Eseje, úvahy a glosy

These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  12,32 €

  -12 %

  Na sklade 2 ks

Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm.At the end of Jeremy's first year in the tractor's driving seat, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him with a profit of just GBP144....

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  16,99 €

  -12 %

  Na sklade 1 ks

Discover one of the most celebrated writers of our age - the visionary author of Infinite Jest andA Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again. From genre-defining reportage to genre-breaking fiction, ...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  20,92 €

  -5 %

  Na sklade 1 ks

The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  15,72 €

  -5 %

  Na sklade 1 ks
• Čítanámierne opotrebovaná
  9,90 €

  -40 %

  Na sklade

Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  2,38 €

  -5 %

  Na sklade 1 ks

The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the towering figures in modern Chinese literature. He saw his great, almost unmanageable task as an attempt to write China into the new era...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  16,15 €

  -5 %

  Na sklade 2 ks

These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  3,76 €

  -5 %

  Na sklade 4 ks

How did we get to where we are? John Cassidy shows that the roots of our most recent financial failure lie not with individuals, but with an idea – the idea that markets are inherently rational. He gives us the big picture behind the financial headlines..

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  15,20 €

  -5 %

  Na sklade 1 ks

Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate personal remembrances; ...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  11,91 €

  -5 %

  Na sklade 1 ks

Few activities seem to promise as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  16,15 €

  -5 %

  Na sklade 1 ks

On the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death, a new collection of his brilliant essays written during the Second World War. Fascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  2,81 €

  -5 %

  Na sklade 4 ks

The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  15,20 €

  -5 %

  Na sklade 1 ks

At the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  17,11 €

  -5 %

  Na sklade 2 ks

The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home. Nora Krug grew up as a second-generation German after the end of the Second World War, struggling with...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  19,21 €

  -4 %

  Na sklade 2 ks

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic...

• Knihapevná väzba
  12,64 €

  -2 %

  Na sklade 2 ks

Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  13,95 €

  Na sklade 4 ks

In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  12,50 €

  Na sklade 1 ks

The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  7,50 €

  Na sklade 1 ks

Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  15,95 €

  Na sklade 1 ks
• Čítanávýborný stav
  21,50 €

  Na sklade

Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others...

• Knihabrožovaná väzba
  2,50 €

  Na sklade > 5 ks