Zbirka: Proza: stvarna literatura
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Inside the Whale(2021) ORWELL, GEORGEUnfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations.Vezava: Mehka16,82 € -
Abundance(2017) DILLARD, ANNIEThe best writing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning nature writer, with a foreword by Geoff Dyer.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Latin Literature(2015) GRANT, MICHAELPresents an introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and others. This book traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus, to the writers ofVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
African Myths of Origin(2005) BELCHER, STEPHENGathering a range of traditional African myths, this collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. All the narratives found hereVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mystery and Manners(2014) O'CONNOR, FLANNERYIncludes three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four articles concerningVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Learned Banqueters, Volume VI(2010) 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 € -
Apollonius of Tyana, Volume III(2006) PHILOSTRATUSIn his Life of Apollonius Philostratus (second to third century AD) chronicles the miracles of first-century AD teacher, religious reformer, and perceived rival to Jesus of Nazareth, Apollonius of Tyana.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Minor Attic Orators, Volume I: Antiphon. Andocides(1941) ANTIPHON,ANDOCIDESAntiphon disliked democracy and was an ardent oligarch. Of his fifteen extant works three concern real murder cases. The others are academic exercises. Andocides disliked the extremes of democracy and oligarchy. Of his four extant speeches Against AlcibiaVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Oppian. Colluthus. Tryphiodorus(1928) OPPIAN,COLLUTHUS,TRYPHIODORUSIn Fishing, Oppian discusses fish and gives angling instructions. The Chase, on hunting, may be the work of a Syrian imitator. Colluthus and Tryphiodorus (properly Triphiodorus), epic poets of Egypt, wrote in the second half of the fifth century AD.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Select Letters(1930) AUGUSTINELetters are important for the study of ecclesiastical history and Augustine’s relations with other theologians.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
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Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write(2021) MESSUD, CLAIREA collection of personal and critical essays on everything from childhood to womanhood, literature to visual arts and the relationship between form and meaning in storytelling.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Library, Volume II(1921) APOLLODORUSAttributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born ca. 180 BC) but probably composed in the first or second century AD, the Library provides an expansive summary of Greek myths and heroic legends about the origin and early history of the world.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Areopagitica and Other Writings(2014) MILTON, JOHNJohn Milton was celebrated and denounced in his own time both as a poet and as a polemicist. This edition of Milton's major prose works includes: Of Education, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and the Divorce tracts, as well as the famous 1644 polemicaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022(2022) JOHNSON, AYANA ELIZABETH,GREEN, JAIMEA collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green.Vezava: Mehka27,79 €
