Martin Seymour-Smith Libri

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An illustrated dictionary of novels and novelists that covers the novel's origin and development, how novelists' work, how to read novels, and a history of publication

This biography was first published in 1982. Martin Seymour-Smith had known Robert Graves since early boyhood, and had lived in his house for more than three years. He wrote it with Grave's help, at his home in Deya, while Graves' (sometime) mistress and muse, the notorious Laura Riding, was still alive. Since then, some of the material Seymour-Smith deliberately suppressed has been aired, and is no longer as sensitive as it was. In this revised, expanded and largely rewritten edition, he sets the record straight.

Includes Romance, Germanic, and Slavic works and also one Scandinavian author (Knut Hamsun)...the critical commentary is very good and emphasizes thematic and stylistic elements along with the significance of the work in the development of the European novel.

Clinker boats have a long history and were notably used by the Vikings. They are a romantic and traditional sight on the water. Their popularity has endured because of the elegance and strength of their construction. This book gives practical instruction on how to build clinker boats and celebrates their proud history.

S provokativním Angličanem Seymourem-Smithem nemusíme vždy souhlasit, ale nikdy se s ním nebudeme nudit. Když se zamýšlí nad stovkou nejvýznamnějších knih v lidské historii, rozhoduje u něho vliv, který měly knihy na naše myšlení v oblasti filozofie, morálky, politiky, ekonomie i beletrie. Několik tisíc let vývoje západní kultury od starověku až po dnešek sleduje autor s jedovatou ironií nešetřící nikoho. Neunikne mu fanaticky praktikované náboženství, ani snaha jednoho myslitele vykrádat druhé, ani Voltairova obstarožní milenka či Hegelova ješitnost. Odmítá pokrytectví, byrokracii, manipulaci a staví proti nim fakta, obyčejnou slušnost, pochopení lidských slabostí i zdravý rozum. Dohromady se tomu říká kritické myšlení - schopnost, která má dnes hodnotu soli nad zlato. Přidáme-li k ní autorův dar popsat jedinou trefnou poznámkou to, nač komik zpravidla potřebuje celý pořad, je jasné, že jeho sto zastávek na cestě lidského myšlení za pravdou, láskou a tajemstvím vesmíru ocení většina z těch, kdo o takové poznání stojí.

From the seed of an actual attempt, made in 1894, to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, Conrad created one of his most tense and chilling plots. The world of The Secret Agent - the world of law and order, fatuous civil servants and corrupt policemen - is grotesquely mirrored in its underworld, a squalid terrorist landscape inhabited by, among others, the Professor, who always carries a bomb in his pocket, and Verloc the pornographer, deceiver and spy. Repulsive characters and amoral caricatures collaborate to form a black satire on English society, a satire sharpened into focus with a portrait of "family life": Winnie Verloc's story relentlessly told to its anarchic end of utter desolation, madness and despair . The bones of this tale, Conrad agreed, make up a grisly skeleton , yet The Secret Agent is certainly his most humorous and probably his most popular book, and,according to F.R. Leavis, one of the unquestionable classics of the first order that he added to the English novel . The cover shows a details from Hampstead Hill by John Atkinson Grimshaw