Publicado por Particular Books, Australia, 2010
ISBN 10: 1846143357 ISBN 13: 9781846143359
Librería: Manyhills Books, Traralgon, VIC, Australia
Hardcover. Hardcover. 295 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Particular Books, Australia, 2010. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in condition and comes in dust jacket. Moderately tanned pages. Minor wear and soiling to dust jacket. Minor edgewear to boards. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book brings together 33 writers, past and present, on just what it is about Jane Austen that continues to delight, amuse, console and provoke us. Here Jay McInerny confesses to serial crushes on most of Austen's heroines, and celebrates her belief in true love. Amy Hecherling reveals how she transformed Emma into the hit romantic comedy Clueless, and Martin Amis muses on Pride and Prejudice as a divine comedy of love - and imagines a twenty-page sex scene between Lizzy and Darcy. Susanna Clarke shows how happiness depends on a good marriage in Austen's world, while Fay Weldon wonders whether the 'bad' girls in Mansfield Park have more fun. Whether discussing Austen's gift for comedy, why men and women respond to her differently, or why she would be an ideal dinner guest (although she wouldn't want to come), A Truth Universally Acknowledged shows that there is much more to Jane than ladies in empire-line dresses admiring the roses - and reminds us why we still love the author who wrote about love anyone else in the world. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; ISBN/EAN: 9781846143359. Inventory No: 23060231.
Publicado por Particular Books, Australia, 2013
ISBN 10: 1846147743 ISBN 13: 9781846147746
Librería: Leura Books, Bowral, NSW, Australia
Softcover. Condición: Very Good. My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never again be the same person .' Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no memory of what had happened or how she had got there. Within weeks, she would be transformed into someone unrecognizable, descending into a state of acute psychosis, undergoing rages and convulsions, hallucinating that her father had murdered his wife; that she could control time with her mind. Everything she had taken for granted about her life, and who she was, was wiped out. This is Susannah's story of her terrifying descent into madness and the desperate hunt for a diagnosis, as, after dozens of tests and scans, baffled doctors concluded she should be confined in a psychiatric ward. It is also the story of how one brilliant man, Syria-born Dr Najar, finally proved - using a simple pen and paper - that Susannah's psychotic behaviour was caused by a rare autoimmune disease attacking her brain. His diagnosis of this little-known condition, thought to have been the real cause of devil-possessions through history, saved her life, and possibly the lives of many others. Cahalan takes readers inside this newly-discovered disease through the progress of her own harrowing journey, piecing it together using memories, journals, hospital videos and records. Written with passionate honesty and intelligence, Brain on Fire is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your identity is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back. 264 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781846147746. Inventory No: 267516.
Publicado por Particular Books, Australia, 2010
ISBN 10: 1846143357 ISBN 13: 9781846143359
Librería: Berry Books, Berry, NSW, Australia
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Size: 8"-9" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; ISBN/EAN: 9781846143359. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 17901.