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John Buchan and the Thirty-nine Steps(2014) BURNETT, JOHN,MACKAY, KATEA timely look at John Buchan's much-loved pre-First-World-War novel - what inspired it, its themes and metaphors - and at how much of the author's own swlf and experiences are in it.Vezava: Mehka7,71 €
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"The Owl and the Nightingale" and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)(2022)An edition and translation of The Owl and the Nightingale and other Middle English works from Oxford, Jesus College MS 29 (II), with full scholarly introduction and apparatus.Vezava: Mehka66,53 €
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Critique of Forms of Life(2018) JAEGGI, RAHELFor liberals, the question “Do others live rightly?” seems to demand a follow-up question: “Who am I to judge?” Peaceful coexistence, in this view, is predicated on restraint from morally evaluating our peers. But Rahel Jaeggi argues that criticizing is nVezava: Trda61,49 €
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Performing Jane(2020) GLOSSON, SARAHJane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of Pride and Prejudice, people continue to honour “dear Jane”. In Performing Jane, Sarah Glosson explores this vibrant fandomVezava: Trda75,17 €
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Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell(2020) SHIFFLETT, JOAN ROMANORobert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, and Robert Lowell maintained lifelong friendships with one another, often discussing each other's work in private correspondence and published reviews. This book traces the artistic and personal connections between theVezava: Trda75,17 €
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They (Faber Editions)(2022) DICK, KAYIntroduced by Carmen Maria Machado, the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish through-a-glass-darkly Britain, they are coming closer...Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Sleepless Nights(2019) HARDWICK, ELIZABETHAbove all, here is prose blurring into poetry, language to lose - and perhaps to find - yourself in. Society tries to write these lives before they are lived.Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Spirit of Controversy(2021) HAZLITT, WILLIAMThis volume gathers together some of the most brilliant and influential essays ever written in English.The Spirit of Controversy uses versions of the essays as they first appeared in the magazines of his day.Vezava: Mehka16,81 €
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George Stevens(2019) SINYARD, NEILWinner of two Best Director Oscars, George Stevens excelled in a range of genres, gave lustre to some of Hollywood's brightest stars and was revered by his peers. Yet his work has been largely neglected by critics and scholars. This career retrospective hVezava: Mehka89,17 €
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Fate of the Flesh(2021) GIL, DANIEL JUANThis book argues that in the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-gardeVezava: Trda164,16 €
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Roman History, Volume II(2019) APPIANAppian (ca. AD 95–161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up thVezava: Trda44,47 €
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Roman History, Volume I(2019) APPIANAppian (ca. AD 95–161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up thVezava: Trda44,47 €
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Letters to Atticus, Volume I(1999) CICEROIn letters to his friend Atticus, Cicero (106–43 BC) reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother, and vividly depicts a momentous period in Roman history, marked by the rise of Julius Caesar and the downfall of the RepuVezava: Trda44,47 €
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Chaucer(2020) TURNER, MARIONOne of The Times' Best Literary Non-Fiction Books of 2019 One of the Sunday Times' Best Literary Books of 2019 Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biography and Autobiography, Association of American Publishers One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books ofVezava: Mehka32,31 €