Brian Boyd

Lenny is dik. Op school lijkt het wel of de kinderen niet kijken naar wie hij zelf is, maar alleen naar zijn formaat. Daarom gaat Lenny, als hij het e

Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more

Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental-centric US national mythologies to advance an alternative image of the United States as an archipelagic nati

A rich, wondrous anthology of the Western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, now in a Penguin Classics bla

Howell's much-celebrated stories interweave elements of the commonplace with darkness, subterfuge and sheer weirdness, all realised with natural narra

This is a short, entertaining and illuminating introduction to the history and culture of coffee, from the humble origins of the bean in northeast Afr

Als je elke ochtend begint met het eten van een levende kikker, zal de rest van de dag 'een makkie' zijn (aldus Mark Twain). 'Eat that frog' laat zien

Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devast

Tori vertelt het bloedstollende avontuur van drie dappere mensenkinderen: Cel, Bones en Zi. Hun vader, de reuzenschildpad Jean-Michel, is een echte 't

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining exclusive access to t

Tells the story of Nabokov's life that continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was no

In Why Lyrics Last, the internationally acclaimed critic Brian Boyd turns an evolutionary lens on the subject of lyric verse. He finds that lyric maki

Leads the reader step-by-step, gradually revealing the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov's ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and metaphysics. This

An intensely private man, Vladimir Nabokov was uprooted first by the Russian Revolution and then by World War II. This work features a biography of Vl

Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer’s Od

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining exclusive access to t

Collected for the first time, these three previously unpublished Dune novellas by bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson shine a ligh

She's nothing but a common thief...and her next target is the Earl of Scarsdale's heart. Orphaned as a child and left in her uncle's care, Maria