Professor John Carey Forfatter
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The Faber Book of Utopias (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An experienced and imaginative anthologist, editor of The Faber Book of Reportage and The Faber Book of Science, Carey has gathered together a vast range of texts from Ancient... Læs mere
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The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found... Læs mere
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William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was an immediate success, and was followed by a series of remarkable novels, including The Inheritors, Pincher Martin and The Spire.
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The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A funny memoir of John Carey, best known for his provocative stance on the arts and the academic establishment. It shows his journey from an ordinary background to Oxford's oldest literary professorship.
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The Faber Book of Reportage (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events. 'Stunning .
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What Good are the Arts? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value of art.
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The Faber Book of Science (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
So too are today's experts - Steve Jones on the Human Genome Project, Richard Dawkins on DNA and many other representatives of the contemporary genre of popular science-writing which, John Carey argues, challenges modern poetry and fiction in its imaginative power.
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Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Pure Pleasure gives us fifty of the most enjoyable books of the twentieth century, chosen on a single principle - the pleasure they inspire.
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