Автор: Spufford Francis
Название: The Child that Books Built
ISBN: 0571191320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571191321
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 972 р.
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Описание: What would you find if you went back and reread all of your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness, in this memoir. Re-reading and re-living these books, and investigating their literary origins and rich histories, Francis Spufford reveals what it was like to be an obsessive reader as a child. As the book unfolds, so too he gradually uncovers his own childhood and his unique reason for taking refuge in stories from a world full of unbearable knowledge.

Автор: Spufford Francis
Название: Golden Hill
ISBN: 0571225195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571225194
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 1271 р.
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Автор: Spufford Francis
Название: Unapologetic
ISBN: 0571225217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571225217
Издательство: Faber
Цена: 972 р.
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Автор: Spufford F
Название: Red plenty
ISBN: 0571225241 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571225248
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 672 р.
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Описание: The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche and sputniks would lead the way to the stars.

Автор: Spufford Francis
Название: Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense
ISBN: 0062300466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062300461
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 1052 р.
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Описание:

Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the "new atheist" crowd, Spufford, a former atheist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, argues that Christianity is recognizable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the grown-up dignity of Christian experience.

Fans of C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, Marilynne Robinson, Mary Karr, Diana Butler Bass, Rob Bell, and James Martin will appreciate Spufford's crisp, lively, and abashedly defiant thesis.

Unapologetic is a book for believers who are fed up with being patronized, for non-believers curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century, and for anyone who feels there is something indefinably wrong, literalistic, anti-imaginative and intolerant about the way the atheist case is now being made.

Автор: Spufford, Francis
Название: Unapologetic
ISBN: 1471226387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471226380
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 1855 р.
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Описание: Fresh, provoking and unhampered by niceness, this is the long-awaited riposte to the smug emissaries of New Atheism.

Автор: Spufford, Francis
Название: Golden Hill
ISBN: 1501163876 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501163876
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 1710 р.
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Описание: A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and the Desmond Elliott Prize

"Gorgeously crafted...Spufford's sprawling recreation here is pitch perfect." --Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air

"A fast-paced romp that keeps its eyes on the moral conundrums of America." --The New Yorker

"Delirious storytelling backfilled with this much intelligence is a rare and happy sight." --The New York Times

"Golden Hill possesses a fluency and immediacy, a feast of the senses...I love this book." --The Washington Post

The spectacular first novel from acclaimed nonfiction author Francis Spufford follows the adventures of a mysterious young man in mid-eighteenth century Manhattan, thirty years before the American Revolution.

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he won't explain why, or where he comes from, or what he is planning to do in the colonies that requires so much money. Should the New York merchants trust him? Should they risk their credit and refuse to pay? Should they befriend him, seduce him, arrest him; maybe even kill him?

Rich in language and historical perception, yet compulsively readable, Golden Hill is a story "taut with twists and turns" that "keeps you gripped until its tour-de-force conclusion" (The Times, London). Spufford paints an irresistible picture of a New York provokingly different from its later metropolitan self but already entirely a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love--and find a world of trouble.

Автор: Spufford Francis
Название: Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense
ISBN: 0062300458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062300454
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 1710 р.
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Автор: Spufford, F
Название: Red plenty
ISBN: 0571225233 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571225231
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 1271 р.
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Автор: Spufford Francis
Название: I May Be Some Time
ISBN: 0571218652 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571218653
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 972 р.
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Описание: A cultural history of a national obsession with polar exploration and mountaineering, and a study of how the poles have been perceived, dreamed of, even desired. The text sets out to show how Captain Scott`s death was the culmination of a long-running national enchantment with perilous journeys.

Автор: Spufford Francis
Название: The Child that Books Built
ISBN: 0571214673 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571214679
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 747 р.
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Описание: What would you find if you went back and re-read all of your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness, in this memoir of a boy who retreats into books, faced with a tragedy in his family.

Автор: Spufford Francis
Название: Cultural Babbage
ISBN: 0571172431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571172436
Издательство: Faber
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Цена: 598 р.
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Описание: With contributions from both sides of the science/humanities divide, this is a quirky collection of essays on science and the imagination. It springs from the Science Museum's construction of Charles Babbage's "difference engine", the mechanical computer which he designed in the 1830s but never built. The essays deal with topics such as the invention of the phonograph, the Victorian delight in robots and automata such as the steel tarantula spider which crawls out of its box and runs around, microphotography and the minuscule, and the Internet and the British.