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Eclipse I Call Father(2019) AXELROD, DAVIDOna balmy night in May 1970, David Axelrod vowed to allow no one and nothing he loved to pass from this life without praise, even if it meant praising the most bewildering losses. In these fourteen essays Axelrod delivers on that vow as he ranges across tVezava: Mehka25,61 € -
Daphnis and Chloe. Anthia and Habrocomes(2009) LONGUS,XENOPHON OF EPHESUSLongus’ Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century AD), in which an idealized pastoral environment provides the setting as a boy and girl discover their sexuality, is one of the great works of world literature. Xenophon of Ephesus’ Anthia and HabrocVezava: Trda44,47 € -
How to Write History. The Dipsads. Saturnalia. Herodotus or Aetion. Zeuxis or Antiochus. A Slip of the Tongue in Greeting. Apology for the "Salaried Posts in Great Houses." Harmonides. A Conversation with Hesiod. The Scythian or The Consul. Hermotimus or(1959) LUCIANLucian (ca. AD 120–190), apprentice sculptor then traveling rhetorician, settled in Athens and developed an original brand of satire. Notable for the Attic purity and elegance of his Greek and for literary versatility, he is famous chiefly for the lively,Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Dionysiaca, Volume III(1940) NONNOSThis epic poem concerns Dionysus’ earthly career from birth at Thebes to reception on Olympus. In a poem full of mythology, astrology, and magic, Nonnos relates the god’s conquest of the East and also, sensually and explicitly, his amorous adventures.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Ecclesiastical History, Volume II(1930) BEDEHistorical works by Bede (672 or 673–735) include his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Lives of the Abbots of Bede’s monastery, accounts of Cuthbert, and the Letter to Egbert, Bede’s pupil.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Lives in Writing(2015) LODGE, DAVIDA collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographicalVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Julian, Volume II(1913) JULIANThe surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian “the Apostate” (AD 331 or 332–363) include eight Orations; Misopogon (Beard-hater), assailing the morals of the people of Antioch; more than eighty Letters; and fragments of Against the Galileans, written maVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Invitation To The Dance(2005) SPURLING, HILARYA unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Remarkable Minds(2020) 4, BBC RADIOA beautiful collection of iconic talks by the world's most remarkable mindsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Retold Resold Transformed(2019)In recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. The genre has acquired a global reach, illuminating different corners of the world and spreading through the use of various cultural media.Vezava: Mehka21,38 € -
Second Body(2017) HILDYARD, DAISYThe Second Body is a brilliantly lucid account of the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
On the Line(2022) PONTHUS, JOSEPHJoseph enlists with a temp agency and starts to pick up casual shifts in the fish processing plants and abattoirs of Brittany. A novel in verse that captures the mundane, the beautiful and the strange, in poignant contrast with the blood and sweat of theVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Travel Writings(2020) BASHO, MATSUO'The literary significance of these six texts is enormous, and a single, affordable volume containing all of them, in clear and accessible translations, with thorough annotations, [will] be a great boon to teachers of Japanese literature.Vezava: Mehka31,59 € -
Stay Me with Flagons(2021) HEALY, MAURICEMaurice Healy, Irish barrister practicing at the English Bar and well-known wine connoisseur, takes a wide-ranging tour of European wine regions, and recounts historic vintages he had the good fortune to drink.Vezava: Mehka23,15 €
