Reducere. First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an age of corruption when crooke...
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Reducere. Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The...
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Reducere. Jamil Elabed, the author of this 8thGolden Copy edition of the translation into Arabic of Khalil Gibran'sThe Prophet, spent twenty years and eight ...
Reducere. Used today by approximately 12 million people in Haiti and by the population of the Haitian diaspora across the Caribbean, France, and the United S...
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Reducere. Hysteria--the tormenting of the body by the troubled mind--is among the most pervasive of human disorders; yet, at the same time, it is the most el...
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Reducere. DescriptionFollowing the award-winning "The Diamond of Drury Lane, " here we present the sea-faring volume from our famous feisty heroine Cat Royal...
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Reducere. Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic, " Robertson Davies's acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunnin...
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Reducere. Two comic gems from the father of modern Indian fiction- available in one volume for the first time These two novels show R. K. Narayan at his best...
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Reducere. Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and the Knight, is a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who wa...
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Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the Nestle Gold Prize and Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2006. First in the Cat Royal series. 'I am Cat Royal - Orphan, Adv...
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Reducere. It is the year 1586. England is awash with traitors, plotting to assassinate the Queen and bring about a foreign invasion. The young physician Chri...
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Reducere. Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn this important new volume we see the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb at the height of his powers. Widely recognised in his native ...
Reducere. Kent Anderson's stunning debut novel is a modern classic, a harrowing, authentic picture of one American soldier's experience of the Vietnam War--"...
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Reducere. DescriptionTHE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN - A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN.. With original illustrations.The famous 19th century English designer,...
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Reducere. The study of Chinese culture was a dominant concern in Ezra Pound's life and work. His great Canto XIII is about Kung (Confucius), Cantos LII-LXI d...
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Reducere. Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan de...
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Reducere. One of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned in England and the United States after it...
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Reducere. Dream in a Suitcase unravels a fast-paced journey of survival, resilience, and the power of love. It is the first English language memoir of a fema...
Reducere. Help Me, Information is propelled by the speed and motion of the poems that define earlier acclaimed books by David Kirby, poems that move the way ...
Reducere. Contributor(s): Introduction by: Masao HigashiPreface by: Robert WeinbergJapan has a long history of weird and supernatural literature, but it has ...
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Reducere. Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, grade: 1, 3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Ang...
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Reducere. The great Indian epic rendered in modern proseIndia's most beloved and enduring legend, the Ramayana is widely acknowledged to be one of the world'...
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Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...
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Reducere. A magnificent new translation of the enduring epic about the sundering of the Roman Republic.Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulenc...
Reducere. HISTORY IS OF THOSE WHO HAVE STRUGGLED TO BE FREE AND THOSE WHO HAVE STRUGGLED TO CONTROL THEM. In a future totalitarian America, government histor...
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Reducere. Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table , the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the er...
Reducere. When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had i...
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Reducere. Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of ...
Reducere. An Arabic proverb says, "Before you shoot the arrow truth, dip in in honey." The works of JRR Tolkien are unique in English Literature, as they are...
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Reducere. Why does everything sound better if it's said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the m...
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Reducere. In Quagmire you'll find a range of voices--men and women, military and civilian--and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, an...
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Reducere. This fascinating selection of Kyoto-specific literature takes readers through twelve centuries of cultural heritage, from ancient Heian beginnings ...
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Reducere. DescriptionHenrietta Elizabeth Marshall was a British author, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children.
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Reducere. In 1985, when Cindy Weinstein was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, her beloved father, Jerry, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease....
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Reducere. Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this "useful, entertaining and informative" story of the first great epic (The W...
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Reducere. A fascinating look into the myths that continue to shape our understanding and appreciation of Jane Austen. Was Jane Austen the best-selling noveli...
Reducere. In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century Am...
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Reducere. DescriptionAhmet Hamdi Tanpinar, poet, novelist and critic, was a professor of Ottoman and Turkish literature at Istanbul University. His 'Five Cit...
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Reducere. "In this stimulating and important book Lester Little advances the original thesis that, paradoxically, it was the leading practitioners of volunta...
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Reducere. The first complete edition of Peter Pernin's legendary survivor's account of the Great Peshtigo, Wisconsin Fire of 1871, fundamental evidence for t...
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Reducere. Pidgin Eye features thirty-five years of poetry by acclaimed author Joe Balaz. Writing in Pidgin (Hawaiʻi Creole English), he honors the beauty, st...
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