107 resultater (0,33996 sekunder)

Vis alle filtre

Mærke

Butik

Pris (EUR)

Nulstil filter

Produkter
Fra
Butikker

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.

DKK 127.00
1

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.

DKK 120.00
1

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.

DKK 141.00
1

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.

DKK 120.00
1

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.

DKK 120.00
1

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 .

DKK 161.00
1

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.

DKK 161.00
1

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.

DKK 139.00
1

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.

DKK 120.00
1

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.

DKK 168.00
1

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.

DKK 120.00
1

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

DKK 241.00
1

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.

DKK 126.00
1

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
1

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
1

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
1

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

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

Unrecounted is a book of poems and images from one of the most admired European writers, W.G. Sebald, and his friend and collaborator, the German artist Jan Peter Tripp. For a number of years until Sebald''s death in 2001, the two exchanged poems and lithographs. Unrecounted is the startlingly original result of this long artistic friendship - a creative dialogue inspired by shared concerns. Tripp''s lithographs, which portray pairs of eyes - among them those of Beckett, Borges, Proust - combine with W.G. Sebald''s words in Unrecounted to speak of moments salvaged from time passing, of our eyes bearing witness, and of memory and remembrance.''Condenses Sebald''s complex visual imagination to its poetic core'' Scotland on Sunday ''Elegiac, enhancing ... Sebald will not be forgotten'' Time Out ''A haunting testament to Sebald''s singular and lasting vision'' Observer ''The magic of W.G. Sebald''s incandescent body of work continues to unfold, with this unexpected collaboration'' Susan Sontag''Anyone with a serious interest in fiction should read Sebald'' Daily Telegraph W.G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and settled permanently in England in 1970, where he was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia until his death in 2001. He is the author of four works of fiction: The Emigrants , which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Heinrich Heine Prize, and the Joseph Breitbach Prize; The Rings of Saturn ; Vertigo ; and Austerlitz , which was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Alongside this stand books of poetry For Years Now , After Nature , Unrecounted , and Across the Land and the Water , and the non-fiction books On the Natural History of Destruction and Campo Santo . Jan Peter Tripp was born in 1945 and lives and works in Alsace.

DKK 141.00
1

Orientalism - Edward W. Said - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Orientalism - Edward W. Said - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author''Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious'' Observer ''Magisterial'' Terry Eagleton In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the ''otherness'' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West''s romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism. ''Beautifully patterned and passionately argued'' New Statesman ''Very exciting ... his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive'' John Leonard, New York Times

DKK 123.00
1

Stick Or Twist - Eleanor Moran - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Stick Or Twist - Eleanor Moran - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Name: Anna Christie Age: Very, very early thirties Marital status: Living with boyfriendSex: It''s been a while. Maybe six weeks? Career: Crafting sparkling features for magazine Casual Chic such as ''Man Boobs: Why No Marriage is Safe'' Current dilemma: What to do when your much loved boyfriend of ten years gets down on one knee and pops the question you''ve been secretly dreading? Options: Stick - say yes, jump on the marriage bandwagon, accept that babies are now standard issue and always wonder if the grass is greener ...OR Twist - walk away, move onto your best friend''s sofa, pine for your ex but perk up once sexy and seemingly perfect Harry comes breezing into your life... Hilarious, romantic and painfully honest, Stick or Twist proves that sometimes the most unlikely man turns out to be the One.

DKK 161.00
1

Embracing Defeat - John W. Dower - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Embracing Defeat - John W. Dower - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Drawing on a vast range of sources, from manga comics to MacArthur''s report to Congress, this monumental new work by America''s foremost historian of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan''s national life. Alongside the familiar story of economic resurgence, Dower examines how the nation as a whole reacted to the contradictory experiences of humiliation at the hands of a foreign power and liberation from the demands of a suicidal nationalism. The result is a titanic history, and a landmark book.

DKK 168.00
1

Like Mother, Like Daughter - Kimberly Mccreight - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Like Mother, Like Daughter - Kimberly Mccreight - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A daughter races to uncover the truth about her mother''s disappearance in this ''breathless, shocking thriller'' - Jodi Picoult HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT THE ONE YOU LOVE? Cleo is a college student: rebellious and provocative, with no interest in playing by the rules.Kat is her mother and her opposite: a happily married corporate lawyer - the essence of perfection.But when Cleo arrives home to find dinner burning, a bloody shoe under the sofa and no sign of Kat, it becomes clear that the one thing both mother and daughter have in common is keeping secrets.Who is Kat really? And if her lies were meant to protect them, how dangerous is the truth? ''Smart, propulsive and impossible to put down'' Laura Dave''A gripping thriller, I couldn''t put it down'' Greer Hendricks''Explores motherhood in all its complexities . . . I couldn''t put it down'' Jodi Picoult

DKK 120.00
1

These High, Green Hills - Jan Karon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

These High, Green Hills - Jan Karon - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon on a trip to Mitford—a southern village of local characters so heartwarming and hilarious you''ll wish you lived right next door. At last, Mitford''s rector and lifelong bachelor, Father Tim, has married his talented and vivacious neighbor, Cynthia. Now, of course, they must face love''s challenges: new sleeping arrangements for Father Tim''s sofa-sized dog, Cynthia''s urge to decorate the rectory Italian-villa-style, and the growing pains of the thrown-away boy who''s become like a son to the rector. Add a life-changing camping trip, the arrival of the town''s first policewoman, and a new computer that requires the patience of a saint, and you know you''re in for another engrossing visit to Mitford—the little town that readers everywhere love to call home.

DKK 173.00
1

Sweetness and Power - Sidney W. Mintz - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sweetness and Power - Sidney W. Mintz - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar''s origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe''s tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times."Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." - San Francisco Chronicle

DKK 182.00
1

A Distant Mirror - Barbara W. Tuchman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Distant Mirror - Barbara W. Tuchman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age, examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes and war dominated the lives of serf, noble and clergy alike.Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries and guilty passions, Tuchman recreates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, above all, knights. The result is an astonishing reflection of medieval Europe, a historical tour de force.

DKK 155.00
1