Vintage Forlag
-
The Closing Of The Western Mind (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today.
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Sketches In Pen And Ink: A Bloomsbury Notebook (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Vanessa Bell, artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of Clive Bell and lover of Duncan Grant, is one of the most fascinating and modern figures of the Bloomsbury set, but unlike most of them she rarely put pen to writing paper.
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist, Artist and Rebel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was the most unconventional and influential leader of the Victorian women's movement.
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
The Auden Generation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day... Læs mere
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Trollope (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that... Læs mere
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden First Earl of Avon, 1897-1977 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Eden was one of the most fascinating and ultimately tragic British politicians of the 20th century. A man of rigid honour, he... Læs mere
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Roger Casement's Diaries: 1910:The Black and the White (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Born in Ireland in 1864 Roger Casement acted as British Consul in various parts of Africa (1895-1904) and Brazil(1906-11) where he denounced atrocities among Congolese and Putumayo rubber workers.
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
London At War: 1939 - 1945 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is the story of London at war - or, perhaps, of Londoners at war, for Philip Ziegler, known best as a biographer, is above all fascinated by the people who found their lives... Læs mere
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
The Life of John Milton (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A. N. Wilson's sympathetic, readable and brilliantly analytical narrative places John Milton, the greatest poet of the seventeenth century, in the context of his political and religious ideas.
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
China: A History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers the cultural history that ranges from prehistoric times to the present - from the disunity of Pre-Imperial China to the renaissance of the Sung and Tang dynasties, from the Mongol conquest to Tiananmen Square and the 1989 student revolt.
Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
The Memory Police (Bog, Paperback, Engelsk)
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. Finalist for the... Læs mere
Levering: 10 - 20 hverdage
