Ancient Light (Häftad)
avJohn Banville
ISBN: 9780670920624 - UTGIVEN: 201207The Man Booker Prize-winning author of "The Sea" gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.
Is there any difference between memory a[...]
Doctor Copernicus (Häftad)
avJohn Banville
ISBN: 9780679737995 - UTGIVEN: 1993-10When Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) proved that the earth was not the center of the universe, man's conception of his cosmos and his God broke down. That shattering situation, with the great astronomer at its hub, and the toll it took on him, his church, and his world, is what John Banville skillful[...]
Kepler (Häftad)
avJohn Banville
ISBN: 9780679743705 - UTGIVEN: 199310Johannes Kepler, master mathematician and astronomer, developed his theories in 16th century pre-Renaissance Germany. His work laid the foundation on which his successors, notably Isaac Newton, built the modern picture of the universe that held until Einstein. The author shows us a Rabelaisian world[...]
The Untouchable (Häftad)
avJohn Banville
ISBN: 9780679767473 - UTGIVEN: 199806One of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of exquisite menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. The narrator is the elderly Victor Maskell, formerly of British intelligence, for many years art [...]
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (Second Edition) (Häftad)
avIsaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, John Banville
ISBN: 9780691155937 - UTGIVEN: 2013-06"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty[...]
The Sea (Häftad)
avJohn Banville
ISBN: 9781400097029 - UTGIVEN: 2006-08Struggling to cope with grief, anger, and loss following the death of his wife, Max, a middle-aged man, returns to his childhood seaside home, where he deals with his memories of his first encounter with the Graces, a wealthy vacationing family, his recollections of his wife, and the emotional uphea[...]
Anatomy Of A Short Story (Pocket)
avJohn Banville, Yuri Leving
ISBN: 9781441142634 - UTGIVEN: 2012-08-09A unique anthology devoted to a single story-"Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov-which exposes the way we read and interpret short stories.[...]
The Sea (Picador 40th Anniversary Edition) (Storpocket)
avJohn Banville
ISBN: 9781447202844 - UTGIVEN: 201202First published in 2005, The Sea was critically acclaimed as an extraordinary achievement. It went on to win that year's Man Booker Prize, one of the most hotly contested in the history of the award. When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both e[...]
Troubles: Winner of the 2010 "Lost Man Booker Prize" for Fiction (Häftad)
avJ. G. Farrell, John Banville
ISBN: 9781590170182 - UTGIVEN: 200210In a heart-rending story set in 1919 Ireland, the Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough marks its decline through its dwindling guest list and the World War I veteran who returns to his homeland to claim a family legacy. Reprint.[...]
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography (Häftad)
avGregor Von Rezzori, John Banville
ISBN: 9781590172810 - UTGIVEN: 200812
The Old Devils (Häftad)
avKingsley Amis, John Banville
ISBN: 9781590175767 - UTGIVEN: 2012-10Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis's "The Old Devils," which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years--when "all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast"--nattering, complaining, [...]
The Book of Evidence & the Sea (Inbunden)
avJohn Banville
ISBN: 9781841593678 - UTGIVEN: 2015-05The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1989 and The Sea, which won the Booker prize in 2005, take us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists - washed-up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate to explain why he is being held in an Irish prison for murde[...]
Imagined Lives (Häftad)
avJohn Banville, Tracy Chevalier, Julian Fellowes
ISBN: 9781855144552 - UTGIVEN: 201111In 'Rosy', Tracy Chevalier writes of a handsome young man with a flushed complexion as the object of homosexual desire. Minette Walters writes a poignant letter from a despairing wife. Alexander McCall Smith tells of merchant's daughter engaged as a body double for Mary, Queen of Scots. Julian Fello[...]
John Banville (häftad)
ISBN: 9783034308526 - UTGIVEN: 2013-12This study explores the fiction of John Banville within a variety of cultural, political, ethical and philosophical contexts. Through 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[...]
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Om Motivet av John Banville
ISBN: 9789177810773 - UTGIVEN: 2017-06Nyskrivet efterord av litteraturvetaren och John Banville-forskaren Joakim Wrethed till John Banvilles Motivet. Om Motivet: Freddie Montgomery är en före detta universitetslärare i statistik. Nu sitter han häktad i ett smutsigt fängelse i Dublin, misstänkt för mord. Fängelset har han börj[...]
Doctor Copernicus (Pocket)
avBanville, John
ISBN: 9780330372343 - UTGIVEN: 1999-06-11Volume One of the Revolutions Trilogy
Laughter in the Dark (Pocket)
avVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, John (INT) Banville, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
ISBN: 9780811216746 - UTGIVEN: 2006-09
