Bøker fra Vintage Books
Kun lagervarer
A Haunted House
Acclaimed on its first publication, rich in fictional delights, this complete collection of Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction ranges from 1906 until...
Les mer
Common Reader: Volume 1
Woolf attempts to see literature from the perspective of the "common reader", someone whom she distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She...
Les mer
Salg!
The Other Side Of Silence
95,-
As a small child in wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about escaping from years of abuse in the orphanage and in service. She joins a shipload of young...
Les mer
The Beauty of the Husband
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A...
Les mer
The Emigrants
What initially appears to be a plain account of the lives of Jewish emigrants in Norfolk, Austria, America and Manchester, merges into an evocation...
Les mer
Salg!
The Rights Of Desire
95,-
Ruben Oliver's life is coming adrift from its moorings, he has lost his job, become a widower, and his children have emigrated. When Tessa arrives in...
Les mer
Plainwater: Essays and poetry
A provocative anthology of poetry and prose by the Canadian intellectual includes selections from "Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings," "Short Talks,"...
Les mer
Out Of Place - A Memoir
A profoundly moving and candid memoir about being a Palestinian in exile, from one of the most important writers and thinkers of the twentieth...
Les mer
Light In August
A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed,...
Les mer
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these...
Les mer
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek...
Les mer
Death in Venice
Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at...
Les mer
Invisible Cities
Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited. The conqueror and the explorer...
Les mer
Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly...
Les mer
The Magic Mountain
Hans Castorp is "a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man" when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss...
Les mer
Mario and the Magician & Other Stories
In this extraordinary collection of short stories, Thomas Mann uses settings as diverse as Germany, Italy, the Holy Land and the Far East to explore...
Les mer
Culture and Imperialism
A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the...
Les mer
Playing in the Dark
The Nobel Prize-winning author now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way...
Les mer
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull,...
Les mer
Mother Night
Whilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr sets down his memoirs on an old German typewriter. He has used such...
Les mer