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Classical Literature(2014) ALLAN, WILLIAM (FELLOW IN CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD)William Allan's Very Short Introduction provides a concise and lively guide to the major authors, genres, and periods of classical literature. Drawing upon a wealth of material, he reveals just what makes the 'classics' such masterpieces and why they contVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Trilby(2009) DU MAURIER, GEORGEFirst published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has entered the popular imagination. George Du Maurier's drawings for the novel form part of its appeal - this edition includes his most significant illustrVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Little Learning(1990) WAUGH, EVELYNThe author's childhood was warm, bright and serene. The Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed were sometimes agreeable, but often not. His life at Oxford - which he evokes in Brideshead Revisited - was essentially a catalogue of friendship. ThisVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Letters 1941-1985(2014) CALVINO, ITALOThe author was a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This book offers a collection of his letters.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Jane Austen(2012) TOMALIN, CLAIREA title that involves us so deeply that Austen's final illness and death come almost as a personal tragedy to the reader. It presents Austen as remarkably clever; sensitive, but sentimental; tough, yet observant; guarded; and a woman with the devil of a gVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Praeterita(2012) RUSKIN, JOHNPraeterita is the autobiography of John Ruskin (1819-1900), art critic and social commentator and one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century. An elegy for lost places and people, Praeterita recounts Ruskin's childhood, and his travels aVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Doctor's Wife(2008) BRADDON, MARY ELIZABETHThe Doctor's Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rewriting of Flaubert's Madame Bovary in which she explores her frustrated heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. This is the only edition of a fascinating work, and reprVezava: Mehka18,21 €











