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  • In Americaby Susan Sontag

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis , Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California;... more...

  • Against Interpretation and Other Essaysby Susan Sontag

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics. Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made... more...

  • Styles of Radical Willby Susan Sontag

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and 'Trip to Hanoi', written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating account of America's identity and future, a robust... more...

  • The Benefactorby Susan Sontag

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from... more...

  • Under the Sign of Saturnby Susan Sontag

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist... more...

  • Where the Stress Fallsby Susan Sontag

    Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not Available

    Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, 'Seeing', she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre. And in the final... more...

  • In Americaby Susan Sontag

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001; US$ 16.99

    A glorious, sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of The Volcano Lover. The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's bestselling 1992 novel, retold the love story of Emma Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In her enthralling new novel--once again based on a real story--Sontag shows us our own country on the cusp of modernity. In... more...

  • On Photographyby Susan Sontag

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 14.99

    Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticis m. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as ?a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.? It begins with the famous ?In Plato?s Cave?essay, then offers five other prose meditations... more...

  • Where the Stress Fallsby Susan Sontag

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002; US$ 18.99

    Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation , our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that illustrate a deeply... more...

  • Rebornby Susan Sontag

    Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not Available

    Reborn is the compelling and frank early diary of Susan Sontag. 'Vivid, exhilarating, often moving . . . charts the development of a good writer and an important critic' Sunday Telegraph 'I intend to do everything . . . I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly . . .everything... more...