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Washington Square(2010) JAMES, HENRYCatherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and is easily overwhelmed by the attentions of a handsome but penniless suitor. Her clever father is implacably opposed to the match, and the scene for a classic confrontation is set. This new edition of James's moVezava: Mehka9,49 € -
Volpone(1995) JONSON, BENVolpone is a Venetian aristocrat, a loveable rogue who enjoys the cunning pursuit of wealth more than money itself. Pretending to be mortally ill, he watches as his greedy neighbours swarm around him with expensive gifts in the hope of inheriting his fortVezava: Mehka7,00 € -
Playboy of the Western World(1997) SYNGE, J.M.J.M. Synge's extraordinary play about a young man on the run, and his unexpected elevation to folk hero. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.Vezava: Mehka7,00 € -
Skywriting By Word of Mouth(2012) LENNON, JOHNWITH AN AFTERWORD BY YOKO ONO AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHORJohn Lennon wrote the material collected in Skywriting by Word of Mouth during Yoko Ono's pregnancy with Sean Lennon.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Palgrave's Golden Treasury(2002)Originally published in 1861, "Palgrave's Golden Treasury" stands as a testament to the richness of our finest native poetic writing. As well as presenting work by such poets as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Betjeman, this edition also covers postVezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Cry Freedom(2011) BRILEY, JOHNUnder South Africa's apartheid regime, black activist Steve Biko has been working for years to undermine the system when he meets white journalist Donald Woods. Initially suspicious of Biko and his motives, Woods finds himself united with Biko in common cVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Thirty-Nine Steps(2011) BUCHAN, JOHNRichard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless eVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Ann Veronica (Penguin Classics)(2005) WELLS, H. G.Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Where Angels Fear to Tread(2007) FORSTER, E.M.When attractive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a highly unsuitable Italian 12 years her junior. Her snobbish in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval, and when Lidia's decision eventually briVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Nothing, Doting, Blindness(2008) GREEN, HENRYTAYLORThese three brilliant novels span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. In Blindness, Green's first novel, a young man is blinded in a senseless accident but thereafter discovers new imaginative powers.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
W. B. Yeats(2009) YEATS, W.B.His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us 'to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions.'Other volumes in this series: Auden, Betjemen, Eliot, Hughes and PlathVezava: Trda21,02 € -
Other Men's Flowers(1992) WAVELL, A PThis anthology of English poetry was first published in 1944. The editor, Field Marshal Lord Wavell, who was Viceroy of India from 1943 to 1947, wrote "Generals and Generalship".Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Light Song of Light(2010) MILLER, KEISings in the rhythms of ritual and folktale, praise songs and anecdotes, blending lyricism with a cool wit, finding the languages in which poetry can sing in dark times.Vezava: Mehka13,95 € -
Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion(2014) MILLER, KEIThe new collection by acclaimed Jamaican poet, Kei Miller. Here the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it, is gradually compelled to recognise – even to envy – a wholly different understanding of placeVezava: Mehka13,95 € -
Poems(1973) PO, LI,FU, TULi Po and Tu Fu were devoted friends who are considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, was an itinerant poet. His sheer escapism and joy is balanced by Tu Fu, who expresses the Confucian virtues of humanity and humility. Together they came toVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Moortown Diary(2006) HUGHES, TEDHughes strips away the protective layers - the soundproofed ears, the double-glazed eyes - that prevent us making contact with anything outside ourselves.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
As I Walked Out One Evening(1996) AUDEN, W.H.A collection of W.H. Auden's light verse, assembled by his literary executor.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Poems (1930)(2013) AUDEN, W.H.Auden's electrifying, enigmatic and extraordinarily influential debut collection was published by Faber in 1930, and simply entitled Poems. For the second edition (1933) he omitted seven items and added new poems in their place. Available again for theVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
If I Don't Know(2001) COPE, WENDYThis collection of poems from Wendy Cope reveals a softer lyrical voice, also present in her earlier books, but here given more room to develop in poems about gardens and contentment, and the poignancy of having something to lose.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
