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The Flaneur
A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through city streets in search of adventure and fulfillment. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many...
The Brontes Went to Woolworths
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
'How I loathe that kind of novel which is about a lot of sisters'; so proclaims Deirdre at the beginning of The Brontës Went to Woolworths, one of three sisters.
London, 1931. As growing up looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable...
The Secret Sharer
Including screenplay by Peter Fudakowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Atlantic. All its phases were familiar enough to me, every characteristic, all the alternatives which were likely to face me on the high seas-everything! except the novel responsibility of command. But I took heart from the reasonable thought that the ship was like other ships, the men like other...
Rio de Janeiro
A City on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2008
Ruy Castro delves into the past and present of Rio, where even in periods of comparative calm there has always been a palpable excitement in the air - the feeling of a city on fire.
In this spellbinding fifth entry in Bloomsbury's The Writer and the City series, Rio de Janeiro's vibrant history unfolds....
Ghosty Men
The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders, An Urban Historical
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is a classic of hoarder lore.
Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, when the fire department had to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't left...
Understanding Music
Philosophy and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997)Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the...
Countess Dracula
The Life and Times of Elisabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This is the story of Elisabeth Bathory, a 17th-century Transylvanian countess. She was tried as a vampire and became an inspiration for depraved murderers up to the present day.;Based on research conducted at archives in Eastern Europe, this account includes both the recorded truth and the legend...
Rough Amusements
The True Story of A'Lelia Walker, Patroness of the Harlem Renaissance's Down-Low Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack of lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of one of the most striking social careers in New York's history. The daughter of rags-to-riches multi-millionaire Madame C.J. Walker (the washerwoman who marketed the...
Sackcloth and Ashes
The Bloomsbury Lent Book 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
What is our modern concept of penance? Is it giving up chocolates for Lent or is it a lasting state of the awareness of sin? Is it public or private? Is it punishment or greater closeness to God? Is it always a response to personal sin or can an individual do penance for others' sins, or for the world?...
by Jeremy Potter
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Richard III, the so-called 'last English King of England' and the wicked uncle of tradition, is the most controversial and enigmatic of monarchs. Could he really have been as sinister as he was painted by Tudor chroniclers and, if he wasn't, why do some historians go on saying that he was? Why is...
OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Components 21 and 22
Greek Theatre and Imperial Image
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 21 and 22 from the 'Culture and the Arts' Component Group:
Greek Theatre by James Renshaw and Laura Swift
Imperial Image by Robert...
by Henry Cullen, Dr John Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
A companion to Bloomsbury's popular two-volume Greek to GCSE, this is the first course for Latin students that directly reflects the curriculum in a clear, concise and accessible way. Enhanced by colour artwork and text features, the books support the new OCR specification for Latin (first teaching...
by Ms. Alison MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories blending fiction, biography, and memoir--from a Booker-longlisted author.
Evocative, sensual, and tender, these stories confront our reality culture and interrogate our relationship with iconic figures, coming to life at the boundary...
The Modes of Modern Writing
Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these...