Results for 'barbara kingsolver'

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  1. How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
    1. Barbara Kingsolver

    How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

    Poetry
    € 16,50
  2. David Copperfield
    1. Charles , Dickens

    David Copperfield

    «David Copperfield» war Charles Dickens der liebste Roman, es ist auch sein persönlichster. Das Buch hat Generationen von Lesenden in seinen Bann geschlagen, vielen war und ist es prägende Jugendlektüre, große Autorinnen und Autoren - Leo Tolstoi, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Elias Canetti - verehrten ihn ein Leben lang. Es ist zunächst eine Leidensgeschichte im viktorianischen England. Nach dem Tod des Vaters geboren und nach einer unseligen Neuvermählung der Mutter muss der junge David eine höllenhafte Schulzeit durchleiden, wird bereits als Zehnjähriger zur Arbeit gezwungen und kann sich den unmenschlichen Bedingungen des frühindustriellen Fabrikwesens nur durch Flucht entziehen. Seine Tante Betsey nimmt ihn herzlich auf. Langsam scheint sich das Blatt zu wenden. Wie Dickens wird David selbst Anwaltsgehilfe, Reporter und schließlich erfolgreicher Schriftsteller. «Geschichte und Erfahrungen David Copperfields des Jüngeren» erschien 1849/50: ein Werk voller Humor und Tragik, einer der großen Kindheits- und Jugendromane der Weltliteratur. Der große englische Bildungsroman ist neben «Oliver Twist» das bekannteste Buch des Autors. Auch wenn diverse Ausgaben des Klassikers existieren, ist die letzte deutsche Fassung inzwischen ein Dreivierteljahrhundert alt. Nun liegt eine würdige und lesbare Übersetzung für das 21. Jahrhundert vor, seit Langem ein Desiderat von Dickens-Fans und Leser:innen großer Klassiker: meisterhaft übersetzt von Melanie Walz, deren «Middlemarch» bereits ganz großes Kritikerlob einheimste.

    € 45,00
  3. Another America/Otra America
    1. Barbara Kingsolver

    Another America/Otra America

    From a bestselling and beloved author, an intensely personal collection of poetry "rich with political and human resonance." (Ursula K. LeGuin)

    € 19,50
  4. Ic3

    Ic3

    The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain

    Courttia Newland is the author of seven books including his much lauded debut, The Scholar. His latest novel, A River Called Time, was published in 2021 and Cosmogramma, a story collection, will be published later in the year. His short stories have featured in various anthologies and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. He was shortlisted for the 2007 CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the 2010 Alfred Fagon Award. In 2016 he was also awarded the Tayner Barbers Award for science fiction writing and the Roland Rees Bursary for playwriting. As a screenwriter, he has written episodes of Steve McQueen's 2020 BBC series Small Axe. Kadija (George) Sesay, Hon. FRSL, FRSA, is a literary activist of Sierra Leonean descent. She is the founder of the magazine SABLE LitMag and creator of AfriPoeTree, a selective interactive video. She is the Publications Manager for Inscribe/Peepal Tree and editor of several anthologies including Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers and Write Black, Write British: From Postcolonial to Black British Literature. She co-edited Dreams, Miracles and Jazz: New Adventures in African Fiction with Helon Habila and Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa with Nii Parkes. She has published her creative writing in several anthologies, and a poetry collection, Irki (Peepal Tree, 2013). She is a co-founder of Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport in The Gambia and has received awards and fellowships for her work in the creative arts and her research, including an AHRC doctoral scholarship to research Black British publishers and Pan-Africanism.

    € 14,95
  5. How to Fly
    1. Barbara Kingsolver

    How to Fly

    (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

    A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.

    € 14,95
  6. How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
    1. Barbara Kingsolver

    How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

    Poetry
    € 27,50
  7. Homeland
    1. Barbara , Kingsolver

    Homeland

    With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels, Barbara Kingsolver gives us a rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories. Spreading her memorable characters over landscapes ranging from Northern California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Kingsolver tells stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance. In every setting, Kingsolver's distinctive voice— at times comic, but often heartrending—rings true as she explores the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make alone. Homeland and Other Stories creates a world of love and possibility that readers will want to take as their own.

    € 17,50
  8. Small Wonder
    1. Barbara , Kingsolver

    Small Wonder

    In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have. Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in both those places. Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.

    € 18,50
  9. How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
    1. Barbara Kingsolver

    How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

    Poetry
    € 32,95
  10. How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
    1. Barbara Kingsolver

    How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

    Poetry
    € 50,50