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  • BURNING QUESTIONS
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How can we live on our planet?What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?In Burning Questions Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and...
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  • SISTERS: VINTAGE MINIS
    ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY
    Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be your fiercest competitor or closest co-conspirator, but she'll always share with you a totally unique bond. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four of the most famous sisters in literature, and these stories of the joys and heartaches the...
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  • FREEDOM : VINTAGE MINIS
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    Can we ever be wholly free?In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms to speak and to act to preserve our freedom while we still can. And in that, t...
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  • DESIRE: VINTAGE MINIS
    MURAKAMI, HARUKI
    You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.Selected from...
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  • LOVE: VINTAGE MINIS
    WINTERSON, JEANETTE
    How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for the mythical creature we call Love.Selected from the books of Jeanette Winter...
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  • RAVE: VINTAGE MINIS
    WELSH, IRVINR
    Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He experiences the vertiginous uppers and downers of the Second Summer of Love, dabbles in a spot of disc jockeying and clos...
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  • FAMILY: VINTAGE MINIS
    HADDON, MARK
    'Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark and everyone sailing under a different sky'Where do you go if you can't feel at home in your own family? When the people who made you can't fathom who you become? In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Haddon shows family in its frank, unsparing yet frequently absurd light, and, in doing s...
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  • JOURNEYS
    ZWEIG, STEFAN
    When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is something in it marvellously uplifting and invigorating. Whole past epochs suddenly return: nothing is lost, everything still full of inception, enticement.For the insatiably curious and ardent Europhile Stefan Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education ...
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  • JEALOUSY
    MARCEL PROUST
    Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether we can ever reclaim those careless days of first love. There is no greater chronicler of jealousy's darkest fears and destructive...
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  • AUSTERITY: VINTAGE MINIS
    YAANIS VAROUFAKIS
    How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with a bureaucracy bent on ignoring the human cost of its every action. Passionately outs...
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  • GHOSTS
    M.R.JAMES
    A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A bed that hasn't been slept in is crumpled and distressed come the morning. A skeletal figure creeps closer and closer to the house where an unsuspecting family lie sleeping. I...
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  • NOVELIST AS A VOCATION
    MURAKAMI, HARUKI
    Discover the craftsman's secrets of one of the world's most successful writersHaruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in ou...
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  • THE PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS BOOK
    ELIOT, HENRY
    The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more th...
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  • MOTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHERS : NEW ESSAYS
    HUSTVEDT, SIRI
    'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' iFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound exploration of motherhood, the maternal and misogyny. Ranging across artistic mothers such as Jane Austen and Louise Bourgeois, psy...
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  • ON WOMEN : A NEW COLLECTION OF FEMINIST ESSAYS FROM THE INFLUENTIAL WRITER, ACTIVIST AND CRITIC
    SONTAG, SUSAN
    On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves. For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerful...
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  • THE PROSE FACTORY
    TAYLOR, D.J.
    What do we mean when we talk about `taste'?'Taste' takes countless forms. There is the exclusive taste of highbrow critics such as T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis. There is the taste of ordinary book lovers persuaded to buy the best-sellers of the day. And there is the taste of Virginia Woolf's elusive `common reader'. A taste that in the days of the Victorian reading public was fou...
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  • THE EDINBURGH INTRODUCTION TO STUDYING ENGLISH LITERATURE
    This is a new edition of this established guide for students studying literature for the first time. This up-to-the minute foundational guide introduces the full range of literary forms, styles, theories and critical strategies which new students need to cover. By careful use of examples it demonstrates exactly how strategies for reading texts can be put to work and all texts d...
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  • FATHERHOOD: VINTAGE MINIS
    KNAUSGAARD, KARL OVE
    Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads. How to be a good father? Children's birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes: the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard's compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tendernes...
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    6,00 €

  • J.M. COETZEE AND THE LIFE OF WRITING
    ATWELL, DAVID
    A moving, insightful biography of the Nobel Laureate and a study of J. M. Coetzee s work, illuminating the creation of his exceptional novelsJ. M. Coetzee is one of the world s most intriguing authors. Compelling, razor-sharp, erudite: the adjectives pile up but the heart of the fiction remains elusive. Now, in "J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing," David Attwell explores the...
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  • LIES: VINTAGE MINIS
    WILDE, OSCAR
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  • RELIGION: VINTAGE MINIS
    ARMSTRONG, KAREN
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  • HOME: VINTAGE MINI
    RUSHDIE, SALMAN
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  • MOTHERHOOD: VINTAGE MINIS
    SIMPSON, HELEN
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  • BROWSE: LOVE LETTERS TO BOOKSHOPS AROUND THE WORLD
    ALI SMITH , YIYUN LI , PANKAJ MISHRA , ALAA AL ASWANY , MICHAEL DIRDA , IAIN SINCLAIR , IAN SANSOM , DANIEL KEHLMANN , ANDREY KURKOV , DORTHE NORS
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  • SHAPE OF A POCKET
    BERGER, JOHN
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  • MORE ALIVE AND LESS LONELY: ON BOOKS AND WRITERS
    LETHEM, JONATHAN
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  • ENF OF THE END OF THE EARTH
    FRANZEN, JONATHAN
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  • WOMEN WHO DARED: TO BREAK ALL THE RULES
    SCOTT, JEREMY
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  • THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD
    MORRISON,TONI
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  • ART : VINTAGE MINIS
    SCHAMA, SIMON
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