Results for: books tagged ‘Revolution’
Death in the Andes: Mario Vargas Llosa
Set in an isolated, run down community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's riveting novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and ... More
William Blake and the Age of Revolution: Jacob Bronowski
Bronowski was fascinated by William Blake for much of his life. His first book about him, A Man Without a Mask, was published in 1944. In 1958 his famous Penguin ... More
Astrology and the Popular Press: Bernard Capp
Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed for of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold ... More
The Fifth Monarchy Men: Bernard Capp
In The Fifth Monarchy Men (Faber, 1972), Professor Capp places the movement in the context of the rise of millenarian thought in Europe from the Reformation and its rapid spread ... More
Leaving: Vaclav Havel
Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his mistress and his extended family have to leave the state villa, which has been their home ... More
Revolt into Style: George Melly
George Melly's first-hand account of the turbulent era when everything changed - be it music, fashion, film, art or literature. Includes more than a cameo from The Beatles. More
Love and Freedom: Rosemary Kavan
This is a brave book that deserves to better known. Rosemary Kavan, an Englishwoman who was married to a Czech, unforgettably portrays life in post-war Prague, from the early optimistic ... More
Secret Kingdom: Francis Bennett
Secret Kingdom is the second novel in Francis Bennett's Cold War Trilogy. The first novel was set in 1947, this one at another pivotal moment in the Cold War, the ... More
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard: Tom Stoppard
Liubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just as she remembers it but hers is a diminishing world. The vast ... More
Death of the Dark Hero: David Selbourne
The title is taken from an extraordinarily prophetic observation made by Heinrich Heine in 1842. 'Communism, though little discussed now and loitering in hidden garrets on miserable straw pallets, is ... More
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