Selected Writings - Rene Magritte

Reducere. Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations ...

Magritte's extraordinary late paintingsWhen RenMagritte reached his 40s, something unexpected happened. The painter, who had honed an iconic Surrea...

Thanks to Boswell's monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epi...

This is the only general anthology of Ruskin's writing currently available.Growing status of Ruskin as a major Victorian writer; his centenary in 2...

The first major biography for our time, from the celebrated biographer of Cezanne.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Alex DanchevIllustration(s...

Reducere. These classic translations of Montaigne are presented with the authoritative French text on facing pages and provide an introduction and extensive ...

Reducere. The Selected Poems of Rene Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet s wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism ...

The key writings of the explorer and scientist, studying South and Central American history, denouncing slavery, and other ideas pioneering in cont...

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas Hardy (1840-1...

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

A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about friendship from your favorite classic authors.Editor(s): Michele Mendelssohn

A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about food from your favorite classic authors.Editor(s): Annie Gray

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

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

These two volumes provide a translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. They are inten...

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...

A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about solitude from your favorite classic authors.Editor(s): Zachary Seager

Reducere. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, Paperback

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. One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty even to deny those things...

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, ...

A sparkling and up-to-date new cover for one of Fontana Press's strongest-selling titles.

Reducere. Excerpts from the novels, plays, and poems of the French convict, prostitute, and literary artist join notes from his film, The Penal Colony, lette...

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...

Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his la...

Magritte depicts the world of reality in such unsecretive superficiality that the beholder of his pictures is forced to reflect that the mystery of...

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 ...

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

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