Found insideThis book displays and dissects the career and design motives of graphic designer Joost Grootens. In a systematic fashion it charts the first 100 books designed by Grootens over the past ten years. This volume addresses such diverse questions as the creation of hype, the role and the meaning of the author in the presentday media landscape, changes in the book trade, historical perspectives on bestselling literature, and the ... Found insideFrom the author of Drowned, a passionate psychological drama where questions of power and sexuality are brought to a head. Intellectually and emotionally, she was far ahead of her time, and her controversial writings included the novel Crisis, inwhich she depicted the religious turmoil of her adolescence and her discovery of her own bisexuality. Found insideTable of contents This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Found insideThe individual tales of figures like Joyce, Pound, Marinetti and Eliot provide perspectives on the larger story of modernism itself. Aging Swedish immigrant lives out his days in modest Southern California hotel room where he thinks back to his childhood and the tragic fate of his idol, an older brother. Found insideThe volume is divided into two parts, separated by an Intermezzo. As she travels through Bhutan and its neighbots, Crossette introduces readers to a world that has emerged from the middle ages only to find itself peering into the abyss of modernity. This is the first book in Fogelstrom's five-volume Stockholm Series, which broke the record for bestsellers in his native Sweden. Found insideThe Swedish novelist's profound concern about social problems is demonstrated in the actions of a dwarf whose devotion to the Prince brings inevitable disaster Found inside – Page 55Sammanfattning pÃ¥ engelska med titeln : Some notes on the reception of W. Reymont in Sweden . ... [ Om hur kulturradikalismen och psykoanalysen kom att pÃ¥verka KB som litteraturkritiker och författare , speciellt i romanen » Kallocain » ] . Found insideDo their political critiques represent conservative or radical ideologies? And finally, are these novels high-minded attempts to educate the young or simply bids to cash in on a formula for commercial success? Found insideThis book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. A detailed discussion of literary dystopias as social criticism in Zamyatin's We, Huxley's Brave New World, Orwell's 1984 , and in contemporary works. Alexis Coe combines rigorous research and unsentimental storytelling, finally separating the man from the legend."-- Found insideFrom award-winning author Naomi Alderman, The Power is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways. Found insideAn international sensation with rights sold in 26 countries, The Circle is razor-sharp and remarkable from start to finish. For more information visit: http://www.worldofengelsfors.com This book spans seventy years of theory from Max Weber's seminal writings on bureaucratic organization to the latest management thinking represented by Handy, Peters and Waterman. Found inside – Page 205Av HELENA FORSÅS-SCOTT «En egendomlig uppfinning», säger Edo Rissen till Leo Kall efter att för första gÃ¥ngen ha bevittnat ett experiment med kallocain; «Hur kom ni pÃ¥ den?» (68). Leo Kall levererar prompt en sammanfattning av ... By undertaking the critical interrogation of the given, utopia is a figure not only of inversion, but of transcendence and fulfilment. The present volume takes into account the international development of Utopian Studies in recent decades. Found insideNineteen minutes later you die. A masked stranger stands in the shadows. He watches his victim through the window. He will kill him slowly—make him pay. Soon the Rabbit Hunter has claimed another three victims. Found inside"A parable, rather than a novel in the ordinary sense of the term, The Sibyl is . . . a work of manifold meanings and unmistakable profundity, one that can neither be easily understood nor easily forgotten." —Granville Hicks, The New ... This daring speculative novel tackles terrorism and anti-immigrant hysteria, combining lyric intensity with the tools of science fiction. In this remarkable, poetic, and magical novel, Margaret Atwood proves yet again why she is considered to be one of the most important and accomplished writers of our time. Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: "Kincaid's most poetic and affecting novel to date" (Robert Antoni, The Washington Post Book World) Jamaica Kincaid's first obssession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life ... Found inside – Page 14Elin Wägner , Väckarklocka « En egendomlig uppfinning » , säger Edo Rissen till Leo Kall efter att för första gÃ¥ngen ha bevittnat ett experiment med kallocain ; « Hur kom ni pÃ¥ den ? » ( 68 ) . ' Leo Kall levererar prompt en sammanfattning av ... Found insideFrom the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this ... "The 54 collected works in this volume provide an opportunity for the reader to determine whether Sidney′s work, individually and/or collectively, qualify as a masterpiece. As much a story of resilience as it is suffering, The Love Story of the Century is a bittersweet account of the complexities of addiction, the power of creativity, and the redemption of love. Found inside – Page 437Rec . Bbl . 1965 : 1 . BOYE , K. Kallocain . Originalupplaga 1940 . Aldus . 4 : 50. 40239 . Rec . Bbl . 1941 : 356 . GÖTEBORGS universitet . MedicinaromrÃ¥det . Förslag till utbyggnadsplan . Med engelsk sammanfattning . Kungl . Byggnadsstyr . Found insideABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Found insideNever Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. Fast and intricately paced, and with pitch-perfect dialogue, Easy Money is a raw, dark, and intelligent crime novel that has catapulted Jens Lapidus into the company of Sweden’s most acclaimed crime writers. This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. Found insideSet in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a woman’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today. 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