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  • The Faber Book of Reportage

    par John Carey ...
    ***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events.'Stunning . . . There are descriptions in this book so fresh that they sear themselves into the imagination.'JEREMY PAXMAN'Fascinating - there's ... En savoir plus

    $21.59 CAD

  • The Unexpected Professor

    An Oxford Life in Books

    par John Carey ...
    Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Wish Her Safe At Home

    par Stephen Benatar ...
    Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city—and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up ... En savoir plus

    $12.79 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Vanity Fair

    par William Thackeray ...
    No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

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    Aussi disponible en : Livres audio

  • A Little History of Poetry

    par John Carey ...
    Collections series Little Histories
    A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times“[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London“Delightful.’”—New York Times Book ReviewWhat is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a... ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • The Intellectuals and the Masses

    Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939

    par John Carey ...
    Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Violent Effigy

    A Study of Dickens' Imagination

    par John Carey ...
    An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey.Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens's work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, terrible fantasy world it inhabited. It shows Dickens torn between the appeal of violence and a fanatical orderliness: he was attracted by characters who commit murder or burst into flame or ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Life Among the Apaches

    par John Carey Cremony ...
    John C. Cremony was a surveyor for the U.S. Boundary Commission charting the nation’s frontier with Mexico in the 1850s when he first became fascinated with Apache culture. Over two decades he came to know them and their language like no other white man in history. His Life Among the Apaches remains the first and foremost source on the Apache people – their beliefs, tribal life and fighting ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • What Good are the Arts?

    par John Carey ...
    From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value of art. ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Essential Paradise Lost

    par John Carey ...
    After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit.Now it is little read. To bring readers back to Milton's masterpiece, John Carey has shortened it to a third of its original length. In this fascinating reinterpretation, Carey reveals new insights about Milton's sources of inspiration, while exploring divided ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Working Bassist

    What You Really Need to Know to Survive in New York City

    par John Carey ...
    The Working Bassist, What You Really Need to Know to Survive in New York City Written for bassists and musicians alike, The Working Bassist, What You Really Need to Know to Survive in New York City, is designed to inform musicians and bassists interested in coming to New York City to pursue their musical endeavors. In addition to being informative, the series of interviews has been geared towards ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Life among the Apaches

    par John Carey Cremony ...
    In "Life among the Apaches," John Carey Cremony offers a compelling firsthand account of Apache culture and life during the mid-19th century. Written in a reflective yet vivid prose style, the narrative is imbued with a blend of ethnographic observation and personal memoir, presenting an intricate picture of the Apache people. Cremony's work stands out for its early anthropological perspectives, ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus