Examines Bukowski’s writings, colourful life and the desperate conditions of his lifestyle. This book explores the effect the writer’s hybrid identity had on the themes and content of his work. It catalogues and dissects the many versions of Bukowski... Zobraziť viac
A fresh perspective on the celebrated Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. Zobraziť viac
A new interpretation of Tycho Brahe’s pivotal role in the emergence of empirical science. Zobraziť viac
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent fourteen years creating A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), his magnum opus. Only four of its seven volumes had been published by the time Proust died; he did not live to see it become one of the most... Zobraziť viac
The Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte redefined the way we think about art... Zobraziť viac
A new account of the late 19th-century crisis in German philosophy. Zobraziť viac
The Idiot traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum and care in today's society. Using evidence from civil and criminal court-rooms, joke books... Zobraziť viac
A lucid account of one of the 20th century’s most provocative intellectuals. Zobraziť viac
A fresh, up-to-date account of the life and work of Charles Darwin. Zobraziť viac
Yukio Mishima was the most internationally acclaimed Japanese author of the twentieth century: prodigiously talented, dazzlingly prolific and a prime candidate for the Nobel Prize. Yet in 1970 Mishima shocked the world with a bizarre attempt at a coup... Zobraziť viac
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) is an iconic figure of the Beat generation. In this revealing study Phil Baker investigates this cult writer's life and work, and his self-portrayal as an explorer of inner space, reporting back from the frontiers of... Zobraziť viac
