Fall of a Sparrow - Vivien Eliot's Life and Writings (Pasternak Slater Ann)(Pevná vazba)

Fall of a Sparrow - Vivien Eliot's Life and Writings (Pasternak Slater Ann)(Pevná vazba)

The Vivien Eliot Papers is a groundbreaking new biography of Vivien Eliot, comprising two sections: her Life and her

Selected Writings (Muir John)(Pevná vazba)

This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American

Middlemarch (Eliot G.)(Pevná vazba)

Subtitled A Study of Provincial Life, George Eliot's novel Middlemarch is a chronicle of the titular nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of political and social change. Eliot explores the upheaval and transformation brought about by these changes through their impact on the lives of a

The Apostolic Fathers (Ehrman Bart D.)(Pevná vazba)

The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament times. Some of them were accorded almost Scriptural authority in the early Church. This new Loeb edition of these essential texts reflects current idiom

Love of My Life - The Life and Loves of Freddie Mercury (Jones Lesley-Ann)(Pevná vazba)

The truth behind Freddie Mercury's complex romantic

Artist: The Circle Of Life (Haifisch Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Black Beauty (Sewell Anna)(Pevná vazba)

The moving story of a handsome horse who lives a life of hardship and

Humanity (Ai Weiwei)(Pevná vazba)

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our time Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a

Great Lives in Graphics: Anne Frank (Button Books)(Pevná vazba)

This graphic retelling of Anne's story gives children a visual snapshot of her life and the world she grew up

We Defy Augury (Cixous Hlne)(Pevná vazba)

We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come ... the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet's last act, H l ne Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new book--and the latest chapter in her Human Comedy, her Search for Lost Time

Life as Creative Constraint: Autobiography and the Oulipo (Kemp Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and formal gymnastics has seen its work caricatured as 'lifeless' - impressively virtuoso but moreinterested in

Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas (Beard Lee)(Pevná vazba)

Featuring reproductions of key works and selected letters, Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas is an invaluable resource to all those interested in the work of this key British artist and the period in which he

T. S. Eliot & Organicism (Diaper Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

T. S. Eliot and Organicism provides the first comprehensive account of Eliot's preoccupation with agrarianism, organicism and the environment. Jeremy Diaper elucidates and contextualizes several facets of Eliot's organic thinking, ranging from composting and soil fertility, to regionalism,

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown (Glenconner Anne)(Pevná vazba)

An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Lady Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's The Crown.Lady Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and

Billion Dollar Loser - The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork (Wiedeman Reeves)(Pevná vazba)

THE SPECTACULAR RISE AND EXPLOSIVE FALL OF

Water of Life (Wilson Anne)(Pevná vazba)

This important book looks at the entire history of distilling in the Middle East and Europe from the earliest experiments by the Pythagorean alchemists of Ptolomaic Egypt in the fourth century BC to the commercial production of spirits to drink in the British Isles to the year 2000. It is important

The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan (Wynn Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

No Authority, Volume 1: Writings from the Laureateship (Enright Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Anne Enright is one of the brightest lights in contemporary Irish literature. Her novels have received numerous major awards, including the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and she frequently appears in the pages of publications such as the New

My Friends (Sparrow Leilani)(Pevná vazba)

Simple pre-school picture book exploring the importance of all kinds of friends, and encouraging the youngest child to make and value friends. Rhythmic text and adorable

The King of Christmas (Duffy Carol Ann)(Pevná vazba)

On a frosty winter evening, the Baron watches the snow fall. He is bored and worried. It will soon be Christmas and everything is too quiet. What can he do to bring excitement to the Manor? His wife, the Baroness, has an idea: he can appoint a King of Christmas, a peasant to take his place. And so

The Ghosting of Anne Armstrong (Green Michael Cawood)(Pevná vazba)

A novel that tells a four-hundred-year-old tale of witchcraft and intrigue, reimagining the life of a servant girl who accuses her neighbors of being witches.Michael Cawood Green's novel The Ghosting of Anne Armstrong calls up the lost voice of a fourteen-year-old girl who, between January and May

Kitchen Diaries (Slater Nigel)(Pevná vazba)

Classic cookery writing from the award-winning food writer and author of bestselling autobiography,

Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I - Collected and Uncollected Poems (Eliot T. S.)(Pevná vazba)

To accompany Eliot's poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet's working processes, his

You Can't Fall Off the Floor: And Other Lessons from a Life in Hollywood (Katleman Harris)(Pevná vazba)