A History of English Literature

Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, Paperback - Black Hawk

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Reducere. A rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication Upon its publication i...

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Kyoto: A Literary Guide, Paperback - John Dougill

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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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The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary, Paperback - Brandon W. Hawk

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The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew is one of the most important witnesses in Western Europe to apocryphal stories about the lives of Mary, Joseph, Jesus,...

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Shakespeare and the Arab World, Paperback - Katherine Hennessey

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On Tangled Paths, Paperback - Theodor Fontane

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DescriptionA moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor Fontane In...

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A Reader's Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov's the Master and Margarita, Paperback - J. a. E. Curtis

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

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On Painting, Paperback - Leon Battista Alberti

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DescriptionArtist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On ...

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From Antisemitism to Anti-Zionism: The Past & Present of a Lethal Ideology, Paperback - Eunice G. Pollack

297,99 RON 318,99 RON

Reducere. Leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to examine, disentangle,...

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The Divine Comedy, Paperback - Dante Alighieri

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. A stunning 3-in-1 deluxe edition of one of the great works of Western literature An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, ...

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The Black Tulip, Paperback - Alexandre Dumas Pere

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Cornelius von Baerle lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But when his powerful godfather ...

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The Religious Affections, Paperback - Jonathan Edwards

86,99 RON 93,99 RON

Reducere. In one of the unsurpassed religious masterpieces produced by an American writer, Jonathan Edwards distinguishes between true and false religion by ...

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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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Kobzar, Hardcover - Taras Shevchenko

222,99 RON 238,99 RON

Reducere. Masterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the co...

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Study Guide to Beowulf, Paperback - ***

57,99 RON 62,99 RON

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Beowulf, considered by some to be representative of the earlies...

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Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, Paperback - Sinclair Lewis

88,99 RON

Sinclair Lewis's barbed portrait of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, shattered the myth of the American Middle West as God's Country and became a symbol ...

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The Bronts and War: Fantasy and Conflict in Charlotte and Branwell Bront's Youthful Writings, Hardcover - Emma Butcher

555,99 RON

This book explores the representations of militarisim and masculinity in Charlotte and Branwell Bront 's youthful writings. It offers insight into ...

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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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The Saga of the People of Laxardal and Bolli Bollason's Tale, Paperback - Anonymous

62,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: AnonymousTranslator: Keneva KunzEditor: Bergljot S. KristjansdottirThe Penguin Classics list of medieval sagas grows ever m...

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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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A Harlot High and Low, Paperback - Honore De Balzac

81,99 RON

DescriptionFinance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this powerful novel, which int...

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Study Guide to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Paperback - ***

58,99 RON 63,99 RON

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, arguably the most famo...

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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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Scarlet and the Beast I: A history of the war between English and French Freemasonry, Paperback - John Daniel

257,99 RON 276,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMy research has revealed that there are two separate and opposing powers in Freemasonry. One, headquartered in London, subscribes to and...

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Cat's Cradle: Cat in Scotland, Paperback - Julia Golding

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFollowing the multi award-winning "The Diamond of Drury Lane, " here we present the sixth volume from our famous feisty heroine Cat Roya...

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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Paperback - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

155,99 RON

First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of lit...

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The Holocaust and North Africa, Paperback - Aomar Boum

249,99 RON 267,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through...

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The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret, Paperback - Jacques Derrida

136,99 RON

The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the...

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The Story of the Glittering Plain - A Book That Inspired Tolkien: With Original Illustrations, Paperback - William Morris

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

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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Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Paperback - Geneva Cobb Moore

147,99 RON

The first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the world. In Bodily ...

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The Satires of Horace and Persius, Paperback - Horace

69,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: HoraceAuthor: PersiusTranslator: Rudd PersiusInspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert F...

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Early Irish Myths and Sagas, Paperback - ***

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First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world--part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with...

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The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale, Paperback - Charles Dickens

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The story of Little Nell and her "tragedy of sorrows, " told in a blend of realism and fairy-tale The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell,...

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30 Great Myths about Jane Austen, Paperback - Claudia L. Johnson

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

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...

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Studs Lonigan, Paperback - James T. Farrell

169,99 RON 181,99 RON

Reducere. Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell's renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The You...

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Sympathy for the Devil, Paperback - Kent Anderson

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

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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Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, Paperback - Maurice LeBlanc

63,99 RON

Leblanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat - witty, charming, brilliant, sly ... and...

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The Odyssey, Paperback - Homer

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The epic tale of Odysseus's journey home - one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature If the Iliad is the world's greatest war ep...

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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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Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth, Paperback - Charles Beauclerk

96,00 RON

It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most-enduring works of literature in the English language, perhaps in any languag...

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On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Paperback - Jack Kerouac

109,99 RON

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his...

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King Henry VI Part 1: Third Series, Paperback - William Shakespeare

95,99 RON

A fresh look at a play usually regarded as the first component of a three-part historical epic, this edition argues that Henry VI Part 1 is a 'preq...

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Gadamer on Celan: "who Am I and Who Are You?" and Other Essays, Paperback - Hans-Georg Gadamer

253,99 RON 271,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionGadamer on Celan makes all of Hans-Georg Gadamer's published writings on Paul Celan's poetry available in English for the first time. Ga...

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The Counterfeit Heiress: A Lady Emily Mystery, Paperback - Tasha Alexander

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Reducere. In Tasha Alexander's novel The Counterfeit Heiress, after an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder i...

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The Story of the Stone, Volume I: The Golden Days, Chapters 1-26, Paperback - Cao Xueqin

94,99 RON

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Div...

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Studies in Hysteria, Paperback - Sigmund Freud

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

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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The Story of the Stone, Volume III: The Warning Voice, Chapters 54-80, Paperback - Cao Xueqin

100,99 RON

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Div...

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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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Rooms of One's Own: 50 Places That Made Literary History, Hardcover - Adrian Mourby

81,99 RON

Writers' relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where the...

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Samuel Becket's Waiting for Godot and the Theater of the Absurd: "Nothing is certain - What makes Samuel Beckett's absurdist play to one of the most a

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

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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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Tales of the Pacific, Paperback - Jack London

64,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Jack LondonIntroduction by: Andrew SinclairAfterword by: Andrew SinclairIf you know London primarily through novels like Wh...

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Heart of Darkness, Paperback (5th Ed.) - Joseph Conrad

188,99 RON 202,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph ConradEditor: Paul B. Armstrong- A newly edited text based on the first English book edition (1902), the last versio...

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The Penguin Book of First World War Stories, Paperback - Various

81,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: VariousEditor: Barbara KorteEditor: Ann-Marie EinhausAn anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famou...

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The Adventures Of Maya The Bee: Translated By Adele Szold Seltzer With Poems Done Into English By Arthur Guiterman - Waldemar Bonsels

67,99 RON 72,99 RON

Reducere. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an at...

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Othello: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Edition, Volume 7, Paperback - ***

51,99 RON 70,99 RON

Reducere. Shakespeare everyone can understand--now in new DELUXE editions Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-lin...

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Waterloo: The French Perspective, Paperback - Andrew W. Field

107,99 RON

DescriptionThe story of the Battle of Waterloo - of the ultimate defeat of Napoleon and the French, the triumph of Wellington, Bl cher and their al...

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The Diamond of Drury Lane: Cat in London, Paperback - Julia Golding

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

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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The Marrow of Tradition, Paperback - Charles W. Chesnutt

88,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Charles W. ChesnuttIntroduction by: Eric J. SundquistNotes by: Eric J. SundquistThis novel is based on a historically accur...

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The Hammer of Witches, Paperback - Christopher S. MacKay

255,99 RON

The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486-7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early moder...

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Murder at Mansfield Park, Paperback - Lynn Shepherd

103,99 RON

"Nobody, I believe, has ever found it possible to like the heroine of Mansfield Park." --Lionel TrillingIn this ingenious new twist on Mansfield Pa...

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The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic, Paperback - Ramesh Menon

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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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Melmoth the Wanderer, Paperback - Charles Robert Maturin

81,99 RON

'My hour is come ... the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears 'Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth...

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Two Lives of Charlemagne, Paperback - Einhard

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Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one ...

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Chronicles, Paperback - Jean Froissart

81,99 RON

DescriptionOne of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and FranceDepicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from th...

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What Is Art', Paperback - Leo Tolstoy

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Contributor(s): Author: Leo TolstoyThis profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of m...

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Paperback - Shirley Jackson

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Reducere. Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isola...

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The Mirror of My Heart (Bilingual Edition): A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women, Hardcover - Dick Davis

514,99 RON 551,99 RON

Reducere. This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart - the poems in Persian and English on facing pages - is a unique and captivating collection in...

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The Rainbow, Paperback - D. H. Lawrence

56,99 RON

Set in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow revolves around three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than sixty years, ...

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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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Complete Poems - Dorothy Parker

117,18 RON 130,20 RON

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...

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