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The Bostonians (Penguin Classics)(2000) JAMES, HENRYBasil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer arrives to Boston in search of a career. Through his cousin, Olive Chancellor, Ransom comes to meet Verena, the beautiful daughter of a charlatan faith-healer. Olive hopes to win the girl over to the feminist causeVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio(2006) SONGLING, PUAct as miniatures that aim to be regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. These tales with their prose and wordplay, include 104 stories that reveal a world, in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a pear tree, a schoVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Forms of Poetic Attention(2021) ALFORD, LUCYIdentifying a crucial link between poetic form and the forming of attention, Lucy Alford offers a new terminology for how poetic attention works and how attention becomes a subject and object of poetry. She combines close readings of a wide variety of poeVezava: Mehka56,55 € -
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Penguin Classics)(1996) POTOCKI, JANAlphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Roderick Hudson(1986) JAMES, HENRYWhen Rowland Mallet first sees a sculpture by Roderick Hudson, he is astounded and pronounces it to be a work of genius. He wishes to give the artist the opportunity to develop his talent. But Roderick soon loses his inspiration and Rowland loses controlVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Washington Square(2007) JAMES, HENRYWhen timid and plain Catherine Sloper is courted by the dashing and determined Morris Townsend, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, delivers an ultimatum: break off her engagement, or be stripped of her inheritaVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Awakening(2011) CHOPIN, KATEThe Pontellier family are spending a hot, lazy holiday on the Gulf of Mexico. When an illicit summer romance awakens new ideas and longings in Edna, she can barely understand herself, and cannot hope for aid or acceptance in the stifling attitudes of LouiVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics)(2007) JAMES, HENRYTravelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talksVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)(2003) EURIPIDESAn accessible prose translation that is accompanied by a general introduction and individual prefaces to each play.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Selected Poems of Stephen Spender(2009) SPENDER, SIR STEPHENStephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. His post-war memoir World within World was recognised as one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have come out of the 1930s and 1940s, distilling a distinctively personVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Jumpers for Goalposts(2013) WELLS, TOMA hilarious and heart-warming comedy about football, friendship and finding your way.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Foxfinder(2011) KING, DAWNA darkly comic, spell-binding dystopian drama, winner of the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Frankenstein, based on the novel by Mary Shelley(2011) DEAR, NICKAnd at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe byVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Complete Plays of Sophocles(2011) SOPHOCLESSophocles was the dominant Athenian playwright of the fifth century BCE. This translation includes his best-known work, such as the "Oedipus cycle" ("Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Kolonos", and "Antigone"), "Elektra and the Women of Trakhis" "PhiloktetesVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Poetry of the Thirties(2000)Auden, Lewis, MacNeice and other key poets of the 'Thirties' were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism and by the class-struggle. But from within their strongly defined unity of ideals, a varied body of poetry emerged. ThisVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow(2020) RADISHCHEV, ALEXANDERJourney from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. Alexander Radishchev’s account of a fictional journey blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expoVezava: Mehka30,69 €
