Dead Souls (Wordsworth Classics)

Reducere. For readers of Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark's Loitering with Intent, this sublime and delightfully unhinged metaphysical mys...

With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers ...

This collection brings together Jane Austen's earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her pre...

An extraordinary debut novel from an award-winning poet, about poets, plagiarism, love, technology, feuds and affairs, cancellation and revenge, an...

The sixth DI Kim Stone thriller forces her to work alongside a detective with whom she has a troubled past to get to the bottom of a series of bodi...

An extraordinary debut novel from an award-winning poet, about poets, plagiarism, love, technology, feuds and affairs, cancellation and revenge, an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Angela MarsonsThe truth was dead and buried...until now. When a collection of human bones is unearthed during a routine arc...

A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls, " the serfs wh...

A comic satire first published in 1842, one of the great masterpeices of Russian literature.

The tenth Inspector Rebus novel from 'Britain's best crime novelist' DAILY EXPRESS.

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is ...

Reducere. The Souls of Black Folk, originally published in 1903, contains a number of groundbreaking essays on race and race relations by scholar and activis...

Translated by Constance Garnett With an introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. The House of the Dead is a stark account of Dostoyevsky's own experience o...

Reducere. Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world--so she sought out the best obits in the English langua...

Reducere. 'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.'Dramat...

Reducere. "Throughout his long career, Frederick Douglass cut an imposing figure, renowned as an impassioned abolitionist, a fiery writer and newspaper edito...

First published in 1842, "Dead Souls" is the story of Chichikov, a young middle-class gentleman who comes to a small town in Russia with a dubious ...

Reducere. Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The purpose...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript with cursive hieroglyphs and illustrations created c. 1250 BCE, in the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom o...

Reducere. The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript with cursive hieroglyphs and illustrations created c. 1250 BCE, in the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom o...

William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his ...

Reducere. There is no death in the Osirian religion, only decay and change, and periodic renewal; only evolution and transformation in the domain of matter a...

Reducere. DescriptionOswald Chambers reveals the psychological processes in the Bible, framing his commentary through the Biblical concept of the soul, man, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Damien MecheriAuthor: Sylvain RomieuIf the Dark Souls series managed to seduce players and journalists, it was mainly by wo...

A beautiful 60th anniversary special edition of the first George Smiley novel, now with a new introduction by John le CarreAfter a routine security...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

Reducere. Of all the lasting innovations that William Wordsworth (1770-1850) brought to our literature, it is his discovery of nature and his fresh vision of...

Reducere. From the introduction by Seamus Heaney: Wordsworth's power over us stems from the manifest strength of his efforts to integrate several strenuous a...

A series of 6 great nature poets, published in conjunction with the National Trust. In each collection, a contemporary poet selects and introduces ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A second edition of Stephen Gill's acclaimed biography William Wordsworth: A Life. Completely revised and updated, this edition explores the whole ...

Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and fest...

I mean to show things really as they are, not as they ought to be', wrote Byron (1788-1824) in his comic masterpiece Don Juan, which follows the ad...

Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 son...

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. In 1798 he published the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge, settling shortly after...

Written by his collateral descendant, sculptor Andrew Wordsworth, this insightful biography studies Wordsworth's poetry to understand more fully th...