Zbirka: Proza: stvarna literatura
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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days(2014) BLY, NELLIEBorn Elizabeth Jane Cochran, the author was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expose of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race aroundVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Lives of the Saints(2022) BARRY, SEBASTIANOLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWFrom A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World War to his Donal McCann starring hit plaVezava: Trda21,02 € -
Dying Gaul and Other Writings(2017) JONES, DAVID'To open a book by David Jones is to walk in the ley lines of his dreaming, a dreaming offered to believer and non-believer alike.Vezava: Mehka25,22 € -
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On Immunity: An Inoculation(2015) BISS, EULAIn this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses our fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in our children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a new mother, she suggests thaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
On Artists(2019) WILSON, ASHLEIGHThe #MeToo movement is overturning a cliche that has forgiven bad behaviour for years: to be creative is to be prone to eccentricity, madness, addiction and excess. No longer can artists be excused from the standards of conduct that apply to us all. But iVezava: Mehka13,85 € -
Learned Banqueters, Volume III(2008) ATHENAEUSA series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Discourses 61–80(1951) DIO CHRYSOSTOMDio Chrysostom (AD ca. 40–ca. 120) was a rhetorician hostile to philosophers, whose Discourses reflect political or moral concerns. What survives of his works make him prominent in the revival of Greek literature in the late first and early second centVezava: Trda44,47 € -
History of Alexander, Volume I(1946) QUINTUS CURTIUSQuintus Curtius wrote a history of Alexander the Great. The first two of ten books have not survived and material is missing from books 5, 6, and 10. Curtius narrates exciting experiences, develops his hero’s character, moralizes, and provides one of theVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Street Haunting and Other Essays(2014) WOOLF, VIRGINIAVirginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
History of the Wars, Volume IV(1924) PROCOPIUSHistory of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history, with much information about peoples, places, and special events. Powerful description complements careful narration. Procopius is jusVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Attic Nights, Volume I(1927) GELLIUSAulus Gellius in Attic Nights (Gellius began to write these pieces during stays in Athens) composed a collection of short chapters about notable events, words and questions of literary style, lives of historical figures, legal points, and philosophical isVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Library of History, Volume III(1939) DIODORUS SICULUSLibrary of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); history to 54 BC. Books 1–5 and 11–20 survive complete, the rest in fragments.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through(2019) FLEISCHMANN, TW. G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss.Vezava: Mehka20,07 €
