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  • Imagining Mr Stevens

    Approaches to Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day - nine essays on central aspects of Kazuo Ishiguro's masterpiece

    de Paul Maloney ...
    A detailed analysis of Kazuo Ishiguro's masterpiece The Remains of the Day in nine essays. In neun Aufsätzen wird Kazuo Ishiguros Meisterwerk The Remains of the Day eingehend analysiert. ... Leer más

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  • The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture

    de Paul Maloney ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Focusing on Glasgow’s earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city’s most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the nineteenth century. Shedding light on the increasing diversity of commercial entertainment provided by such venues – offering everything from music ... Leer más

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  • The Remains of the Day

    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

    Series series Vintage International
    BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country ... Leer más

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  • The Professor and the Madman

    A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

    A New York Times Notable BookThe Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history.The making of the OED was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, ... Leer más

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  • Spoilt Rotten

    The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality

    Not since Christopher Hitchens assault on Mother Theresa have so many sacred cows been slaughtered in such a short volume.' Spectator 'One of our most celebrated essayists.' Toby Young, Mail on Sunday '[A] cultural highlight.' Observer 'Surgical demolition.' Guardian In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the hidden sentimentality that is suffocating public life. Under the ... Leer más

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  • Litter

    The Remains of Our Culture

    'What a book.' Clive Aslet, Country Life 'Characteristically brilliant.' Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times 'A little oasis of sanity.' Daily Mail. Driving the four hundred miles from Glasgow to London, Theodore Dalrymple found practically every yard of roadside to be littered with rubbish flapping in the wind like Buddhist prayer flags. What does it say about a culture when a country tips its rubbish ... Leer más

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  • Summary and Analysis of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

    Based on the book by Simon Winchester

    de Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Professor and the Madman tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Simon Winchester's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester includes ... Leer más

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  • James Bond and Philosophy

    Questions Are Forever

    Edición de James B. South, Jacob M. Held ...
    Series Libro 23 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Bond. James Bond.” Since Sean Connery first uttered that iconic phrase in Dr. No, more than one quarter of the world’s population has seen a 007 film. Witty and urbane, Bond seduces and kills with equal ease - often, it seems, with equal enthusiasm. This enthusiasm, coupled with his freedom to do what is forbidden to everyone else, evokes fascinating philosophical questions. Here, 15 witty, ... Leer más

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  • Collected Shorter Fiction of Leo Tolstoy, Volume II

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    de Leo Tolstoy ...
    Traducido por Alymer Maude, Louise Maude, Nigel Cooper ...
    Ranging in scope from lengthy novellas to fables and folktales only a few pages long, Leo Tolstoy’s short fiction provides a marvelous opportunity to become closely acquainted with Russia’s great novelist.Volume 2 of the Collected Shorter Fiction reveals howTolstoy’s growing spiritual preoccupations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces that equal anything in the earlier novels ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel

    de Marina MacKay ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of the eighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genre of modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essential aspects of the novel and its history: where novels came from and why we read them; how we think about their styles and techniques, their people, ... Leer más

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  • The Language of Fiction

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    de David Lodge ...
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    Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the time of its first publication in 1966 - and lucid exposition meant that the work proved a landmark of literary criticism, not least because it succeeded ... Leer más

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  • The Art of Reading

    de Damon Young ...
    A beautiful celebratory tribute to the powers of one of our most undervalued skills — an ideal gift for the avid reader.‘What you are doing right now is, cosmically speaking, against the odds.’As young children, we are taught to read, but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is, this turning of scratches and dots into understanding, unease and inspiration. Perhaps we need to stop ... Leer más

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