to one of the world's greatest maritime adventurers who circumnavigated and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Australia's Great Explorers: Tales of tragedy and triumph

    de Denis Gregory ...
    The often harsh and unforgiving Australian landscape was a far cry from what the early colonisers were used to, and it proved a daunting obstacle to settlement. However, a few brave and at times foolhardy men were determined to prove themselves equal to the challenge. AUSTRALIA'S GREAT EXPLORERS looks at the tragedies and triumphs of men such as Wentworth and Lawson, Hume and Hovell, Burke and ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Real Jane Austen

    A Life in Small Things

    de Paula Byrne ...
    "A vivacious portrait. . . . Byrne's Austen emerges as a worldly woman, profoundly enmeshed in a wider world than she's often acknowledged to occupy. This is an Austen with a sense for the political as well as for the finer points of sensibility—and one who will be unfamiliar (though never unrecognizable) to many readers." — Publishers WeeklyIn The Real Jane Austen, acclaimed literary biographer ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Great Divide

    The Story of New Zealand, and its Treaty

    de Ian Wishart ...
    New Zealand to many is 'Middle Earth', home of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but it was also the last major land mass on the planet to be settled by humans.The country was catapulted kicking and screaming from the stone age to the space age within 200 years of Captain Cook setting foot there...Who really got to New Zealand first? Which version of the Treaty of Waitangi is the most accurate? What ... Leer más

    $10.55 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Up and Down Stairs

    The History of the Country House Servant

    de Jeremy Musson ...
    Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes this segregation was broken, as with the famous marriage of a squire to his dairymaid at Uppark. Jeremy Musson captures the voices of the servants ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD