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We Wrote in Symbols(2021)A ground-breaking collection celebrating women who, over centuries, have dared to articulate their own desires with artistry and skill.Vezava: Mehka23,15 € -
Golden Bowl(2009) JAMES, HENRYMaggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, a billionaire collector of objets d'art, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Prince Amerigo, an impoverished Italian aristocrat, andVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis(2011) BODDY, KASIAThe short story is one of the most varied genres in American literature. This title brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm lVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Mahabharata(2001) NARAYAN, R. K.Includes characters who are obsessed with the rise and fall of gods, empires and heroes.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
In Defence of the Republic(2011) CICEROCicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country'. ThiVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Selected Fables(2006) DE LA FONTAINE, JEANAims to transform the world's great fables into charming poems of originality, wit, and verve. The author depicts lions, frogs, donkeys, rats, insects, birds and wily foxes in situations that reveal the quirks, follies and frailties he observed in humankiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Death of King Arthur(2004)Recounting the final days of Arthur and set in a world of fading chivalric glory, this title depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the weakness of Arthur's own knights.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Martin Chuzzlewit(1999) DICKENS, CHARLESThe greed of Patricia Ingham's family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed chaVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Doctor Thorne(1991) TROLLOPE, ANTHONYSon of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to save the family's mortgaVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology(2020)This selection of more than 600 epigrams in verse is the first major translation from the Greek Anthology in nearly a century. Each of the Anthology's books of epigrams is represented here, in manuscript order, and with extensive notes on the history andVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Charles Dickens and Others(2000) GRAFTON, JOHNVezava: Mehka9,25 € -
Looking Backward(2000) BELLAMY, EDWARDStimulating, thought-provoking utopian fantasy about a young man who's put into a hypnotic trance in the late 19th century and awakens in the year 2000 to find crime, war, and want nonexistent.Vezava: Mehka8,40 € -
Art of Rhetoric(2020) ARISTOTLEAristotle (384–322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential figures in the history of philosophy, theology, and science. Rhetoric, probably composed while he was still a member of Plato’s AcadeVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Stichus. Three-Dollar Day. Truculentus. The Tale of a Traveling-Bag. Fragments(2013) PLAUTUSThe comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205–184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. Twenty-onVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Saturnalia, Volume III(2011) MACROBIUSSaturnalia has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore.Vezava: Trda44,47 €
