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Campo Santo(2006) SEBALD, W. G.A collection of essays by W G Sebald, which provide insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. It also includes four pieces that pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
See What Can Be Done(2019) MOORE, LORRIEAward-winning author Lorrie Moore has been writing criticism for over thirty years - and her forensically intelligent, witty and engaging essays are collected here for the first time.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Epoch and Artist(2017) JONES, DAVIDThis collection of occasional writing 'reveals a consistency, a subtlety, a creativeness springing from tradition .Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
African Myths of Origin (Penguin Classics)(2005) BELCHER, STEPHENGathering a range of traditional African myths, this collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. All the narratives found hereVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Maxims and Reflections (Penguin Classics)(1998) GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VONReveals some of the author's deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, and his reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Eyrbyggja Saga(1989) PALSSON, HERMANNAn Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of ChristianityVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Guide to Greece (Penguin Classics)(1979) PAUSANIASOffering a study of buildings, traditions and myth, this title describes the glory of Greece shortly before its ultimate decline in the third century.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
War with Hannibal(2004) LIVYHannibal, one of the most compelling personalities of the ancient world, inflicted a tremendous defeat on the Romans at Cannae in 216 BC. This text looks at the figureVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)(2009) SWIFT, JONATHANJonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain's repressive colonial policies in Ireland. This book discusses Swift's life and turbulent timeVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Essays (Penguin Classics)(1985) BACON, FRANCISDiscusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens and honour.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Unto This Last and Other Writings(1985) RUSKIN, JOHNShows the range and depth of Ruskin's work, and reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. This volume also shows that his work "UntVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
The Major Works (Penguin Classics)(1977) BROWNE, THOMASPresents an account of common errors in subjects including sciences, history, literature and philosophy. This title includes "Hydriotaphia" or 'Urn Buriall', "The Garden of Cyrus", "A Letter to a Friend", and "Christian Morals".Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings(1990) BYATT, A. S.,ELIOT, GEORGEOffers a general introduction to George Eliot's work as an essayist, translator and poet. Divided into four sections, the book includes book reviews, major long essays written for a magazine, shorter pieces containing many of her ideas and some later essaVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist(2017) KINGSNORTH, PAULWith lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, this book features essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth's thinking. It articulates a vision that he calls 'dark ecology,' which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can saveVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Ex Libris(2000) FADIMAN, ANNEThe author is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. This tiVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action(2021) MARSH, GEORGEThis landmark text analyzes the impact of human action on nature by linking the environmental degradation of ancient Mediterranean civilization to the United States of the 1800s. Profoundly topical today as it was in 1864.Vezava: Mehka10,50 € -
Known and Strange Things(2017) COLE, TEJUA collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. It comes with pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature. It covers subjects as diverse as Virginia Woolf, W G Sebald, Instagram, BarackVezava: Mehka21,02 €
