Clive James Bücher

In the last book he completed before he died, Clive James offers a personal guide to the poems he found it impossible to forget.

The fifth volume of Clive James's memoirs - Clive James on TV in book form.

A new collection of deeply moving and life-affirming poems from one of our most cherished, critically acclaimed and bestselling writers.

A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is the book Clive James has always wanted to write. Organized from A through to Z, and containing over one hundred essays, its the ultimate guide to the twentieth century, illuminating the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers. From Louis Armstrong to Ludwig Wittgenstein, via Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, its a book for our timesand, indeed, for all time.

A collection of essays, both illuminating and humourous, by Clive James. He focuses on Australian poetry, television, the rise and fall of various icons, the holocaust, the state of culture in the 1990s, and the death of Diana.

Accompanying Clive James's BBC Television series, this book traces how the invention and development of mass communications - press, radio, film and television - has transformed the nature of fame, and how the famous have dealt with that fame.

A collection of the Australian-born writer's TV criticism published in the London Observer during the period between 1979 and 1982. This is a paperback edition of a volume first published by Jonathan Cape in 1983. Clive James' earlier volumes of TV criticism include Visions Before Midnight (1977 & 1981) and The Crystal Bucket (1983). They have been published in a single volume with a new introduction and index as Clive James on Television (1991).

Introduced by Julian Barnes, Reliable Essays is the definitive choice of Clive James's essays, selected from thirty years of prose. Including classic pieces such as Postcard from Rome, and his observations on Margaret Thatcher, it contains funny examinations of characters like Barry Humphries, while elsewhere showcasing James's more reflective and analytical style.

Corner of cover and spine creased, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

`Unreliable Memoirs' part two: the story continues.

The third instalment of Clive James' autobiography.

The first three volumes of Clive James's brilliantly sharp and outrageously funny autobiography . . . schovat popis

'These literary-critical essays are compact with wit and penetration but also have a kind of freshness about them, as if the author has never got over his first rapture of enjoyment at the sheer thisness of poetry and prose. James is in the tradition of Hazlitt, Bagehot, and Desmond MacCarthy, with a gusto worthy to succeed theirs and a philosophy well set out in his own introduction. "Literature", he writes, "says most things itself, when it is allowed to." Criticism like this expands that allowance and adds to its pleasure' John Bayley, Observer 'His outstanding talent is as a cicerone, guiding the ignorant traveller with patience, knowledge and wit round some favourite literary edifice and communicating his own admiration of it to the goggling and fascinated visitor ...the lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Times Literary Supplement 'Mr James is hungry for and not unworthy of engagement with important issues. A collection of dignity and coherence ...tellingly timely' Sunday Times

The fourth volume of Clive James's bestselling memoirs

Paperback edition of a collection of the Australian-born author and critic's travel writing published in the London 'Observer' during the period 1976 to 1983. Countries and cities which receive the witty and satiric James treatment include Sydney, New York, Rome, Paris, Jerusalem, Russia and Japan. First published by Jonathan Cape in 1984.