Banville
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Oxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, only slight shelf wear to cover this study explores the fiction of john banville within a variety of cultural, political, ethical and philosophical contextshighlighting the evolving nature of banville's engagement with varieties of authenticity, it explores the art of failure and the failure of art, the power and politics of the contemporary imagination, and the ways in which this important contemporary writer continues to redefine the boundaries of irish fictionthrough thematic readings of the novels, eoghan smith examines the complexity of banville's view of the artwork and explores the novelist's attraction and resistance to forms of authenticity, whether aesthetic, existential or ideologicalemphasizing in particular the influence of banville's major irish modernist precursor, samuel beckett, this book places the local elements of his writing alongside his wide-ranging literary and philosophical interestssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
24 €
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Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablefamous for the odes funambulesques and les exilés, he is nicknamed "the poet of happiness"are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storepublished in paris by poulet-malassis et de broise inplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteoctavo, half percaline binding, 299 pagesjacques eugène feyen, born on 13 november in bey-sur-seille and died on 24 july in the 9th arrondissement of paris, was a french photographer and painterfirst edition, with a lovely illustration on the title page signed by jacques-eugène feyenthéodore de banville, esquisses parisiennesthéodore faullain de banville, born 14 march in moulins and died 13 march in the 6th arrondissement of paris, was a french poet, playwright and drama critic
46 €
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Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablefamous for the odes funambulesques and les exilés, he is nicknamed "the poet of happiness"are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitework published in paris by goctavo, blue half cloth binding, 344 pagesfirst edition with a lovely signed frontispiecethéodore de banville, les belles poupéescharpentier et ciethéodore faullain de banville, born 14 march in moulins and died 13 march in the 6th arrondissement of paris, was a french poet, playwright and drama critic
46 €
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An extraordinary copy of the proofs offered by banville to his wifecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitebound in half leather binding with cornerscharpentier & cie, pages, without the black and white frontispiece engraving by rochegrosseprinter's stamp
27 €
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The reason? cold war ghosts have come back to haunt himsomebody must pay for innocent blood spilt in the name of the greater goodreally, not since the spy who came in from the cold has le carré exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' john banville, guardianpeter guillam, former disciple of george smiley in the british secret service, has long retired to brittany when a letter arrives, summoning him to londoneloquent, subtle, sublimely paced' daily mail'splendid, fast-paced, riveting' andrew marr, sunday times'remarkableoxfam bookshop st albans chosen as a book of the year in the times literary supplement, the evening standard, the daily telegraph, the guardian, the times'a brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon' evening standard'vintage le carréit gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 yearsdon't wait for the paperback' the times'perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in britainhe's in the first rank' ian mcewan'one of those writers who will be read a century from now' robert harris see oxfam website for delivery information read moreintelligence operations that were once the toast of the service are to be dissected by a generation with no memory of the berlin wallimmensely clever, breathtaking'utterly engrossing and perfectly pitchedthere is only one le carrévintage john le carrélike wine, le carré's writing has got richer with age
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