The Wisdom of the Ancients (Dodo Press), Paperback - Francis Bacon

Reducere. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban (1561-1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. He is also known as a proponent of the scien...

Modern Entomologic book of the early twentieth century by the physicist and botanist Jean-Henri Fabre. He is considered by many to be the father of...

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Francis Bacon's New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging e...

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This authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing--the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces ...

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Reducere. DescriptionWilhelm Hauff (1802-1827) was a German poet and novelist. Considering his brief life, he was an extraordinarily prolific writer. The fre...

Catharine Parr Traill, nee Strickland (1802-1899) was a British author who wrote about life as a settler in Canada. Traill began writing children's...

Rose Amy Fyleman (1877-1957) was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on the fairy folk, for children. Her poem There Are Fairies at the...

Husband and wife, Ernest Cobb (1877-1964) and Bertha Browning Cobb (1867-1951), were American children's book authors. They founded the Arlo Publis...

Reducere. Collection of poems from the American poet and literary critic whose works celebrated the natural world and his religious faith and who was killed ...

Reducere. Mary "May" Morris (1862-1938) was an English artisan, embroidery designer, socialist, and editor. May learned to embroider from her mother and her ...

Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) was a British author. From Westminster School, he passed to Christ Church, Oxford. Already he was busy over tales...

Reducere. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (later called mus...

Dorothy Miller Richardson (1873-1957) was the first writer to publish an English-language novel using what was to become known as the stream-of-con...

Reducere. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell née Stevenson (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer duri...

Reducere. Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output. She was devoted to the Church of England, and much influenced...

Reducere. "Everybody dreams, but there are few who place any importance to the phenomena of sleep. Before we can begin to comprehend or even analyze dreams, ...

Reducere. Constance Goddard Du Bois (1889-1934) was an American novelist and an ethnographer, writing extensively between 1899 and 1908 about the native peop...

"THIS book is dedicated to the public - to the public which feels, the public which reflects. Which feels for the miseries and sufferings of our po...

Publisher: Dodo PressAuthor(s): George EliotNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 181 x 227 x 3Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

Publisher: Dodo PressAuthor(s): John EvelynNumber of pages: 124Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 13Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

Reducere. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564), war ein italienischer Maler, Bildhauer, Architekt und Dichter. Michelangelo war der bedeute...

Reducere. Arabella B. Buckley (1840-1929), also known as Mrs. Fisher, was a writer and science educator. She was born in Brighton, England. At 24 she went to...

Reducere. A study on the nature and power of thoughts this is the most well-known book of the prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator.

Examines how the similarities of symbols and wisdom across many cultures point to an ancient civilizing plan and system of ancient instruction

DescriptionNahum Tate (1652-1715) was an Irish poet, hymnist, and lyricist, who became England's poet laureate in 1692. He published a volume of po...

Reducere. DescriptionKahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese American of Assyrian descent, an artist, poet and writer. He was born Gibran Khalil Gibran in L...

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Reducere. Publisher: Dodo PressAuthor(s): Thomas Love PeacockNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 229 x 154 x 6Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) was a British artist and writer. Brooke was born on Sept. 24, 1862, in Birkenhead, England. His skillful and witt...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work is an interesting fusion of two basic types of content- first and foremost, pieces of mythology from the Greek and Roman tradi...

Reducere. The Essays (1625) is a collection of writings by Francis Bacon, one of England's most prominent philosophers and scientists whose work was central ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John O'BrienMonsignor Patrick Joseph Hartigan (1878-1952) was an Australian Roman Catholic priest, educator, author and poe...

Reducere. Marie Carmichael Stopes, Sc. D., Ph. D. (1880- 1958) was a Scottish author, eugenicist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of f...

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Reducere. Arabella B. Buckley (1840-1929), also known as Mrs. Fisher, was a writer and science educator. She was born in Brighton, England. At 24 she went to...

Reducere. Blanche Fisher Wright was the illustrator of The Real Mother Goose, originally published in 1916. Mother Goose is a well-known figure in the litera...

Reducere. Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) was a novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and...

Reducere. Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in ...