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L.E.L.(2020) MILLER, LUCASTAA famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron' On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of prVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours(2020) NAGY, GREGORYThe ancient Greeks’ concept of “the hero” was very different from what we understand by the term today. In 24 installments, based on the Harvard course Nagy has taught and refined since the 1970s, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores civilization’sVezava: Mehka38,13 € -
Annals (Penguin Classics)(2012) TACITUSOffers a translation of one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome. This title recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ant's Gift(2021) MESKOOB, SHAHROKHShahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran's leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. In The Ant's Gift, Meskoob applies his insight and considerable analytical skills to the Shahnameh, the natiVezava: Mehka36,10 € -
Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Five(2015)This is the fifth and final volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestVezava: Mehka59,50 € -
Elizabeth Bishop(2022) POST, JONATHAN F. S. (DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UCLA)Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This book explores the published poems at the core of her remarkable canon of verse, along with her letters and other writings, and drawsVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
William Wordsworth(2020) GILL, STEPHEN (PROFESSOR EMERITUS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY; SUPERNUMERARY FELLOW, LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD)A second edition of Stephen Gill's acclaimed biography William Wordsworth: A Life. Completely revised and updated, this edition explores the whole of Wordsworth's life including his career, his personal relationships, and the historical circumstances thatVezava: Trda44,85 € -
Mabinogion(2018)The Mabinogion is one of the great epics of medieval literature. Weaving together Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance, the eleven Welsh tales include stories of dragons and giants, kings and heroes, and shape-shifters and magicians. This lively translaVezava: Trda20,19 € -
Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhetorica(2019) RHETOR, MENANDER,DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUSThe instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished in the Greek East from the 2nd through 4th centuries AD, provide a window into the literary culture, educational practices, and socVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia(2018) HESIODThe two extant poems of Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) are Theogony, in which he charts the history of the divine world, and Works and Days, in which he delivers moral precepts and practical advice for the world of men.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Postcolonial Animal(2019) MWANGI, EVANArgues for an innovative and overdue posthuman reading of African postcolonial literatureVezava: Trda129,20 € -
Greek and Latin Poetry(2019) POLIZIANO, ANGELOAngelo Poliziano (1454–1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence during the Age of the Medici. This I Tatti edition contains all of his Greek and Latin poetry (with the exception of the Silvae in ITRLVezava: Trda47,68 € -
Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends(2022) YOUNG, SIMONIntroduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from ‘Beetle Eyes’ to the ‘Shoplifter’s Dilemma’ and from ‘Hands in the Muff’ to ‘the Suicide Club’. While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and tVezava: Mehka55,24 € -
Marginalized(2021) KAYSER, CASEYDrama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in receive less recognition than their male counterparts. Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, arguing that representations ofVezava: Mehka62,29 € -
Graphic Indigeneity(2020) ALDAMA, FREDERICK LUISAcclaimed comics scholar Frederick Luis Aldama shines light on how mainstream comics have clumsily distilled and reconstructed Indigenous identities and experiences. This book emphasizes how Indigenous comic artists are themselves clearing new visual-verbVezava: Mehka69,41 € -
Hell of War Comes Home(2019) JR, OWEN W. GILMANExploring the US experience of war in the twenty-first century, this book argues that wherever and whenever there is war, there will be imaginative responses to it, especially the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.Vezava: Mehka69,41 €
