Kirjojen hintavertailu – 12 859 819 kirjaa ja 27 kauppaa
Kirjailija
Mary Lago
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 3 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1994–2013, suosituimpiin kuuluu E. M. Forster. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
Forster's literary career is assessed in relation to works that mark its phases: his suburban novels, the Indian novel, the BBC talks, and first and last, his short fiction. This study traces evidences of his keen awareness of political and social undercurrents as discovered in the works: the importance of personal relations, culture as a precious heritage, and the creative artist as definer of cultural values and encourager of those who should preserve them.
'To know his work without his talk is "not to know him" ...only when they are side by side is the common origin and aim seen and the complete man displayed.' Thus Thomas Rooke, studio assistant to Burne-Jones, who over four years memorised and recorded much of his master's studio and lunch-table talk. The man revealed with startling freshness and immediacy is far from the familiar painter of knightly melancholy and abstract angels. Burne-Jones emerges as a loveable and charming man, far more practical and down-to-earth, far more witty and ironic than might have been expected. He may still regret that he was not born in the Middle Ages and reminisce about the golden years with William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the 1850's and 60's. But he is still hard at work on his last great collaboration with Morris, the Kelmscott Chaucer, while not hesitating to fulminate about Britain's imperial pretensions and the hypocrisy that accompanied them. And he is unfailingly articulate when it comes to discussing the craft of painting in relation to himself, his contemporaries and the giants of the past. The conversations are edited by Mary Lago, Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia, who also wrote extensively on William Rothenstein, Rabindranath Tagore and E. M. Forster.
This biography of Edward Thompson - novelist, journalist, historian of India and friend of Nehru and Gandhi - tells the story of this liberal advocate for Indian culture. His first visits to India as a Methodist missionary are recorded, as are his years spent teaching in Oxford.
