• Rok vydání 2004

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.…

Kniha - autor Robert D. Putnam; Shaylyn Romney Garrett, 448 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná From the author of…

A series featuring a contemporary poet selecting and introducing a poet of the past. It, by choice of poems and by the…

The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and…

Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. In this…

• Rok vydání 2002

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.…

In this delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission -…

'Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.' Alice Munro'The taboo-breaking, the…

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.…

By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nWritten during her time as the inaugural fellow in the Beckett archive last year, Eimear McBride\'s three short,…

• Rok vydání 2019

Here are luminous sketches of characters she has met, of transgressive and often tragic women - prostitutes and mothers,…

• Rok vydání 1930

\nIntroduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience onenew mother\'s psychological journey in this lost 1930foremother of…

\nThis forgotten novel by the Pulitzer-winning poet is a miniature wonder, chronicling one woman\'s coming-of-age in 1940s…

I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in…

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. In 1798 he published the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge,…

\nThe visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew\'s dreamlike jungle voyage ... \'An exhilarating experience ... As…

Vienna1865: Dr Ignaz Semmelweis has been hounded into a lunatic asylum, ridiculed for his claim that doctors' unwashed hands…

As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels together and apart - in…

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible educational edition offers the complete…

"You know 'that look' women get when they want sex? Me neither." (Steve Martin). "You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow…

In an engaging, at times startling, enquiry into the fundamental loneliness of each sex, Leader asks why relationships…

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four…

The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director and teacher has written a blunt, unsparingly honest guide to acting. He…

Focuses on such characteristic subjects as: the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the…

Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other…

\nThe dramatic story of Solange: a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nWhy do people commit hate crimes? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate…

• Rok vydání 2007

John Clare (1793-1864), the 'peasant poet', worked as an agricultural labourer in Northamptonshire until a deterioration in…

• Rok vydání 2019

Chris Power's stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends - at ancient Swedish…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nAphorisms have been described as \'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose\' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements…

The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'.…

For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. For years, those with economic power…

A vast range of human experience is here: most are anonymous, everyday encounters - children playing, a homeless man in…

• Rok vydání 2013

Fascinating and illuminating, witty and accessible, The Science of Love and Betrayal is essential reading for anyone who's…

He examines the science behind the topics that are much discussed but rarely understood - stem-cell research, cloning, DNA -…

In the end, long after the case against the five suspects had been dropped, the government had to give in to mounting…

In Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two…

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life…

• Rok vydání 2019

Animates the characters of his childhood in County Cork. This book confirms author's place as one of the most approachable…

This anthology is drawn from his writings about the memories of men and women of a past era - farm labourers, shepherds,…

Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods -…

Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great…

\nAnd in the fourth part of Paterson\'s ongoing poem \'The Alexandrian Library\', the poet-as-amateur scientist - from a…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYIt is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval…

\nBe transported to the wild meadows of Kite\'s Nest Farm and peek into the surprising private lives of some of our most…