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“james j berg”

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  • Isherwood on Writing

    The Complete Lectures in California

    de Christopher Isherwood ...
    Isherwood’s lectures on writing and writers, now all available for the first timeIn the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities about his life and work. During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Isherwood in Transit

    Edición de James J. Berg, Chris Freeman ...
    New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer“Perhaps I had traveled too much, left my heart in too many places,” muses the narrator of Christopher Isherwood’s novel Prater Violet (1945), which he wrote in his adopted home of Los Angeles after years of dislocation and desperation. In Isherwood in Transit, James J.Berg and Chris Freeman bring together diverse ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The American Isherwood

    Edición de James J. Berg, Chris Freeman ...
    Novelist, memoirist, diarist, and gay pioneer Christopher Isherwood left a wealth of writings. Known for his crisp style and his camera-like precision with detail, Isherwood gained fame for his Berlin Stories, which served as source material for the hit stage musical and Academy Award–winning film Cabaret. More recently, his experiences and career in the United States have received increased ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    You Must Read Before You Die

    de Peter Boxall ...
    Series series 1001
    Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • How to Sound Cultured

    Master The 250 Names That Intellectuals Love To Drop Into Conversation

    de Hubert Van Den Bergh, Thomas W. Hodgkinson ...
    'Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' Stephen FryWhich philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which novelist drank 50 cups of black coffee every day? What on earth did Simone de Beauvoir see in Jean-Paul Sartre?How to Sound Cultured offers a wry and yet profoundly useful look inside the mirrored palaces of high culture. Covering such inscrutable characters as Heidegger, Montaigne, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Authors: 1945 to the Present

    de Adam Augustyn ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to Authors
    Contemporary literature encompasses so many genres, literary forms, and themes that it would seem almost impossible to identify a unifying thread between them. Yet in the tradition established by literary heavyweights who came before, modern writers of all stripes and backgrounds have continued to entertain and to confront the social, cultural, and psychological realities of the times—including ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Huxley

    A Beginner's Guide

    de Kieron O'Hara ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, and inventor of the term 'psychedelic', Aldous Huxley was a global trend-setter ahead of his time. In this new biography Dr Kieron O'Hara explores the life of this great visionary, charting his transformation from society satirist to Californian guru-mystic through an insightful analysis of his life's work. Combining thoughtful biography, easy ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Middlebrow Queer

    Christopher Isherwood in America

    de Jaime Harker ...
    How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But Christopher Isherwood did, and what makes his accomplishment more remarkable is that while he was negotiating his identity as a gay writer, he was reinventing himself as an American one. Jaime Harker shows ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die

    A Life-Changing List

    de James Mustich ...
    "The ultimate literary bucket list. . . . 948 pages later, you still want more!" —The Washington PostCelebrate the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the one,zero-plus titles it recommends.Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

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  • Burn This Book

    Notes on Literature and Engagement

    Edición de Toni Morrison ...
    Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union, or the Middle East. But recent political ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

    de John Lennard ...
    An illuminating study of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel with special attention to its film versions. From its first publication in 1955 Nabokov's Lolita has been denounced as immoral filth, hailed as a moral masterpiece, and both praised and damned for stylistic excess. In this fresh appraisal John Lennard provides convenient overviews of Nabokov's life and of the novel (including both ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Torchlight List

    Around the World in 200 Books

    de Jim Flynn ...
    In today’s world it seems that everywhere we turn we are saturated with book recommendations from talk shows, magazines, radio shows, friends, and top ten lists. But which books are really the best, and what effects do the books we read have on our intelligence? The Torchlight List has the answers. A professor for over forty years, Jim Flynn was concerned when he saw that his students were reading ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD