123 results for 'Penrose, Roland'

The marionette theater in Sicily offers a unique window into the island's folk culture. This study explores the repertoire of the marionette theater, analyzing the genres that underpin its...

Ghost Image is a collection of sixty-three short essays-meditations that explore the intersection of photography and personal experience. Written by Hervé Guibert in response to Roland Barthes's...

The South West Coast Path: Falmouth to Exmouth National Trail Guide by Roland Tarr is your comprehensive guide to walking 172 miles of Britain's stunning coastline. This section of the trail takes...

Kate Briggs's This Little Art is an essay that explores the practice of literary translation with the reach and momentum of a novel. Drawing on her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's...

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments explores the unique language of love, one that is both personal and universal. Roland Barthes examines how we express ourselves in romantic relationships, revealing a...

The Form of the Book Book brings together key essays on the history and future of book design from leading graphic designers and theorists. This collection offers in-depth analyses of significant...

The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole Roland Huntford re-examines the most coveted prize in early 20th-century exploration, the race to the South Pole. Britain's Robert...

George Bataille's Story of the Eye is a transgressive and surrealist erotic novel that explores the boundaries of sex, violence, and death. Translated by Joachim Neugroschal, this Penguin Modern...

Lee Miller: A Life in Focus This book presents a comprehensive portrait of Lee Miller, a multifaceted woman who defied conventions as a model, photographer, war correspondent, and muse to the...

A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais is a gripping crime novel that follows Joe Pike's most perilous case yet. When Joe Pike rescues a young bank teller named Isabel Roland, he thinks the drama has ended...

Roland Barthes's How to Live Together explores solitude and the degree of contact necessary for individuals to exist and create at their own pace. In this work, Barthes focuses on the concept of...

Dreamy tropical estates, carefully curated by renowned interior designers and tastemakers, come alive in this vibrant collection of images. French photographer Roland Beaufre's debut monograph...

This third volume in the TYR series explores various aspects of myth, culture, and tradition from around the world. It features contributions from multiple authors, including Thomas Naylor, Annie Le...

Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was...

The Mirroring of Life before Birth in the Seven-Year Periods of Human Life on Earth by Roland Schrapp. Between death and a new birth on earth, the human being lives through a long cosmic existence in...

Roland Barthes's lectures from 1978-1980 offer a unique insight into the creative process of writing a novel. In this volume, Barthes explores every step of the novel-writing journey, from desire to...

Yiyun Li's Must I Go is a deeply moving and expansive novel that explores lives lived, losses accumulated, and the complexities of perception. Through an unconventional epistolary format, Lilia Liska...

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War, a young boy's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts the attention of his piano...

Arthur Ransome was a renowned author, best known for his children's series Swallows and Amazons. However, his life took a dramatic turn in the 1910s and 1920s, when he worked as a Russian...

The Wood Age: How Wood Shaped the Whole of Human History by Roland Ennos explores the pivotal role wood has played in human history. From our ancestors' arboreal origins to the development of modern...

The Art of Gothic Cathedrals: A Survey of Vision and Religious Knowledge. Developments in medieval science elevated sight above other senses, leading to a Christian emphasis on miracles, relics, and...

Judge Dredd Case Files 32 by John Wagner, John Smith, Arthur Ranson, Roland Grey and Simon Fraser is set in Sector House Mega-City One, a lawless environment along the Eastern Seaboard of North...

The Light Over Lake Como A Novel by Roland Merullo In the aftermath of World War II, Italy is slowly emerging from the shadows of Nazi occupation. For Sarah, a young mother, the prospect of returning...