The pulitzer prize
List the pulitzer prize
-
Annals of the former world is the winner of the pulitzer prize for nonfictionoxfam shop ulverston the pulitzer prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4as clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern non-fictionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelike the terrain it covers, annals of the former world tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through itthe structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title annals of the former world6 billion years twenty years ago, when john mcphee began his journeys back and forth across the united states, he planned to describe a cross section of north america at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with
19 €
-
Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize, the national book critics circle award and the governor-general's award, and short-listed for the booker prizesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough daisy's life, shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich and poignant novelthis is the story of daisy goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in manitoba, canada, to her death in a florida nursing home nearly ninety years later'the stone diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century
2 €
-
Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize for fictionnational book award finalistnew york times bestsellerwinner of the carnegie medal for fictiona beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind french girl and a german boy whose paths collide in occupied france as both try to survive the devastation of world war ii'open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close foreversee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand a future which draws her ever closer to werner, a german orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the hitler youththe microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the museum of natural historythe walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the nazis invade paris'for marie-laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazesin this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories ofmarie-laure and werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one anotherthe miniature of a paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home
2 €
-
His newspaper career was equally glittering - his interview with stalin won him the pulitzer prize and his articles played a prominent role in gaining american recognition for the ussr insally taylor's biography of this flamboyant individual also explores the source and content of the news the west received between the world wars, and raises issues about the role of the press in modern societywithin months of duranty arriving in moscow as a correspondent for the "new york times" the romanovs were deposed, but he soon found himself installed as the reigning social host of the western colonysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music perth journalist walter duranty was a working-class english socialist, who acquired the graces of a socialite while stationed in parishowever, the content of his despatches was becoming increasingly selectivehe hushed up the great famine of the early s and glossed over the infamous show trials, which led to his dismissal from the "times" in the late s
39 €
-
Oxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the stories of john cheever by john cheever when the stories of john cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the pulitzer prizein the years since, it has become a classicsee oxfam website for delivery information read more" from the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "the enormous radio" to the surprising discoveries and common mysteries of suburbia in "the housebreaker of shady hill" and "the swimmer," cheever tells us everything we need to know about "the pain and sweetness of lifehere are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generationpages clean, small crease to the back cover, minor wear to the cover spine" in very good conditionvintage books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection
15 €
-
His collected poems won the pulitzer prize for poetryoxfam shop arnold james wright is one of the most significant, most enduring figures in modern american poetry, the central figure of a greatly talented generationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhether he was writing about his native ohio, the natural world, love lost and found, or the luminous resonant italy of his later work, wrights mastery of language and his powerful, haunting voice marked him out as one of the finest writers of his time, a poet whose work caught the spirit of americas anxious yet hopeful post-war yearsjames wright was born in martins ferry, ohio, in
4 €
-
Winner of the pulitzer prize and the national book awardthe armies of the nightwe specialize in fine books in the categories of art, architecture, photography, cinema, nature, literature, including poetry and many anthologies
150 €
-
Winner of the pulitzer prize for general non-fiction and described by the jury as "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal" eight pages of monochrome photographsoxfam shop barnard castle a lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have feared, lived with, and died from for more than five thousand years by an award-winning cancer physician and researchersee oxfam website for delivery information read more dust jacket has some marks and edge wear; blue board covers, with title etcin gilt on spine, in very good condition text, clean, bright and unmarked throughout
14 €
-
Oxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize for fiction and richard and judy pickin brooks's telling, march emerges as an abolitionist and idealistic chaplain on the front lines of a war that tests his faith in himself and in the union cause when he learns that his side, too, is capable of barbarism and racismfrom the author of the acclaimed 'year of wonders' and 'people of the book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the american civil warsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas he recovers from a near-fatal illness in a washington hospital, he must reassemble the shards of his shattered mind and body, and find a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been throughas alcott drew on her real-life sisters in shaping the characters of her little women, so brooks turned to the journals and letters of bronson alcott, louisa may's father, an idealistic educator, animal rights exponent and abolitionist who was a friend and confidante of ralph waldo emerson and henry david thoreauset during the american civil war, 'march' tells the story of john march, known to us as the father away from his family of girls in 'little women', louisa may alcott's classic american novelthe story spans the vibrant intellectual world of concord and the sensuous antebellum south, through to the first year of the civil war as the north reels under a series of unexpected defeatsit explores the passions between a man and a woman, the tenderness of parent and child, and the life-changing power of an ardently held belieflike her bestselling 'year of wonders', 'march' follows an unconventional love story
2 €
-
His newspaper career was equally glittering - his interview with stalin won him the pulitzer prize and his articles played a prominent role in gaining american recognition for the ussr insally taylor's biography of this flamboyant individual also explores the source and content of the news the west received between the world wars, and raises issues about the role of the press in modern societywithin months of duranty arriving in moscow as a correspondent for the "new york times" the romanovs were deposed, but he soon found himself installed as the reigning social host of the western colonysee oxfam website for delivery information read morehowever, the content of his despatches was becoming increasingly selectiveoxfam bookshop cardiff journalist walter duranty was a working-class english socialist, who acquired the graces of a socialite while stationed in parishe hushed up the great famine of the early s and glossed over the infamous show trials, which led to his dismissal from the "times" in the late s
44 €
-
Oxfam bookshop cheltenham from pulitzer prize nominee and award winning author of homeland, the poisonwood bible and flight behaviour, the lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of mexico and the cold embrace of s america in the shadow of senator mccarthywhen he starts work in the household of mexican artists diego rivera and frida kahlo - where the bolshevik leader, lev trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolutiona compulsive diarist, he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with diego rivera, frida kahlo and trotsky in the midst of the mexican revolutionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreborn in america and raised in mexico, harrison shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, salomea violent upheaval sends him back to america; but political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption
2 €
-
In , it became the first (and is still the only) graphic novel to win a pulitzer prize (the special award in letters)oxfam shop bishop's stortford a graphic novel by american cartoonist art spiegelman, serialized from tothe work employs postmodernist techniques and represents jews as mice, germans as cats, and poles as pigssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis reprint of the complete maus collection is in excellent conditionit depicts spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a polish jew and holocaust survivorit is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of traumamaus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the authors account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragediescritics have classified maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres
6 €
-
He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honor - a pulitzer prizesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreforced to take a buy-out from the la times, he's got 30 days left on the jobjack convinces alonzo's mother to co-operate with his investigation into the possibility of her son's innocencethis time jack is onto a killer who has worked completely below police and fbi radarbut jack's real intention is to use his access to report and write a story that explains how societal dysfunction and neglect created a 16-year-old killerbut jack has other plans for his exithis investigation leads him into the digital world of data collocation services where server farms are watched over by techs who liken themselves to scarecrows - keeping the birds of prey off their clients' datahis last assignment? training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of j-schoolbut as jack delves into the story he soon realises that alonzo's so-called confession is bogus, and jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he's had since the poet crossed his path twelve years beforejack focuses on alonzo winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clientsoxfam shop evesham jack mcevoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporterbut jack inadvertently set off a digital tripwire and the killer - the scarecrow - now knows he's coming
5 €
-
It won the pulitzer prize and the national book award]historically, it can be seen as a precursor to joseph heller's catch-22our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikihe spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on it, and aspired for it to be "the best work of my life and maybe of my time"please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website"a fable" by william faulkner chatto & windus, london - first uk edition first printing - 15cmx13cm - condition: very good, owner;s name to ffep, in original first issue dust jacket with some wear and chipping to edgesa fable is a novel written by the american author william faulkner
42 €
-
Winner of the pulitzer prize for general non-fictionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebook with brown linen boards with aged edges, very clean and bright withinoxfam shop kendal first edition hardback with dust jacketsmall inscription at frontjacket with shelf wear top and bottom and slightly faded spinea metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of lewis carroll, an illustrated examination of the nature of human thought processes
55 €
-
Yin was the winner of the pulitzer prize for poetrysigned and dated below the title: for sandra, all good things, carolyn portlandsigned twice and inscribed by carolyn kizerfond regards, carolyn kizercarolyn kizer ()
30 €
-
The four prize winners received unconditional cash prizes as follows: first prize of ÂŁ svetlana fialova; second prize of ÂŁ marie von heyl; and student awards of ÂŁ each: kristian fletcher and tamsin nagelin the jerwood drawing prize was run in partnership with drawing projects ukthe 20th anniversary of the jerwood drawing prize exhibition was celebrated in , and in jerwood charitable foundation marked 15 years of its support for the prizethe prize is supported by jerwood charitable foundation through its contemporary gallery programme jerwood visual artsthe works were selected from more than submissions by kate brindley, director of middlesbrough institute of modern art; michael craig-martin ra, artist; and charlotte mullins, art critic, writer, broadcaster, and editor of art quarterly selected from original drawings, the jerwood drawing prize has established a reputation for its commitment to championing excellence, and to promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practicespecial commendations were awarded to neville gabie and gary lawrencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop mutley plain " a total of 76 drawings are brought together in this group exhibition as part of the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the uk" book in very good condition with clean pages throughout and securely boundthe exhibition provides a platform to showcase the work of uk-based drawing practitioners, from student to established, and as a project helps to define a wider understanding of the role and value of drawing in creative practice
9 €
-
She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigeroxfam bookshop cheltenham beyond the blue mountains is a collection of short stories by booker prize winning author penelope livelyin any circumstances, from a wedding to a christmas shopping expedition, lively finds an emotional dilemma, engaging the reader as thoroughly as if they were reading a novel and leaving them speechless' daily mailpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children'the fourteen brief stories in beyond the blue mountains reveal penelope lively at her most polished and perceptivesee oxfam website for delivery information read more"the slovenian giantess" is a condensed masterpiece' sunday times'penelope lively is a genius and this collection is a joyshe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all beganpenelope lively lives in londonshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe inthe fourteen warmly humorous stories in beyond the blue mountains range from the fantasy of scheherazade to a dazzling example of chaos theory, depicting in exquisite prose the subtle but significant events that go to create everyday experience
2 €
-
She later won the booker prize for her highly acclaimed novel moon tigeroxfam bookshop cheltenham city of the mind is the second novel by booker prize winning author penelope livelysee oxfam website for delivery information read more'in london's changing heartland, architect matthew halland is aware of how the past and the present blendher other books include going back; judgement day; next to nature, art; perfect happiness; passing on; city of the mind; cleopatra's sister; heat wave; beyond the blue mountains, a collection of short stories; oleander, jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in egypt; spiderweb; her autobiographical work, a house unlocked; the photograph; making it up; consequences; family album, which was shortlisted for the costa novel award, and how it all beganhere too is the london of prehistory, of georgian elegance, of the blitz'a glorious novel' observer'the descriptions of the london blitz are achingly real' sunday telegraphpenelope lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and childrenshe has twice been shortlisted for the booker prize: once in for her first novel, the road to lichfield, and again in for according to markbut matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for london in docklands, and with it he begins to forge new beginnings of his ownit stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind himpenelope lively lives in londonshe is a popular writer for children and has won both the carnegie medal and the whitbread awardthere is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and constructionshe was appointed cbe in the new year's honours list, and dbe in'this is the city in which everything is simultaneous
2 €
-
He won the nobel prize in economics in and was master of trinity college, cambridgeit would be no surprise if it were to become as defining and as influential as work as edward said's orientalism'Â Â soumya bhattacharya, observer 'the winner of the nobel prize in economics is a star in india'profound and stimulatinghis most recent books are the idea of justice, identity and violence and development as freedomthe product of a great mind at the peak of its power'Â Â william dalrymple, sunday times 'one of the most influential public thinkers of our timessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop harrogate from nobel prize-winning economist amartya sen, the argumentative indian: writings on indian culture, history and identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary indiaindia is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpointsthis is a book that needed to have been writtenshows that the argumentative gene is not just a part of india's make-up that can easily be wished away'Â Â the economist amartya sen is lamont university professor at harvardout of these conflicting views spring a rich tradition of skeptical argument and cultural achievement which is critically important, argues amartya sen, for the success of india's democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peacehe deserves the recognitionhis books have been translated into thirty languages
3 €
-
'the eye in the door' was awarded the guardian fiction prize, while the final volume in the 'regeneration' trilogy, 'the ghost road', won the booker prize insee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham set in london in , 'the eye in the door' is an intense and profoundly intelligent examination of the effects of war, continuing the interwoven stories of dr william rivers, billy prior, and siegfried sassoon begun in 'regeneration'a sequel every bit as unwaveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor'writing in the sunday times, peter kemp said, 'in the climate of exhaustion and hysteria amid which the war is wearing to its close, pressures to fall into line become fierce and take ugly formsat the forefront of her story, barker places figures especially menaced by this: pacifists, conscientious objectors and homosexuals
2 €
-
Winner of the royal society of literature ondaatje award and the spirit of scotland award and shortlisted for the guardian first book award, the john llewellyn rhys memorial prize and the scottish book of the year prizesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham the places in between, rory stewart's moving account of his walk across afghanistan in january was immediately hailed as a classiccaught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time afghanistan was in turmoil following the us invasiontravelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible mountainous route once taken by the mogul emperor, babur the great, stewart was nearly defeated by the extreme, hostile conditionsonly with the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way did he survive to report back with unique insight on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war
3 €
-
Oxfam bookshop st albans envelope commemorating the sharing of the peace prize by prime minister menachim begin and president anwar sadat on 10th december ;Â stamp franked jerusalem on same date see oxfam website for delivery information read more
4 €
-
It should be remembered that maurice maeterlinck was the only belgian writer to receive the nobel prize for literature ina very rare 4-page leaflet of a ballet written and directed in the uthis ballet is one of the last works by maurice maeterlinck who died a few years later in nice, france inour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethis leaflet is the staging text for the ballet intended for the american publicare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiit should be pointed out that there is no written record of this balletthis is one of the only known copiesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteby maurice maeterlinck in during his stay in america after the second world war
108 €
-
prize plate dated on first free endpapera lovely s 'wonder book' for children in very good conditionbinding is tight and text is clean and unmarkedwith 9 colour plates plus many sepia and black-and-white illustrations throughout the textsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreunclipped dust jacket in good condition, lightly sunned with wear and chipping at the top and base of the spinelight edge wear plus wear at the top and base of the spineoxfam bookshop lymington red cloth hard covers with black titles on the front and the spine
14 €
-
Oxfam books & music romsey the jewel in the crown is the epic award winning drama based on the booker prize winning classic novelscommentary with geraldine james and charles dance on episodesthe haunting story opens during the turbulent final years of british rule in india as rioting and violence herald the granting of independencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moredirectors commentary on episode 4special featurescommentary with art malik and tim pigott-smith on episode 1a tale of passion ensues as questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intrigue
8 €
-
Henry viii must take his fourth wife and the dangerous prize is won by anne of clevesand jane boleyn, summoned to the inner circle once more by her uncle the duke of norfolk, finds a fractious court haunted by the boleyn legacy of death and deceitsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham from the bestselling author of the other boleyn girl, philippa gregory, comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of henry viii and his final queensthe new queen begins to sense a trap closing around hernothing is certain in a kingdom ruled by an increasingly tyrannical kinga german princess by birth, anne is to be henry's pawn in the protestant alliance against rome, but the marriage falters from the starthenry finds nothing to admire in his new queen, setting himself against his advisors and nobles to pay court to young katherine howardthe king will decide who will live and who will die; he has the power of god now
2 €
-
Oxfam shop evesham twenty-fifth anniversary edition of kate atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the whitbread (now costa) book of the year prizewill dazzle readers for years to come' - hilary mantel, author of the mirror and the lightruby lennox was conceived grudgingly by bunty and born while her father, george, was in the dog and hare in doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a d-cup that he wasn't marriedfizzing with wit and energy, kate atkinson's hilarious novel made me laugh and cry' daily mail'an astounding bookbunty had never wanted to marry george, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath york minster, with sensible and sardonic patrica aged five, greedy cross-patch gillian who refused to be ignored, and rubyruby tells the story of the family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling french photographer catches frail beautiful alice and her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, and memorable events of ruby's own life'little short of a masterpiece'delivers its jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as dickenswithout doubt one of the finest novels i have read for years' the times see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoutrageously funny
3 €
-
Oxfam bookshop hertford *kazuo ishiguro's new novel klara and the sun is now available to preorder*winner of the booker prize by the nobel-prize winning authorone of the bbc's '100 novels that shaped our world'in the summer of , stevens, the ageing butler of darlington hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his pasta contemporary classic, the remains of the day is kazuo ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a great english house, of lost causes and lost lovesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
2 €
-
While flying for the french during the war between the foreign legion and arab tribesman, he learns of the orteig prize, offered to the first man to fly between paris and new yorkbeige paper-covered boards, with brown cloth covered spinesmall creases to front wraparoundtext block is clean and tightsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreglossy pictorial dustjacketa highly decorated american pilot who flew for the french in the first world war, halifax was shot down in , horribly wounded and banished to africa after trying to desertgilt text to spineoxfam bookshop newport in a sleepy outpost in the moroccan desert, charlie halifax is living a quietly desperate lifewoven head and tail bandssuperficial scuffs and marks
4 €