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  • Shakespearean

    On Life & Language in Times of Disruption

    par Robert McCrum ...
    ‘Enchanting’ - Simon Russell Beale‘Remarkable’ - James Shapiro‘Wonderful . . . compulsively readable’ - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of... ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

  • Globish

    How The English Language Became the World's Language

    par Robert McCrum ...
    A small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbours, becomes the dominant world power in the 19th century. As its power spreads, its language follows. Then, across the Atlantic, a colony of that tiny island grows into the military and cultural colossus of the 20th century. These centuries of empire-building and war, international ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Every Third Thought

    On life, death and the endgame

    par Robert McCrum ...
    As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful'** Kate MosseIn 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke. Since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, ... En savoir plus

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  • On Reading

    Notes on the literary landscape, 1995-2012

    par Robert McCrum ...
    We read for all sorts of reasons: pleasure, education, escapism, intellectual stimulation. The act of reading is a private, personal one that we love to share with our friends and families. Reading and books form a world rich in detail, memory and emotion.In On Reading, Robert McCrum draws together his Observer columns to reflect on what reading brings us, how to best go about it and how what we ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • The 100 Best Novels

    In English

    Modifié par Robert McCrum ...
    Everybody loves a list but this is a list of major ambition: namely, to select the best 100 novels in the English language, published from the late 17th century to the present day. This list has been built up week by week in The Observer since September 2013, and selected by writer and Observer editor Robert McCrum. With a short critique on each book, this is a real delight for literary lovers. ... En savoir plus

    $6.69 CAD

  • El penalti

    Historia de una revolución

    par Robert McCrum ...
    William McCrum, bisabuelo del autor, era un portero irlandés en un fútbol salvaje. En 1891, una época de pesadas pelotas de cuero, barro hasta las rodillas e indisciplina en el juego, se le ocurrió que los penaltis servirían para amansar a unos jugadores insumisos y descontrolados. Futbolistas y aficionados acogieron con espanto la ocurrencia de McCrum, pero el tiempo acabó dándole la razón y el ... En savoir plus

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  • On Writing

    Notes from the world of books, 1995-2012

    par Robert McCrum ...
    Why do authors write? How do they go about it? What is good writing?In On Writing, Robert McCrum collects together his questions and reflections on the nature of writing from his Observer newspaper column. In them he explores the sometimes tricky relationship between writing and commerce, looks at the state of modern literature, and asks where great writing really comes from can it be taught, or ... En savoir plus

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  • Rites of Passage

    With an introduction by Annie Proulx

    par William Golding ...
    Introduced by Annie Proulx, l ose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon . . .Edmund Talbot is sailing t... ... En savoir plus

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  • The Penalty Kick

    The Story of a Gamechanger

    par Robert McCrum ...
    A rousing history of the penalty kick and its introduction in English football by a famed British writer & editor.Football, in the 1880s, was a rough and dangerous game. To address the abhorrent state of the sport, William McCrum, an amateur Irish goalkeeper and the author's great-grandfather, proposed the penalty kick, a new and drastic sanction introduced to the game in 1891. For over a hundred ... En savoir plus

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  • On Authors

    Interviews with literary giants

    par Robert McCrum ...
    Collections Livre 49 - Guardian Shorts
    In nearly twenty years, Robert McCrum has interviewed literatures most influential subjects. In On Authors, McCrum reflects on the experience of interviewing these literary giants and collects together the very best Observer interviews. ... En savoir plus

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  • Livre audio

    My Year Off

    par Robert McCrum ...
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    Version Longue

    7 heure 6 min

    Introduction Copyright 2015 Henry Marsh, Afterword Copyright 2015 Robert McCrumRobert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body paralysed, his speech drastically impaired and his sense of himself radically altered. My Year Off traces McCrum’s gruelling recovery as he regains sensation and begins to come to terms, with the help of his family, with what ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Livre audio

    Every Third Thought

    par Robert McCrum ...
    Lu par Robert McCrum ...

    Version Longue

    5 heure 48 min

    After a near fatal stroke in 1995, Robert McCrum has gained an intimate understanding of his own mortality. Twenty-two years on, his friends have joined him in experiencing Prospero’s ‘every third thought’ of death as a dominating theme of life. McCrum asks: can we make peace with what Freud calls ‘the necessity of dying’? Searching for answers leads him to brain surgeons, psychologists, cancer ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD