Portrait of the Artist Kathe Kollwitz (Egremont Max)(Paperback / softback)

Portrait of the Artist Kathe Kollwitz (Egremont Max)(Paperback / softback)

Forgotten Land - Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia (Egremont Max)(Paperback / softback)

Following his highly successful life of Sassoon, Max Egremont turns his attention to a world that has vanished into

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback)

James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916 who found its treating of the minutiae of daily life as indecorous, and its central

Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog (Thomas Dylan)(Paperback / softback)

Ten marvellously evocative short stories inspired by the events of Dylan Thomas' youth. Featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback / softback)

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY DR DIETER FUCHS AND JOSEPH O'CONNORAgainst the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing its powers, obsessions taking hold and loosening again, the bonds of family, tradition, nation and religion transforming from supports into

Glass Wall - Lives on the Baltic Frontier (Egremont Max)(Pevná vazba)

This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect. Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic. Small nations such as the Baltic States of Latvia

Gently with the Painters (Hunter Alan)(Paperback)

The death of a young artist leaves Gently desperately piecing together the portrait of a murderer. When artist Shirley Johnson is murdered and her body dumped outside a provincial police headquarters, Gently is despatched from London to Northshire to take over the investigation. The prime suspect

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce - e-kniha

eBook:,'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce that follows the coming-of-age of Stephen Dedalus, a young Irish artist. The book charts Stephen's intellectual, moral, and spiritual development from childhood to adulthood as he struggles with his

Manual of Painting and Calligraphy (Saramago Jose)(Paperback / softback)

H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for the portrait, H. For inspiration H. takes a trip to Italy to contemplate the works of the great artists, but when his friend back home is arrested by the secret police of

Tsar of Love and Techno (Marra Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

A Granta Best Young American Novelist1930s Leningrad: a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images and

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback)

For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce's greatest works--featuring a foreword by Karl Ove Knausgaard, author the New York Times bestselling six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, which has been likened to a 21st-century Portrait of the

Caravaggio (Bersani Leo)(Paperback)

Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers: Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton. It is probably the

Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist (Spalding Frances)(Paperback)

Vanessa Bell is central to the history of the Bloomsbury Group, yet until this authorised biography was written, she largely remained a silent and inscrutable figure. Tantalising glimpses of her life appeared mainly in her sister, Virginia Woolf's, letters, diaries and biography. Frances Spalding

Prince: A Portrait of the Artist (Sexton Paul)(Pevná vazba)

An illustrated biography of the artist and his music, complete with removable facsimile memorabilia, documents, posters, concert tickets and more.Prince Rogers Nelson was a musical phenomenon who constantly reinvented himself throughout his long and colorful career, changing his style and even his

Independence Memories - A People's Portrait of the Early Days of the Irish Nation (Cox Valerie)(Paperback / softback)

A people's portrait of a period of momentous change in Irish

The Hockneys: Never Worry What the Neighbours Think (Hockney John)(Paperback)

'The most charming... portrait of this ever-popular artist... so enormously appealing: good-natured, bluntly told, skimmed with Yorkshire humour... This is a story of sticky jam tarts, catching tadpoles in jars, torchlit conversations under the bedclothes, gossipy queues at the butcher's and hikes

Head-To-Toe Portrait of Suzanne (Topor Roland)(Paperback)

Working from the 1960s on, the French writer, artist and illustrator Roland Topor (1938-97) was an all-round maverick known for his paintings and drawings as much as for his novels (such as The Tenant, filmed by Roman Polanski), plays and short stories, all dominated by a sense of irrational,

Portrait of an Artist (Lisle Laurie)(Paperback)

'Readers will welcome what Lisle has found. The woman who emerges has extraordinary personal stature, artistic gifts, commitment to her vision.' --(Chicago Tribune) Recollections of more than one hundred of O'Keeffe's friends, relatives, colleagues, and neighbors--including 16 pages of

Artist and His Models - The Art of Rembrandt (Ddang Haneul)(Paperback / softback)

Berlioz - The Making of an Artist 1803-1832 (Cairns David)(Paperback / softback)

Riviera Set (Lovell Mary S.)(Paperback / softback)

A portrait of high society in the twentieth century, told through the stories of the guests of Maxine Elliott and Prince Aly Khan at the Chateau de l'Horizon in

Greene On Capri (Hazzard Shirley)(Paperback / softback)

* The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man on the legendary island of Capri by the renowned author of THE TRANSIT OF