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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 € -
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples(2019) DRISCOLL, KERRYVezava: Mehka48,47 € -
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 € -
History of Chilean Literature(2021)This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. It shifts critical focus from national identity and issues to a more multifaceted transnational, hemispheric, and global approach. ItsVezava: Trda160,21 € -
Reading Buechner – Exploring the Work of a Master Memoirist, Novelist, Theologian, and Preacher(2019) MUNROE, JEFFREY,FUJIMURA, MAKOTOVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture(2020) NETZ, REVIEL (STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA)How many authors were there in antiquity? Where did they work? How was the 'canon' made? This book provides an account of ancient culture in terms of such quantifiable questions. The end result explains why the Greeks were unique in creating a culture basVezava: Trda99,75 € -
Psychology of Vampires(2018) COHEN, DAVIDFrom sanguinarians who drink blood, to psychic vampires who suck the energy from those around them, The Psychology of Vampires explores the absorbing connections between vampirism and psychology, theology, medicine and culture.Vezava: Mehka24,93 € -
Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561(2022) BLAYNEY, PETER W. M.This major, revisionist study upends our thinking about the ancestry and origins of the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, revealing it to have necessitated unprecedented levels of shared printing. In its close analysis of Anglican liturgy it will have coVezava: Trda68,43 € -
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: Mehka61,40 € -
Blessing and the Curse(2021) KIRSCH, ADAMAn erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.Vezava: Mehka23,27 € -
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: Trda42,05 € -
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: Trda23,82 € -
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: Trda137,81 € -
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 €
