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Quarry(2016) HOWE, SUSAN (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BUFFALO)The Quarry presents new and pivotal Susan Howe prose pieces.Vezava: Mehka20,89 € -
Selected Writings of Paul Valery(1986) VALERY, PAULThis selection from representative works of the great French poet-philosopher is based on the Paris Morceaux Choisis volume, which was assembled by Valéry himself.Vezava: Mehka24,10 € -
Mystery and Manners(2014) O'CONNOR, FLANNERYIncludes three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four articles concerningVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Trapeze(2017) NIN, ANAISAnaïs Nin made her reputation through publication of her edited diaries and the carefully constructed persona they presented.Vezava: Trda51,67 € -
Selected Writings(1982) APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUMEA bilingual, illustrated edition of The Selected Writings of Apollinaire, the only representative collection in English translation, with a comprehensive critical Introduction by the translator, Roger Shattuck.Vezava: Mehka24,10 € -
Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan(1997) PIZAN, CHRISTINE DEChristine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1421) is Europe’s first professional woman writer. She wrote an astonishing body of work in many genres, including lyric poetry, allegorical dream visions, history, political treatises, and biography.Vezava: Mehka29,39 € -
Walden / Civil Disobedience / and Other Writings(2008) THOREAU, HENRY DAVIDIn addition to the texts of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience", this title reprints the important works, "Slavery in Massachusetts", "Walking" and "Wild Apples". It includes the best critical writing on the texts by nineteen contributors.Vezava: Mehka23,87 € -
Writer and the World(2011) NAIPAUL, V.S.Concentrating mainly on India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, this wonderful collection of essays is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduction to this writer’s extraordinary world.Vezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Love of the World(2010) MCGAHERN, JOHNAn enlightening collection of essays, reviews and speeches by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Tóibín). 'Wise and compelling ...Vezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Monsters and the Critics(1997) TOLKIEN, J. R. R.Complete collection of Tolkien’s essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Atlantic Ocean(2009) O'HAGAN, ANDREWA stunning collection of reportage from an acclaimed journalist and novelist hailed by the New York Times as 'the best essayist of his generation'. As he grew up, Andrew O'Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of BritisVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
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Small Wonder(2003) KINGSOLVER, BARBARAThis essay collection brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. The essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems and their solutions have grown from the Earth's remotest cVezava: Mehka16,66 € -
High Tide in Tucson(2001) KINGSOLVER, BARBARAA collection of pieces in which Barbara Kingsolver, author of the novel "Pigs in Heaven", explores her trademark themes of family, community and the natural world. The topics include Kentucky, housework, promiscuity, health clubs, the Canary Islands, rockVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Faber Book of Reportage(1996) CAREY, PROFESSOR JOHN***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events.Vezava: Mehka27,78 € -
Colossus of New York(2018) WHITEHEAD, COLSONBy the author of the international bestseller, The Underground Railroad.Vezava: Mehka12,50 € -
Memorable Doings and Sayings, Volume I(2000) VALERIUS MAXIMUSValerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings in the reign of Tiberius (AD 14–37). His professedly practical work contains a clear moral element and is informative about first-century AD Roman attitudes toward religion and morality.Vezava: Trda42,98 € -
Diseases 3. Internal Affections. Regimen in Acute Diseases(1988) HIPPOCRATESOf the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC), but they are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theoVezava: Trda42,98 € -
Memorable Doings and Sayings, Volume II(2000) VALERIUS MAXIMUSValerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings in the reign of Tiberius (AD 14–37). His professedly practical work contains a clear moral element and is informative about first-century AD Roman attitudes toward religion and morality.Vezava: Trda42,98 € -
Declamations, Volume I(1974) SENECA THE ELDERSeneca the Elder collected ten books devoted to controversiae (some only preserved in excerpt) and at least one (surviving) of suasoriae.Vezava: Trda42,98 €
