Author: James Wood

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Tanja Handels, geboren 1971 in Aachen, lebt und arbeitet in München, übersetzt zeitgenössische britische und amerikanische Literatur, unter anderem von Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo, Anna Quindlen und Charlotte Mc Conaghy, und ist auch als Dozentin für Literarisches Übersetzen tätig.  2019 wurde sie mit dem Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt-Preis ausgezeichnet.




34 Ebooks by James Wood

James Wood: Dictionary of Quotations
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Except in the …
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€15.22
James Wood: Upstate
Alan Querry, ein erfolgreicher Bauentwickler aus Nordengland, hat zwei Töchter: Vanessa ist Philosophin und lehrt in Saratoga Springs, New York; Helen arbeitet für ein internationales Musiklabel mit …
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€9.99
Jensen Morten Hoi Jensen: Difficult Death
Beautifully written and incisive, this is the first English biography of a major Scandinavian author who is ripe for rediscovery While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator …
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€32.10
W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz
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€18.40
James Wood: Broken Estate
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€23.39
James Wood: Stories From Greek Mythology
This vintage book contains a fantastic collection of stories taken from Greek mythology. Derived partly from the classical originals and partly from excellent versions of them written in German, thes …
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€10.26
James Wood: Upstate
Upstate is a funny, moving family drama from one of the world s most influential literary critics. Thoughtful and though-provoking Financial Times Alan Querry, a successful property developer from th …
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€8.99
James Wood: Computational Methods in Reactor Shielding
Computational Methods in Reactor Shielding deals with the mathematical processes involved in how to effectively control the dangerous effect of nuclear radiation. Reactor shielding is considered an i …
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€56.36
James Wood: How Fiction Works
Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from ‘the strongest … literary critic we have’ (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition.What do we mean when we s …
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€9.49
James Wood: Book Against God
Thomas Bunting, charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful, is in despair. His marriage is disintegrating, and his academic career is in ruins: instead of completing his philosophy Ph D, he is secretly …
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James Wood: Broken Estate
In a series of long essays, James Wood examines the connection between literature and religious belief, in a startlingly wide group of writers. Wood re-appraises the writing of such figures as Thomas …
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€14.99
James Wood: Irresponsible Self
When James Wood’s first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, was published in 1999, the reviewers hailed a master critic. The common thread in Wood’s latest collection of essays is what makes us …
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€12.99
James Wood: Fun Stuff and Other Essays
Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation The Fun Stuff confirms Wood s pre-eminence, not on …
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€12.99
James Wood: Nearest Thing To Life
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to d …
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€14.99
James Wood: Nearest Thing to Life
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, the noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that of all th …
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€21.82
Ismail Kadare: Chronicle In Stone
During the Second World War, a young boy witnesses his hometown in Albania fall to a series of invaders: first Italian fascists, then the Greeks, the Italians once again and finally Nazi hordes. Amid …
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€10.30
James Wood: Serious Noticing
The selected essays of James Wood – our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works’James Wood is a close reader of genius… By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disdain …
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€10.99
Stacey Dodge: A Cat Named Spider
Spider was not “just a cat.” To some, he was a buddy. To others, he was a strange intruder. But one thing is for sure, Spider was a special cat. He was always running and talking, and he loved piggyb …
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€3.99
Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea
Sartre’s greatest novel — and existentialism’s key text — now introduced by James Wood. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressioni …
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€14.99
Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre’s first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life …
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Book of Common Prayer
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€20.46
C. K. Ogden & I. A. Richards: The Foundations of Aesthetics (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
In this 1922 scholarly landmark, influential British critic I. A. Richards and his colleagues Charles Ogden and James Wood lay out a new theory of harmony and balance in a work of literature—the two …
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€1.99
James Wood: Die Kunst des Erzählens
«James Woods Ton ist nicht der eines Professors, seine Haltung nicht die der literarischen Autorität. Er spricht als offener, neugieriger und geistesklarer Leser, der die Literatur liebt und versteht …
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€9.99
Albert Camus: Myth of Sisyphus
In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: If human existence has no meaning, is life worth living?’What I touch, what resists me – that is what I unde …
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€8.99
James Wood: Como funciona a ficção
Notabilizado por seus ensaios na revista The New Yorker e professor de crítica literária na Universidade de Harvard, Wood aborda, numa prosa inteligente e aguçada, os mecanismos, procedimentos e efei …
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€4.99
James Wood: A coisa mais próxima da vida
Com título inspirado na citação sobre arte de George Eliot, os ensaios de James Wood neste livro buscam identificar e comentar as relações entre a literatura e a realidade. Diferente de como funciona …
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€3.99
James Wood: A Blessed Life
A tortured young boy navigates his life through emotional and physical turmoil. He leans not into his own understanding of the circumstances. He gains courage to appreciate all the adventures life ha …
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€5.99
James A. Wood: Army of the West
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€28.17
James Wood: THE OLD NICK DEVLIN
 Explore the rich and varied world of LGBT literature, where love, identity, and self-discovery take center stage. These captivating stories navigate the challenges of contemporary life with sin …
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€4.49
Amit Chaudhuri: Afternoon Raag
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€20.55
James Wood: Upstate
New Yorker book critic and award-winning author James Wood delivers a novel of a family struggling to connect with one another and find meaning in their own lives. In the years since his daughter Van …
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€22.86
James Wood: Fun Stuff
Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works-books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation-The Fun Stuff confirms Wood’s preeminence, not onl …
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€23.24
Kory Kogon & Suzette Blakemore: Projektmanagement für inoffizielle Projektleiter
Projektmanagement ohne formelle Ausbildung? Warum das kein Problem ist, zeigen die Franklin Covey-Experten in ihrem praxistauglichen Leitfaden für alle, die Projekte haben. Heute wird von Mitarbeiter …
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€18.99