The Broom of the System (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

The Broom of the System (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of

David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form (Hering David)(Paperback)

In David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, David Hering analyses the structures of David Foster Wallace's fiction, from his debut The Broom of the System to his final unfinished novel The Pale King. Incorporating extensive analysis of Wallace's drafts, notes and letters, and taking account of the

Pale King (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutaie of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending

Infinite Jest (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is 'brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer' (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone?

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication (Wallace David Foster)(Pevná vazba)

Infinite Jest (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why

Oblivion: Stories (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

* A brand new short story collection from 'the most significant writer of his generation'

The Best American Essays (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third

Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback / softback)

*Razor-sharp cultural commentary and hilarious social observation from the bestselling author of INFINITE

Zapomnění - David Foster Wallace

Svůj poslední soubor povídek Zapomnění psal David Foster Wallace paralelně s již nedokončeným románem Bledý král. Kniha vyšla roku 2004. Témata osobní identity a možností porozumění i sebeporozumění se ve Wallaceových textech prolínají s nejsoučasnějšími technikami

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Wallace David Foster)(Paperback)

Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg

Both Flesh And Not (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

Combines the author's essays with work published in the UK. This title collects fifteen

David Foster Wallace Reader (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work — essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,' excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like 'The Depressed

Krátké rozhovory s odpornými muži - David Foster Wallace

V Krátkých rozhovorech s odpornými muži (1999) podává David Foster Wallace zprávu o lidských bytostech zasažených úzkostí, nejistotou a osamoceností. Formálně rozmanitý soubor povídek je jakousi verbální anatomií vztahu mezi pohlavími, výpravou do světa myslí a těl

Infinite Jest (Wallace David Foster)(Pevná vazba)

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it

Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future (Wallace-Wells David)(Paperback / softback)

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

* 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose'

Norman Foster: Works 6 (Jenkins David)(Pevná vazba)

The sixth volume in a monumental survey of the works of Norman Foster focuses on the years 1996 2009 and projects towards an exciting future of continued architectural excellence. Winner of the Pritzker Prize and the Praemium Imperiale, Norman Foster is one of the most innovative and

The Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation (Wallace David)(Paperback)

The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the many worlds approach to quantum theory. The point of science, it is generally accepted, is to tell us how the world works and what it is like. But quantum theory seems to fail to do this: taken literally as a theory of the world, it

Room on the Broom Play (Donaldson Julia)(Paperback / softback)

There's room on the broom for everyone with this wonderful play adaptation of the classic picture

Room on the Broom Sticker Book (Donaldson Julia)(Paperback / softback)

A fun sticker book, based on the bestselling Room on the Broom, packed full of activities and over four hundred

The Science of Getting Rich (The Science of Getting Rich Wallace D.)(Paperback)

Wallace D. Wattles introduced the world to the power of positive thinking. He was a profound influence on Michael Losier and James Arthur Ray. With out Wattles 'Science Of trilogy' there never would have been books such as The Laws of Attraction, The Science of Success, and the Power of Positive

The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages (Case Paul Foster)(Paperback)

Many students of the Western esoteric tradition consider Paul Foster Case's The Tarot the finest explanation that has yet appeared on the occult meaning of numbers, the construction of the Tarot, and the attribution of the 22 Major Trumps to the Hebrew alphabet. In clear and understandable