TwentiethCentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 8

Thomas Mann,
The Magic Mountain

One of the greatest works of twentieth-century European literature, in the definitive English translation'Home and a settled life not only lay far behind, but also, and more importantly, they lay fathoms …

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Christopher Aylward
Beothuk

The well-known story of the Beothuk is that they were an isolated people who, through conflict with Newfoundland settlers and Mi'kmaq, were made extinct in 1829. Narratives about the disappearance of the …

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Rebecca S Graff
Disposing of Modernity

Exploring twentieth-century urban America through trash and artifacts from the 1893 Chicago World's FairThrough archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian E…

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Larry Tye
The Jazzmen

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz---Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie---who, born w…

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Guy Stagg
The World Within

'An intriguing exploration of withdrawal and solitude' Daily Telegraph'Stagg writes masterfully' The TimesWhat do we gain and what do we lose when we step back from the world?Guy Stagg follows in the foot…

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Pirkko Saisio,
Lowest Common Denominator

Penguin International Writers, The Helsinki Trilogy - Band 1

'A Finnish masterpiece of autofiction... Saisio's Helsinki trilogy is a dreamy, complex and therefore so very human portrait of the formation of a great artist' Financial Times 'Playful and profound... a …

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Christine Grandy
Race on Screen

What did audiences want when it came to 'race' on screen in twentieth-century Britain? This was the question that drove producers and makers of film and television as they competed for viewers, and organi…

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Nan Z. Da
The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear

A compelling new reading of The Tragedy of King Lear that finds parallels in twentieth-century Chinese historyAt the start of Shakespeare's famous tragedy, King Lear promises to divide his kingdom based o…

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Robert M Pallitto, John A Melendez
Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop traces the remarkable life of trumpeter and composer Kenny Dorham (1924-1972), whose journey from rural Texas to the forefront of modern jazz mirrors the broader story of Black resilience and…

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Bruce Jackson, Diane Christian
Leslie Fiedler

Fascinating conversations with a leading twentieth century literary critic, author, and cultural gadfly.Author and gadfly Leslie Fiedler was one of the best-known names in twentieth-century literary criti…

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Sydney Goodsir Smith
Collected Poems

The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature.The poems included in this volume, mostly …

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Tove Ditlevsen,
There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die

By the acclaimed author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, a startling and darkly funny volume of selected poetry, the first to be translated into English.From one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century w…

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Stephen B. Neufeld
Perilous Beasts

Dialogos Series

A deep dive into the history of bullfighting, hunting, and animal control in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mexico.In Perilous Beasts Stephen B. Neufeld explains how and why Mexicans accepte…

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Joe Dunthorne
Children of Radium

A FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025 'The best book I've read in the past year . . . A masterpiece' Financial Times'A voyage into the heart of twentieth-century darkness […

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Jonathan Kaufman
The Last Kings of Shanghai

"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."---The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past…

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Ali Smith, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Helen Oyeyemi
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his wor…

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Stephen Prothero
God the Bestseller

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed religion scholar, Stephen Prothero, captures the compelling and unique saga of twentieth-century America on an identity quest through the eyes and books of …

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Michael Freed-Thall
The Queen of New York

Set against the pogroms of the Russian Empire and some of the most turbulent decades of twentieth-century American history, The Queen of New York braids the stories of Esther Garry and her great-aunt, que…

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Roger Penrose
Shadows Of The Mind

By the author of The Emperor's New Mind 'One of the most important works of the second half of the twentieth-century' The Times Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to…

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James Bailey
Like a Cat Loves a Bird

"A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer."---Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An AfterlifeA spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great tw…

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