John Banville
Biographic Data
| ID | 1357578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Banville |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Banville |
| SIGNATURE | BANVILLE J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bookshops, by Jorge Carrión
Review Article| January 01 2020 Bookshops, by Jorge Carrión Carrión, Jorge, Bookshops, trans. Bush, Peter (London: MacLehose Press, 2016), 240 pp. John Banville John Banville Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 148. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7899671 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John Banville; Bookshops, by Jorge Carrión. Common Knowledge 1 Ja…
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political…
A Book of Irish Verse
In 1895 the thirty-year-old W.B. Yeats, already established as one of Ireland's leading poets and folklorists, published this outstanding collection of Irish verse as part of his campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history. This Routledge Classics edition, complete with a specially commissioned introduction by acclaimed writer and critic John Banville, is essential reading for all who appre…
The Broken Jug
The Book of Evidence
This novel by the author of The Newton Letter, Mefisto and Kepler is a blend of thriller and black comedy. It is the first-person prison testimony of Freddie Montgomery, a monologue reflecting on forty years of aimless drifting and a crime that has destroyed his life
Kepler
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political…
Kepler
The Book of Evidence
This novel by the author of The Newton Letter, Mefisto and Kepler is a blend of thriller and black comedy. It is the first-person prison testimony of Freddie Montgomery, a monologue reflecting on forty years of aimless drifting and a crime that has destroyed his life
The Broken Jug
A Book of Irish Verse
In 1895 the thirty-year-old W.B. Yeats, already established as one of Ireland's leading poets and folklorists, published this outstanding collection of Irish verse as part of his campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history. This Routledge Classics edition, complete with a specially commissioned introduction by acclaimed writer and critic John Banville, is essential reading for all who appre…
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political…
Bookshops, by Jorge Carrión
Review Article| January 01 2020 Bookshops, by Jorge Carrión Carrión, Jorge, Bookshops, trans. Bush, Peter (London: MacLehose Press, 2016), 240 pp. John Banville John Banville Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 148. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7899671 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John Banville; Bookshops, by Jorge Carrión. Common Knowledge 1 Ja…
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