Search results for 'James Baldwin'

A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and a Prayer

Eve Ensler

€9.00

This groundbreaking collection, edited by author and playwright Eve Ensler, features pieces from “Until the Violence Stops,” the international tour that brings the issue of violence against women and girls to the forefront of our consciousness. These diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to break open, expose, and examine the insidiousness of brutality, neglect, a punch, or a put-down. Learn More
The Living Daylights

Ian Fleming

€5.00

In the first of these two thrilling stories, the suave and deadly James Bond is sent to Berlin, where a British agent is going to make a break for freedom beneath the barrel of a KGB assassin's gun. While in the second, a daring execution on motorbike is a riddle only 007 can solve. This book includes "The Living Daylights" and "From a View to Kill". Learn More
Thursday's Child - Walker world fiction

Sonya Hartnett

€8.99

During the long, hungry years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute's family struggles to cope with life on the hot, dusty land. Her younger brother Tin seeks refuge in the contrast of an ancient subterranean world. Learn More
The Turn of the Screw: and The Aspern Papers

Henry James, Anthony Curtis

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Anthony Curtis's wide ranging introduction traces the development of the two stories from initial inspiration to finished work and examines their critical reception. Learn More
Our Man In Havana

Graham Greene

€10.99

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place. Learn More
The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

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Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements. Learn More
Art and Artifact

James Putnam

€22.95

Breaking new ground as the first ever extensive survey of one of the most important and intriguing themes in art today, this book examines the often obsessive relationship between artists and museums. Learn More
A Death in the Family

James Agee

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Agee creates an overwhelming powerful novel of innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read for the sheer music of its prose. Learn More
1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold-War Europe

Mary Elise Sarotte

€25.00

1989 uses previously unavailable sources to explore the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Learn More
The Revenge of Gaia

James Lovelock

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James Lovelock, one of the giants of environmental thinking, argues passionately and poetically that, although global warming is now inevitable, we are not yet too late to save at least part of human civilization. Learn More