Patrick Mc Guinness is Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford.
22 Ebooks by Patrick McGuinness
Patrick McGuinness: Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siècle
This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870–1914. Part One centres on France, and as …
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€94.99
C.H. Sisson: A C.H. Sisson Reader
C.H. Sisson was born in Bristol in 1914. To celebrate his centenary, this Reader includes a generous selection of his poems, translations and essays. The poems are drawn from all periods of Sisson’s …
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€19.15
Lynette Roberts: Collected Poems
The work of an original haunting poet comes to life again, after fifty years. Lynette Roberts was born in Buenos Aires, a Welsh writer whose best work stands alongisde that of her …
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€12.43
Patrick McGuinness: Jilted City
The poems in Jilted City inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. 'From Stations where the train …
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€9.55
Patrick McGuinness: The Last Hundred Days
Once ‘the Paris of the East’, Bucharest in 1989 is a world of danger, repression and corruption, but also of intensity and ravaged beauty. As Ceausescu’s demolition squads race to destroy the old …
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€10.79
Helene Dorion: Seizing: Places
Patrick Mc Guinness was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for this translation.Together with her fiction, essays and livres d'artistes, Hélène Dorion's poetry constitutes one of modern …
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€9.99
Emile Verhaeren: Poems – Emile Verhaeren
Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916) who, along with his contemporaries Maurice Maeterlinck, Georges Rodenbach, Albert Mockel, Charles van Lerberghe and Max Elskamp, helped to define the Symbolist movement, …
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€10.99
Patrick McGuinness: Die Abschaffung des Zufalls
Ein englischer Student begibt sich wenige Monate vor dem Sturz des Diktators Ceausescu ins kommunistische Rumänien, um an der Universität in Bukarest eine Stelle anzutreten, für die er sich nie …
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€7.99
Patrick McGuinness: Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France
Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The period covers the most important …
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€32.25
Emile Zola: Conquest of Plassans
‘Abbe Faujas has arrived!’The arrival of Abb Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Franois Mouret in particular. Faujas and his …
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€9.38
Emile Zola: Conquest of Plassans
‘Abbe Faujas has arrived!’The arrival of Abb Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Franois Mouret in particular. Faujas and his …
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€9.34
Joris-Karl Huysmans: Against Nature
The hero of this curious novel is des Esseintes, a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only …
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€9.49
Patrick McGuinness: Other People’s Countries
Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper Prize Winner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted …
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€10.99
Patrick McGuinness: Throw Me to the Wolves
**WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD 2020** ‘This is literary fiction as it should be: in stylish, surprising, lyrical sentences we are forced to confront the hidden power structures, public and private, …
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€8.99
Patrick McGuinness: Echadme a los lobos
EL PASADO ES UN LUGAR DONDE SIEMPRE ES AHORA.
Un cáustico y certero noir literario basado en un caso real.
«Un innegable logro literario a la par que una lectura adictiva que recuerda a las mejores …
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€10.99
James Joyce: Ulysses
‘It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not ‘what is a novel?’, but what can a novel be? Ulysses is the …
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€3.99
Patrick McGuinness: Den Wölfen zum Fraß
Die Leiche einer jungen Frau wird am Flussufer gefunden und ein Nachbar, ein pensionierter Lehrer des Chapleton College, verhaftet. Der exzentrische Einzelgänger ist der perfekte Kandidat für eine …
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€24.99
Si n Reynolds: Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1
‘Beautiful and deep … a sumptuous treat for any book lover’ The Independent’Food for short story lovers everywhere’ Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of …
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€8.99
Patrick McGuinness: Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2
‘Beautiful and deep … a sumptuous treat for any book lover’ The Independent’Food for short story lovers everywhere’ Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of …
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€8.99
Patrick McGuinness: Blood Feather
In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, Mc Guinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion – how we are always actor and audience to ourselves’This is Mc Guinness’s best …
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€9.99
James Joyce: Dubliners
‘Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader is left to themselves’ Patrick Mc Guinness, from …
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€3.99
James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature’ Patrick Mc Guinness, from his Preface.A Portrait first appeared in instalments in the …
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