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Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141183489ISBN 13: 9780141183480
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the major figures in the modern Irish poetic canon, Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was a post-colonial poet who released Anglo-Irish verse from its prolonged obsession with history, ethnicity and national politics. His poetry, written in an uninhibited vernacular style, focused on the 'common and banal' aspects of contemporary life. 256 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141182202ISBN 13: 9780141182209
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Aus der Langeweile und Leere seines New Yorker Berufsalltags flieht der Bankangestellte Nelson Dyar Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs in die damals in drei Zonen geteilte marokkanische Stadt Tanger. Aber kaum hat er nach seiner Ankunft das Schiff verlassen, betritt er eine Welt, deren Regeln er nicht begreift. In der für ihn fremden Umgebung der orientalischen Stadt verstrickt er sich immer tiefer in einem verwirrenden Netz von Intrigen und undurchsichtigen Geschäften.Der Schriftsteller Paul Bowles nimmt den Leser seines neuen Romans mit in eine Welt der kargen Absteigen und der orientalischen Luxushotels, der internationalen Cafes und der arabischen Bars, der billigen Bordelle und der Villen der reichen Europäer. Eine Welt, in der der Held des Romans schließlich scheitern muss. 336 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141182938ISBN 13: 9780141182933
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to 'come inside' the Catholic Church or expressing his contempt for modish Marxism and American-style religion, Evelyn Waugh's journalism is sparkling, sometimes vitriolic and always full of good sense. In this wonderful selection he explores his Oxford youth, his unexpected conversion, his literary enthusiasms (from P. G. Wodehouse to Graham Greene) and the perils of basing fictional characters on real people. Decades after their publication, these pieces still retain their capacity to delight, to surprise and to shock. 208 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0140446516ISBN 13: 9780140446517
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This anthology brings together core classical texts for understanding literature. The selections from Plato illustrate the poetic philosopher's surprising exclusion of poets from his ideal republic. In his response, Poetics, Aristotle draws on the works of the great Greek playwrights to defend the value of the art. Horace's The Art of Poetry is a vivid practitioner's guide that promotes a style of poetic craftsmanship rooted in wisdom, ethical insight, and decorum. Longinus's On the Sublime explores the nature of inspiration in poetry and prose. This volume is a work of great value and interest to classicists, students, and writers.In her Introduction, Penelope Murray compares and contrasts the viewpoints of these formidable critics as well as their impact on the Western tradition. This edition also includes a new bibliography and chronology and comprehensive notes to each of the texts.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. 256 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141181877ISBN 13: 9780141181875
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times Book ReviewAda or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and, decades later, put their extraordinary experiences into words. Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Nabokov's longest, richest novel is a love story, but also a fairy tale, a historical parody, an erotic satire, an exploration of the passing of time and a supreme work of the imagination. 496 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0140424296ISBN 13: 9780140424294
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With this collection, renowned Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new light on the poets sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into eight categories of theme and genre, dispelling the myth of Coleridge as 'the metaphysical dreamer' and rediscovering him as a Romantic autobiographer of tremendous power and range. At the heart of Selected Poetry are the Conversation Poems, a unified and beautifully crafted autobiographical sequence written over a period of twelve years. A series of little-known love poems to Asra, which combine understated passion and desperate directness, reflect the depths of Coleridge's feelings for Sara Hutchinson, his unattainable lifelong love. The volume also includes the robust Hill Walking Poems, and the secret agony of the Confessional Poems, as well as previously undervalued later poetry born of Coleridge's restless old age and his ironic reflection on his life.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. 400 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0140469982ISBN 13: 9780140469981
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The companion to 'Vegetable Book', this is an alphabetical guide to fruit, from apple, apricot and arbutus to sorb apple, strawberry and water-melon. The author adds fragments of history or poetry, and explains the 'why' as well as the 'how' of cookery.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0140274847ISBN 13: 9780140274844
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Celebrates Wales and things Welsh. This study it reflects the bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the buildings and varied landscapes, the national character and humour, the historical predicaments and the political condition of this small but extraordinary country.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 014118213XISBN 13: 9780141182131
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's Howards End explores the conflict inherent within English society, unveiling the character of a nation as never before. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and notes by David Lodge.'Only connect.'A chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. When Mrs Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. Thus as Forster sets in motion a chain of events that will entangle three different families, he brilliantly portrays their aspirations to personal and social harmony.David Lodge's introduction provides an absorbing and eloquent overture to the 1910 novel that established Forster's reputation as an important writer, and that he himself later referred to as 'my best novel'. This edition also contains a note on the text, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes.E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author and critic and a member of the Bloomsbury group. His first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread appeared in 1905. The Longest Journey appeared in 1907, followed by A Room With A View (1908), based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with his mother. Howards End (1910) was a story that centered on an English country house and dealt with the clash between two families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in business. Maurice was revised several times during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971.If you enjoyed Howard's End, you might like Forster's A Room with a View, also available in Penguin Classics. 302 pp. Englisch.