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Metamorphoses(2013) OVIDOvid’s sequence of fifteen witty and playful poems sketches the history of the world from its creation to the poet’s own time through a series of transformation myths in which gods and goddesses succumb to all-too-human passions, not least in the matter oVezava: Trda22,42 € -
Moranthology(2013) MORAN, CAITLINIncluding cultural, social and political issues which are usually left to hot-shot wonks and not a woman who sometimes keeps a falafel in her handbag, this title also deals with subjects such as Caffeine; Ghostbusters; Being Poor; Twitter; Caravans; ObamaVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Virago Book Of Women Travellers.(1996) MORRIS, MARYA volume in which rich and unexpected seams of precious materials await discovery' - The GuardianVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Rub Out the Words(2013) BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.Features letters that cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the "Beat Generation". Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, this title includes letters that provide a glimpse into Burroughs' psycVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Country Diaries(2010)A fascinating portrait of country life across the centuries, as told by the nation's greatest diarists.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Confessions of an English Opium Eater(2003) DE QUINCEY, THOMASOffers an account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. This autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes the author's surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despaVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court(2008) TWAIN, MARKThe story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism. Yet it is also one of Twain's finest comicVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Distrust that Particular Flavor(2014) GIBSON, WILLIAMThough primarily known as a novelist, over thirty years the author has also built up a reputation as one of our most entertaining and insightful critics of contemporary culture. This title brings together his writings on a variety of contemporary subjectsVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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Tale Of Genji(1992) SHIKIBU, MURASAKIThis is the prose masterpiece of the Heian era of the 10th and 11th centuries, which is recognized as a great period in Japanese literature. It is an account of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordered court culture which made such a masterpiece possible.Vezava: Trda42,06 € -
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics(2002)In a new English translation by Christopher Rowe, this great classic of moral philosophy by Aristotle is accompanied here by an extended introduction and detailed line-by-line commentary by Sarah Broadie. Assuming no knowledge of Greek, her approach shoulVezava: Mehka78,74 € -
Roland Barthes Reader(1993) BARTHES, ROLANDAn introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide, Garbo, striptease, photography and the Eiffel Tower. The pieces in this collection were written over a period of three decades.Vezava: Mehka23,82 €











