Ranked among the top artist-reporters of the last one hundred years, Paul Hogarth RA is one of Britain's most distinguished illustrators and graphic artists. Allied to his artistic talent is an adventurous spirit and a passion for travel. From working trips to China and the USSR in the 1950s through time spent in the USA and, more recently, in Croatia, his drawings are a unique record of sixty years of world history. This new edition adds 16 pages of tales and drawings to this enthralling and richly illustrated autobiography.
Paul Hogarth Book order (chronological)
Originally published by Pan, an illustrated autobiographical account of a couple who left the rat race to live in and renovate an old farmhouse in Provence.
Book by Hogarth, Paul
The artist as reporter
- 189 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Great book featuring artists who used their works to report then current events. 120 black and white illustrations of works of art - cartoons, drawings, prints, sketches of politics, social, morality, entertainment, war and battle news and other subjects. Illustrated artists Hogarth, Homer, Kollwitz, Grosz, Toulouse-Lautrec, Munch, Perlin, Chagall, Kirchner, Rowlandson, and other artists. Softcover. 95 pages. Measures 6 1/2 by 7 3/4 inches. Interesting book, nicely illustrated.
This is Doris Lessing's account of a journey back to the land in which she grew up and in which so much of her concern is still invested. Her love of Africa is as strong as her hatred of the white supremacy rule that has haunted its past.
The New Penguin Shakespeare: Coriolanus
- 272 pages
- 10 hours of reading
The New Penguin Shakespeare offers a complete edition of the plays and poems. Each volume hs been newly prepared from the original texts and includes an introduction, a list of further reading, a full and helpful commentary, and a short account of the textual problems of the play.
Jane Eyre
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts.
Humorný román o příhodách pana Pickwicka a jeho přátel. Výbor ze zápisů dochovaných z pozůstalosti Pickwickova klubu, v nichž se ve stručnosti líčí nebezpečenství, dobrodružství, cesty a šprýmovné počínání dopisujících členů tohoto klubu v letech 1827-1828. Pro mládež od 11 letupravili a doslov napsali Emanuela Tilschová a Emanuel Tilsch st.
