The Seagull Book of Literature, Paperback

Reducere. The Women Who Wrote Their Way Into HistoryA packed timeline of the greatest women writers: From the first recorded writer to current bestsellers, B...

Reducere. In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are ch...

This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to...

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Exciting early work by the Man Booker-shortlisted author, discussing Herge's hugely popular children's books. McCarthy asks the question: is Tintin...

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main tr...

Ground-breaking work of philosophy and Russian Literature: translated into English for the first timePublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Valery Podoro...

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Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): David SimpsonNumber of pages: 304Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2022Dim...

What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function o...

"My father bought me from the council for 365 francs, " recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons. She's a ...

Reducere. Now in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating ...

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This new translation of Anton Chekhov's classic The Seagull restores what most English-language versions of the play omit - Humor. Considered a wor...

The Seagull (2018), se concentreaza asupra conflictelor romantice si artistice dintre actrita Irina Arkadina, a carei glorie a apus, tanara ingenua...

The inimitable Inspector Montalbano returns for his fifteenth engrossing mystery.

Contributor(s): Author: Anton ChekhovForeword by: Robert BrusteinAfterword by: Rosamund BartlettAnton ChekhovThe Major Plays Ivanov * The Sea Gull ...

Reducere. An experimental novel that explores the complexity of Palestinian identity through extended metaphor and dark humor. On a plastic chair in a parkin...

Reducere. Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Grünbein. In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures hel...

DescriptionIn The Glance of the Medusa, L sz F. F ld nyi offers a mesmerizing examination of the rich history of European culture through the lens ...

This international bestseller is a moving, uplifting and life-enhancing story with a strong environmental theme, illustrated by prize-winning Satos...

Reducere. Stoppard's masterful adaptation of Chekhov's best-loved play has been lauded by critics for its shining prose as well as its faithfulness. The play...

Reducere. Unabridged English value reproduction of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. This wonderfully complex drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters th...

Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific, and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, condensed sentence...

Publisher: Seagull Books London LtdAuthor(s): Franz FuhmannIllustration(s): 5 color platesTranslator: Isabel Fargo Cole Number of pages: 84Collecti...

Reducere. Porcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Gr nbei...

"Those who know me call me Old He, and they also know that I've worked in a crematorium for my entire life." Here begins Mu Cao's novel In the Face...

Widely considered to be among the most important Italian poets of the twentieth century, Sandro Penna was born and raised in Perugia but spent most...

C. S. Lewis' Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size nuggets of inspiration and wisdom from the much-loved author, philosopher, and Ch...

Reducere. "In these unique stories, Graziano's use of surrealism juxtaposed with realism creates an unusual tension that makes you want to keep reading to fi...

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstei...

Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era...

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Influenced by ...

Inka Parei's novel The Cold Centre begins with a man who receives a startling call from his ex-wife. She's in the hospital, awaiting a cancer diagn...

"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind." The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronic...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Ryan DellaquilaNumber of pages: 37Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 7Cover type: Paperback / so...

When Stella's little seagull friend gets poorly from the plastic stuck in its tummy, Stella wants to do anything she can to try and help. From beac...

Reducere. Seemore the Seagull is a lovable people-watcher who observes the behavior of the diverse beach-goers on Revere Beach. He wants everyone to get alon...

Reducere. Seemore the Seagull is a loveable people-watcher who observes the behavior of the diverse beach-goers on Revere Beach. He wants everyone to get alo...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Marion McIntoshNumber of pages: 27Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 6Cover type: Paperback / so...

}University Challenge{ cult contestant gives a personal slant on the uplifting and life-shaping potential of maths.

Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War and ...

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DescriptionNorthern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. ...

DescriptionVelazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remar...

Reducere. In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to tra...