Jeanette Winterson (Andermahr Sonya)(Paperback)

Jeanette Winterson (Andermahr Sonya)(Paperback)

In this comprehensive introduction to Winterson's work, Sonya Andermahr considers its significance in the context of contemporary British culture and literary history. Including an interview with the author, this guide offers an accessible reading of all Winterson's work and an overview of the

Frankissstein - A Love Story (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

The Passion (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback)

Jeanette Winterson s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. 'The Passion' is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, 'The

Powerbook (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

'Winterson is a rangy pirate, a world-swashbuckler, a plunderer of stories, literatures and hearts' Ali Smith, Scotsman 'It's night. Finally, you can be the hero of your own life. But, there is a price to pay - the risk that you might leave the story as somebody else. 'Brilliant, evocative

Christmas Days - 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Hansel and Greta - A Fairy Tale Revolution (Winterson Jeanette)(Pevná vazba)

Jeanette Winterson retells 'Hansel and Gretel'. 'Deep in the wood'Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the

World and Other Places (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

In this, her first collection of short stories, Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, she creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly

Passion (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

'A fantasy, a vivid dream...inventive and brilliant' GuardianHenri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for

Gap of Time - The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare's original and tells a story of hearts broken and hearts healed, a story of revenge and forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found. 'Emotionally wrought and profoundly

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman

Love - Vintage Minis (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. This book focuses on love in all its forms. It includes selections from Jeanette Winterson's books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for the mythical

Lighthousekeeping (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of

Frankissstein - Jeanette Wintersonová - e-kniha

eBook: Frankissstein je nekonvenčným príbehom lásky, v ktorom sa prepletajú dramatické životné osudy na pozadí tém ako transhumanizmus, umelá inteligencia a LGBT vzťahy.Ženevské jazero, 1816. Devätnásťročná Mary Shelleyová píše príbeh o vedcovi, ktorý vytvorí novú formu

Vášeň - Jeanette Wintersonová - e-kniha

eBook: Henri vášnivo zbožňoval Napoleona a Napoleon vášnivo zbožňoval kurence. Počas cesty z Boulogne do Moskvy Henri zabil množstvo hydiny, ale ani jedného človeka. Medzitým v tom čase sa v Benátkach, meste nádejí a masiek, narodila Villanelle, po otcovi gondolierovi zdedila

Written on the Body (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

A secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise

Sexing the Cherry (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into the air, their lives together will take them on a dizzying journey through space and time. As past and present collapse and centuries overlap, love, sex, truth, lies and twelve dancing princesses take centre stage

Vianočné dni - Jeanette Wintersonová - e-kniha

eBook: Okúzľujúca zbierka príbehov a vianočných dobrôt pre ten najkrajší čas roka. Privoďte si atmosféru pokoja, dobrej vôle a štipky čara. Všetci milujeme vianočné príbehy. Počas dvanástich dní Vianoc tradične oslavujeme a obdarúvame sa. Existuje lepší spôsob, ako si

Trhlina v čase - Jeanette Wintersonová - e-kniha

eBook: První kniha v řadě SHAKESPEARE 400, kde vyjdou autoři jako Jo Nesbo, Margaret Atwoodová nebo Gillian Flynnová | Pozdní hra Williama Shakespeara Zimní pohádka je proslulá mimo jiné umístěním Čech na břeh moře. Líčí chorobnou žárlivost sicilského vladaře Leonta, který

Written on the Body (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback)

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. 'At once a love story and a philosophical

Gut Symmetries (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

A funny and tender celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess, from the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be

Tíha - Jeanette Wintersonová

Román současné britské spisovatelky. Svým výběrem postav z řecké mytologie: obra Atlase, který nese za trest na ramenou nebeskou klenbu, a udatného hrdiny Hérakla, který Atlasovu tíhu dočasně odejme, se známá britská spisovatelka rozhodla ze současného pohledu zkoumat lidskou

Jak naštěpit třešeň - Jeanette Wintersonová

V pořadí třetí román přední současné britské prozaičky je přímo naditý podivuhodnými věcmi a ději. Splétá síť pronikavých a barvitých příběhů, které střídavě vypráví výstřední rabelaisovská obryně - Psí žena neboli Psářka - a její éterický nevlastní syn

Stone Gods (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl

Art Objects - Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, the future of fiction, in two essays on Virginia Woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that