Biography: writers Books
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Benedetti. Un mito discretísimo / A Very Discreet
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£15.20
Editorial Lumen Los círculos morados
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£28.28
£42.24
Anagrama Yo Estoy Vivo Y Vosotros Estais Muertos
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£21.37
La Carta de Joan Anderson
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£17.51
Editorial Anagrama El Anzuelo del Diablo: Sobre la Empatia y el
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£19.73
Anagrama H. P. Lovecraft
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£17.52
Editorial Anagrama En Otono
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£17.77
Editorial Anagrama En Invierno
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£18.10
Editorial Anagrama En Primavera
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£18.65
Editorial Anagrama En Verano
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£19.13
Editorial Anagrama Desde Dentro
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£24.08
Anagrama Dialogo Con Mi Sombra
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£23.70
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El año del pensamiento mágico / The Year of the
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£18.56
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El monje de Moka / The Monk of Mokha
£26.62
Edaf Antillas La Madurez de Cervantes
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£25.74
Edaf Antillas Plenitud de Cervantes, La -V2*
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£31.54
Linkgua Autobiografa de Rubn Daro Memoria Spanish Edition
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£14.80
Tusquets Editores Hacia El Infinito Naufragio
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£19.04
Pginas de Espuma SL Novela familiar El universo privado del escritor Voces Ensayo Spanish Edition
£37.17
Linkgua Autobiografía
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£11.40
B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B) Lorca y el mundo gay Lorca and the Gay World
£23.59
Editorial Periferica Todo Lo Que Quería Decir Sobre Gustave Flaubert
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£13.00
Cabaret Voltaire Paul Bowles El Recluso de Tanger
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£17.83
Editorial Periferica Diarios indios
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£22.54
Eneida Editorial S.L. Luis Cernuda
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£8.72
Radames Molina Don Pablo de Santamaría y 16 epístolas
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£5.00
Sexto Piso Editorial Joseph Conrad y Su Mundo
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£21.55
Linkgua Vida de Carlos III
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£20.90
Linkgua Vida del Padre Maestro Juan de Ávila
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£15.03
Linkgua Autobiografía
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£15.55
Linkgua Vida de Marco Bruto
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£12.78
Linkgua Vida del Padre Baltasar Álvarez
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£24.00
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Háblame de ti: carta a Matilda / Tell Me About You: Letter to Matilda
£21.34
Donde se guardan los libros
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£23.71
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Aquellos años del boom: García Márquez, Vargas Llosa y el grupo de amigos que lo cambiaron todo / Those Boom Years
£34.08
Museum Tusculanum Press L'uomo inquieto: Identitá e alteritá nell'opera
Book SynopsisTEXT IN ITALIAN. The work of A Tabucchi, one of Italy''s greatest contemporary writers, is imbued with the topic of individual identity. His texts query the self-perception, the relation with the Other and the relation with the historical and cultural world while expressing at all these levels an experience of dissolution: the self is fragmented and fragile; the Other is always absent and missed, and instead of being engaged in the present world, the subject lives in an intangible reality that does not make any sense. This profound existential anxiety and the weakening of identity are emphasised by the very way of narrating of Tabucchi which is disconnected, enigmatic and full of silences. The book by Pia Schwarz Lausten describes various manifestations of the above-mentioned experience through the textual analysis of a series of figures and motives such as memory and absence, reversal and multiplicity, the said and the unsaid, history and commitment. Some of these motives involve on the one hand existential and philosophical aspects, and on the other esthetical and literary values. The analysis is based on two theoretical perspectives that in different ways describe an overcoming of a classical subjectivity in favour of an idea of which the Other or Alterity is an essential element to the definition of individual identity: M. Bachtin''s concept of dialogism and G. Vattimo''s weak thought. The former serves to define the narrating subject in Tabucchi''s texts characterised by different discourse levels and others'' words. The latter concept describes the position of the subject of post-modernity determined by a weakening of the strong structures of modern thought. The book is written in Italian.
£20.69
Museum Tusculanum Press En sejlbad for vindstille: En biografi om J P
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£36.54
New Era Publications International APS L. Ron Hubbard: Poet/Lyricist
Book SynopsisThrough verse and lyrics, L. Ron Hubbard communicates his personal view of the world as no other art form can. His works span the entirety of his life: his youth, the New York years not to mention his greater journey to the ultimate heights of spiritual fulfillment.
£28.00
U Press George Brandes' Main Currents: A Companion
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£36.54
Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki Carteggio Giacomo Leopardi Francesco Cancellieri
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£51.41
ListLab Writing Like Breathing: Dacia Maraini Anthology
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£19.95
Peeters Publishers Antoine Galland (1646-1715) et son Journal: Actes
Book SynopsisSi Antoine Galland (1646-1715) doit d’être passé à la postérité à sa «traduction» des Mille et une nuits, il n’en était pas moins avant tout un savant versé tant en numismatique qu’en orientalisme. Pour soutenir sa mémoire, il prit note, dès son adolescence, semble-t-il, mais peut-être pas de manière continue, des événements de chaque jour qui le concernaient de près ou de loin. Ce journal, dont seuls quelques volumes nous sont parvenus, concerne deux périodes: les années 1672-1673, époque où il se trouvait à Constantinople, et les années 1708-1715, années qui correspondent à la fin de sa vie, lorsqu’il vivait à Paris. Cette dernière période est indubitablement une des plus riches sur le plan professionnel puisqu’elle voit A. Galland accéder à la plus haute fonction qu’il pouvait espérer jamais atteindre: la chaire de langue arabe au Collège royal (1709). Le journal de ces années constitue donc une source de première importance tant pour retracer les dernières années de la vie de ce savant, digne représentant de la République des Lettres, qui nous fait part consciencieusement du contenu des séances bi-hebdomadaires de la vénérable Académie royale des inscriptions, que pour reconstruire son réseau de correspondants, d’amis, de collègues dans ce siècle des Lumières qui est en train de se dessiner. Le projet qui visait à publier de manière critique l’intégralité du Journal d’A. Galland s’est concrétisé avec la parution des troisième et quatrième volumes (1712-1715) en 2015. Pour célébrer cet événement qui coïncidait avec le tricentenaire de la mort de son auteur, un colloque international a réuni une vingtaine de spécialistes venus du monde entier dans le but de se pencher, pour la première fois, sur le Journal dans son entier et examiner son apport dans des domaines aussi variés que les études littéraires, la correspondance, la numismatique, l’imprimerie, l’orientalisme, sans oublier les Mille et une nuits. Ce volume réunit vingt-sept contributions qui permettent de mieux appréhender le personnage et son œuvre.
£101.61
Peeters Publishers Antoine Galland écrivain: De l'érudition
Book SynopsisSavant numismate et orientaliste, membre de l'Académie des Inscriptions et professeur au Collège royal, Antoine Galland est l’auteur de nombreux travaux tombés aujourd’hui dans l’oubli, et c’est à ses Mille et une nuits, des «fariboles» selon son propre mot, qu’il doit sa célébrité. Encore souvent considérée comme une simple traduction, cette œuvre relève pourtant de la création. Il fallait donc à Galland plus que la seule connaissance de la langue arabe pour produire, à l’aube du XVIIIe siècle, un recueil de contes promis à un immense succès jamais démenti. Comment le savant se fit-il écrivain? Telle est la question à laquelle cet ouvrage voudrait répondre. C’est à partir de l’analyse de ses petits textes composés pour les «gens du monde» et du dépouillement de son Journal et de sa Correspondance qu’il a été possible de reconstituer l’itinéraire qui le conduisit de l’érudition orientale à l’écriture d’un chef-d’œuvre classique: Les Mille et une nuits.
£67.88
BAI NV James Joyce in Ostend
Book SynopsisJames Joyce, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, spent several weeks in Ostend during the summer of 1926. In order to escape the oppressive heat of Paris he, his wife Nora and his daughter Lucia chose fashionable Ostend to cool down. From Paris he wrote several letters, mainly to the American Sylvia Beach who had her famous bookshop - Shakespeare and Co. - in Paris, as well as to Briton Harriet Shaw Weaver who supported him financially. During his stay, Joyce takes long walks along the beach, his daughter Lucia takes photographs that are published for the first time, and in a pharmacy, Joyce meets an Irish friend whom he hasn't seen for more than 20 years. During his stay the family undergoes a terrible summer storm which will affect Finnegans Wake, his latest publication. In one of his letters (dated 11 August 1926) he writes about Ostend: "This is by far the best place we have been in for a summer holiday."
£16.96
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat Kurkan
Book SynopsisAlthough valuable works have been written on the Mughal dynasty throughout the world, Mirza Haidar and his achievements failed to get the attention they rightly deserved perhaps because he was constantly surrounded by a galaxy of luminaries hence the need for this humble corrective endeavour. With his multifarious contribution to the develop- ment of Kashmir during the short rule of a decade amidst political problems and internecine warfare, Mirza Haidar Dughlat Kurkan, born in Tashkent, in 1499/1500, proved himself to be a remarkable man of many parts a gallant general, a good painter, a calligrapher, born poet, excellent administrator and above all a great scholar and historian. Despite extensive patronage to scholars and historians, no official history was compiled and his own magnum opus Tarikh-i Rashidi is far from being a focused court history, memoir, or autobiography. Nevertheless, a man of his calibre was not doomed to be wiped out from pages of history as he had earned enough through his deeds to immortalize his name and fame.
£53.19
Alpha Edition Balzac
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HarperCollins India Insatiable
Book SynopsisIt''s a promise India''s most beloved writer delivers on in her irreverent memoir about the year leading up to her landmark seventy-fifth birthday. Quintessential exuberance and keen observations firmly in place, she tells us about travelling solo, feasting (and fasting) with family and friends, the triumphs and losses that accompany ageing, the vagaries and vulnerabilities of being a writer and, above all, how food connects people in the most unexpected places and delightful ways. From where to find the most delicious lassi in Jaipur, her obsession with kasundi and conversations with a Nobel Laureate who is a gourmet to M.F. Husain''s last food khwaish and what''s served at Aamir Khan''s dinner table, Shobhaa takes us into the dining rooms of politicians, artists and celebrities, to festivals and parties and other social events, and, more privately, into her home, where food is always the prime subject of conversation.
£17.99
