|
|
|
Item Details
Title:
|
1913
THE YEAR BEFORE THE STORM |
By: |
Florian Illies, Shaun Whiteside (Trans), Jamie Searle (Trans) |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
|
£10.99 |
Our price: |
£8.02 |
Discount: |
|
You save:
|
£2.97 |
|
|
|
|
ISBN 10: |
1846689619 |
ISBN 13: |
9781846689611 |
Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-2 days.
Delivery
rates
|
Stock: |
Currently 20 available |
Publisher: |
PROFILE BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
12 June, 2014 |
Edition: |
Main |
Pages: |
288 |
Synopsis: |
A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever.The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract; and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence.Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris and Vienna, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. In a Munich hotel lobby, Rilke and Freud discuss beauty and transience; Proust sets out in search of lost time; and while Stravinsky celebrates the Rite of Spring with industrial cacophony, an Austrian postcard painter by the name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
The Clerkenwell Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
|
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|