LIBROS DEL AUTOR: a s byatt

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  • The Little Black Book of Stories
    A S Byatt
    A new collection of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a winner and this one takes an unexpected turn bringing shivers as well as delights. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women walk into a forest as they did when they were girls confronting their fears and memories and the strange thing they saw in their childhood - or thought they saw - so long ago...
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    22,54 €

  • Sugar And Other Stories
    A S Byatt
    It should come as no surprise that short stories by the author of the magical Possession are populated by erudite paranoiacs witches changelings and the ghost of a dead child. A S Byatt’s short fictions explore the fragile ties between generations the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit ot...
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    22,66 €

  • The Biographers Tale
    A S Byatt
    Phineas G. Nanson a disenchanted graduate student decides to immerse himself in the messiness of ’real life’ by writing a biography of a great biographer. But a ’whole life’ is hard to find. Everywhere he looks he discovers only fragments - strange notes boxes of marbles undated postcards.As Phineas’s research continues his mind roams from the deserts of Africa to the mael...
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    23,77 €

  • Selected Essays Poems and Other Writings
    A. S. Byatt / George Eliot
    The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot’s incisive views on religion art and science and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as ’Evangelical Teaching’ show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs while ’Woman in France’ questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage and ’Notes on Form in Art’ set...
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    20,30 €

  • On Histories and Stories
    A S Byatt
    In her powerful opening essays - ’Fathers’ ’Forefathers’ and ’Ancestors’ - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have invented; and the new ’Darwinian novel’. These afford new readings of writers from Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green t...
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    19,31 €

  • Imagining Characters
    A. S. Byatt / ASByatt / Ignes Sodre / Rebecca Swift
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    14,85 €

  • Still Life
    A. S. Byatt / ASByatt
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    21,46 €

  • Degrees of Freedom
    A S Byatt
    First published in 1965 A.S. Byatt’s Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them and looking at Murdoch’s interest in the relations between art and goodness master and slave and the novel of character in the nineteenth century sense. Drawing on Iris Murdoch’s own critical and philosphical writing ...
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    23,38 €