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Pessoa - Richard Zenith - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Pessoa - Richard Zenith - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

FINALIST: 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY A NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 ''A revelation. Such a revolutionary literary discovery seems unlikely to be on offer again. It''s that good'' Sunday Times ''A masterpiece of literary biography. Zenith has produced a work in some ways as astonishing as those of Pessoa himself'' John Gray, New Statesman For many thousands of readers Fernando Pessoa''s The Book of Disquiet is almost a way of life. Ironic, haunting and melancholy, this completely unclassifiable work is the masterpiece of one of the twentieth century''s most enigmatic writers. Richard Zenith''s Pessoa at last allows us to understand this extraordinary figure. Some eighty-five years after his premature death in Lisbon, where he left over 25,000 manuscript sheets in a wooden trunk, Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) can now be celebrated as one of the great modern poets. Setting the story of his life against the nationalistic currents of European history, Zenith charts the heights of Pessoa''s explosive imagination and literary genius. Much of Pessoa''s charm and strangeness came from his writing under a variety of names that he used not only to conceal his identity but also to write in wildly varied styles with different imagined personalities. Zenith traces the back stories of virtually all of these invented others, called ''heteronyms'', demonstrating how they were projections, spin-offs or metamorphoses of Pessoa himself. Zenith''s monumental work confirms the power of Pessoa''s words to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of modern life. It is also a wonderful book about Lisbon, the city which Pessoa reinvented and through which his different selves wandered. ''Definitive and sublime'' New York Times ''Completely superb and magisterial. Finally, this extraordinary poet gets the great biography he deserves. Unsurpassable'' William Boyd

DKK 182.00
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The Moon is Down - John Steinbeck - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Moon is Down - John Steinbeck - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany''s power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community. As he delves into the motivations and emotions of the enemy, Steinbeck uncovers profound and often unsettling truths both about war and human nature.

DKK 113.00
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The Moon is Down - John Steinbeck - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Moon is Down - John Steinbeck - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany''s power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community. As he delves into the motivations and emotions of the enemy, Steinbeck uncovers profound and often unsettling truths both about war and human nature.

DKK 119.00
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Gulag - Anne Applebaum - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Gulag - Anne Applebaum - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions.Gulag is the only major history in any language to draw together the mass of memoirs and writings on the Soviet camps that have been published in Russia and the West. Using these, as well as her own original research in NKVD archives and interviews with survivors, Anne Applebaum has written a fully documented history of the camp system: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin''s reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost. It is a gigantic feat of investigation, synthesis and moral reckoning.

DKK 155.00
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Command Authority - Tom Clancy - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Command Authority - Tom Clancy - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN . . . Command Authority sees the return of Tom Clancy''s greatest hero, Jack Ryan. Decades ago, as a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan, Sr. inadvertently uncovered the existence of a KGB assassin, code-named Zenith. He never found the killer.In the present, President Valeri Volodin has risen to power in the Russian republic. But the foundations of his empire are built on a bloody secret from the past, and he''ll eliminate anyone who comes close to that truth.When an old friend of the Ryans is poisoned by a radioactive agent, the trail leads to Russia. And for Jack Ryan, Jr. it''s time to finish what his father started . . . Tom Clancy''s Command Authority is a brand new full-throttle all-action adventure, and follows Threat Vector and Locked On as the newest Jack Ryan novel. Praise for Tom Clancy: ''Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict'' Sunday Times ''The inventor of the techno-thriller'' Daily Telegraph

DKK 141.00
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Margaret Thatcher - Charles Moore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Margaret Thatcher - Charles Moore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore''s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era. Charles Moore''s biography of Margaret Thatcher, published after her death on 8 April 2013, immediately supersedes all earlier books written about her. At the moment when she becomes a historical figure, this book also makes her into a three dimensional one for the first time. It gives unparalleled insight into her early life and formation, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, which Moore is the first author to draw on. It recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British politics as she was making her way, and takes her up to what was arguably the zenith of her power, victory in the Falklands. (This volume ends with the Falklands Dinner in Downing Street in November 1982.) Moore is clearly an admirer of his subject, but he does not shy away from criticising her or identifying weaknesses and mistakes where he feels it is justified. Based on unrestricted access to all Lady Thatcher''s papers, unpublished interviews with her and all her major colleagues, this is the indispensable, fully rounded portrait of a towering figure of our times.

DKK 388.00
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Margaret Thatcher - Charles Moore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Margaret Thatcher - Charles Moore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore''s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era. Charles Moore''s biography of Margaret Thatcher, published after her death on 8 April 2013, immediately supersedes all earlier books written about her. At the moment when she becomes a historical figure, this book also makes her into a three dimensional one for the first time. It gives unparalleled insight into her early life and formation, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, which Moore is the first author to draw on. It recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British politics as she was making her way, and takes her up to what was arguably the zenith of her power, victory in the Falklands. (This volume ends with the Falklands Dinner in Downing Street in November 1982.) Moore is clearly an admirer of his subject, but he does not shy away from criticising her or identifying weaknesses and mistakes where he feels it is justified. Based on unrestricted access to all Lady Thatcher''s papers, unpublished interviews with her and all her major colleagues, this is the indispensable, fully rounded portrait of a towering figure of our times.

DKK 182.00
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When the Clock Broke - John Ganz - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When the Clock Broke - John Ganz - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER PICK A rollicking, revelatory look at the tumult of the early 1990s and the rise of a new, more berserk America that birthed the Donald Trump Era ‘ When the Clock Broke is leagues more insightful on the subject of Trump’s ascent than most writing that purports to address the issue directly’ Washington Post ‘Terrific . . . Vibrant . . . When the Clock Broke is one of those rarest of books: unflaggingly entertaining while never losing sight of its moral core’ New York Times With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated and US power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a ‘kinder, gentler America’. It didn’t work out that way. Instead, it was a period of punishing economic hardship, rising anger and domestic strife, setting the tone for the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today.In this original and often hilarious book, John Ganz narrates the fall of the Reagan order and the rise of a new kind of paranoid politics – how a group of con men, conspiracists and racists declared a culture war on liberal elites, rejected ‘globalism’ and called for a ‘populist-based presidency’ – that birthed Donald Trump’s America.A rollicking exposé of the end of the post–World War II order – this book shows the advent of a new, more berserk America. One of the Washington Post ’s 10 Best Books of 2024 One of the New York Times ’ 100 Notable Books of 2024Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2024

DKK 126.00
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The Long Recessional - David Gilmour - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Long Recessional - David Gilmour - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny'' Andrew Roberts David Gilmour''s superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His famous poem ''Recessional'' celebrated Queen Victoria''s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, but his last poems warned of the dangers of Nazism, and in those intervening years Kipling, himself an icon of the Empire, was transformed from an apostle of success to a prophet of national decline. As Gilmour makes clear, Kipling''s mysterious stories and poetry deeply influenced the way his readers saw both themselves and the British Empire, and they continue to challenge us today.''A fine, fair and generous work ... Gilmour''s celebrated life of Curzon demonstrated his mastery of imperial nuance and esoteric character, and he brings to this book just the right combination of empathy, distaste andfastidious detachment ... there is never a flaccid line, and never a hasty judgement'' Jan Morris, New Statesman ''Every now and again a book comes along that sheds new light on a life we thought we knew. David Gilmour''s beautifully-written biography of Rudyard Kipling is just such a work ... This is literary biography at its very finest'' George Rosie, Sunday Herald ''An enthralling biography of a mind ... essential reading for anyone who cares about how a writer finds, and passionately lives, his subject'' Ruth Padel, Daily Telegraph ''The best Kipling biography yet written ... Gilmour''s account of this driven man shines with intelligence'' J. B. Pick, Scotsman

DKK 152.00
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Margaret Thatcher - Charles Moore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Margaret Thatcher - Charles Moore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The sensational second volume of Charles Moore''s bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government''s Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely authoritative biography, Britain''s first woman prime minister changed the course of her country''s history and that of the world, often by sheer force of will.The book reveals as never before how she faced down the Miners'' Strike, transformed relations with Europe, privatized the commanding heights of British industry and continued the reinvigoration of the British economy. It describes her role on the world stage with dramatic immediacy, identifying Mikhail Gorbachev as ''a man to do business with'' before he became leader of the Soviet Union, and then persistently pushing him and Ronald Reagan, her great ideological soulmate, to order world affairs according to her vision. For the only time since Churchill, she ensured that Britain had a central place in dealings between the superpowers.But even at her zenith she was beset by difficulties. The beloved Reagan two-timed her during the US invasion of Grenada. She lost the minister to whom she was personally closest to scandal and almost had to resign as a result of the Westland affair. She found herself isolated within her own government over Europe. She was at odds with the Queen over the Commonwealth and South Africa. She bullied senior colleagues and she set in motion the poll tax. Both these last would later return to wound her, fatally.In all this, Charles Moore has had unprecedented access to all Mrs Thatcher''s private and government papers. The participants in the events described have been so frank in interview that we feel we are eavesdropping on their conversations as they pass. We look over Mrs Thatcher''s shoulder as she vigorously annotates documents, so seeing her views on many particular issues in detail, and we understand for the first time how closely she relied on a handful of trusted advisors to help shape her views and carry out her will. We see her as a public performer, an often anxious mother, a workaholic and the first woman in western democratic history who truly came to dominate her country in her time.In the early hours of 12 October 1984, during the Conservative party conference in Brighton, the IRA attempted to assassinate her. She carried on within hours to give her leader''s speech at the conference (and later went on to sign the Anglo-Irish agreement). One of her many left-wing critics, watching her that day, said ''I don''t approve of her as Prime Minister, but by God she''s a great tank commander.'' This titanic figure, with all her capacities and all her flaws, storms from these pages as from no other book.

DKK 388.00
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Margaret Thatcher - Charles Moore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Margaret Thatcher - Charles Moore - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The sensational second volume of Charles Moore''s bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government''s Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely authoritative biography, Britain''s first woman prime minister changed the course of her country''s history and that of the world, often by sheer force of will.The book reveals as never before how she faced down the Miners'' Strike, transformed relations with Europe, privatized the commanding heights of British industry and continued the reinvigoration of the British economy. It describes her role on the world stage with dramatic immediacy, identifying Mikhail Gorbachev as ''a man to do business with'' before he became leader of the Soviet Union, and then persistently pushing him and Ronald Reagan, her great ideological soulmate, to order world affairs according to her vision. For the only time since Churchill, she ensured that Britain had a central place in dealings between the superpowers.But even at her zenith she was beset by difficulties. The beloved Reagan two-timed her during the US invasion of Grenada. She lost the minister to whom she was personally closest to scandal and almost had to resign as a result of the Westland affair. She found herself isolated within her own government over Europe. She was at odds with the Queen over the Commonwealth and South Africa. She bullied senior colleagues and she set in motion the poll tax. Both these last would later return to wound her, fatally.In all this, Charles Moore has had unprecedented access to all Mrs Thatcher''s private and government papers. The participants in the events described have been so frank in interview that we feel we are eavesdropping on their conversations as they pass. We look over Mrs Thatcher''s shoulder as she vigorously annotates documents, so seeing her views on many particular issues in detail, and we understand for the first time how closely she relied on a handful of trusted advisors to help shape her views and carry out her will. We see her as a public performer, an often anxious mother, a workaholic and the first woman in western democratic history who truly came to dominate her country in her time.In the early hours of 12 October 1984, during the Conservative party conference in Brighton, the IRA attempted to assassinate her. She carried on within hours to give her leader''s speech at the conference (and later went on to sign the Anglo-Irish agreement). One of her many left-wing critics, watching her that day, said ''I don''t approve of her as Prime Minister, but by God she''s a great tank commander.'' This titanic figure, with all her capacities and all her flaws, storms from these pages as from no other book.

DKK 182.00
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