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  • Shakespearean

    On Life & Language in Times of Disruption

    de 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... ... Leer más

    $250 MXN

  • The 100 Best Novels

    In English

    Edición de 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. ... Leer más

    $84 MXN

  • El penalti

    Historia de una revolución

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $109 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Penalty Kick

    The Story of a Gamechanger

    de Robert McCrum ...
    'Football in the 1880s was an unruly, rough, and often dangerous game. To curb the state the sport was in, William McCrum proposed a new and drastic sanction. He called it a penalty kick.' In 1891, a contentious new measure against an excess of foul play, Rule 13, was proposed to the FA by an amateur goalkeeper from County Armagh. 'The Irishman's Motion' modernised the world's most popular game. ... Leer más

    $202 MXN

  • Every Third Thought

    On life, death and the endgame

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $206 MXN

  • Rites of Passage

    With an introduction by Annie Proulx

    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... ... Leer más

    $161 MXN

  • On Reading

    Notes on the literary landscape, 1995-2012

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $45 MXN

  • On Writing

    Notes from the world of books, 1995-2012

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $45 MXN

  • Globish

    How English Became the World's Language

    de Robert McCrum ...
    “A fascinating study not only of the roots and growth of our own language but of its future.”—Bloomsbury ReviewIt seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. In this provocative new look at the course of empire, Robert McCrum shows how the language ... Leer más

    $213 MXN

  • My Year Off

    Rediscovering Life After a Stroke

    de Robert McCrum ...
    Series series
    With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmMy brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaired, and his sense of himself radically ... Leer más

    $239 MXN

  • On Authors

    Interviews with literary giants

    de Robert McCrum ...
    Series Libro 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. ... Leer más

    $70 MXN

  • Audiolibro

    My Year Off

    de Robert McCrum ...
    Narrado por Robert McCrum ...

    Completo

    7 hora 6 minutos

    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 ... Leer más

    $235 MXN