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Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics)(2003) DE QUINCEY, THOMASOffers an account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. This autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes the author's surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despaVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court(2008) TWAIN, MARKThe story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism. Yet it is also one of Twain's finest comicVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Distrust that Particular Flavor(2014) GIBSON, WILLIAMThough primarily known as a novelist, over thirty years the author has also built up a reputation as one of our most entertaining and insightful critics of contemporary culture. This title brings together his writings on a variety of contemporary subjectsVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics(2002)In a new English translation by Christopher Rowe, this great classic of moral philosophy by Aristotle is accompanied here by an extended introduction and detailed line-by-line commentary by Sarah Broadie. Assuming no knowledge of Greek, her approach shoulVezava: Mehka82,24 € -
Season of Blood(1996) KEANE, FERGALWhen President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. The author travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing. This analysis aims to reveal the teVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Essential Spike Milligan(2003)A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Wodehouse At The Wicket(2011) WODEHOUSE, P.G.'The funniest writer ever to put words to paper' HUGH LAURIE_____________________________________________From his early days Wodehouse adored cricket and references to the game run like a golden thread though his writings.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Gramsci Reader(2000) GRAMSCI, ANTONIOA selection of Gramsci's writings in one volume including his most important political, cultural and historical work. The collection focuses on key concepts - such as hegemony, passive revolution, civil society, common sense - and important texts on AmeriVezava: Mehka49,90 € -
Questions of Travel(2011) GREENLAW, LAVINIAThe Victorian artist and activist William Morris travelled to Iceland in search of an answer to the problem of how to live.Vezava: Trda23,15 € -
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous(1979) BERKELEY, GEORGE"Three Dialogues Between Hylas & Philonous".Vezava: Mehka18,28 € -
Shape of a Pocket(2002) BERGER, JOHNA pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. This work features essays about - Rembrandt, Palaeolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient EgyptiansVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2(2007) GOUREVITCH, PHILIPA second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3(2008) GOUREVITCH, PHILIPThe third volume of the acclaimed Paris Review Interviews, described by Gary Shteyngart as a 'colossal literary event'Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Fasti(2013) OVIDA new prose translation of Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, recording a wealth of detail on rites and customs recorded day by day. A lively introduction explains the background to the poem, and the edVezava: Mehka16,81 €
