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The Wide Wide Sea - Hampton Sides - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Wide Wide Sea - Hampton Sides - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP-TEN BOOK OF 2024A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEARFrom New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook''s death‘Extraordinarily compulsive and fascinating. I felt it somehow told me more about the making of the modern world than any book I had read for ages'' STEPHEN FRY, BOOKS OF THE YEAR, Observer ‘An astounding tale . . . recreated in swashbuckling detail . . . Sides delivers it with narrative urgency. The cast of characters is a joy’ Sunday Times ‘An enthralling account of Captain Cook’s final, fatal voyage… An excellent new book’ The Economist ‘A rollicking good read , with a tone that reminds me of David Grann’s recent tale of the 1741 Wager shipwreck . . . riveting’ Daily Telegraph '' Vivid and propulsive '' New York Times ---On July 12 th , 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution . Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed – beaten and stabbed in a conflict with the indigenous population.What brought Cook to these final moments, so at odds with his reputation? Renowned for his humane leadership, dedication to science and the curiosity and respect, not judgement, with which he greeted societies that were new to him, Cook had already mapped huge swathes of the Pacific and initiated first European contact with numerous native peoples.The stated mission for his third voyage was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London high society, to his home islands. But Cook carried secret orders to venture north, to discover the fabled Northwest Passage and chart and claim lands before Britain’s imperial rivals. And Cook himself was different on his final, fatal voyage.Deeply researched and vividly told, The Wide Wide Sea is at once a ferociously-paced, epic adventure and a searching examination of the consequences of the Age of Exploration from a master storyteller.---- ‘Sides has written a riveting book, deeply researched, light of touch and always judicious and full-sailed about an exceptional man’s final extraordinary journey’ SPECTATOR ''A wonderful, visceral yarn and an enthralling read, replete with brilliant detail'' — ROBERT MCCRUM PRAISE FOR HAMPTON SIDES '' Enthralling … as gripping as any well-paced thriller but a lot more interesting because it is also true'' THE TIMES ‘Stunningly vivid ’ MARK BOWDEN, AUTHOR OF BLACK HAWK DOWN '' Splendid in every way… a marvellous nonfiction thriller'' WALL STREET JOURNAL ‘ Extraordinary … meticulous research shores up a fast-paced narrative’ FINANCIAL TIMES ''Viscerally dramatic … spellbinding... bold, dynamic , unusually vivid’ NEW YORK TIMES '' Unforgettable …a pulse-racing epic … a masterful work of history and storytelling'' LOS ANGELES TIMES ‘ Reads like a first-class epic thriller'' TIME

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The Wide Wide Sea - Hampton Sides - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Wide Wide Sea - Hampton Sides - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

*** BARACK OBAMA''S SUMMER READING LIST 2024 *** *** One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024 *** *** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** '' The story of Captain Cook’s third voyage. Extraordinarily compulsive and fascinating on every page , it combines the satisfaction of a Patrick O’Brian or CS Forester maritime blockbuster with the insights and revelations of a true historian . I felt it somehow told me more about the making of the modern world than any book I had read for ages'' STEPHEN FRY, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024, OBSERVER From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook''s death ‘An astounding tale . . . recreated in swashbuckling detail . . . Sides delivers it with narrative urgency. The cast of characters is a joy’ Sunday Times ‘An enthralling account of Captain Cook’s final, fatal voyage… An excellent new book’ The Economist ‘A rollicking good read , with a tone that reminds me of David Grann’s recent tale of the 1741 Wager shipwreck . . . riveting’ Daily Telegraph '' Vivid and propulsive '' New York Times ---On July 12 th , 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution . Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed – beaten and stabbed in a conflict with the indigenous population.What brought Cook to these final moments, so at odds with his reputation? Renowned for his humane leadership, dedication to science and the curiosity and respect, not judgement, with which he greeted societies that were new to him, Cook had already mapped huge swathes of the Pacific and initiated first European contact with numerous native peoples.The stated mission for his third voyage was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London high society, to his home islands. But Cook carried secret orders to venture north, to discover the fabled Northwest Passage and chart and claim lands before Britain’s imperial rivals. And Cook himself was different on his final, fatal voyage.Deeply researched and vividly told, The Wide Wide Sea is at once a ferociously-paced, epic adventure and a searching examination of the consequences of the Age of Exploration from a master storyteller.---- ‘Sides has written a riveting book, deeply researched, light of touch and always judicious and full-sailed about an exceptional man’s final extraordinary journey’ SPECTATOR ''A wonderful, visceral yarn and an enthralling read, replete with brilliant detail'' ROBERT MCCRUM PRAISE FOR HAMPTON SIDES '' Enthralling . . . as gripping as any well-paced thriller but a lot more interesting because it is also true'' THE TIMES ‘Stunningly vivid ’ MARK BOWDEN, AUTHOR OF BLACK HAWK DOWN '' Splendid in every way. . . a marvellous nonfiction thriller'' WALL STREET JOURNAL ‘ Extraordinary . . . meticulous research shores up a fast-paced narrative’ FINANCIAL TIMES ''Viscerally dramatic . . . spellbinding . . . bold, dynamic , unusually vivid’ NEW YORK TIMES '' Unforgettable . . . a pulse-racing epic . . . a masterful work of history and storytelling'' LOS ANGELES TIMES ‘ Reads like a first-class epic thriller'' TIME

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The Wide Wide Sea - Hampton Sides - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Wide Wide Sea - Hampton Sides - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

*** BARACK OBAMA''S SUMMER READING LIST 2024 *** *** One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024 *** *** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** '' The story of Captain Cook’s third voyage. Extraordinarily compulsive and fascinating on every page , it combines the satisfaction of a Patrick O’Brian or CS Forester maritime blockbuster with the insights and revelations of a true historian . I felt it somehow told me more about the making of the modern world than any book I had read for ages'' STEPHEN FRY, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2024, OBSERVER From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook''s death ‘An astounding tale . . . recreated in swashbuckling detail . . . Sides delivers it with narrative urgency. The cast of characters is a joy’ Sunday Times ‘An enthralling account of Captain Cook’s final, fatal voyage… An excellent new book’ The Economist ‘A rollicking good read , with a tone that reminds me of David Grann’s recent tale of the 1741 Wager shipwreck . . . riveting’ Daily Telegraph '' Vivid and propulsive '' New York Times ---On July 12 th , 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution . Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed – beaten and stabbed in a conflict with the indigenous population.What brought Cook to these final moments, so at odds with his reputation? Renowned for his humane leadership, dedication to science and the curiosity and respect, not judgement, with which he greeted societies that were new to him, Cook had already mapped huge swathes of the Pacific and initiated first European contact with numerous native peoples.The stated mission for his third voyage was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London high society, to his home islands. But Cook carried secret orders to venture north, to discover the fabled Northwest Passage and chart and claim lands before Britain’s imperial rivals. And Cook himself was different on his final, fatal voyage.Deeply researched and vividly told, The Wide Wide Sea is at once a ferociously-paced, epic adventure and a searching examination of the consequences of the Age of Exploration from a master storyteller.---- ‘Sides has written a riveting book, deeply researched, light of touch and always judicious and full-sailed about an exceptional man’s final extraordinary journey’ SPECTATOR ''A wonderful, visceral yarn and an enthralling read, replete with brilliant detail'' ROBERT MCCRUM PRAISE FOR HAMPTON SIDES '' Enthralling . . . as gripping as any well-paced thriller but a lot more interesting because it is also true'' THE TIMES ‘Stunningly vivid ’ MARK BOWDEN, AUTHOR OF BLACK HAWK DOWN '' Splendid in every way. . . a marvellous nonfiction thriller'' WALL STREET JOURNAL ‘ Extraordinary . . . meticulous research shores up a fast-paced narrative’ FINANCIAL TIMES ''Viscerally dramatic . . . spellbinding . . . bold, dynamic , unusually vivid’ NEW YORK TIMES '' Unforgettable . . . a pulse-racing epic . . . a masterful work of history and storytelling'' LOS ANGELES TIMES ‘ Reads like a first-class epic thriller'' TIME

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Comes the Night - Hollis Hampton Jones - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Comes the Night - Hollis Hampton Jones - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Meade is nineteen and living in Paris with her twin brother, Ben Ho, far from their privileged upbringing in Nashville, Tennessee. Hers is a restless quest of balancing addictions: to her brother, her pills and her purging. But when Ben Ho falls for a girl at art school, Meade''s precarious equilibrium is shaken.Meade descends into a vortex of glamour and passion with the fashion photographer who becomes her lover. As her sexual obsession shifts from her brother to her troubled Iranian lover, Meade cannot know she has made a tragic match with someone whose secrets go further, deeper and darker than anything she can fathom. A stark, unflinching novel with a dark heart, Comes the Night chronicles a fevered and tormented journey through the frothy, glossy world of fashion and the shadowy recesses of love.

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Hellhound on his Trail - Hampton Sides - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Hellhound on his Trail - Hampton Sides - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Hellhound on His Trail is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s: one was a thief and con man called James Earl Ray, the other one of the greatest American figures of the twentieth century, Martin Luther King Jr.Hampton Sides follows in Ray''s footsteps as he escapes from prison, creates a new identity for himself and becomes convinced of his mission to kill King. Hellhound on His Trail is equally the story of King himself in his last months, fighting to keep his ideals alive in the face of intensive FBI surveillance and his own exhausted frustration. With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Ray and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the fateful moment, on 4 April 1968 at a Memphis hotel, when the drifter finally caught up with his prey. Nationwide riots were sparked by the assassination, followed by the largest manhunt in American history.

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Topgun - Dan Pedersen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Topgun - Dan Pedersen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

DISCOVER THE EXHILARATING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ACTION-PACKED CLASSIC FILM ''GOOSE AND MAVERICK MOVE OVER . . .'' Admiral James Stavridis________ March 1969. American jets are getting shot down at an unprecedented rate over Vietnam. In an urgent effort to regain the advantage the Admirals turn to a young naval aviator called Dan Pedersen.Officially, the programme he set up was called the US Navy Fighter Weapons School. To everyone else it was known simply as TOPGUN.Pedersen''s hand-picked team of instructors - the Original Eight - were the best of the best. Together, they revolutionised aerial warfare and rediscovered the lost art of fighter combat. This is the extraordinary, thrilling story of how TOPGUN saw America reclaim the skies, by the man who created it. ________ ''It''s hard to read Dan Pederson''s Topgun and not think of Tom Cruise. A pleasure to read'' Wall Street Journal ''Direct, vivid and unvarnished. A high-flying, supersonic tale'' Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers ''Topgun earned Dan Pedersen the title of American Hero'' Washington Times ''A riveting seat-of-the-pants flight into the lethal world of the fighter pilot'' Dan Hampton, author of Viper Pilot

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A Place in the Country - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Place in the Country - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W. G. Sebald ''The greatest writer of our time'' Peter Carey When W. G. Sebald travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during the years when he was settled in England. In A Place in the Country, he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp. Fusing biography and essay, and finding, as ever, inspiration in place - as when he journeys to the Ile St. Pierre, the tiny, lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace and inspiration - Sebald lovingly brings his subjects to life in his distinctive, inimitable voice.''A fascinating volume that confirms Sebald as one of Europe''s most mysterious and best-loved literary imaginations'' Evening Standard ''Sebald was in possession of the uncanny ability to make his own intellectual obsessions, immediately, compulsively his reader''s'' Observer ''Irresistible . . . an intimate anatomy of the pathos, absurdity and perverse splendour of trying to find patterns in the chaos of the world'' Independent W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted and a selection of poetry, Across the Land and the Water.Jo Catling taught German for a number of years alongside W. G. Sebald at the University of East Anglia, where she is currently a senior lecturer in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing.

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A Shepherd's Life - W. H. Hudson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Shepherd's Life - W. H. Hudson - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Considered a classic at the time of its publication in 1910, A Shepherd''s Life is a rare account of the lives of those who lived on and worked the land in nineteenth-century rural Britain. A masterful work of prose, W. H. Hudson focuses on the story of one man, a Wiltshire shepherd named Caleb Bawcombe, whose tales of sheep dogs, farmer''s wives, poachers and local fairs become a sublime account of a way of life that has largely disappeared from these shores.

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The Tower - W. B. Yeats - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Tower - W. B. Yeats - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Tower was W. B. Yeats''s first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of his most influential collections. The title refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917 and later restored. The Tower includes some of his greatest and most innovative poems including ''Sailing to Byzantium'', a lyrical meditation on man''s disillusionment with the physical world; ''Leda and the Swan'', a violent and graphic take on the Greek myth of Leda and Zeus and ''Among School Children'', a poetic contemplation of life, love and the creative process.

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After Nature - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

After Nature - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

After Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz ''The greatest writer of our time'' Peter Carey After Nature by W.G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, is his first literary work and the start of his highly personal and brilliant writing journey. In this long prose poem, Sebald introduces many of the themes that he explores in his subsequent books. Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, each of the three distinct parts of After Nature give centre stage to a different character from a different century - the last being W.G. Sebald himself.''A deeply intelligent book, but also a marvellously warm, exciting and compassionate one'' Andrew Motion''A début of rare poetic grandeur'' Irish Times ''Astonishing writing. A true poet at work'' Evening Standard ''Graceful, allusive, serious, but also immensely readable'' Sunday Telegraph ''When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm'' Literary Review W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants , The Rings of Saturn , Vertigo , Austerlitz , After Nature , On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, For Years Now and A Place in the Country . His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.

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Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald''s haunting novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. Austerlitz is W.G. Sebald''s melancholic masterpiece.''Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald'' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times ''Greatness in literature is still possible'' John Banville, Irish Times , Books of the Year''A work of obvious genius'' Literary Review ''A fusion of the mystical and the solid ... His art is a form of justice - there can be, I think, no higher aim'' Evening Standard ''Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art'' The Times Literary Supplement ''I have never read a book that provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the dispersal of the Jews from Prague and their treatment by the Nazis'' Observer ''A great book by a great writer'' Boyd Tonkin, Independent W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants , The Rings of Saturn , Vertigo , Austerlitz , After Nature , On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted , A Place in the Country . His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.

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Across the Land and the Water - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Across the Land and the Water - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A stunningly beautiful selection of poetry by W. G. Sebald. ''The greatest writer of our time'' Peter Carey Across the Land and the Water brings together poems from throughout W. G. Sebald''s life as well as additional works found after his death. Arranged chronologically, from his student days in the 1960s to the longer narratives he worked on in the 1980s, these poems are suffused by the themes which dominated Sebald''s books. Here you will find subtle vignettes on nature and history, death and memory, journeys and landscapes, each short piece filled with insight, sensitivity and brilliance.''An important book . . . full of things that are beautiful and fascinating'' Andrew Motion, Guardian ''When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm. Reading him is a truly sublime experience'' Literary Review ''Gracefully unsettling. The poems invest every landscape with an archaeologist''s sense of the pain, toil and loss secreted in each layer of soil'' I ndependent ''One of the most important writers of our time'' A. S. Byatt''Delightful'' Economist ''Show a humane and complex intelligence and deserve a place next to Sebald''s prose output'' New Statesman W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants , The Rings of Saturn , Vertigo , Austerlitz , After Nature , On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted , A Place in the Country .

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The Sting Man - Robert W. Greene - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Sting Man - Robert W. Greene - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Sting Man: The True Story Behind the Film AMERICAN HUSTLE The inspiration behind the film American Hustle , directed by David O''Russell ( Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter ) and starring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Amy AdamsHow did a Bronx hustler nearly bring down the US government?From hustling on the streets of the Bronx to selling bogus businesses and sham investments around the world, Mel Weinberg netted millions of dollars. So legendary were his skills that in the late 1970s he was recruited by the FBI to combat art thieves and counterfeiters. But the trail quickly led to even bigger targets. His legendary sting operation, Abscam, caught eight corrupt congressmen and senators. The scandal shook America to the core.In The Sting Man , Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert W. Greene presents not only a thrilling account of the rise of the FBI''s international con mastermind, but a vivid dissection of the underbelly of the American Dream. Can you really con an honest man?This astonishing true story will be loved by fans of Argo and Catch Me If You Can. ''Absorbing and hilarious... reads like good fiction'' Washington Post Robert W. Greene was a veteran reporter for more than twenty-seven years, a Senior Staff Investigator for the New York City Anti-Crime Committee and an investigator for the U.S. Senate. As a reporter for Newsday , he headed investigative teams that twice won the Pulitzer Prize gold medal. He was also president of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Group. He died in 2008.

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Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth - W. B. Yeats - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth - W. B. Yeats - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create a movement in literature that was enriched by and rooted in a vital native tradition. In this volume Yeats’s essays, introductions and sketches are presented chronologically, giving a clear picture of how his analysis developed, increasing in its depth and complexity in his quest to create an Ireland of the imagination.

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Campo Santo - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Campo Santo - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. Sebald When W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them previously published in book form - which provide a powerful insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. Four pieces pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. Sebald also examines the works of writers such as Kafka, Nabokov, and Günter Grass, showing both how literature can provide restitution for the injustices of the world and how such literature came to have so great an influence on him. Campo Santo is a fitting memorial to W.G. Sebald, who himself studied the shifting nature of memory and time with such sensitivity.''A precious addition to the canon'' Independent ''Will come to be seen as indispensable to an understanding of his work'' Sunday Times ''Full of a sense of liberation and lightness ... these [pieces] abound in energy and work the authentic Sebaldian magic'' Literary Review ''We have become suspicious, rightly, of claims for literary greatness, but in Sebald''s case the claim was triumphantly justified. He was, he is, the real thing'' John Banville, Guardian ''Sebald was probably the greatest intellect and voice of the late twentieth century'' Anthony Beevor, The Times ''A writer whose explorations of time and memory make him arguably the closest author modern European letters has to rival Borges'' Sunday Times W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants , The Rings of Saturn , Vertigo , Austerlitz , After Nature , On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, For Years Now and A Place in the Country . His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.

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The Penguin History of the Church - R. W. Southern - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin History of the Church - R. W. Southern - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The history of the Western church in the Middle Ages is the history of the most elaborate and thoroughly integrated system of religious thought and practice the world has ever known. It is also the history of European society during eight hundred years of sometimes rapid change. This authoritative history shows how the concept of an organized human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe, was central to medieval thought. Professor R. W. Southern’s book covers the period from the eighth to the sixteenth century, highlighting the main features of each medieval age and studying the Papacy, the relations between Rome and her rival Constantinople, the bishops and archbishops and the various religious orders in detail, providing a superb study of the period.

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The Journal of a Disappointed Man - W. N. P. Barbellion - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Journal of a Disappointed Man - W. N. P. Barbellion - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as ''a study in the nude''. It begins as an ambitious teenager''s notes on the natural world, and then, following his diagnosis at the age of twenty-six, transforms into a deeply moving account of battling the disease. His prose is full of humour and fierce intelligence, and combines a passion for life with clear-sighted reflections on the nature of death. Barbellion selected and edited this manuscript himself in 1917, adding a fictional editor''s note announcing his own demise. This Penguin Classics edition includes ''The Last Diary'', which covers the period between submission of the manuscript and Barbellion''s actual death in 1919.

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Silent Catastrophes - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Silent Catastrophes - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘We have become suspicious, rightly, of claims for literary greatness, but in Sebald’s case the claim was triumphantly justified. He was, he is, the real thing’ John Banville, Guardian From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn , a collection of essay on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him - appearing for the first time in English As a German in self-chosen exile from his country of birth, Sebald found a particular affinity with these writers from a neighbouring nation. The traumatic evolution of Austria from vast empire to diminutive Alpine republic, followed by its annexation by Germany, meant that concepts such as ‘home/land’, ‘borderland’ and ‘exile’ occupy a prominent role in its literature, just as they would in Sebald’s own.Through a series of remarkable close readings of texts by Bernhard, Stifter, Kafka, Handke, Roth and more, Sebald charts both the pathologies which so often drove their work and the seismic historical forces which shaped them. This sequence of essays will be a revelation to Sebald’s English-language readers, tracing as they do so many of the themes which animate his own literary writings, to which these essays form a kind of prelude. ''A writer whose life and work has become a wonderful vindication of literary culture in all its subtle and entrancing complexity'' Guardian ‘Sebald was probably the greatest intellect and voice of the late twentieth century’ Antony Beevor, The Times

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Silent Catastrophes - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Silent Catastrophes - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection of essay on the Austrian writers who inspired himSilent Catastrophes brings together for the first time in English the two books W.G. Sebald wrote on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him: The Description of Misfortune and Strange Homeland, published in Austria in 1985 and 1991. As a German in self-chosen exile from his country of birth, Sebald found a particular affinity with these writers from a neighbouring nation. The traumatic evolution of Austria from vast empire to diminutive Alpine republic, followed by its annexation by Nazi Germany, meant that concepts such as ‘home/land’, ‘borderland’ and ‘exile’ occupy a prominent role in its literature, just as they would in Sebald’s own. Through a series of remarkable close readings of texts by Bernhard, Stifter, Kafka, Handke, Roth and more, Sebald charts both the pathologies which so often drove their work and the seismic historical forces which shaped them. This sequence of essays will be a revelation to Sebald’s English-language readers, tracing as they do so many of the themes which animate his own literary writings, to which these essays form a kind of prelude. Unhappiness and misfortune are at the heart of Silent Catastrophes, but as Sebald writes, the description of misfortune contains within it the possibility of its overcoming, and melancholy – the contemplation of disaster in progress – is itself a form of resistance.

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Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful ''The greatest writer of our time'' Peter Carey In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. Austerlitz is W.G. Sebald''s melancholic masterpiece.''Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald'' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times ''Greatness in literature is still possible'' John Banville, Irish Times , Books of the Year''A work of obvious genius'' Literary Review ''A fusion of the mystical and the solid ... His art is a form of justice - there can be, I think, no higher aim'' Evening Standard ''Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art'' The Times Literary Supplement ''I have never read a book that provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the dispersal of the Jews from Prague and their treatment by the Nazis'' Observer ''A great book by a great writer'' Boyd Tonkin, Independent W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants , The Rings of Saturn , Vertigo , Austerlitz , After Nature , On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted , A Place in the Country . His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.

DKK 139.00
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The Child, the Family, and the Outside World - D. W. Winnicott - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Child, the Family, and the Outside World - D. W. Winnicott - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''The greatest British psychoanalyst who ever lived. He writes beautifully and simply about the problems of everyday life'' Alain de Botton The paediatrician and child psychiatrist D. W. Winnicott changed the way we think about childhood by placing the parent-infant relationship at the heart of human happiness, and by encouraging mothers and fathers to trust their own instincts. In this landmark work he follows the development of a child from their first weeks to finding their place in the wider world, touching on everything from crying and feeding to shyness, jealousy, independence and anger. His plain-speaking, humane and non-judgemental approach continues to influence our understanding of parenting today. ''His style is lucid, his manner friendly, and his years of experience provide much wise insight into child behaviour and parental attitudes'' British Journal of Psychology

DKK 127.00
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On The Natural History Of Destruction - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

On The Natural History Of Destruction - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sebald''s On the Natural History of Destruction explores German writers'' silence about a moment of mass destruction In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. Six hundred thousand civilians died, and three and a half million homes were destroyed. When it has cast such a very dark shadow over his life and work, Sebald asks, how have so many writers allowed themselves to write it out of their experience and avoid articulating the horror? W.G. Sebald''s On the Natural History of Destruction sparked a wide-ranging debate in the German press.''Sebald makes exquisite art out of vile history'' Boyd Tonkin, Independent ''One of the most important writers of our time'' A.S. Byatt, New Statesman ''Demands to be read for its grand emotional power ... it absorbs and horrifies and illuminates'' Scotsman ''Brilliant and disturbing'' Antony Beevor, The Times W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants , The Rings of Saturn , Vertigo , Austerlitz , After Nature , On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, For Years Now and A Place in the Country . His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.

DKK 139.00
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Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING, GOLDEN BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED CLASSIC, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ELIF SHAFAK Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a ''history of the world . . . and in the process, my own''. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia''s life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt. The masterpiece of one of the century''s finest novelists, Moon Tiger is a haunting, evocative and dazzlingly original story of loss and desire.''Leaves its traces in the air long after you''ve put it away'' Anne Tyler''A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes'' Daily Telegraph ''Fascinating ... Way ahead of her time and yet absolutely of her time'' Lemn Sissay

DKK 119.00
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Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Penelope Lively''s Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a ''history of the world . . . and in the process, my own''. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia''s life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt. ''Leaves its traces in the air long after you''ve put it away'' Anne Tyler''A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes'' Daily Telegraph ''Very clever: evocative, thought-provoking and hangs on the mind long after it is finished'' Literary Review

DKK 113.00
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