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  • The Collected Non-Fiction

    Essays, Articles, Diaries and Letters, 1903-1950

    door George Orwell ...
    The twelve edited volumes of Orwell's non-fiction, collected for the first time in one invaluable ebook.A rich treasure trove of material, this unique collection includes Orwell's reviews, broadcasts, notebooks, wartime diaries, articles on socialism and censorship, correspondence with luminaries such as Arthur Koestler, Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh, and famous essays such as 'Politics and the ... Meer lezen

    14,99 €

  • Is There Life Outside The Box?

    An Actor Despairs

    door Peter Davison ...
    His fans have spoken, but despite their requests, Peter Davison has gone ahead and written his autobiography anyway. It wasn’t the book they tried to stop – it was more like the book they didn’t want him to start. An aspiring singer-songwriter, once dubbed Woking’s answer to Bob Dylan (by his mum, who once heard a Bob Dylan song), Peter actually penned a hit for Dave Clark but soon swapped a life ... Meer lezen

    5,29 €

  • Night Music

    Poems

    Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman's remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given such ... Meer lezen

    Was 8,26 € Nu 7,20 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • George Orwell: A Life in Letters

    door George Orwell ...
    Serie series Penguin Modern Classics
    Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son Richard's developing teeth, the death of his wife Eileen, and his own illness. Candid portraits of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, his opinions on bayonets, and on the chaining of German prisoners display his magnificent ... Meer lezen

    12,99 €

  • The Orwell Diaries

    door George Orwell ...
    Serie series Penguin Modern Classics
    George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, while notes from his travels through industrial England show the development of the impassioned social ... Meer lezen

    11,99 €

  • The Poems of Peter Davison

    l957-l995

    door Peter Davison ...
    The poetry of Peter Davison, of which this is the ninth volume, covers a broad range of subject matter. Musical and supple, with rewards for the eye, the ear, and the mind, concerned as much with country as with city matters, Davison's poems move past personality. They open questions of identity, explorations of the natural world, personal and religious conflict, and the mysterious workings of ... Meer lezen

    12,39 €

  • George Orwell

    A Life in Letters

    door George Orwell ...
    Appearing for the first time in one volume, these trenchant letters tell the eloquent narrative of Orwell’s life in his own words.From his school days to his tragic early death, George Orwell, who never wrote an autobiography, chronicled the dramatic events of his turbulent life in a profusion of powerful letters. Indeed, one of the twentieth century’s most revered icons was a lively, prolific ... Meer lezen

    23,42 €

  • Evaluating Contract Claims

    An important guide to the quantification of contract claims in the construction industry, updated third editionThe substantially expanded third edition of Evaluating Contract Claims puts the spotlight on the quantification of claims in the construction industry after liability has been established, including by reference to the terms of several standard forms of contract in common use. The authors ... Meer lezen

    83,99 €

  • The Great Ledge

    door Peter Davison ...
    James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poets.' That sense of this poet's singularity is one of the great strengths of this new book; these deeply felt poems are uniquely his. From the almost ... Meer lezen

    4,23 €

  • The Fading Smile

    Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,

    door Peter Davison ...
    "A beautiful and richly instructive book, a worthy and welcome sequel to Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth."Louis S. AuchinclossAn intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston as a book editor. was swept up in a world -- in ... Meer lezen

    10,27 €

  • Diaries

    door George Orwell ...
    A major literary event—the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works.This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving ... Meer lezen

    14,19 €

  • Orwell and Politics

    door George Orwell ...
    Serie series Penguin Modern Classics
    Including Animal Farm'Orwell is the most influential political writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThroughout his life George Orwell aimed, in his words, to make 'political writing into an art'. This collection brings together the best of his matchless political essays and journalism with his timeless satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm. It includes articles on subjects ... Meer lezen

    14,99 €