Personal Pleasures: Essays on Enjoying Life, Paperback - Rose Macaulay

Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things the feminist critic and nivelist Rose Macaulay enj...

Potterism is about the Potter newspaper empire, and the ways in which journalists struggled to balance the truth and what would sell, during the Fi...

Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced at each of those stag...

Rose Macaulay's novel, first published in 1928, offers a sharp and witty commentary on how we twist our identities to fit, delivered in an intellig...

Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown i...

All Rose Macaulay's anti-war writing, collected together in one fascinating and thought-provoking volume. Her novel Non-Combatants and Others (1916...

It is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the aftermath of the war. Banished by her beautiful, indolent mother to England, Barbary...

Reducere. Academia isn't an easy place to be if your brain isn't quite right.Colleagues carelessly call each other ``schizo`` and ``bipolar.`` Another collea...

Reducere. DescriptionThis collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced...

John Calvin, a man adored by some and maligned by others, stands as a legendary figure in Christian history. In Calvin on the Christian Life, profe...

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Beguiling, aromatic memoirs of a cookery writer, settling in a small Normandy town, very similar in flavour to Under the Tuscan Sun.

New edition of a novel first published in 1918, and influenced Aldous Huxley's }Brave New World{. An absurd comedy of post-WWI eugenics and press m...

Fo Guang Shan, "Buddha's Light Mountain", is a Buddhist movement which stands in the Chinese tradition of Mahayana Buddhism and more specifically i...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

After Identity. Three Essays on the Musicality of Life - Maria-Mihaela Grajdian

A hilarious argument in favor of taking life a smidge less seriouslyPopular humor writer Anna Lind Thomas had an epiphany after her essay about a h...

Donna Brazzi Barnes knew from adolescence that her future lay beyond the bounds of the small California town she grew up in-but she didn't know to ...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of Life of the Mind Interrupted comes an essay collection "rich in vulnerability and candor."How do we make a good life...

An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today.

DescriptionAn urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today Being Numer...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam PhillipsIn a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects und...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Explores and appreciates the small pleasures found in everyday life.Publisher: The School of Life PressAuthor(s): The School of LifeNumber of pages...

It's time to experience the joys of simple livingWith help on how to declutter your home, practise mindfulness and make your mealtimes, free time a...

Reducere. The Tenth LifeEveryone knows cats have nine lives Or at least it seems they do, given the scrapes they get themselves in and out of. This is primar...

*The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London - a city still partly in ruins, where both ...

Analyses the origins, history and logic of 'still life', one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. This work surveys a major segment in t...

Suitable for a course in literary criticism, the title is concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term "symboli...

Reducere. Contents: Preface - 9 The Magic of Love - 13 Once Upon a Time in Japan - 51 The Unbearable Lightness of Longing - 81 Acknowledgements - 109 Notes a...

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52 overlooked small pleasures, for a life, from 'flirtation' to 'cyprus trees'. Short, enjoyable meditations on small pleasures - one for each week...