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Jacob's Room(2022) WOOLF, VIRGINIAJacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry(2021) HODGSON, ANDREW (UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM)Aimed at students and readers of poetry at all levels, The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry takes a tour through a galaxy of examples, demonstrating how to come to terms with poetry's verbal, formal, emotional, and conceptual power. It shows how readingVezava: Mehka32,31 € -
Beautiful and Damned(2022) FITZGERALD, F. SCOTTThe Beautiful and Damned is a devastating portrait of a generation of wealthy young Americans who struggle to find meaning and happiness, told through the lives of Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert. This is the novel that confirmed Fitzgerald's status as tVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
This Side of Paradise(2020) FITZGERALD, F. SCOTTThis Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine as he grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood, and learns to know himself better. F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, it made him instantly famous and stamped him as the bard of the Jazz Age.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book X(2020)A hybrid between traditional commentary and monograph exploring the final, most arresting book of Aristotle's Ethics in a philosophically rigorous yet interpretatively open way. The new translation makes each argument clear, while the commentary exploresVezava: Trda198,11 € -
Lysis. Symposium. Phaedrus(2022) PLATOWorks in this volume explore the relationship between two people known as love (eros) or friendship (philia). In Lysis, Socrates meets two young men at a wrestling school; in Symposium, he joins a company of accomplished men at a drinking party; and in PhVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis(2020) PETRONIUS,SENECAThe Satyrica, traditionally attributed to the Neronian courtier Petronius, is a comic-picaresque fiction recalling the narrator’s adventures in the early imperial demimonde, including Trimalchio’s banquet. Apocolocyntosis (Pumpkinification) is a satiricalVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Tragedies, Volume I(2018) SENECASeneca (ca. AD 4 65) authored verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Plots are based on myth, but themes reflect imperial Roman politics. John G. Fitch has thoroughly revised his two-volume edition to take aVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Modernism and Naturalism in British and Irish Fiction, 1880–1930(2014) JOYCE, SIMON (COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, VIRGINIA)In this volume, Simon Joyce examines the ways in which readers have come to view canonical modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, showing how their work might be read in conjunction with lesser-known Irish and 'New Woman' novelists such as GeoVezava: Trda145,92 € -
On Human Worth and Excellence(2019) MANETTI, GIANNOZZOIn On Human Worth and Excellence, celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and scholar Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) asks: what are the moral, intellectual, and spiritual capabilities of the unique amalgam of body and soul that constitutes human naturVezava: Trda47,68 € -
Katherine Mansfield(2012) TOMALIN, CLAIREPursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies on her heels; but when she died aged only thirty-four she became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Bookishness(2020) PRESSMAN, JESSICAJessica Pressman explores the rise of “bookishness” as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window décor to experimental writing. Ranging from literature to kitsch objects, stop-motion animation films to book design, she consVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Phlegon of Tralles' Book of Marvels(1997)The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D.Vezava: Mehka60,57 € -
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures(2018) SMITH, WILBURWilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and here in his first ever memoirs he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Spaniards in Mauthausen(2018) BRENNEIS, SARA J.By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work.Vezava: Mehka62,37 € -
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East India Company, 16001858(2017) BARROW, IANIn existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. Over time, the Company developed a pronounced and aggressive colonialism that laid the foundation for Britain's Eastern empire. A study ofVezava: Mehka31,59 €
