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Автор: Spurling, Hilary
Название: Pearl Buck In China
ISBN: 1416540431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781416540434
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: One of the twentieth centurys most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West.



She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long before anyone else, she foresaw Chinas future as a superpower, and she recognized the crucial importance for both countries of Chinas building a relationship with the United States.

As a teenager she had witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution, and as a young woman she narrowly escaped being killed in the deadly struggle between Chinese Nationalists and the newly formed Communist Party.

Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers.

She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the terrorist uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion forced her family to flee for their lives. It was the first of many desperate flights. Flood, famine, drought, bandits, and war formed the background of Pearls life in China.

"Asia was the real, the actual world," she said, "and my own country became the dreamworld."

Pearl wrote about the realities of the only world she knew in The Good Earth. It was one of the last things she did before being finally forced out of China to settle for the first time in the United States. She was unknown and penniless with a failed marriage behind her, a disabled child to support, no prospects, and no way of telling that The Good Earth would sell tens of millions of copies.

It transfixed a whole generation of readers just as Jung Changs Wild Swans would do more than half a century later. No Westerner had ever written anything like this before, and no Chinese had either.

Buck was the forerunner of a wave of Chinese Americans from Maxine Hong Kingston to Amy Tan.

Until their books began coming out in the last few decades, her novels were unique in that they spoke for ordinary Asian people "translating my parents to me," said Hong Kingston, "and giving me our ancestry and our habitation." As a phenomenally successful writer and civil-rights campaigner, Buck did more than anyone else in her lifetime to change Western perceptions of China. In a world with its eyes trained on China today, she has much to tell us about what lies behind its astonishing reawakening.

Автор: Hilary Spurling
Название: Matisse
ISBN: 014103078X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141030784
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and competitor - Pablo Picasso. This title reveals the origins of Matisse`s astonishing talent and provides an insight into his life and work.

Автор: Spurling Norine
Название: Poems
ISBN: 0615931790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615931791
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 17240.00 T
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Описание: Norine Spurling's poems reflect a lifetime of attention to experience, to feeling, to thought, which she shapes into words. Her luscious images are color drenched: "milk stained sky," "carmine wash," "bird calls/ a turquoise song," "fading sunset's garnet cast." She uses myth, travel, people to probe for their meanings. Her poems of loss break the heart, though she is unafraid to collect those who passed in the honest assessment of all they meant to her. She surprises the reader with poems that startle and make new. We can understand the "vinegar bones of yesterday" though no one has quite said it like that before. In these poems she carefully elucidates the stages of a woman's life and carefully reflects on all she has known. This beautiful book will call us again and again to enjoy not only the visual imagery but also the sounds of place, time, and memory.

- Linda Drajem, Professor of English, SUNY College at Buffalo

Автор: Spurlock J. David
Название: Sensuous Frazetta
ISBN: 1934331740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781934331743
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Описание: Vampirella, Weird Science, Dejah Thoris... No one renders exotic women better than Frazetta, the World s greatest Fantasy artist. Until now, only the most ardent collectors possessed the elusive grail items from the short period of Frazetta s early-1960s Men s magazine and risque paperback illustrations.

Often selling for hundreds of dollars each, these rare publications bridged Frazetta s exodus from traditional comics work, to his now-legendary Conan, John Carter of Mars and Death Dealer oil paintings. Now, in an affordable volume, Vanguard expands their authorized line of Frazetta books with this, the most complete collection ever, of rare, vintage, Sensuous Frazetta. This book includes a Foreword by popular Cry For Dawn creator, Joseph Michael Linsner.

Contents: FOREWORD Joseph Michael Linsner; Chapter One Between the Sheets (Paperback Interiors); Chapter Two Romance & Cigarettes (Sequential Art); Chapter Three Pretty Funny Women (Sex in a Humorous Vein); Chapter Four Saucy Stories (Men s Magazine Art); Chapter Five From Casting Couch to... (Hollywood Vignettes); Chapter Six Stars in her Eyes (The Zodiac Calendar).

Автор: Spurling, Hilary
Название: Anthony Powell
ISBN: 0141030798 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141030791
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' ProspectFrom the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of one of 20th century Britain's greatest literary mindsAnthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an epic twelve spectacular volume cyle of novels about twentieth century British society. This comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing Britain through war and peace in all its eccentricity. And it was inspired by the author's own life immersed in rich social intrigue - debutante balls, penniless muses, publisher feuds, summers on the French Riviera, weekend parties at country houses, and friendships with everyone from Evelyn Waugh to Graham Greene to VS Naipaul...

Hilary Spurling brings all this back to vivid life, investigating the friends, relations, lovers and acquaintances, fools and savants who surrounded Anthony Powell, and who he immortalised in his magnificent literary legacy. *Discover Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time series, available in paperback and e-book from Arrow.

Автор: Spurling, ,john
Название: Mirror for monkeys
ISBN: 0715653628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780715653623
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: Through the prisms of memory and art, award-winning author John Spurling reimagines the tumultuous period of the Glorious Revolution and brings to life historical figures Dryden, Vanbrugh, Swift, Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as never before.

Автор: Ewence Hannah, Spurling Helen
Название: Visualizing Jews Through the Ages: Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism
ISBN: 1138795623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138795624
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in Jewish life are part of an on-going strategy of image management - the urge to shape, direct, authorize and contain Jewish literary and material images and encounters with those images - a strategy both consciously and unconsciously undertaken within multifarious arenas of Jewish life from early modern German lands to late twentieth-century North London, late Antique Byzantium to the curation of contemporary Holocaust exhibitions.

Автор: Spurling, Hilary
Название: Invitation to the dance
ISBN: 0099484366 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099484363
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell`s 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing.