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Sixty Stories - David Gates - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sixty Stories - David Gates - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme''s literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme''s titles, 60 Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected.

DKK 152.00
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The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writings - Martin Luther - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writings - Martin Luther - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a new translation of Martin Luther''s most famous works by leading scholar and pastor William Russell This volume contains selections from Martin Luther''s most evocative writings, freshly translated for the 21st century. This book provides entry points for specialists and non-specialists alike into the thought and life of the epoch-defining, fascinating and controversial Martin Luther. With attention to the breadth of his literary output, it draws from his letters, sermons, popular writings and formal theological works. These writings possess a practical, accessible arc, as Luther does not write only for specialists and church officials but he applies his chief insights to the ''real life'' issues that faced his wide variety of audiences.

DKK 139.00
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Part of the Story - Margaret Busby - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Part of the Story - Margaret Busby - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This rare self-portrait from pioneering publisher, writer and cultural activist Margaret Busby underscores her powerful legacy and celebrates some of the people and places that have shaped her exceptional life Margaret Busby has been at the heart of cultural life in the UK for over 50 years. From becoming Britain’s youngest and first Black woman publisher when she founded publishing house Allison & Busby, to editing the ground-breaking international anthologies Daughters of Africa and New Daughters of Africa , her many achievements are testament to her dedication to championing the lives and stories of others, particularly those throughout the world who have been marginalised by the mainstream.With little attention previously given to her own skills as a writer, Part of the Story is a unique opportunity to enjoy her own remarkable literary output. It brings together her writings on people, places, politics and publishing, and provides a rich insight into the many elements that have contributed to shaping her life, from her childhood in Ghana to the Black writers, intellectuals, artists and activists she has worked with, befriended, supported and championed for over half a century.

DKK 209.00
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Scaling Lean - Ash Maurya - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Scaling Lean - Ash Maurya - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A battle-tested approach to building companies that matter'' - Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup Is your ''big idea'' worth pursuing? What if you could test your business model earlier in the process - before you''ve expended valuable time and resources?You''ve talked to customers. You''ve identified problems that need solving, and maybe even built a minimum viable product. But now there''s a second bridge to cross. How do you tell whether your idea represents a viable business? Do you really have to go through the whole cycle of development, failure, iteration, tweak, repeat? Scaling Lean offers an invaluable blueprint for modelling startup success. You''ll learn the essential metrics that measure the output of a working business model, give you the pulse of your company, communicate its health to investors, and enable you to make precise interventions when things go wrong. Ash Maurya , a serial entrepreneur and author of the startup cult classic Running Lean , pairs real-world examples of startups like Airbnb and Hubspot with techniques from the manufacturing world in this tacti­cal handbook for scaling with maximum efficiency and efficacy. This is vital reading for any startup founder graduating from the incubator stage.

DKK 211.00
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A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Room of One''s Own is Virginia Woolf''s most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Carlotte Brontë to the silent fate of Shakespeare''s gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major twentieth-century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of ''The Bloomsbury Group''. Between 1925 and 1931 Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One''s Own (1929).If you enjoyed A Room of One''s Own , you might like Woolf''s Orlando , also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''Probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in this century''Hermione Lee, Financial Times

DKK 141.00
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Company of One - Paul Jarvis - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Company of One - Paul Jarvis - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A refreshing approach to entrepreneurship centered on staying small and avoiding growth - maximizing happiness, sustainability and profitability. Paul Jarvis left the corporate world when he realized that working in a high-pressure, high-profile world was not his idea of success. Instead, he now works for himself out of his home, and lives a much more rewarding and productive life. He no longer has to contend with an environment that constantly demands more productivity, more output and more growth.In Company of One , Jarvis explains how you can do the same, including:· Planning to set up· Determining desired revenues· Keeping clients happy· And, of course, doing all this on your own."Jarvis makes a compelling case for making your business better instead of bigger. A must-read for any entrepreneur who prioritizes a rich life over riches." -CAL NEWPORT, bestselling author of DEEP WORK and DIGITAL MINIMALISM"You''re not a machine, so why would you run your business like one? Company of One shows you another way. If you''ve ever wondered how to have a business that works for you-instead of the other way around-you need this book." -CHRIS GUILLEBEAU, bestselling author of SIDE HUSTLE and THE $100 STARTUP

DKK 127.00
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The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allan Poe''s mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form.Now published in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series, this selection of Poe''s critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues, and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. ''The Fall of the House of Usher'' is a slow-burning Gothic horror, describing the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', a murderer''s insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as ''The Pit and the Pendulum'', ''The Raven'' and ''The Cask of Amontillado'' explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate.As well as his remarkable literary output, Boston-born Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) had a variety of occupations - he served in the US army and was a magazine editor. Towards the end of his life, he was plagued by mental instability.If you enjoyed The Fall of the House of Usher , you might like Horace Walpole''s The Castle of Otranto , also available in Penguin Classics.''The most original genius that America has produced''Alfred, Lord Tennyson''Poe has entered our popular consciousness as no other American writer'' The New York Times Book Review

DKK 182.00
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Slow Productivity - Cal Newport - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Slow Productivity - Cal Newport - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and Best Book of 2024 for the Economist , Independent , and NPR '' Brilliant and timely'' - Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and one of the world''s top productivity experts, a groundbreaking philosophy for creating great work at a sustainable pace. Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we''re either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success or we''re rejecting the idea of ambition entirely. But it doesn''t have to be all or nothing. There is a way to create meaningful work as part of a balanced life, and it''s called ''slow productivity''.Coined by Cal Newport, the bestselling author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism , slow productivity is a revolutionary philosophy based on three simple principles:1. Do fewer things.2. Work at a natural pace.3. Obsess over quality.Examining the stories and habits of ancient and modern scientists, philosophers, artists and scholars who worked in this way, Newport reveals just how transformative the slow productivity approach can be to producing a meaningful body of work.From managing your energy according to the season, to identifying which projects to pursue and which to set aside, to building a schedule that yields maximum output with minimum stress, this timely and essential book will revolutionise how you work, helping you to accomplish great things at a more humane pace. ''Intriguing and intelligent'' - The Times The US Amazon Editors'' #1 pick in Business and Leadership

DKK 168.00
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Across the Land and the Water - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Across the Land and the Water - W. G. Sebald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A stunningly beautiful selection of poetry by W. G. Sebald. ''The greatest writer of our time'' Peter Carey Across the Land and the Water brings together poems from throughout W. G. Sebald''s life as well as additional works found after his death. Arranged chronologically, from his student days in the 1960s to the longer narratives he worked on in the 1980s, these poems are suffused by the themes which dominated Sebald''s books. Here you will find subtle vignettes on nature and history, death and memory, journeys and landscapes, each short piece filled with insight, sensitivity and brilliance.''An important book . . . full of things that are beautiful and fascinating'' Andrew Motion, Guardian ''When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm. Reading him is a truly sublime experience'' Literary Review ''Gracefully unsettling. The poems invest every landscape with an archaeologist''s sense of the pain, toil and loss secreted in each layer of soil'' I ndependent ''One of the most important writers of our time'' A. S. Byatt''Delightful'' Economist ''Show a humane and complex intelligence and deserve a place next to Sebald''s prose output'' New Statesman W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants , The Rings of Saturn , Vertigo , Austerlitz , After Nature , On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted , A Place in the Country .

DKK 161.00
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The Waves - Virginia Woolf - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Waves - Virginia Woolf - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf''s The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics.More than any of Virginia Woolf''s other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of ''The Bloomsbury Group''. This informal collective of artists and writers, which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One''s Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay.If you enjoyed The Waves , you might like Woolf''s Mrs Dalloway , also available in Penguin Classics.''A book of great beauty and a prose poem of genius''Stephen Spender''Full of sensuous touches ... the sounds of her words can be velvet on the page''Maggie Gee, Daily Telegraph

DKK 107.00
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To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A pioneering work of modernist fiction, using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters, Virginia Woolf''s To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the twentieth century. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella McNichol, with an introduction and notes by Hermione Lee. To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. With a psychologically introspective mode, the use of memory, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of ''The Bloomsbury Group'', an informal collective of artists and writers that exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One''s Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay.If you enjoyed To the Lighthouse , you might like James Joyce''s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , also available in Penguin Classics.''Bears endless re-reading ... the sea encircles the story in a brilliant ebb and flow''Rachel Billington

DKK 106.00
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The Queen of Spades and Other Stories - Alexander Pushkin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories - Alexander Pushkin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Queen of Spades and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction showcasing Alexander Pushkin''s application of Romantic sensibilities to uncompromising studies of human frailty. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Rosemary Edwards.''The Queen of Spades'', one of Pushkin''s most popular and chilling short stories, tells of an inveterate card player who develops a dangerous obsession with the secret of an old lady''s luck, which he believes will bring him the wealth he craves. ''The Negro of Peter the Great'', a story based on the life Pushkin''s own great-grandfather, is a vivid depiction - and criticism - of both French and Russian society, while ''Dubrovsky'' is the Byronic tale of a dispossessed young officer. ''The Captain''s Daughter'' tells of a young man sent to military service - based on the actual events of the rebellion against Catherine II, it demonstrates Pushkin''s unparalleled skill at blending fiction and history. Together these four stories display the versatility and innovation that earned Pushkin his reputation as a master of prose and established him as the towering figure in Russian literature.Rosemary Edmonds''s translation is accompanied by an introduction examining Pushkin''s simplicity of style and the powerful influence he exerted on his country''s literature.Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) was born in Moscow in 1799. Leaving school in 1817, he spent three years in St Petersburg working in the Foreign Office and writing erotic verse. His flirtations with pre-Decembrist movements and his revolutionary verses lead to his exile in 1820. After a stay in the Caucasus and Crimea he was sent to Bessarabia, where he began to write more seriously, beginning Eugene Onegin and Tsygany . In 1831 he retired to a family estate, married, and his literary output slackened. He was mortally wounded in a duel and died in January 1837.If you enjoyed The Queen of Spades , you might like Fyodor Dostoyevsky''s The Idiot , also available in Penguin Classics.

DKK 141.00
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The Complete Poems - John Keats - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Complete Poems - John Keats - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Poems of John Keats is edited with an introduction and notes by John Barnard.Keats''s first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his politics, his immediate circle of friends and family immediately recognized his genius. In his short life he proved to be one of the greatest and most original thinkers of the second generation of Romantic poets, with such poems as ''Ode to a Nightingale'', ''Bright Star,'' ''The Eve of St Agnes'' and ''La Belle Dame sans Merci''. While his writing is illuminated by his exaltation of the imagination and abounds with sensuous descriptions of nature''s beauty, it also explores profound philosophical questions.John Barnard''s acclaimed volume contains all the poems known to have been written by Keats, arranged by date of composition. The texts are lightly modernized and are complemented by extensive notes, a comprehensive introduction, an index of classical names, selected extracts from Keats''s letters and a number of pieces not widely available, including his annotations to Milton''s Paradise Lost .John Keats (1795-1821) lost both his parents at an early age. His decision to commit himself to poetry, rather than follow a career in medicine, was a personal challenge, unfounded in any prior success. His first volume of poetry, published in 1817, was a critical and commercial failure. During his short life he received little recognition, and it was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century that his place in English Romanticism began to be understood, and not until this century that it became fully appreciated.If you enjoyed Keats''s Complete Poems you might enjoy John Clare''s Selected Poems , also available in Penguin Classics.

DKK 139.00
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