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This book reviews and analyses the modern history of Kuwait by telling the story of Abd al-Aziz Sa'ud al-Babtain (b. 1936), a businessman, philanth...

A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil's Aeneid restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone ...

Reducere. The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant--and neglected--science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King ...

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 ...

Reducere. A stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first publishe...

Reducere. Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in F. Sionil José's classic Rosales Saga. The saga, begun in José's novel Dus...

Reducere. When Matthew Lewis's The Monk was published in 1796, readers were shocked by this gripping and horrific novel. Lewis's story, which drove the House...

Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry has engaged with the early medieva...

Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry has engaged with the early medieva...

A historical romance with an activist heart, and an impassioned critique of U.S. expansionism--with an introduction by Ana Castillo, author of So F...

The classic novel that continues to haunt our understanding of ambition, love, entitlement, and the American Dream--with an exclusive discussion gu...

Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon--with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation "5 ...

The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women--with an introduction by Ti...

Reducere. A new translation by Adam Thorpe Gustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." In this acclaimed new translation, Adam Thorp...

Reducere. When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine...

Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the Roman, th...

The radiant, posthumous second novel by the visionary author of Invisible Man, featuring an introduction and a new postscript by Ralph Ellison's li...

Reducere. From the Civil Rights Movement to the present day, Americans have protested against police brutality. Protesting Police Violence in Modern America ...

Reducere. El Príncipe Enrique de Gales, también conocido como Príncipe Harry, es el segundo hijo de Carlos, Príncipe de Gales, y la Princesa Diana. Tras sufr...

Reducere. Racial bias, both implicit and explicit, is easy to see in American news media. Race and the Media in Modern America explores differences in report...

Reducere. Prince Henry of Wales, also known as Prince Harry, is the second son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Princess Diana. After enduring the death of h...

Reducere. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and there is great racial inequality in the criminal justice system. Race and Po...

A contemporary guide to 35 popular heritage herbs and flowers, inspired by the original herbals in the British Library's collection with fruitful s...

One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and di...

Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea, Paperback

Reducere. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Paperback

Reducere. Introduction by Kaye Gibbons Edited and with notes by Nina Baym Commentary by Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charlotte Perkins Gi...

Reducere. This work provides a comprehensive examination of the life and professional career of E.J Josey within the broader historical and political landsca...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one o...

Reducere. From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The ...

Reducere. 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 ...

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 ...

Racism is a problem deeply rooted in American society. Slavery and segregation may no longer be legal, but their legacies still influence the way B...

Reducere. Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation - The electrifying collected works of "one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets...

"I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me."--The Comedy of Errors Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fres...

Reducere. " Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being, " said novelist Milan Kundera. "And yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?"-...

Reducere. The beloved characters--mortal and immortal--of Topper return in this uproarious romp through the south of France. One of Thorne Smith's best-loved...

Reducere. Timeless meditations on the subjects of wine, parties, birthdays, love, and friendship, Horace's Odes, in the words of classicist Donald Carne-Ross...

This unique collection of Twain's essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author's vast imagination. Feat...

Reducere. A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw th...

Reducere. Self-published in 1899 and sold door-to-door by the author, this classic African-American novel--a gripping exploration of oppression, miscegenatio...

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

Reducere. If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species's ...

One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter's Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jea...

Reducere. A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way - Roger Angell on the art of the martini - Don DeLillo on Jell-O - Malcolm Gladwell...

Reducere. "If 2001 has stirred your emotions, your subconscious, your mythological yearnings, then it has succeeded."--Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick's extr...

Reducere. With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the...

Reducere. Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history,...

Reducere. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...

DescriptionA new edition of Kate Chopin's controversial masterpiece, an essential novel in the canon of early feminism--with an introduction by Car...

Reducere. Introduction by A. Walton Litz "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of t...

Reducere. DescriptionOft quoted but seldom credited, Charles Dudley Warner's My Summer in a Garden is a classic of American garden writing and was a seminal ...

Reducere. In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing...

Reducere. "A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre."--Teju Cole, The New Yorker German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative autho...

Reducere. Introduction by JEREMY TREGLOWN"In his daily walks through London, " notes Jeremy Treglown in his Introduction to this collection, "Pritchett watch...

The Gospel is more than information about the death and resurrection of our Lord. It is an invitation to enter, by way of personal faith, into a re...

Reducere. This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter s...

Reducere. For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only ...

The dramatic concluding months of The Wars of the Roses provide the setting for Shakespeare's incomparable saga of power and intrigue. Under the ed...

Reducere. Introduction by Edward J. Larson Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry, The Origin of Species sold out...

More than any other writer of the twentieth century, Henri Poincar brought the elegant, but often complicated, ideas about science and mathematics ...

"In The Confidence-Man, " writes John Bryant in his Introduction, "Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the ...

Reducere. The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in ...

Reducere. "Balzac was] the master unequalled in the art of painting humanity as it exists in modern society, " wrote George Sand. "He searched and dared ever...

Reducere. In Basic Teachings of the Buddha, Glenn Wallis selects sixteen essential dialogues drawn from more than five thousand Pali-dialect suttas of the Bu...

Reducere. Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection un...

Reducere. "We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story, " reflected Clifton Fadiman. "In these vi...

Reducere. Franklin's Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, bu...

DescriptionOne of Hardy's most powerful novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henc...

Reducere. DescriptionSet during World War I on an isolated country estate just outside London, Rebecca West's haunting novel The Return of the Soldier follow...