Verlag: Allen Lane 30/10/2008, 2008
ISBN 10: 0713996528 ISBN 13: 9780713996524
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Verlag: Free Pr, 2001
ISBN 10: 0743228928 ISBN 13: 9780743228923
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001
ISBN 10: 0679455086 ISBN 13: 9780679455080
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Verlag: The British Library, 2005
ISBN 10: 0712306838 ISBN 13: 9780712306836
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Various (illustrator). The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1996
ISBN 10: 0413703304 ISBN 13: 9780413703309
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Verlag: Penguin Classics; First Edition edition (2004-10-28), 2004
ISBN 10: 0713996412 ISBN 13: 9780713996418
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Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2000
ISBN 10: 0713993251 ISBN 13: 9780713993257
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Although before him Charles Perrault in France and the Brothers Gimm in Germany had collected and retold folk-tales in ways which found wide popular audiences, it was only with the appearance of Hans Christian Andersen's Eventyr (Fairy Tales) in 1835 that a writer emerged capable of creating new tales equal to those which existed in the folk memory. The grace and simplicity with which Andersen wrote, and his penetrating insight into the human condition, soon won him a wide following, and by the 1840s he was the most famous writer in Europe. Today, tales such as The Ugly Ducking and The Emperor's New Clothes are part of our inherited cultural consciousness, as familiar to us as any stories outside the Bible. Yet the saccharine picture we have of Andersen himself as a childlike storyteller is wholly at odds with what Jackie Wullschlager shows to be the true nature of his life. The outline is well known: the son of a dirt-poor cobbler and illiterate washerwoman who fought his way to fame and fortune. But Andersen was not at all what he seemed: wonderfully entertaining when he chose to be, he was also lonely, sexually confused and frustrated, vain yet anxious, manipulative yet vulnerable. My name is gradually starting to shine, and that is the only thing I live for. I covet honour as a miser covets gold; both are said to be empty, but one has to have something to get excited about in this world, otherwise one would break down and rot, he wrote in 1837. Both the determination and the sadness in these sentences could be written over the whole of Andersen's life. Jackie Wullschlager's achievement is to show in detail how his art much darker and more diverse than has been previously appreciated - emerged from this complex personality. Wullschlager is the first English biographer to return to original Danish sources and to have revisited the principal places where Andersen lived, and her sense of his landscapes - not only Golden Age Denmark but the princely courts of Germany and the warm climate of Italy which unlocked his creativity - is acute. Wullschlager also documents for the first time how, although Andersen had emotional involvements with women, his greatest passions were for men - the aesthetic student Ludwig Muller; Baron Henrik Stampe, patron of the arts; the flamboyant dancer Harald Scharff - all of whom in the end let Andersen down. Wullschlager does not sensationalised this, but shows how Andersen consciously substituted artistic creativity for sexual and other forms of happiness. He is not really pretty, said Elizabeth Barrett Browning's son Pen, he is rather like his own ugly duck, but his mind has developed into a swan. In this portrait, Andersen appears to us more multi-faceted and more flawed, but also more convincing, and his achievement more impressive, than ever before. A giant of European Romantic literature comes to life. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Free Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0684822865 ISBN 13: 9780684822860
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Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008
ISBN 10: 037541455X ISBN 13: 9780375414558
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Verlag: Penguin 25/10/2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 014028320X ISBN 13: 9780140283204
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Verlag: Financial Times Business Informa, 1988
ISBN 10: 1853340138 ISBN 13: 9781853340130
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Verlag: Autrement, 2003
ISBN 10: 286260688X ISBN 13: 9782862606880
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Verlag: New York: A.A. Knopf, 2001, 2001
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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very good dust-jacket, cover price $30.00, attractive copy, very good black and yellow hardcover. WULLSCHLÄGER, JACKIE. Hans Christian Andersen: the life of a storyteller. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2001, stated First American edition, xiv, 489pp., . Describes Andersen's turbulent and difficult life, from his birth in 1805, through his success as a writer in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, to his desperate search for love, ambition, and meaning. - CONTENTS: Map of Andersen's Denmark, c. 1850 -- Map of Andersen's Europe, c. 1850 -- Introduction: Life Stories -- The Country, 1805-1812 -- Master Comedy-Player, 1812-1819 -- The City, 1819-1822 -- Aladdin at School, 1822-1827 -- Fantasies, 1827-1831 -- My Time Belongs to the Heart, 1831-1833 -- Italy, 1833-1835 -- First Fairy Tales, 1835 -- Walking on Knives, 1836-1837 -- Le Poete, C'est Moi! 1837-1840 -- I Belong to the World, 1840-1843 -- Jenny, 1843-1844 -- Winter's Tales, 1844-1845 -- The Princes' Poet, 1845-1846 -- The Shadow, 1846-1847 -- Lion of London, 1847 -- Between the Wars, 1848-1851 -- Weimar Revisited, 1851-1856 -- Dickens, 1856-1857 -- Experiments, 1858-1859 -- Kiss of the Muse, 1860-1865 -- Aladdin's Palace of the Present, 1865-1869 -- So Great a Love of Life, 1869-1875. 9780679455080 ISBN 0679455086.
Verlag: Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, 2007
ISBN 10: 0954841328 ISBN 13: 9780954841324
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Free Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0413678407 ISBN 13: 9780413678409
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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Okt 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 024118830X ISBN 13: 9780241188309
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Art Book of the Year, The TimesA Telegraph, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Economist, Tablet and Evening Standard Book of the YearA magnificent new biography of the founder of ImpressionismIn the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his career, he risked everything to pursue his original vision. Although close to starvation when he invented impressionism on the banks of the Seine in the 1860s-70s, in the following decades he emerged as the powerful leader of the new painting in Paris at one of its most exciting cultural moments. His symphonic series Haystacks, Poplars, and Rouen Cathedral brought wealth and renown. Then he withdrew to paint only the pond in his garden. The late Water Lilies, ignored during his lifetime, are now celebrated as pioneers of twentieth century modernism.Behind this great and famous artist is a volatile, voracious, nervous yet reckless man, largely unknown. Jackie Wullschläger's enthralling biography, based on thousands of never-before translated letters and unpublished sources, is the first account of Monet's turbulent private life and how it determined his expressive, sensuous, sensational painting. He was as obsessional in his love affairs as in his love of nature, and changed his art decisively three times when the woman at the centre of his life changed. Enduring devastating bereavements, he pushed the frontier of painting inward, to evoke memory and the passing of time. His work also responded intensely to outside cataclysms - the Dreyfus Affair, the First World War. Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau was his closest friend. Rich intellectual currents connected him to writers from Zola to Proust; affection and rivalry to Renoir, Pissarro and Manet.Monet said he was driven 'wild with the need to put down what I experience'. This rich and moving biography immerses us in that passionate experience, transforming our understanding of the man, his paintings and the fullness of his achievement.
Verlag: London: Methuen, 1995
ISBN 10: 0684822865 ISBN 13: 9780684822860
Anbieter: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: GIAQ
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 228p hardback, half-cloth with black spine, beige jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to jacket, firm binding, pages clean and bright, a good copy Language: English.
Verlag: Knopf, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0679455086 ISBN 13: 9780679455080
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
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hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good(+). First. Illustrated sparsely in black and white. xviii, 489 pages. Thick 8vo, black cloth-backed boards, d.w. (discolored, wrinkled). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2001). First American Edition. Near fine in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000
ISBN 10: 0679455086 ISBN 13: 9780679455080
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First am. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Verlag: Allen Lane, 2000, 2000
Anbieter: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, Vereinigtes Königreich
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1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (top edge lightly dust soiled - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xv + 505, illus with b&w maps and plates (no inscriptions).
Verlag: GALLIMARD, 2012
ISBN 10: 2070126633 ISBN 13: 9782070126637
Anbieter: medimops, Berlin, Deutschland
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Verlag: London, Allen Lane/ Penguin Books, 2008., 2008
Anbieter: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australien
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xxii+582pp. Large 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. Colour plates & b/w illustrations. A fine copy. First UK edition.
Dos carré collé. In-8 (17 x 24,7 cm), dos carré collé, 219 pages, collection Mutations, n°170, mars 1997) ; coins frottés, traces et note manuscrite sur les gardes, page de faux titre partiellement désolidarisée, tranche salie, état très correct. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande. Mutations.
The Free Press, New York 1995. XII+228 pages. Illustrations in b/w. Publisher's cloth-backed boards with d/w. Fine/fine.
Verlag: Rabih Hage Gallery,, London,, 2007
Anbieter: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. Small 4to. pp 62. Original publisher's illustrated wraps. Copiously illustrated in colour throughout. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Rabih Hage Gallery (London), 26 April. - 2 June 2007. Fine.
Hans Reitzels Forlag, København 2002. 503 sider. Enkelte illustrationer i s/h. Orig. hellærredsbind med smudsomslag. Lette brugsspor på smudsomslag. * På dansk ved Pia Juul.
Gyldendal, København 2010. 588 sider. Illustreret i farver og s/h. Orig. illustreret kartonbind. Pæn.
Gyldendal, København 2010. 588 sider. Orig. illustreret kartonbind. Frisk eksemplar.
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC Sep 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 1101875372 ISBN 13: 9781101875377
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A groundbreaking look at the life and art of one of the most influential, modern painters of the late nineteenth century and founder of the Impressionist movement "Wullschläger emerges with a strikingly different picture of the artist. Passionate, prickly, edgy and unstable, her Monet, the unrecognizable Monet, is a powerful new character in art." The Sunday Times (London)Drawing on thousands of never-before-translated letters and unpublished sources, this biography reveals dramatic new information about the life and work of one of the late nineteenth century's most important painters. Despite being mocked at the beginning of his career, and living hand to mouth, Monet risked all to pursue his vision, and his early work along the banks of the Seine in the 1860s and '70s would come to be revered as Impressionism. In the following decades, he emerged as its celebrated leader in one of the most exciting cultural moments in Paris, before withdrawing to his house and garden to paint the late Water Lilies, which were ignored during his lifetime and would later have a major influence on all twentieth-century painters both figurative and abstract.This is the first time we see the turbulent life of this volatile and voracious man, who was as obsessed by his love affairs as he was by nature. He changed his art decisively three times when the woman at the center of his life changed; Wullschläger brings these unknown, passionate, and passionately committed women to the foreground. Monet's closest friend was Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau; strong intellectual currents connected him to writers from Zola to Proust, as well as to his friends Manet, Renoir, and Pissarro. Brilliant and absorbing, this biography will forever change our understanding of Monet's life and work.