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Discarded Image(2012) LEWIS, C. S.Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This, Lewis's last book, has been hailed as 'the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teVezava: Mehka28,50 €
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Memoir(2006) MCGAHERN, JOHNA family story, told with restraint and tenderness. This book is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country schools where she taught and his happiness as she named for him the wild floVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Clear and Simple as the Truth(2011) THOMAS, FRANCIS-NOEL,TURNER, MARKGuides readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. This title presents writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills.Vezava: Mehka48,47 €
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Tolkien and the Great War(2004) GARTH, JOHN* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as ‘the best book about Tolkien’, this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Essays(2000) ORWELL, GEORGEFeatures that illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, this essays create a literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challVezava: Mehka21,02 €
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Road to Middle-earth(1992) SHIPPEY, TOMA detailed and fascinating journey to the roots of The Lord of the Rings, by award-winning Tolkien expert Professor Tom Shippey.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Neorealism and Its Critics(1986)Neorealism is the school of international relations that emphasizes the role of inter-state power struggles in world affairs.This volume features essays by both its most prominent exponents and its principal critics.Vezava: Mehka56,55 €
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Merchant Of Venice(2011) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAMThe Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, largely because of what is seen as its inherent anti-semitism. At the centre of the play is one of the most famous anti-heroes in Shakespeare: Shylock 'the Jew'. How to interpret ShyloVezava: Mehka16,86 €
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Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition(2011) BILES, ZACHARY P. (FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA)Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five of Aristophanes' plays in order to demonstrate how that competitive context shaped his poetry and plots, as hVezava: Trda94,50 €
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Shakespeare and Co.(2007) WELLS, STANLEYShows that Shakespeare was a man of the theatre, one among a community of artists in the teeming world of Renaissance London. This book also sketches a gallery of Shakespeare's fellow playwrights.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(2005) JACOBS, HARRIETA haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumVezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob(2009) ELIOT, GEORGEThe Lifted Veil (1859) is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works.Vezava: Mehka11,20 €