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Sunday best : 80 great books from a lifetime of reviews
Yale University Press [2023]

A collection of John Carey's greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews - amassed over a lifetime of writing

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Título:
Sunday best : 80 great books from a lifetime of reviews / John Carey
Editorial:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]
Descripción física:
1 online resource (309 pages)
Mención de serie:
Yale scholarship online
Nota general:
Previously issued in print: 2022
Bibliografía:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contenido:
Frontmatter -- ; Contents -- ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ; INTRODUCTION -- ; CULTURAL HISTORY -- ; The Mediterranean in History edited by David Abulafia, 2003 -- ; The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us -- ; Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity -- ; Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism -- ; Stonehenge -- ; Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind -- ; Vauxhall Gardens: A History -- ; A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton -- ; Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War -- ; Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War -- ; In the Fifties -- ; The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus -- ; A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age -- ; Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain -- ; IQ: The Brilliant Idea that Failed -- ; The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies: Almost Always Do Better -- ; Leadville: A Biography of the A40 -- ; SCIENCE -- ; The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution -- ; Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England -- ; Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins -- ; The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science -- ; You're Looking Very Well: The Surprising Nature of Getting Old -- ; The Science of Love and Betrayal -- ; Laughter: A Scientific Investigation -- ; Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears -- ; Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour that Changed the World -- ; Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood -- ; American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer -- ; Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine, and What Matters in the End -- ; MEMOIRS -- ; The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier -- ; No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper -- ; Gypsies: An English History -- ; Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future that Disappeared -- ; Family Secrets -- ; Swimming with My Father: A Memoir -- ; Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense -- ; Publisher -- ; Untold Stories -- ; Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl -- ; Naked at Lunch: The Adventures of a Reluctant Nudist -- ; Ahead of the Class: How an Inspiring Headmistress Gave Children Back Their Future -- ; Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History -- ; Alamein to Zem Zem -- ; ANTHROPOLOGY -- ; Feast: Why Humans Share Food -- ; The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture -- ; Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle -- ; Letters to Lily on How the World Works -- ; BIOGRAPHY -- ; The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of a Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson's Heir -- ; Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt -- ; Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters -- ; Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett -- ; Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist -- ; The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 -- ; Eric Gill -- ; Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter -- ; Eileen: The Making of George Orwell -- ; The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul -- ; Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin -- ; The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome -- ; Furious Interiors: Wales, R.S. Thomas and God -- ; LITERATURE -- ; The Poet's Tale: Chaucer and the Year that Made the Canterbury Tales -- ; Shakespeare's Language -- ; Shakespeare's Wife -- ; The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Eight: 1856-1858 -- ; The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, 2 vols -- ; The Short Sharp Life of T.E. Hulme -- ; Robert Graves and the White Goddess, 1940-1985 -- ; Robert Graves: Life on the Edge -- ; Robert Graves: Collected Writings on Poetry -- ; The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956-1963 -- ; Faulks on Fiction: The Secret Life of the Novel -- ; The Good Soldier Švejk -- ; BACK TO NATURE -- ; Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature -- ; Orchard: A Year in England's Eden -- ; Owl Sense -- ; The Spade as Mighty as the Sword: The Story of World War Two's Dig for Victory Campaign -- ; Bertie, May and Mrs Fish: Country Memories of Wartime -- ; Running for the Hills: A Family Story -- ; MIND BENDERS -- ; A Short Treatise of the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life -- ; The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe -- ; The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time -- ; Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind -- ; VEGETABLE GARDENING -- ; Vegetable Gardening
ISBN:
9780300268461 ( electronic bk.)
9780300266689
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Print version: Carey, John. Sunday Best, New Haven : Yale University Press,c2022 9780300266689
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Yale scholarship online

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