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What are We Doing Here?(2019) ROBINSON, MARILYNNENew essays by the Orange and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson, one of today's most important thinkers - admired by President Obama, and so many others - impels us to action and offers us hope.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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: Mehka14,01 € -
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(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 € -
Egil's Saga(2004) EIRIKSSON, LEIFUREgil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth- century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of staggeriVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Maxims and Reflections(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: Mehka15,41 € -
Essays(1993) MONTAIGNE, MICHELTo overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write. This title discusses Montaigne's themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, and coaches and cannibals.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Natural History(1991) PLINY THE ELDERA work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for spongesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Book of the Courtier(1976) CASTIGLIONE, BALDESARDefines the essential virtues for those at Court. This title includes a series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, in which his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour - chiefly discretion and gracefulneVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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 € -
Modest Proposal and Other Writings(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: Mehka15,41 € -
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 € -
Major Works(1977) PATRIDES, C.,BROWN, 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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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, GEORGEVezava: Mehka10,50 €
