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Stories of Fatherhood(2014)At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer tells of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child’s birth, and from Frank O’Connor’s comes a hilarious tale of a small boy’s war against his paternal rival in ‘My Oedipus ComplVezava: Trda15,41 € -
Little Order(2000) WAUGH, EVELYNExplores the author's Oxford youth, his unexpected conversion, his literary enthusiasms (from P G Wodehouse to Graham Greene) and the perils of basing fictional characters on real people.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Brave New World Revisited(2004) HUXLEY, ALDOUSIn his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Annals(2004) TACITUSWoodman's translation masterfully conveys Tacitus' distinctive and powerful literary style and reflects the best of relevant current scholarship. His introduction provides a wealth of insight into the period about which Tacitus wrote, Tacitus himself, andVezava: Mehka34,92 € -
United States(1994) VIDAL, GOREA collection of essays taken from 40 years of work by the bestselling and celebrated Gore VidalVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Performing Flea(2014) WODEHOUSE, P.G.In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots.Vezava: Trda21,03 € -
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters(2014) VONNEGUT, KURTThis collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote – from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Trains and Buttered Toast(2007) BETJEMAN, JOHN,GAMES, STEPHENBetjeman's infectious enthusiasms have made him a keystone of England's common culture.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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Poetics(1996) ARISTOTLESuitable for all students of Greek theatre and literature, this book examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Selected Writings on Art and Literature(1992) BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES-PIERREDiscusses works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres. This title features writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors(2009) SONTAG, SUSANReveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, this study shows caVezava: Mehka18,21 €











