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The South West Coast Path. A Unique, Interactive Multi-media Planning Guide 2 photos

The South West Coast Path. A Unique, Interactive Multi-media Planning Guide

Virtual Book Company
2008, DVD. As new, still in original sellers foil.
It's a book, it's a film, it's all the information you will ever need and it will never go out of date! The South West Coast Path is the first in a series of Virtual Guide Books published by the Virtual Book Company. Published on DVD Rom, this brilliant title is perpetually updated using over five hundred very clever hyperlinks.This innovative product includes one and a half hours of HD film, 800 superb images, Route maps and instructions, information on places to stay, public transport information, real time tide tables, real time weather information, 3D Terrain flythrough's, and events. It covers in massive detail fifteen fabulous walks featuring all parts of the South West Coast Path National Trail.
€ 14,00
ISBN: 9780955828805
Book no. 65966
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The Politics of Literary Reputation. The Making and Claiming of 'St. George' Orwell — RODDEN, John

The Politics of Literary Reputation. The Making and Claiming of 'St. George' Orwell

RODDEN, John
Oxford University Press
1989, xiii,478pp. Illustrated. Cloth. Dust jacket with signs of use. Book in good condition.
"This is a fascinating study - part biography, part cultural history - about George Orwell and his literary reputation. No one gained such sudden fame as Orwell did in the United States after publication of his two most important works, ""Animal Farm"" and ""1984"". In addition, no contemporary literary figure has continued to have such a strong reputation for such a long time. Rodden's book is partly about the nature of literary reputations how they are established and maintained. But more important is the question of Orwell's career and influence how he has been perceived and adopted by political factions from left to right; the development of his literary career, and the immense influence he has had in the United States."
€ 18,00
ISBN: 9780195039542
Book no. 65959
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Absent Minds. Intellectuals in Britain. (HARDCOVER) — COLLINI, Stefan

Absent Minds. Intellectuals in Britain. (HARDCOVER)

COLLINI, Stefan
Oxford University Press
2006, 540pp. Illustrated. Cloth, with dust jacket. In very good condition. Pakketzending.
A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Absent Minds provides the first full-length account of 'the question of intellectuals' in twentieth-century Britain - have such figures ever existed, have they always been more prominent or influential elsewhere, and are they on the point of becoming extinct today? Recovering neglected or misunderstood traditions of reflection and debate from the late nineteenth century through to the present, Stefan Collini challenges the familiar cliche that there are no 'real' intellectuals in Britain. The book offers a persuasive analysis of the concept of 'the intellectual' and an extensive comparative account of how this question has been seen in the USA, France, and elsewhere in Europe. There are detailed discussions of influential or revealing figures such as Julien Benda, T. S. Eliot, George Orwell, and Edward Said, as well as trenchant critiques of current assumptions about the impact of specialization and celebrity. Throughout, attention is paid to the multiple senses of the term 'intellectuals' and to the great diversity of relevant genres and media through which they have communicated their ideas, from pamphlets and periodical essays to public lectures and radio talks. Elegantly written and rigorously argued, Absent Minds is a major, long-awaited work by a leading intellectual historian and cultural commentator, ranging across the conventional divides between academic disciplines and combining insightful portraits of individuals with sharp-edged cultural analysis.
€ 35,00
ISBN: 9780199291052
Book no. 65937
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Orwell's Cough. Diagnosing the Medical Maladies and Last Gasps of the Great Writers — ROSS, John

Orwell's Cough. Diagnosing the Medical Maladies and Last Gasps of the Great Writers

ROSS, John
Oneworld Publications
2012, 277pp. Paperback. In very good condition.
"The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane voice, he explained the treatment stewed prunes to evacuate the bowels; succulent meats to ease digestion; cinnabar and the sweating tub... Desperate diseases called for desperate remedies. Did Will Shakespeare's doctors addle his brain with cinnabar and mercury? Was Jane Eyre inspired by the plagued school that claimed the Bronte clan? Did writing 1984 kill George Orwell? Dr John Ross of Harvard Medical School opens his surgery to consult with the likes of Milton, Swift, Melville, Joyce, and Jack London, exploring the history of medicine as never before, from the Bard's cloaked visits to Southwark to cure his unsavoury rashes to the arsenic-and-horse-serum jabs given for Yeats's fevers. With novelistic flair and deep expertise, Ross reveals a wholly absorbing new view on the writer's life."
€ 15,00
ISBN: 9781780742250
Book no. 65934
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Het spoor van Orwell. — DAANE, Marco

Het spoor van Orwell.

DAANE, Marco
Atlas
2011, 351pp. Geïllustreerd. Paperback. In goede staat.
"De naam George Orwell blijft opduiken in de actualiteit. Als geestelijk vader van Animal Farm en Big Brother is Orwell een van de meest invloedrijke auteurs van de afgelopen eeuw. Maar hoe werd hij dat? Wie was hij eigenlijk? George Orwell (1903-1950) behoorde tot de Engelse bourgeoisie, doorliep Eton en werd politieagent in de Britse kolonie Birma. Vervolgens gaf hij zijn leven een dramatische wending door vagebond te worden, tussen zwervers en kakkerlakken in Londense armenhuizen. Later bezocht hij de roetzwarte Noord-Engelse mijnbouwgebieden en vocht hij in de loopgraven van de Spaanse Burgeroorlog. Het spoor van Orwell voert langs deze en vele andere plaatsen waar Orwell leefde, werkte en over schreef. In welk peperduur Parijs hotel was hij bordenwasser? Waar joeg hij vrouwen de stuipen op het lijf met zijn seksuele driften? Waarom en hoe vluchtte hij voor de Spaanse stalinisten en maakte hij zijn omstreden ‘communistenboekje’? Heeft er een echte Animal Farm bestaan? En wat was het mysterieuze Gouden Land uit 1984, geschreven op het afgelegen eiland Jura? Met Het spoor van Orwell verschijnt er eindelijk een aanstekelijk Nederlandstalig portret van deze markante figuur, die zoveel inkt- en denksporen heeft nagelaten in onze cultuur en samenleving."
€ 25,00
ISBN: 9789045083483
Book no. 65924
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The Culture of Collected Editions. — NASH, Andrew (edited by)

The Culture of Collected Editions.

NASH, Andrew (edited by)
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
2003, xi,274pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In good condition.
The phenomenon of the collected edition has made a vital contribution to the construction of authorship, the history of reputation and the formation of the canon. Discussing a range of authors and subjects from Ben Jonson to the internet, this collection of essays brings together the disciplines of Literary and Cultural Criticism, Textual Criticism, Bibliography, Book and Publishing History, to ignite debate on the influence of famous editions of the past and the significance of present-day collected editions.
€ 49,00
ISBN: 9781403902665
Book no. 65922
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Jane Austen. Cover to Cover, 200 Years of Classic Covers. — SULLIVAN, Margaret

Jane Austen. Cover to Cover, 200 Years of Classic Covers.

SULLIVAN, Margaret
Quirk Books
2014, 224pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. In very good condition.
In the short forty-two years of her life, Jane Austen wrote six novels that would endure long after her death in 1817. The texts are true classics, unchanged and yet still immensely popular some 200 years later, but the covers have changed with the times-from the elegant inscriptions of the famous Peacock cover, to pulpy sixties pop art, to graphic novels, Twilight-inspired copycat covers, and mystifyingly bad digital editions. With over 200 images of covers spanning as many years of Austen books, this fascinating, funny, and art-filled book is a must for Janeites, design geeks, and book lovers of every stripe.
€ 10,00
ISBN: 9781594747250
Book no. 65901
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Sammlung Ryhiner Collection (Vierbändiger Katalog =Komplett). Karten, Pläne und Ansichten aus dem 16. bis 19. Jahrhundert - Maps, Plans and Views from the 16th to the 19th Century. — KLÖTI, Thomas (Herausgegeben von - Edited by) 3 photos

Sammlung Ryhiner Collection (Vierbändiger Katalog =Komplett). Karten, Pläne und Ansichten aus dem 16. bis 19. Jahrhundert - Maps, Plans and Views from the 16th to the 19th Century.

KLÖTI, Thomas (Herausgegeben von - Edited by)
Bern, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek
2003, 1786S. Gebunden. 30x21,5cm. 5,6kg. Sehr gut erhalten. Paketsendung.
Vierbändiger Katalog mit 16528 Katalognummern und Registerteil. Nachgewiesen werden in dieser Sammlung mehr als 16000 Karten, Stadtpläne und topographische Ansichten aus dem 16. bis frühen 19. Jahrhundert.
€ 75,00
ISBN: 9783952153901
Book no. 65900
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