de waal edmund letters to camondo
de Waal Edmund Letters to Camondo
From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber Eyes As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well. The Camondos lived just a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears. Like de Waal's family, they were part of belle epoque high society. They were also targets of anti-Semitism. Count Moise de Camondo created a spectacular house filled with art for his son to inherit. Over a century later, de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and, in a haunting series of letters addressed to Camondo, he tells us what happened next.
2430 Руб.
de Waal Edmund The Hare With Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal uncovers the history of a family through a turbulent century through 264 objects. 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century.
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de Waal Edmund The White Road. A Journey Into Obsession
"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain. Along the way, he meets the witnesses to its creation; those who were inspired, made rich or heartsick by it, and the many whose livelihoods, minds and bodies were broken by this obsession. It spans a thousand years and reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times. In these intimate and compelling encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain, Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material, the 'white gold' he has worked with for decades.
2865 Руб.
de Waal K. The Trick to Time
Some moments you want to last forever. Some moments shape a life. For Mona, its the joy of playing on a Wexford beach as a young girl, next to her familys cottage overlooking the Irish sea. The thrill of moving to Birmingham with a new job and a room of her own in a busy boarding-house. Meeting the love of her life; a whirlwind marriage; a sudden, tragic loss. But now, decades later, Mona is determined to find happiness before its too late. She knows that every moment is precious. But can we ever let go of the past that shaped us? Devastatingly emotional. De Waals storytelling gives us the poetry and sorrow of life itself Financial Times Weaving tragedy and joy, big themes and the minutiae of life, this is a love story to take on the classics Emerald Street
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de Waal Kit The Trick to Time
'There's a trick to time. You can make it expand or you can make it contract. Make it shorter or make it longer…' Some moments you want to last forever. Some moments shape a life. For Mona, it's the joy of playing on a Wexford beach as a young girl, next to her family's cottage overlooking the Irish sea. The thrill of moving to Birmingham with a new job and a room of her own in a busy boarding-house. Meeting the love of her life; a whirlwind marriage; a sudden, tragic loss. But now, decades later, Mona is determined to find happiness before it's too late. She knows that every moment is precious. But can we ever let go of the past that shaped us?
1489 Руб.
de Waal K. The Trick to Time
Some moments you want to last forever. Some moments shape a life. For Mona, its the joy of playing on a Wexford beach as a young girl, next to her familys cottage overlooking the Irish sea. The thrill of moving to Birmingham with a new job and a room of her own in a busy boarding-house. Meeting the love of her life; a whirlwind marriage; a sudden, tragic loss. But now, decades later, Mona is determined to find happiness before its too late. She knows that every moment is precious. But can we ever let go of the past that shaped us? Devastatingly emotional. De Waals storytelling gives us the poetry and sorrow of life itself Financial Times Weaving tragedy and joy, big themes and the minutiae of life, this is a love story to take on the classics Emerald Street
1424 Руб.
Bell Julia, Magrs Paul The Creative Writing Coursebook. 44 Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
A fully updated comprehensive guide for improving and practicing your creative writing, including contributions from Ali Smith and Kit de Waal The Creative Writing Coursebook, edited by Julia Bell and Paul Magrs, takes aspiring writers through three stages of essential practice: Gathering - getting started, learning how to keep notes, making observations and using memory; Shaping - looking at structure, point of view, character and setting; and Finishing - being your own critic, joining workshops and finding publishers. Fully updated and including a foreword by Marina Warner and contributions from forty-four authors such as Kit de Waal and Amy Liptrot, this is the perfect book for people who are just starting to write as well as for those who want some help honing work already completed. Filled with a wealth of exercises and activities, it will inspire budding writers to develop and hone their skills. Whether writing for publication, in a group or just for pleasure this comprehensive guide is for anyone who is ready to put pen to paper.
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Morris Julia Anthropology
A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Anthropology provides you with all the concepts you need to understand the fundamental issues. Filled with helpful diagrams, explanations of key ideas, easily digestible features on the development of anthropology and suggestions for further reading, this book makes learning the subject as easy as possible. Including theories from Herodotus to Malinowski and Durkheim to de Waal, it covers all the major strands of anthropology that are studied today.
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Rooney Sally, Neville Stuart, McInerney Lisa Being Various. New Irish Short Stories
Following her own brilliant short story collection Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell guest edits the sixth volume of Faber’s long running series of new Irish short stories, continuing the great work started by the late David Marcus and subsequent guest editors Kevin Barry, Deirdre Madden and Joseph O’Connor. Contributors to this richly diverse collection include: Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, Lisa McInerney, Stuart Neville, Sally Rooney, Kit de Waal and Belinda McKeon ‘Being Various has a brilliant array of writers making waves in the twenty-first century, from lauded names to newcomers ranging from their twenties to their sixties; Irish by birth, by parentage, or residence.’ Lucy Caldwell
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de Waal Kit Supporting Cast
As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning. A blind man on his wedding day celebrates the pursuit of love. And a young man leaves prison with only one desire - to see his son again. Kit de Waal's characters light up the page in vivid stories of thwarted desire, love and loss. With power and precision, humanity and insight, Supporting Cast captures the extraordinary moments in our ordinary lives, and the darkness and the joy of the everyday.
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Mazzola Anna The Unseeing
Set in London in 1837, Anna Mazzola's THE UNSEEING is the story of Sarah Gale, a seamstress and mother, sentenced to hang for her role in the murder of Hannah Brown on the eve of her wedding. Perfect for any reader of Sarah Waters or Antonia Hodgson. After Sarah petitions for mercy, Edmund Fleetwood is appointed to investigate and consider whether justice has been done. Idealistic, but struggling with his own demons, Edmund is determined to seek out the truth. Yet Sarah refuses to help him, neither lying nor adding anything to the evidence gathered in court. Edmund knows she's hiding something, but needs to discover just why she's maintaining her silence. For how can it be that someone would willingly go to their own death?
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Get Ready for School. First Letters Sticker Book
Parents can give their children a head-start at school with this easy-to-use sticker book that helps children to read and write their first letters. This book provides plenty of opportunity to practise writing first letters; children can trace over dotted lines, copy letters independently and sticker letters onto the correct word. With over 250 stickers, this is a great way to have fun while learning. With a full alphabet at the back of the book, this book is ideal to help children develop letter recognition skills before even entering the classroom. Friendly animal characters guide children through this brilliant sticker book, introducing them to letters of the alphabet as they prepare to start school.
1027 Руб.
Little Skill Seekers. Alphabet
Make learning the alphabet fun with this colorful workbook! Recognizing letters and letter-sound relationships are important emergent literacy skills-this product helps children improve those skills. Children practice writing letters and begin to associate letters with sounds. As children progress they'll hone their ability to identify letters and their sounds, and begin to develop the ability to identify words. Help little skill seekers begin building a strong foundation for early literacy. For use with Grades PreK-K.
429 Руб.
de Waal Kit Six Foot Six
It's an exciting day for Timothy Flowers. It's the third of November, and it's Friday, and it's his twenty-first birthday. When Timothy walks to his usual street corner to see his favourite special bus, he meets Charlie. Charlie is a builder who is desperate for Timothy's help because Timothy is very tall, six feet six inches. Timothy has never had a job before - or no work that he's kept for more than a day. But when Timothy and Charlie have to collect money from a local thug, things don't exactly go according to plan... Over the course of one day, Timothy's life will change for ever.
319 Руб.
Fox James The World According to Colour. A Cultural History
A beguiling cultural history of colour by the BAFTA nominated broadcaster and art historian James Fox 'This book is a triumph. James Fox's passionate and illuminating exploration of the extraordinary relationship we have with colour is itself extraordinary. It is an intellectual feast as well as a visual one - a true biography of colour which will delight readers.' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The subject of this book is humankind's extraordinary relationship with colour. It is composed of a series of voyages, ranging across the world and throughout history, which reveal the meanings that have been attached to the colours we see around us and the ways these have shaped our culture and imagination. It takes seven primary colours - black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple and green - and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances or properties so rudimentary as to be common to all societies. The book traces these meanings to show how they changed and multiplied, the role that they have played in our culture and history, and how understanding them allows us to see many of the milestones in the history of art - from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein - in a new way. It proceeds by stories, which cumulatively tell another, larger one: a history of the world from the black nothing which preceded existence to the birth of our red-blooded species; the gilded gods who animated the world in antiquity to the blue horizons which framed the Age of Discovery; the pristine aspirations of Enlightenment, the technicolour innovation which fuelled the Industrial Revolution and the colour which most embodies the environmental crisis which now faces us.
9067 Руб.
Robson Kirsteen Hand Lettering
Learn how to decorate 3D letters, slimy letters, swirly letters and lots more in this inspiring little activity book, with space to copy them and create decorative words of your own. Part of a range of pocket-sized paperbacks that are perfect for holidays, journeys and party bags.
790 Руб.