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Weekend Wodehouse(2012) WODEHOUSE, P.G.Including stories featuring all his finest creations, including Jeeves, Lord Emsworth of Blandings, Ukridge and the disreputable members of the Drones club, this collection is an ideal introduction to the writer described by Douglas Adams as ‘the greatestVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Essays(2000) ORWELL, GEORGEFeatures that illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, this essays create a literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Job(2008) BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.Presents the author's incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
John Betjeman on Trains(2006) GLANCEY JOHNATHONJohn Betjeman (1906-1984) was not only one of the best-loved Englishmen of the twentieth century, he was also the people's favourite poet and champion of many causes linked to the preservation of Britain's heritage. This book presents his love of railwaysVezava: Trda16,98 € -
Classical Literary Criticism(2008)This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
No Enemies, No Hatred(2013) LIU, XIAOBOWhen the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in December 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was serving an eleven-year sentence in a Chinese prison for “incitement to subvert state power.” These essays and poems not only chronicle a leading dissident’s struggle aVezava: Mehka33,35 € -
Brave New World Revisited(2004) HUXLEY, ALDOUSIn his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Annals(2004) TACITUSWoodman's translation masterfully conveys Tacitus' distinctive and powerful literary style and reflects the best of relevant current scholarship. His introduction provides a wealth of insight into the period about which Tacitus wrote, Tacitus himself, andVezava: Mehka41,57 € -
United States(1994) VIDAL, GOREA collection of essays taken from 40 years of work by the bestselling and celebrated Gore VidalVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Trains and Buttered Toast(2007) BETJEMAN, JOHN,GAMES, STEPHENBetjeman's infectious enthusiasms have made him a keystone of England's common culture.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Poetics(1996) ARISTOTLESuitable for all students of Greek theatre and literature, this book examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Selected Writings on Art and Literature(1992) BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES-PIERREDiscusses works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres. This title features writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier.Vezava: Mehka21,02 €
