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Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects(2023) LOCK, FRANLyric essays by Fran Lock on subject of the Feral in context of queer, Irish, Gypsy Romani Traveler, working class people and women.Vezava: Mehka19,62 € -
No Judgement(2024) OYLER, LAURENA brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from the author of the acclaimed novel Fake Accounts and one of America's sharpest and most provocative literary criticsVezava: Trda28,04 € -
Timaeus. Critias. Cleitophon. Menexenus. Epistles(1929) PLATOThe great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BC and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works are the Symposium, which explores love in its many aspects, from physical desire to pursuit of the beautiful and the good, and the ReVezava: Trda44,47 €
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Library of History, Volume XII(1967) DIODORUS SICULUSLibrary of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); history to 54 BC. Books 1–5 and 11–20 survive complete, the rest in fragments.Vezava: Trda44,47 €
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Moralia, IX(1961) PLUTARCHPlutarch (ca. AD 45–120) wrote on many subjects. His extant works other than the Parallel Lives are varied, about sixty in number, and known as the Moralia (Moral Essays). They reflect his philosophy about living a good life, and provide a treasury of infVezava: Trda44,47 €
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My Katherine Mansfield Project(2015) GUNN, KIRSTYIn this lyrical essay, Gunn explores the ideas of home and belonging - and of her own deep connection to a place where every flower and gatepost seems embroidered with the memory of some story or another.Vezava: Trda23,15 €
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On Stilicho’s Consulship 2–3. Panegyric on the Sixth Consulship of Honorius. The Gothic War. Shorter Poems. Rape of Proserpina(1922) CLAUDIANClaudian displays poetic as well as rhetorical skill in his diverse set of works. A panegyric on the brothers Probinus and Olybrius was followed mostly by epics in hexameters, but also by elegiacs, epistles, epigrams, and idylls.Vezava: Trda44,47 €
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Select Papyri, Volume II: Public Documents(1934)Greek papyri relating to private and public business in Egypt from before 300 BC to the eighth century AD inform us about administration; social and economic conditions in Egypt; Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine law. They also offer glimpses of ordinVezava: Trda44,47 €
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Rhetorica ad Herennium(1954) CICEROThe Rhetorica ad Herrenium was traditionally attributed to Cicero (106–43 BC), and reflects, as does Cicero’s De Inventione, Hellenistic rhetorical teaching. But most recent editors attribute it to an unknown author.Vezava: Trda44,47 €
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Vice of Reading(2022) WHARTON, EDITHA great American novelist offers a scathing attack on the worst kinds of reading. In this subtly devastating work of social criticism, Edith Wharton argues that the growing cultural influence of “mechanical” readers is having a disastrous impact on litera11,30 €
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Humour as I See It(2022) LEACOCK, STEPHENOne of the English language's great humourists provides a masterful account of how humour works—and of how it very often doesn’t.9,68 €
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Lovebug(2023) LAFARGE, DAISYIn Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge explores metaphors of love and disease as she seeks to understand human vulnerability and our intimacy with microbial life.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Enquiry into Plants, Volume I(1916) THEOPHRASTUSEnquiry into Plants and De Causis Plantarum by Theophrastus (ca. 370–ca. 285 BC) are a counterpart to Aristotle’s zoological work and the most important botanical work of antiquity now extant. In the former Theophrastus classifies and describes. His On OdVezava: Trda44,47 €
