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A collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir selected from three decades of the author's contributions to the London review of books. Subjects include Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia (where she lived for four years in the 1980s), the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, and Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher...

"From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers-from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched...

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In this intimate and riveting memoir, Best American Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson breaks...

"An examination of how the romantic narrative from Pride and Prejudice was born out of Gothic horror, how it influenced pop culture since its publishing, and how it has reinforced harmful cultural concepts of real-life romance"-- Provided by publisher.

Manuel Benítez comparte con nosotros en este magnífico libro, Ascua de luna, sus pulsiones temáticas universales con el colorido visual que le otorga su doble vocación: la del pintor y la del escritor. Su lenguaje -tal como en su prosa y en sus lienzos- es plástico, vitalista y profundamente metafórico. Personificaciones y homofonías tales como: La vida no se apaga si la llama de Dios te llama. Nunca creí que la madera tuviera tanta fuerza/...

Hay en este libro un elogio sigiloso de lo mínimo. Y también de lo nuevo, de la actualidad, de lo reciente. No se trata de una exaltación de las grandes bibliotecas ni de los vates modernos sino de una íntima historia de inclinación por la poesía, por los llamados géneros menores y por los lectores pequeños en edad, como los propios nietos. En este libro que se abre a la historia personal de los afectos y a la vez reflexiona sobre el lenguaje...