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Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The Dawn Watch - Maya Jasanoff - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The Dawn Watch - Maya Jasanoff - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNERSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le CarréA visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today.Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and communications revolution: these forces shaped the life and work of Joseph Conrad at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization as we recognize it today. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaysia to the Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world.Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in London as an author. He saw the surging, competitive ‘new imperialism’ that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places ‘beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,’ and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals.In a compelling blend of history, biography and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works: The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spellbinding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world – and through it to our own.

DKK 139.00
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Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The Foundation - Melinda Salisbury - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Conrad’s Fate - Diana Wynne Jones - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Conrad’s Fate - Diana Wynne Jones - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The Midwife's Secret Fling / Flirting With The Florida Heart Doctor - Jc Harroway - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

You Are Not Alone - Jermaine Jackson - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Genius and Ink - Virginia Woolf - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

European Escapes: Paris - Caitlin Crews - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Did You Really Shoot the Television? - Sir Max Hastings - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Did You Really Shoot the Television? - Sir Max Hastings - Bog - HarperCollins Publishers - Plusbog.dk

The extraordinary story of the eccentric family of Britain''s most outstanding military historian, Max Hastings.The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings and journalist and gardening writer Anne Scott-James. One of his grandfathers was a literary editor while the other wrote plays and essays, and penned an enchanting memoir of his own Victorian childhood. His great-uncle was an African hunter who wrote poetry and became one of Max''s heroes. The author tells a richly picaresque story, featuring guest appearances by a host of celebrities from Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad to John Betjeman and Osbert Lancaster, who became Anne Scott-James''s third husband. ''All families are dysfunctional'', Anne asserted impenitently to Max, but the Hastingses managed to be more dysfunctional than most. His father roamed the world for newspapers and as a presenter for BBC TV''s legendary Tonight programme, while his mother edited ‘Harper''s Bazaar’, became a famous columnist and wrote bestselling gardening books.Here, the author brings together this remarkable cast of forebears, ''a tribe of eccentrics'', as he himself characterises them. By turns moving, dramatic and comic, the book portrays Max''s own childhood fraught with rows and explosions, in which the sudden death of a television set was only one highlight. His story will make a lot of people laugh and perhaps a few cry. It helps to explain why Max Hastings, whose family has produced more than eighty books over three generations, felt bound to follow their path of high adventure and popular journalism.

DKK 126.00
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