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Van Ditmar Boeken B.V. (15)
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Why Read the Classics?
2024 || Paperback || Italo Calvino || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's criticism.
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The Waste Land
A Biography of a Poem
2024 || Paperback || Matthew Hollis || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **A riveting account of the making of T.
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Essays
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Features that illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, this essays create a literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move and entertain.
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The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem
From Baudelaire to Anne Carson
2024 || Paperback || Jeremy Noel-Tod || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books
2024 || Paperback || Georges Perec || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A slim volume featuring Georges Perec's writings on the simple task of arranging books and what it can reveal about life
One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these virtuoso writings about books and language, he discusses different ways of reading, a list of the things he really must do be...