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Mary Shelley(2022) GORDON, CHARLOTTE (DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT ENDICOTT COLLEGE)Famous for her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley was also infamous in her own time for breaking social and literary conventions, and taking a political and philosophical stance advocating for the rights of women. Charlotte Gordon explores the context and kVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
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Rise(2022) YANG, JEFF,YU, PHIL,WANG, PHILIPINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of Barnes and Noble's Best History Books of 2022 * Finalist for the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award * A Goodreads Readers Choice Nominee"Hip, entertaining...imaginative."—Kirkus, starred review * "Essential."Vezava: Trda44,78 € -
George Foster and the 1977 Reds(2019) SHANNON, MIKEThe Cincinnati Reds are recognized as one of the great teams in baseball history. Left fielder George Foster - an integral part of the Reds' back-to-back World Championships in 1975-1976 - has never received proper credit for his contribution to their legVezava: Mehka40,86 € -
Snow Widows(2022) MACINNES, KATHERINE‘An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry … A welcome contribution to polar studies.’ Sara Wheeler, Spectator ‘[MacInness] handles the whole thing with masterly skill…takes us to the heart of the hope, love, anguish and grief’ The TimesVezava: Trda35,05 € -
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Evelyn Waugh Chronology(1997) PAGE, N.This chronology covers the whole sweep of Evelyn Waugh's varied and eventful life and career, including his numerous friendships, his active social life and his exotic travels. Drawing on Waugh's own letters and diaries as well as other sources, it providVezava: Trda23,51 € -
Surprising Life of Constance Spry(2011) SHEPHARD, SUEA riveting new biography - the first for thirty years - of the influential floral artist and founder of the Cordon Bleu cookery schoolVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
I've Always Kept a Unicorn(2016) HOUGHTON, MICKAfter leaving Fairport she formed Fotheringay, whose influential eponymous album was released in 1970, before collaborating on a historic one-off recording with Led Zeppelin - the only other vocalist to record with Zeppelin in their entire career - and reVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Chaucer(2019) TURNER, MARIONA groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of politicVezava: Trda56,55 € -
Jane Austen(2020) KEYMER, TOM (, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)Jane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian writers to have a large popular following. This book situates Austen in the literary and historical context of her time, and combines criticalVezava: Trda18,91 €
