Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country ...9999903237648Wilde, Oscar
Penguin Classics
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Gabriel Fauré (1845 ??1924) is one of the best French composers of his era. His artistic independence served to inspire many of the next generation of French composers seeking to c...9999903237570Jessica Duchen
Phaidon Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
This colourful biography explores the life and music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), whose varied compositions ranged from operas (written at a very young age) and orchestr...9999903237563Jessica Duchen
Phaidon Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
All That's Left to Know about Hollywood's Golden Age of Dames, Detectives, and Danger(FAQ). Film Noir FAQ celebrates and reappraises some 200 noir thrillers representing 20 years of Hollywood's Golden Age. Noir pulls us close to brutal cops and scheming dames, desp...9999903237389David J. Hogan
Applause Books
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
With landmark films such as Fargo, O Brother Where art Thou?, Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona, the Coen brothers have achieved both critical and commercial success. Proving the e...9999903237372R. Barton Palmer
University of Illinois Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Peter Ackroyd turns his gimlet eye to one of the twentieth century's most revered directors. Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his ...9999903237365Peter Ackroyd
Chatto & Windus
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940 SThis dazzling story of Hollywood during the decade of its greatest success is a social and cultural history of the movie capital's golden age. Its cast includes actors, writers, mu...9999903237358Otto Friedrich
University of California Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in Am...9999903237334Murray Pomerance
Polity
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture ??A roaring getaway car of guilty pleasures ? (The New York Times Book Review), Glen Weldon ??s The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises an...9999903237327Glen Weldon
Charles Scribner's Sons
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brillian...9999903237310Paul M. Sammon
HarperCollins
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
The Arthur Freed UnitM-G-M's Greatest Musicals (originally published as The World of Entertainment! Hollywood's Greatest Musicals) is not a biography of Arthur Freed (1894 ??1973), producer of the most...9999903236511Hugh Fordin
Da Capo Press
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
American HeroThis definitive biography of a Hollywood icon portrays Gary Cooper as a man of complex and sophisticated tastes, as well as large appetites.9999903236474Jeffrey Meyers
Cooper Square Press
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
Chapters in the History of IdeasArgues that the "great goods" of human aspiration - liberty, justice, equality - are not coherent and never can be. Sir Isaiah Berlin is a historian of ideas.9999903235446Isaiah Berlin
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2024
Stefan Zweig at the End of the WorldAn original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, the man who inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the mo...9999903234272George Prochnik
Other Press
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
In Pursuit of Velázquez*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* "The Vanishing Man is a riveting detective story and a brilliant reconstruction of an art controversy, but it is also a homage to the art of Velázqu...9999903234135Cumming, Laura
Chatto and Windus
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
On Self-portraitsFocusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art h...9999903234128Laura Cumming
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
This work pieces together the life history of the myth of Prestor John, the Christian potentate of the East, Emperor of Ethiopia.9999903233220Robert Silverberg
Phoenix Press
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
'Read this book: in the three hours it takes you will get a new, bracing and brilliant understanding of the dangers we in the democratic West now face. Luce is one of the smartest ...9999903232308Edward Luce
Little Brown Hardbacks (a & C)
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of HollywoodThe reviewer of the Boston Globe said point blank: "Over the years, I've read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top." As the elusi...9999903232285Dennis McDougal
Da Capo Press
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
In 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michaeangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He had been advised against doing so. The apinting of the vaults was so difficult and M...9999903232186Ross King
Century
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
The Life of Joseph RothThe mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the 20th-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his age....9999903231998Keiron Pim
Granta
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
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