A History of English Literature

Pidgin Eye, Paperback - Joe Balaz

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

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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The Brehon Laws: A Legal Handbook, Paperback - Laurence Ginnell

140,99 RON 150,99 RON

Reducere. "The Brehon Laws" explores early Irish--or "Brehon"--law, which shaped everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland. It looks at the history, influences...

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A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851, Paperback - Henry David Thoreau

88,99 RON

Thoreau's journal of 1851 reveals profound ideas and observations in the making, including wonderful writing on the natural history of Concord. For...

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The Law and the Lady, Paperback - Wilkie Collins

81,99 RON

Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to sus...

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The Vivisector, Paperback - Patrick White

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of ...

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Italian Journey: 1786-1788, Paperback - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

81,99 RON

Goethe's account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-portrait of a genius in the gr...

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Culture and Society. 1780-1950, Paperback - Raymond Williams

69,99 RON

Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying t...

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Medievalism: A Critical History, Paperback - David Matthews

133,99 RON

DescriptionThe field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, ...

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Peer Gynt and Brand, Paperback - Henrik Ibsen

69,99 RON

Masterful versions of Ibsen's two great verse plays by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill These two masterly and contrasting verse dra...

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The Europeans: A Sketch, Paperback - Henry James

50,99 RON

An incomparable Henry James novel in a new edition Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals i...

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Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney, Paperback - Anonymous

56,99 RON

Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only medieval c...

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Lazarillo de Tormes and the Swindler: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels, Paperback - Anonymous

69,99 RON

The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy underworld populat...

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Framley Parsonage, Paperback - Anthony Trollope

56,99 RON

In the course of last century, Anthony Trollope's fictional county of Barset has become one of English literature's most 'real', most celebrated la...

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A Tiger for Malgudi and the Man-Eater of Malgudi, Paperback - R. K. Narayan

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

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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The Lawless Roads, Paperback - Graham Greene

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

Reducere. In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of...

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Rome and the Mediterranean: Books XXXI-XLV of the History of Rome from Its Foundation, Paperback - Titus Livy

113,99 RON

DescriptionBooks XXXI to XLV cover the years from 201 b.c. to 167 b.c., when Rome emerged as ruler of the Mediterranean. For more than seventy year...

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The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, Paperback - Ilya Ehrenburg

560,99 RON 600,99 RON

Reducere. The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a collection of eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other documents on the activi...

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Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words, Paperback - Jeremy Mynott

164,99 RON

Birds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and co...

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Literature and Revolution, Paperback - Leon Trotsky

168,99 RON 180,99 RON

Reducere. "Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky...

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Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, Paperback - Carl Lindahl

167,99 RON 179,99 RON

Reducere. Over a decade in the making, Medieval Folklore offers a wide-ranging guide to the lore of the Middle Ages--from the mundane to the supernatural. De...

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Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Paperback - Ian Convery

208,99 RON

The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups ...

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Peshtigo 1871: Peter Pernin's Peshtigo Fire Memoir The Finger of God Is There!, Paperback - Charles Mercier

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

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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Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, Paperback - Dimitra Fimi

264,99 RON 283,99 RON

Reducere. Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contempora...

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American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, Paperback - Benjamin Harshav

253,99 RON

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American l...

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Ancient Greek Divination, Paperback - Sarah Iles Johnston

297,99 RON 318,99 RON

Reducere. The first English-language survey of ancient Greek divinatory methods, Ancient Greek Divination offers a broad yet detailed treatment of the earlie...

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Essays in the Philosophy of History, Paperback - R. G. Collingwood

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. Published posthumously in 1965, this book contains various essays by R. G. Collingwood concerning history, philosophy, and their relationship. The ...

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Medieval English Travel. A Critical Anthology, Paperback - ***

193,99 RON

The first anthology dedicated to medieval English travel writing, with a focus on the later Middle Ages. It features concise introductory essays wr...

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Selected Prose and Prose-Poems, Paperback - Gabriela Mistral

205,99 RON 220,99 RON

Reducere. The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a heali...

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Lushootseed Texts: An Introduction to Puget Salish Narrative Aesthetics, Hardcover - Crisca Bierwert

317,99 RON

This volume introduces the oral literature of Native American peoples in Puget Salish speaking areas of western Washington. Seven stories told by L...

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No Star Too Beautiful: Yiddish Stories from 1382 to the Present, Paperback - Joachim Neugroschel

227,99 RON 243,99 RON

Reducere. First developed and written in medieval Germany, Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews all over Europe and later globally. Yiddish ...

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The Defense Of The Castle, A Story Of The Siege Of An English Castle In The Thirteenth Century, Paperback - Tudor Jenks

101,00 RON

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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A Middle English Vocabulary. Designed For Use With Sisam'S Fourteenth Century Verse And Prose, Paperback - J. R. R. Tolkien

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

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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Wittenwiler's Ring and the Anonymous Scots Poem Colkelbie Sow. Two Comic-Didactic Works from the Fifteenth Century, Paperback - ***

272,99 RON

Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-did...

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A Mad World, My Masters/Michaelmas Term/A Trick to Catch the Old One/No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's, Paperback - Thomas Middleton

73,99 RON

DescriptionThomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovati...

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The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales, Paperback - Marquis de Sade

56,99 RON

DescriptionThe name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is most foul in human c...

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World of Wonders, Paperback - Robertson Davies

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

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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How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories, Paperback - Leo Tolstoy

69,99 RON

DescriptionThese short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that charact...

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The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, Paperback - E. T. a. Hoffmann

69,99 RON

Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixe...

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Penrod, Paperback - Booth Tarkington

84,99 RON

A timeless novel in the spirited tradition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry FinnOne of the most popular American authors of the late...

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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Paperback - Sigmund Freud

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyd...

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The Death of Jim Loney, Paperback - James Welch

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. James Welch never shied away from depicting the lives of Native Americans damned by destiny and temperament to the margins of society. The Death of...

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Coriolanus, Paperback - William Shakespeare

46,00 RON

"O mother, mother What have you done?"--Coriolanus Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of t...

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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage, Hardcover - Vincent Carretta

158,99 RON

With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...

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A Thomas More Sourcebook, Paperback - Gerald B. Wegemer

254,99 RON 272,99 RON

Reducere. This Source Book brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More--poet, scholar, statesman, family man, educational reformer, philosopher, h...

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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry: Fourth Edition, Paperback - Gerald Moore

94,99 RON

A new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa "Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, " writes Gerald...

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The Small House at Allington, Paperback - Anthony Trollope

69,99 RON

The Small House At Allington (1864) is Anthony Trollope's fifth novel in the sequence that has become known as the Barsetshire series. Set against ...

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Under Western Eyes, Paperback - Joseph Conrad

75,99 RON

"It was I who removed de P- this morning." With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fel...

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A History of the Franks, Paperback - Gregory of Tours

94,99 RON

This colorful narrative of French history in the sixth century is a dramatic and detailed portrait of a period of political and religious turmoil. ...

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Buddhadhamma: Natural Laws and Values for Life, Paperback - Phra Prayudh Payutto

273,99 RON 293,99 RON

Reducere. Written by a Thai, Theravada monk who has been recognized for his scholarly achievements, Buddhadhamma is a modern distillation of pivotal doctrine...

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 3, Paperback - Edward Gibbon

125,99 RON

Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, iron...

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Bel-Ami, Paperback - Guy De Maupassant

62,99 RON

DescriptionYoung, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francais...

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As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in 11th-Century Japan, Paperback - Sarashina

69,99 RON

DescriptionBorn at the height of the Heian period, the pseudonymous Lady Sarashina reveals much about the Japanese literary tradition in this haunt...

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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, Paperback - Mary Seacole

62,99 RON

Written in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale...

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The Aswang Complex in Philippine Folklore, Paperback - Maximo D. Ramos

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Aswang Complex in Philippine Folklore: With Illustrative Accounts in Vernacular Texts and Translations.This book is a bold attempt t...

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King Alfred's English, a History of the Language We Speak and Why We Should Be Glad We Do, Paperback - Laurie J. White

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

Reducere. Aimed at students grades 7-12, King Alfred's English is an entertaining read for any age. This intriguing look at the development of our language i...

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Ravelstein, Paperback - Saul Bellow

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner's moving final novel Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow's moving last novel is a journe...

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Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son, Paperback - Sholem Aleichem

60,99 RON

For the 150th anniversary of the birth of the "Jewish Mark Twain, "a new translation of his most famous works Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Canto...

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Jason and the Argonauts, Paperback - Apollonius of Rhodes

60,99 RON

The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (als...

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The Homeric Hymns, Paperback - Homer

62,99 RON

Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They recount t...

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Six Records of a Floating Life, Paperback - Shen Fu

54,99 RON

Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated ...

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Shakespeare and the Arab World, Paperback - Katherine Hennessey

167,99 RON

Description Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this ...

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English Literature for Boys and Girls, Paperback - H. E. Marshall

122,99 RON 131,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionHenrietta Elizabeth Marshall was a British author, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children.

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Tanpinar's 'five Cities', Paperback - Ahmed Hamdi Tanpinar

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

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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First Italian Reader: A Dual-Language Book, Paperback - Stanley Appelbaum

72,99 RON

Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology edited especially for their needs. Ranging from the fou...

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One Hundred and One Famous Poems: With a Prose Supplement, Paperback - Roy Jay Cook

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis collection of one hundred and one famous poems is drawn from centuries of literature - it is a perfect introduction to the beautifu...

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The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez, Paperback - Ann Swinfen

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

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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Fables of Aesop, Paperback - Alexander Calder

50,99 RON 54,99 RON

Reducere. This Dover volume brings into general circulation for the first time a rare edition of Aesop's Fables issued in Paris in 1931 and limited to only 6...

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Botchan, Paperback - Natsume Soseki

65,99 RON

One of Japan's most treasured novels--new to Penguin Classics A hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country scho...

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Jewish Liturgy a Comprehensive Histor, Hardcover - Ismar Elbogen

397,99 RON 425,99 RON

Reducere. The Jewish prayer book, the sidur, is the longest continuous record of the history, philosophy, literature and ethics of the Jewish people. It has ...

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Malgudi Days, Paperback - R. K. Narayan

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

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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