Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
$15.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Thirty-six essays by Calvino on his personal classics: the writers, poets and scientists who meant most to him at various stages of his life. His pieces range from antiquity (Homer and Ovid), through early modern and Enlightenment Europe, such as (Defoe), to American mentors (Hemingway).
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine by Will Loxley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young writers and artists faced being sent to the front, trading their paintbrushes and pens for the weapons of wa ...Show more
Young Bloomsbury the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression by Nino Strachey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'Entirely original and thrilling . . . this is Gatsby made real' JULIET NICOLSON'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYESIn the 1920s a new generation stepped forward to invigorate the Bloomsbury Group - creative young people who tantalised the original 'Bloomsberries' with ...Show more