Soundings in the History of a Hope. Selected Essays, Paperback - Richard Schenk

The essays in this volume examine interreligious relationality, hope and doubt, human labour and mortality, structures of nature, movements of hist...

Contains essays that convey the enduring nature of the questions raised by the work of David Brading. These essays reflect a range of his interests...

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

Aspects of the turbulent rule of Richard II freshly examined.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 15 b/w illus.Number of pages: 324Publi...

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. Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality--that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to hi...

Reducere. TRAGEDY AND HOPE shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of t...

'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essa...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Ol...

Describes the activities of the explorers and map-makers of Renaissance and early modern Europe; the role of geography during the Scientific Revolu...

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius...

In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written sinc...

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first timeErich Auerbach (1892-1...

Reducere. A stirring testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of music, Violins of Hope tells the remarkable stories of violins played by ...

Publisher: Ariadne PressAuthor(s): Adolf LoosTranslator: Michael MitchellNumber of pages: 204Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 217 x 140 x 13Cover ...

Reducere. One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our soc...

Reducere. Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century...

Facets of Wuthering Heights is a collection of essays by one author concerned to throw critical light on several different facets of Emily Bronte's...

Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known th...

Reducere. Denise Levertov's New & Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are various poe...

Reducere. "Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship." - ChoiceIn a 1979 Frank Capra letter to the author, the director wrote, in part, " I thorough...

DescriptionH.D's writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collect...

Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This collection of his diverse essays includes appreci...

Reducere. First produced in 1713, Cato: A Tragedy inspired generations toward a pursuit of liberty. Liberty Fund's new edition of Cato: A Tragedy, and Select...

Reducere. Deeply learned, and with a style all his own, Marco Grassi is as at home with Duccio as he is with Norton Simon; Bronzino as with Bernard Berenson;...

Reducere. In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900--1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of th...

Reducere. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters a...

Reducere. A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desertOccupying a space between traditional natu...

Focuses on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity.

Reducere. Wounds and disease were as devastating on the battlefields of the ancient world as they are today. In an age of bloody combat, how did physicians a...

Reducere. Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important essays by Richard Berstein. Each focuses on the work of a thinker or group of thinkers at the ...

``This booklet, based on original materials culled from archives in the United States and in the Russian Federation, treats a little known aspect o...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this important new volume we see the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb at the height of his powers. Widely recognised in his native ...