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Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.<br/><br/>We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were<br/><br/>In her non-fiction work, Joan Didion not only describes the subject at hand - her younger self loving and leaving New York, the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion - but also offers a broader vision of the world, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.

Includes more than 100 of Yeats' best loved poems.

Balkan är ett gränsland där väst möter öst och den kristna världen möter det muslimska. I århundraden har olika religiösa och språkliga grupper existerat sida vid sida först under 1800-talet började motsättningarna användas för att nå politiska mål, något som är lika aktuellt idag.<br/><br/>Orsakerna till de många konflikterna har ofta sökts i de kulturella och etniska olikheterna inom området. Författarna till The Balkans in Focus är dock eniga om att sådana tolkningar är alldeles för enkla och i många fall resultatet av stereotypa tankemönster.<br/><br/>Antologin är resultatet av ett tvärvetenskapligt projekt där forskare bildat ett nätverk som studerar den kulturella och politiska utvecklingen i före detta Jugoslavien. De medverkande forskarna kommer från Skandinavien, Tyskland och Bosnien-Herzegovina, Kroatien, Serbien och Slovenien.

*A <em>Sunday Times</em>, <em>Irish Times</em>, <em>Financial Times</em>, <em>Independent,</em> <em>Daily Mail</em>, <em>TLS, Economist, Prospect,</em> <em>Evening Standard</em> and <em>New Statesman</em> Book of the Year 2024* <br/><br/><strong>Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book?</strong> <br/><br/>The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reaching far beyond our childhoods, they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past - collective and individual, remembered and imagined - and invite us to dream up different futures. <br/><br/>In a pioneering history of the children's literary canon, <em>The Haunted Wood</em> reveals the magic of childhood reading, from the ancient tales of Aesop, through the Victorian and Edwardian golden age to new classics. Excavating the complex lives of our most beloved writers, Sam Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre and celebrates the power of books to inspire and console entire generations. <br/><br/>*** <br/><br/><strong>'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN</strong> <br/><br/><strong>'A DELIGHT'</strong> <strong>JULIA DONALDSON</strong> <br/><br/><strong>'GLORIOUSLY ENTERTAINING' TOM HOLLAND</strong>

Homer's great epic, <i>The Odyssey,</i> is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca's epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants, sorceresses, sea-monsters and sirens, while his wife Penelope is forced to resist the suitors who besiege her on Ithaca. Both an enchanting fairy tale and a gripping drama, <i>The Odyssey</i> is immensely influential, not least for its rich complexity and the magnetism of its hero.<br/><br/>This Macmillan Collector's Library edition uses a translation by T. E. Lawrence, now remembered as 'Lawrence of Arabia' and the author of <i>Seven Pillars of Wisdom</i>. First published in 1932, his translation took four years to complete and has been continuously in print ever since. It is recognized as the first translation to be both faithful to the original text and written in accessible language. This edition also features an afterword by Ben Shaw.<br/><br/>Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.

Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Mackenzie Bishop's grandfather first brought her here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself. Now her grandfather is dead, and Mac has grown into what he once was: a ruthless Keeper, tasked with stopping often-violent Histories from waking up and getting out. Because of her job, she lies to the people she loves, and she knows fear for what it is: a useful tool for staying alive.

'Indeed, the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature appears to be a series of attempts to interpret an unclear will.'<br/><br/><br/><br/>How does one appraise literary quality and just what did Alfred Nobel have in mind when he wrote in his will that his Literature Prize be awarded to a person who had 'produced the most outstanding work in an ideal direction'? Why was the very first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature Sully Prudhomme, while Lev Tolstoy was overlooked? How have the winners been chosen? In this volume, Kjell Espmark (1930-2022) adeptly surveys the first 120 years of the prize and presents the Nobel Committee's reasoning. His deep knowledge of the Nobel Prize in Literature and personal experience of deciding the winners give unprecedented insight into the workings of the prize. The final chapters focus on the Committee's broadened horizons and revised modus operandi, as well as the most propitious choice of Nobel laureate of all time.<br/><br/><br/><br/>The book consists of translations of Kjell Espmarks two works <em>Litteraturpriset - hundra år med Nobels uppdrag </em>(2001) and <em>Nobelpriset i litteratur - ett nytt sekel </em>(2021).