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Wordy
(9781471180125) - Height: 198 mm - Spine width: 26 mm - Width: 130 mm - Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. - Simon & Schuster UK - ISBN: 9781471180125 - Number of pages: 416 - Languages: English - Publication date: 20 Feb 2020 | World's foremost
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Sir Simon Schama has been at the forefront of the arts, political commentary, social analysis and historical study for over forty years. As a teacher of Art History and an awardwinning television presenter of iconic historybased programming, Simon is equally a prolific bestselling writer and awardwinning columnist for many of the world’s foremost publishers, broadsheet newspapers, periodicals and magazines. His commissioned subjects over the years have been numerous and wide ranging – from the music of Tom Waits, to the works of Sir Quentin Blake; the history of the colour blue, to discussing what skills an actor needs to create a unique performance of Falstaff.
Schama’s tastes are wideranging as they are eloquent, incisive, witty and thought provoking and have entertained and educated the readers of some of the world’s most respected publications – the Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, Harper’s BazaarandRolling Stone magazine. Wordy is a celebration of one of the world’s foremost writers. This collection of fifty essays chosen by the man himself stretches across four decades and is a treasure trove for all those who have a passion for the arts, politics, food and life.
And informing everything a rich sense of the human comedy and the ways it plays through historical time.
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Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. |
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9781471180125 |
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English |
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416 |
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20 Feb 2020 |
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Simon & Schuster UK |
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26 mm |
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130 mm |
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