LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael gorra

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  • Portrait of a Novel
    Michael Gorra
    Henry James (1843 1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra, an eminent literary critic, shows how this novel the scandalous sto...
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    21,36 €

  • The Bells in Their Silence
    Michael Gorra
    Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the 'German problem,' World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction we associate with V. S. Naipaul...
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    50,28 €

  • The English Novel at Mid-Century
    Michael Gorra
    ’So far as the young were concerned,’ Orwell wrote of Britain in the years after the Great War, ’the official beliefs were dissolving like sandcastles.’ Most critical accounts of that postwar generation have been constrained by having to deal with the myth of the ’thirties.’ Michael Gorra’s innovation in this exciting study of the postwar generation’s major novelists lies in se...
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    134,32 €