A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson, Nicholas Hudson
Автор: Zweig Stefan Название: The World of Yesterday ISBN: 0803226616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803226616 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3442.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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By the author who inspired Wes Anderson s film, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, "The World of Yesterday" recalls the golden age of literary Vienna its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall.
Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intimate account of his life and travels through Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London, touching on the very heart of European culture. His passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the edge of extinction.
This new translation by award-winning Anthea Bell captures the spirit of Zweig s writing in arguably his most revealing work."
Описание: Montpellier, 1748: Jean-Louis Fargeon is born into a family of perfumers and soon becomes apprenticed to his father's modest perfumerie. But he dreams of the glittering court of Versailles and of becoming perfumer to the young queen, Marie Antoinette. His ambition carried him to Paris where his boutique became one of the most elegant and well-patronised in France. Concocting sumptuous perfumes and pomades for most of the French nobility, Fargeon eventually caught the attention of the queen. After meeting Marie Antoinette in the Trianon Palace, he began creating lavish bespoke scents that perfectly reflected her moods and personality. He served as her personal and exclusive perfumer for fourteen years until 1789 when the darkness of Revolution swept across France, its wrath aimed at the extravagance of a now hated queen. Fargeon, a lifelong supporter of the Republican cause but a purveyor to the court, was in a dangerous position. Yet he remained fiercely loyal to Marie Antoinette, beyond her desperate flight to Varennes, her execution and even through his own imprisonment and trial...
Автор: Johnson, Samuel Название: The Lives of the Poets ISBN: 0199226741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199226740 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Lives of the Poets is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most diverting. This is the only one-volume paperback edition to make available Johnson`s most substantial Lives in unabridged form. Texts are drawn from Roger Lonsdale`s authoritative complete edition, and introduced by John Mullan.
Автор: Levi Stevens, Matthew Название: Magical universe of william s burroughs ISBN: 1906958645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781906958640 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3218.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think thats just ridiculous. Its as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street its for a reason. Among primitive people they say that if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that." -- William S Burroughs Fully revised and expanded from the limited edition chapbook that first appeared in 2012, this is the first ever in-depth consideration of the significance of Magic and the Occult in the Life & Work of the writer and counter-cultural icon.
Автор: Johnson, Christopher D Название: A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding ISBN: 0367875934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367875930 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tracing the development of Fielding`s agendas, Johnson presents a compelling portrait of an author who claimed a place within literary culture for women`s experiences. While Fielding often retreats from the overtly political concerns that captured the attention of her contemporaries, her works are daring forays into the public sphere that both c
Автор: Malachi McIntosh Название: Beyond Calypso: Re-Reading Samuel Selvon ISBN: 9766378614 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789766378615 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2911.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Beyond Calypso presents wide-ranging analyses that consider the full body of Selvon`s writing.
Автор: Jones Joseph Название: The Cradle of Erewhon ISBN: 0292741219 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292741218 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An examination and interpretation of the ways in which Samuel Butler`s few crucial years in New Zealand affected his life and work, particularly Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited.
Автор: Edwards, Andrew Edwards, Suzanne Название: Down to the sunless sea ISBN: 1789761255 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789761252 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5995.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: DOWN TO THE SUNLESS SEA explores the time Coleridge spent in Gibraltar, Malta, Sicily and mainland Italy, where he had planned to recover his health, escape the clutches of opium and gain inspiration from the landscape; however, the reality would prove very different. After his short sojourn in Gibraltar, Coleridge arrived in Malta, where he became acquainted with the British Governor, Alexander Ball. He settled into Maltese life, initially taking on the role of acting Under-Secretary. Travelling to Sicily, Coleridge embraced the islands landscapes but was shaken to find the opium poppy was an important local crop. The Mediterranean would not prove the solution to his addiction. He visited the Consul, G. F. Leckie, and was invited to stay with him at a house on the site of Timoleons Roman villa. The poet visited the antiquities of Syracuse and at the opera house encountered the soprano, Anna-Cecilia Bertozzi, nearly succumbing to her charms. Back in Malta, he was offered rooms in the Treasury building (now the Casino Maltese) and took up the post of Public Secretary. Legal pronouncements in Italian bear Coleridges signature. Leaving behind these matters of state, he drifted through the Italian peninsula, engaging with a coterie of artistic ex-pats when in Rome. His listless, half-hearted, and financially embarrassed attempts at the Grand Tour included a narrow escape from French troops. Coleridges Mediterranean sojourn impacted on his life and writing, not to mention his health, which saw a marked decline, leading to his final years in Highgate under the roof of a friendly doctor. Down to the Sunless Sea is a literary reflection on the fact that the sun-filled Mediterranean was not the tonic he had first imagined.
Автор: Martin Gitlin Название: Diana, Princess of Wales A Biography ISBN: 0313348790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780313348792 Издательство: Greenwood Рейтинг: Цена: 9886.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Long before her tragic death, Diana, Princess of Wales was a beloved modern icon, relatable to the general public in a way that transcended the barrier between royal and commoner. This volume explores her life, including her aristocratic upbringing, her whirlwind engagement to Prince Charles, their rocky marriage, and her role as mother.
Описание: Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 offers a powerful revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape descriptions during the `long` Eighteenth-century. Landscape description, then, shows English intellectual life still in the grips of a Christian and classical mentality in the `long` Eighteenth-century.
Автор: Hudson Nicholas Название: A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson ISBN: 1138661406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138661400 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Johnson rose from obscure origins to become a major literary figure of the eighteenth century. Through a detailed survey of his major works and political journalism, Hudson constructs a complex picture of Johnson as a moralist forced to accept the realistic nature of politics during an era of revolutionary transition.
Автор: Hawkins John Название: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. ISBN: 0820344273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820344270 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4574.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: <p>This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s <em>Life of Samuel Johnson</em>, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's Life. </p> <p>Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is the most significant English writer of the second half of the eighteenth century; indeed, this period is widely known as the Age of Johnson. Hawkins was Johnson's friend and legal adviser and the chief executor of his will. He knew Johnson longer and in many respects better than other biographers, including Boswell, who made unacknowledged use of Hawkins's Life and helped orchestrate the critical attacks that consigned the book to obscurity. </p> <p>Sir John Hawkins had special insight into Johnson's mental states at various points in his life, his early days in London, his association with the <em>Gentleman's Magazine</em>, and his political views and writings. Hawkins's use of historical and cultural details, an uncommon literary device at the time, produced one of the earliest ""life and times"" biographies in our language. The Introduction by O M Brack, Jr., covers the history of the composition, publication, and reception of the Life and provides a context in which it should be read. Annotations address historical, literary, and linguistic uncertainties, and a full textual apparatus documents how Brack arrived at this definitive text of Hawkins's Life. </p>
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