Zbirka: Proza: stvarna literatura
2011 rezultatov
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Classical Literary Criticism(2008)This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Crooked Timber Of Humanity(2013) BERLIN, ISAIAH'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshalled vast erudition and eloquence in defenceVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
No Enemies, No Hatred(2013) LIU, XIAOBOWhen the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in December 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was serving an eleven-year sentence in a Chinese prison for “incitement to subvert state power.” These essays and poems not only chronicle a leading dissident’s struggle aVezava: Mehka33,35 € -
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: Mehka15,41 € -
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: Mehka41,57 € -
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 € -
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Trains and Buttered Toast(2007) BETJEMAN, JOHN,GAMES, STEPHENBetjeman's infectious enthusiasms have made him a keystone of England's common culture.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
