Invitation to the Dance (Storpocket)
avHilary Spurling, Hilary Spurling
ISBN: 9780099484363 - UTGIVEN: 200505A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting and Place indices, creating a magn[...]
The Jewel in the Crown/The Day of the Scorpion (Inbunden)
avPaul Scott, Hilary Spurling
ISBN: 9780307263964 - UTGIVEN: 200707"The Raj Quartet," Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Sec[...]
The Unknown Matisse: The Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908 (Häftad)
avHilary Spurling
ISBN: 9780375711336 - UTGIVEN: 2005-10
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth (Häftad)
avHilary Spurling
ISBN: 9781416540434 - UTGIVEN: 2011-06One of the twentieth century's most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West.
She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in "The Good Earth," an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to be[...]
