Eris aug 2022 (7 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ¿No vices are so hard to eradicate as those which are popularly regarded as virtues. Among these the vice of reading is foremost.¿A great American novelist offers a scathing attack on the worst kinds of reading. Edith Wharton argues that the growing cultural influence of ¿mechanical¿ readers is havi…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ¿The world¿s humour, in its best and greatest sense, is perhaps the highest product of our civilization.¿Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account of how humour works¿and of how it very often doesn¿t. As well as being remarkably insightful about the various ways in which a joke can fall flat, Humou…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ¿I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either your conviction or your distrust.¿ Walter Benjamin w…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ¿Over the mountains I come,¿ said Nunez, ¿out of the country beyond there¿where men can see. From near Bogota, where there are a hundred thousands of people, and where the city passes out of sight.¿ One of the acknowledged masters of speculative fiction, H.G. Wells conducts in this short story a dis…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ¿More than any other technical design or social institution, the railway stands for modernity.¿ In this brilliant essay the historian Tony Judt describes the singular contribution made by railways to the development of our shared way of life. From the transformation of urban spaces to the reorganisa…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ¿I invent the most hopeless sounding plots; very often they are based on something I¿ve read in a newspaper. And people say, `Oh, this is all nonsense¿¿and then the Russians come along in Germany and shoot people with potassium cyanide pistols.¿Between them, Ian Fleming and Georges Simenon cr…