Female voice in the twentieth century
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New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century
Examines the work of pioneering female writers who used humor as an indirect form of social protest to challenge traditional gender norms and social e
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, 1. vydání - Timothy Snyder
<p>THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br /><br /> 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer<br /> History does not repeat, but it does instruct.<br /> In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascis...
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Hell and Other Destinations : A 21st-Century Memoir - Albrightová Madeleine
Anotace: In this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-among the most admired and tireless public servants in history-reflects on the challenge of continuing one`s career far beyond the normal age of retirement.In 2001, when Madeleine Albright was leaving office as America`s f...
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Hell and Other Destinations : A 21st-Century Memoir, 1. vydání - Madeleine Albright
<p>In this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-among the most admired and tireless public servants in history-reflects on the challenge of continuing one's career far beyond the normal age of retirement. In 2001, when Madeleine Albright was leaving office as America's ...
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A Woman of Pleasure - Murata Kiyoko
Anotace: `Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world` YOKO OGAWA, author of The Memory Police, Yomiuri ShibunThe year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan, becoming the protegee of Shinonome, the oiran, or the highest-ranking courtesan.Through Shinonome`s teachings, fifteen-year-old Ichi begins to understand ...
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The Lesser Histories - Jan Zábrana
Anotace: From the eighth floor of a tower block in Central Europe, Jan Zábrana surveyed the twentieth century. He had been exiled from his own life by Communism. His parents were imprisoned, their health broken, and he was not allowed to study languages in college. Refusing both to rebel outright or to cave in, he thought of himself as a dead man walking. "To all th...
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The Lesser Histories - Jan Zábrana
<p>From the eighth floor of a tower block in Central Europe, Jan Zábrana surveyed the twentieth century. He had been exiled from his own life by Communism. His parents were imprisoned, their health broken, and he was not allowed to study languages in college. Refusing both to rebel outright or to cave in, he thought of himself as a dead man walking. "To all tho...
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Painted Face
Charts the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century. This boo
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Voicing American Poetry
The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emphas
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If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz - Levi Primo
Anotace: A new edition of Primo Levi`s classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don`t Count`With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to rend...
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Fair Rosaline: The most captivating, powerful and subversive retelling you´ll read this year - Natasha Solomonsová
<p>One of the most anticipated novels of the year - the captivating and powerful untelling of Romeo & Juliet . . .The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent, this handsome and charming strange...
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Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews is, quite simply, a phenomenon. She has probably brought more joy to more people than any other star of her generation' - Richard Attenborough. Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars - her extraordinary career spans more than forty years. Her first film, Mary Poppins, was Disney's most successful film, and in 1965 The Sound of Music r...
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Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
<p>Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, with an introduction by James E. Irby and a preface by Andre Maurois.Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of ...
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A Woman of Pleasure - Kiyoko Murata
From Akutagawa Prize-winning author Kiyoko Murata comes a dazzling historical novel about the courtesans whose strike brought down a red-light district'Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world' YOKO OGAWA, author of The Memory Police, Yomiuri ShibunThe year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan, becoming the ...
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Sybille Bedford
Born in Germany to aristocratic parents, Sybille Bedford's (1911-2006) life contained all the grand feeling and seismic event of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death, as well as the need to write and rescue something from this wreckage. Openly gay, Bedford once said 'I wish I'd written more books and spent less time being in love. It...
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Lesser Histories
Yet during some of Europe’s most difficult years, he wrote The Lesser Histories, a collection of sixty-four sonnets that range through themes of age, sex, and political repression—a radiant testament to his times. The lines are emptied both of personal pathos and political stridency. Often Zábrana’s own voice segues into those of poets he had translated over the years, le...
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Capote's Women
*National Bestseller*New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans." There are certain women, Truman Capote wrote, ...
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Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956 - 1963 - Sylvia Plath
<p>Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. The letters document Plath's extraordinary literary developmen...
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Sybille Bedford : An Appetite for Life - Hastings Selina
Anotace: Born in Germany to aristocratic parents, Sybille Bedford`s (1911-2006) life contained all the grand feeling and seismic event of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death, as well as the need to write and rescue something from this wreckage. Openly gay, Bedford once said `I wish I`d written more books and spent less time being i...
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-Joo
<p>Who is Kim Jiyoung? Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her when she is harassed late at night. Kim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn't...
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Letters To Milena - Franz Kafka
<p>The passionate but doomed epistolary love affair between a Czech translator and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. "Extraordinary...touching, horrifying, brilliant, sickly, [and] heartbreaking.... The most significant key we have for a reading of the author's novels and short stories." -...
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Free and Equal - Daniel Chandler
*A Waterstones, Financial Times and New Statesman Book of the Year*'A tremendous book, timely, wise, authoritative and clear' Stephen Fry'A brilliantly eloquent, incredibly insightful reimagining of liberalism' Owen Jones'Clear, brave, compelling' David Miliband'Inspiring ... impassioned ... full of hope' Zadie Smith'This is a fantastic book' Thomas PikettyImagine: you ar...
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