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Life of Samuel Johnson(2008) BOSWELL, JAMESA biography of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature.Vezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Book Lover's Bucket List(2021) TAGGART, CAROLINEImmerse yourself in a land full of literary locations in this tour through the great books of the British Isles. Caroline Taggart's guide to statues, walks both rural and urban, literary homes and vistas which inspired great scenes from our favourite noveVezava: Trda26,62 € -
Nun(2008) DIDEROT, DENISDiderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into theVezava: Mehka15,44 € -
J. M. Synge(2021) HEWITT, SEA¡N (GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND FELLOW, SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK)A thorough re-assessment of one of Ireland's major playwrights, J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Using much previously-undiscussed archival material, the book takes each of Synge's plays and prose works, tracing his journey from an early Romanticism to a later, moVezava: Trda159,60 € -
Masnavi, Book Five(2022) RUMI, JALAL AL-DINThe first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's magnum opus, The Masnavi, into English. The Masnavi is well-known to contain much sexually explicit content within teaching stories about the path of annihilation of the self in a total andVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Honore de Balzac(2022) BROOKS, PETER (STERLING PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE EMERITUS, YALE UNIVERSITY)A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.Vezava: Trda38,00 € -
Book Parts(2019)A bold and imaginative volume on the constituent elements of the Book, from the pre-print era through to the digital. The twenty-two chapters written by an international team delve into all elements of the book from title pages to endpapers, from dust jacVezava: Trda82,24 € -
Life of Olaudah Equiano(2000) EQUIANO, OLAUDAHThe journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy; his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, other adventures.Vezava: Mehka11,90 € -
Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Barrenness(2012) HIPPOCRATESThis volume, the tenth of Hippocrates’ invaluable texts on the practice of medicine in antiquity, provides essential information about human reproduction and reproductive disorders and expounds a general theory of physiology and pathology, in five Greek tVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Oscar's Ghost(2019) LEE, LAURAThe dramatic story of the legal and emotional battle that raged between two of Oscar Wilde's closest friends – both former lovers – following the playwright's deathVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Gift of Narrative in Medieval England(2021) PERKINS, NICHOLASThis critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Written in a style accessible for students as well as scholarsVezava: Trda77,52 € -
Traces of War(2017) DAVIS, COLIN (SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (UNITED KINGDOM))Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who lived through it.Vezava: Trda72,96 € -
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Medievalism: a Critical History(2017) MATTHEWS, PROFESSOR DAVID (DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES)An accessibly-written survey of the origins and growth of the discipline of medievalism studies.Vezava: Mehka38,60 € -
Ministry of Truth(2021) LYNSKEY, DORIANIn The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskey charts the life of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: one of the most influential books of the 20th Century, a perennial bestseller, and a work that remains more relevant than ever in today's tumultuous world.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Internationalism and the Arts in Britain and Europe at the "Fin de Siecle"(2009)Vezava: Mehka105,74 €






