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  • How Fiction Works

    de James Wood ...
    In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power.Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions: What do ... Leer más

    $177 MXN

  • Los mecanismos de la ficción

    de James Wood ...
    Un brillante estudio sobre la magia de la novela y una celebración por su poder duradero, de la mano de James Wood, uno de los grandes críticos contemporáneos.Uno de los críticos más destacados y elegantes de nuestro tiempo analiza la maquinaria de contar historias para plantearse algunas preguntas fundamentales: ¿Qué queremos decir cuando decimos que «conocemos» a un personaje de ficción? ¿Qué ... Leer más

    $159 MXN

  • Upstate

    de James Wood ...
    Traducido por Jesús Cuéllar ...
    Desde que su hija Vanessa se mudó a Estados Unidos para ser profesora de filosofía, Alan Querry, de sesenta y ocho años y que vive en Inglaterra nunca ha ido a visitarla. Helen, su otra hija, ejecutiva del mundo de la música, tampoco ha ido. Son dos hermanas que se quieren pero que nunca se han recuperado del divorcio de sus padres ni de la temprana muerte de su madre. Cuando Josh, el nuevo novio ... Leer más

    $229 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Show Us the Father

    de James Wood ...
    'A majestic double portrait, gorgeous, spirited, tragic, the pain of it leavened by laughter and music' Helen Garner'Brilliantly funny, original and stylish, and could easily be the most important book about fatherhood published this century' Andrew O’HaganHe had been, in all the important ways, an impeccable father. And he had been, in all the important ways, a terrible son.James Wood grew up in ... Leer más

    $419 MXN

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  • How Fiction Works

    de James Wood ...
    Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition.What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional character?What constitutes a 'telling' detail?When is a metaphor successful?Is realism realistic?Why do most endings of novels d... ... Leer más

    $247 MXN

  • The Nuttall Encyclopedia (1907), being a concise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge

    de James Wood ...
    This vintage encyclopedia includes over 16,000 "terse and original articles on nearly all subjects discussed in larger encyclopaedia's, and specially dealing with such as come under the categories of history, biography, geography, literature, philosophy, religion, science and art ... Leer más

    $17 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Serious Noticing

    Selected Essays, 1997–2019

    de James Wood ...
    From The New Yorker's book critic, "one of the most intelligent and passionate literary critics working today. . . . a masterful 'greatest hits' collection" (Angela M. Giles, Los Angeles Review of Books ).Ever since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking wo... ... Leer más

    $211 MXN

  • Augustine's Wisdom for Christian Pilgrims

    Timeless Insights from the Social Teachings of an Early Church Father

    de James Wood ...
    Does Saint Augustine have anything to say about contemporary issues like church unity, gender and sexuality, anti-Semitism, abortion, and political engagement? Augustine's theological legacy is well established, but he also speaks powerfully to the cultural challenges we face today.In this book, James R. Wood invites you to explore the timeless wisdom of Augustine. Pointing to Augustine's classics ... Leer más

    $155 MXN

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  • Show Us the Father

    A Memoir

    de James Wood ...
    In his first memoir, the renowned critic explores his preacher-father’s mysterious decision to desert his own parents and the fallout for their family.He had been, in all the important ways, an impeccable father. And he had been, in all the important ways, a terrible son.When James Wood and his siblings were growing up in the English city of Durham, they confronted a peculiar absence in their ... Leer más

    $253 MXN

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  • Come funziona la critica

    de James Wood ...
    Traducido por Raffaella Vitangeli ...
    Series series Filigrana
    Dopo il grande successo di Come funzionano i romanzi, minimum fax propone una selezione ragionata della produzione critica che James Wood ha affidato alle pagine prestigiose del New Yorker e del Guardian, sotto forma di recensioni puntuali o di veri e propri saggi monografici. Spaziando dai grandi classici (Cervantes, Anton Cˇechov, Virginia Woolf) ai contemporanei più amati dal pubblico (Cormac ... Leer más

    $175 MXN

  • Militia Myths

    Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896-1921

    de James Wood ...
    Series series Studies in Canadian Military History
    The citizen soldier is a central figure in Canada’s social memory of the First World War. But is the ideal of being a citizen first and a soldier only by necessity an unchanging feature of the Canadian identity?This compelling history traces the evolution of the Canadian amateur military tradition in the turbulent years from 1896 to 1921. Before the Great War, Canada’s military culture was in ... Leer más

    $478 MXN

  • Serious Noticing

    Selected Essays

    de James Wood ...
    The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disdaining, passionate and minutely considered' John BanvilleJames Wood is one of the leading critics of the age, and here, for the first time, are his selected essays. From the career-defining 'Hysterical ... Leer más

    $285 MXN