Selected Writings, Paperback - John Ruskin

John Ruskin was the most powerful and influential art critic and social commentator of the Victorian nineteenth century. A true polymath, he wrote ...

DescriptionThe most influential art theorist and critic of his age, an outstanding man of letters, a sensitive painter and draughtsman, Ruskin's so...

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Keats (1795-182...

This book serves as an introduction to Newman's Anglican years, as a man and as a Christian, revealed through a selection of his prose.Publisher: C...

Simplicity in forms of worship, opposition to violence, and the importance of compassionate living and thoughtful listening are hallmarks of the sp...

Reducere. This selection from over a dozen books covers the spirituality of the desert, Carretto's reflections on God, the church, prayer, engagement with th...

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Algernon Charles Swi...

Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationAuthor(s): Guillaume ApollinaireTranslator: Roger ShattuckNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 198...

Robin Murray (1940-2017) was a radical economist whose work spanned fair trade, industrial strategy and technological change. This special collecti...

Reducere. This volume contains carefully chosen texts that give a picture of the "essential" St. John of the Cross (1542-1591), a Spanish Carmelite. Included...

The first entirely new translation of Galileo's major writings for more than fifty years, this marvelous volume includes selections from all of his...

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama and art, biographer, ...

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In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries,...

A writer who defies categorization, Daniil Kharms has come to be regarded as an essential artist of the modernist avant-garde. This selection of pr...

In this edition of Ernst-Wolfgang Boeckenfoerde's definitive work in constitutionalism, law and politics, readers have access to the legal discours...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): James S. DeardenIllustration(s): illustrations (some color), bibliography, indexNumber of pages: 64C...

Reducere. A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus be...

"Artaud remains one of the significant and influential theorists of modern theatre."--Gerald Rabkin, Rutgers University

Reducere. Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) made a critically significant contribution to the evolution of the modernist short story in Britain. His unexplain...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Heinrich Von KleistNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 218 x 142 x 25Cover type: ...

Anna Freud was one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis, whose pioneering work in child analysis and devel...

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 ...

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Reducere. The Pope Emeritus is starting to speak again, and has decided to make available this collection of his homilies, most previously unpublished, in wh...

Reducere. Thomas More is perhaps most familiar to us from his courageous struggle with Henry VIII, unforgettably portrayed in Robert Bolt's classic, A Man fo...

Reducere. Here is an essential collection of essays and speeches from 1889 to 1933, long unavailable in the United States, on women's equality, labor, peace ...

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): Halftones, black and white; Halftones, colorPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 36Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's ...

The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, vol. 1 inaugurates a multivolume documentary edition that will, for the first ...

In Praise of Nahum Tate covers a wide range of reading experiences including poetry, short stories, reviews and politics. It features an eclectic p...

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Reducere. 'People do not understand German, but I will not write for them in journalese ...' Karl Kraus (1874-1936) ranks as one the greatest twentieth-centu...

Essays and conversations from the unclassifiable American advocate for surrealism and predecessor of pop art, William N. CopleyFor readers interest...

This collection enables the reader to engage with the full range of Georg Simmel's dazzling contributions to the study of culture. It opens with hi...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): E (Ed) GriffinNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 136 x 203 x 12Cover type: Pap...