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A Middle English Anthology
ISBN: 9780814317983 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reissue of the popular 1969 volume, this anthology covers a wide range of Middle English literature. Selections are numerous enough to allow professors great variation in the readings for individual courses. The supplementary references include comparative media, since literature forms only a part of the whole cultural context. Ann Haskell has not altered the language into a common mold. She has, however, supplied punctuation, capitalization, and accent marks when necessary to aid in comprehension by the inexperienced reader.
A reissue of the popular 1969 volume, this anthology covers a wide range of Middle English literature. Selections are numerous enough to allow prof... |
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184,40 zł |
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An Olaf Stapledon Reader
ISBN: 9780815604303 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Olaf Stapledon, philosopher, novelist, educator and social activist, had an imagination unlike that of any other figure in modernist literature. This broad anthology includes a generous sample of his fictional gems, as well as other writings including essays, poems and letters.
Olaf Stapledon, philosopher, novelist, educator and social activist, had an imagination unlike that of any other figure in modernist literature. This ...
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84,63 zł |
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The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X, 10: With Variant Readings and Annotations
ISBN: 9780821413005 / Angielski / Twarda / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X" contains critical editions of "Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides and Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society." Both published in 1871, these two long poems take up a pair of subjects that held enduring fascination for Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: classical Greek literature and the career of Napoleon III, Emperor of France. "Balaustion's Adventure," which the poet characterized as merely a May-month amusement, was surprisingly successful with the reading public that paid more attention to Browning...
"The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X" contains critical editions of "Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides and Pri...
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392,70 zł |
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The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XV, 15: With Variant Readings and Annotations
ISBN: 9780821417270 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1880s, the aging Browning showed once again the remarkable versatility of his lyric and narrative talents. Ranging across eras and cultures, the books here reveal his late thoughts about history, myth, legend, faith, love, and desire. He had never been more popular, and the founding of the BrowningSociety in 1881 expanded both his audience and his sense of his place in English letters.The first title in Volume XV is Dramatic Idylls, Second Series (1880). Taking his subjects from classical history, colonial India, Arabian legend, medieval sorcery, Jewish folk tales, and Greek myth,...
In the 1880s, the aging Browning showed once again the remarkable versatility of his lyric and narrative talents. Ranging across eras and cultures, th...
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392,70 zł |
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H.G. Wells Reader: A Complete Anthology from Science Fiction to Social Satire
ISBN: 9780878333066 / Angielski / Miękka / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of H.G. Wells' fiction presents short stories, excerpts from his novels (The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and more), and three complete novels (including The First Men in the Moon).
This collection of H.G. Wells' fiction presents short stories, excerpts from his novels (The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Wo...
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84,63 zł |
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Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History Vol.5
ISBN: 9780944473603 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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190,04 zł |
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Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9781403963185 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, historical and literary studies, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known or her novels, The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and incomparable writings about English country houses and gardens. Here, for the first time, is an anthology that represents the full expanse of her interests and styles. Over half of the works, including...
Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the...
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118,73 zł |
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The English Novel: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781405117067 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day.
Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel...
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736,48 zł |
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West Irish Folk-Tales and Romances
ISBN: 9781410101839 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Larminie (1849-1900, Irish poet and folklorist; was an India Office civil servant who after his retirement conducted folklore fieldwork in Donegal, Mayo, and Galway.
William Larminie (1849-1900, Irish poet and folklorist; was an India Office civil servant who after his retirement conducted folklore fieldwork in Don...
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104,48 zł |
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Social and Literary Speeches of Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781410102027 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,97 zł |
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Epigrams, Phrases, and Philosophies
ISBN: 9781410225009 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oscar Wilde---the famous Irish poet, author, playwright and raconteur---was born in Dublin, October 15, 1856 and died in Paris, November 30, 1900. He wrote The Birthday of the Infanta, Vera, Poems, The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Guido Ferranti, The Duchess of Padua, Intentions, Essays, Lord Arthur Savile's Crimes and Other Stories, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, The Importance of Being Earnest; and others.
Oscar Wilde---the famous Irish poet, author, playwright and raconteur---was born in Dublin, October 15, 1856 and died in Paris, November 30, 1900. He ...
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61,72 zł |
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Intentions
ISBN: 9781421807843 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - CYRIL (coming in through the open window from the terrace). My dear Vivian, don't coop yourself up all day in the library. It is a perfectly lovely afternoon. The air is exquisite. There is a mist upon the woods, like the purple bloom upon a plum. Let us go and lie on the grass and smoke cigarettes and enjoy Nature. VIVIAN. Enjoy Nature! I am glad to say that I have entirely lost that faculty. People tell us that Art makes us love...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLi...
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132,79 zł |
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Monday or Tuesday
ISBN: 9781421807997 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whatever hour you woke there was a door shunting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure - a ghostly couple. 'Here we left it," she said. And he added, 'Oh, but here too!" 'It's upstairs," she murmured. 'And in the garden," he whispered 'Quietly," they said, 'or we shall wake them." But it wasn't that you woke us. Oh, no. 'They're looking for it; they're drawing the curtain," one might say, and so read on a page or two. 'Now they've found it," one would be certain, stopping the pencil on the margin. And then, tired of reading, one might rise and...
Whatever hour you woke there was a door shunting. From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure - a ghostly coup...
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128,04 zł |
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G.K. Chesterton: Essential Writings
ISBN: 9781570754951 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. G.K.Chesterton (1874-1936), was one of the great Catholic writers of the twentieth century. He brought a distinctive Catholic perspective to scores of books and articles - even to the genre of detective novels in the famous Father Brown mysteries. As this collection shows, Chestertons writing contains a spiritual dimension. In his ability to combine matters of great seriousness with great humour the contours of his distinctive and "paradoxical" spirituality emerge.
G.K.Chesterton (1874-1936), was one of the great Catholic writers of the twentieth century. He brought a distinctive Catholic perspective to scores o...
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80,60 zł |
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The Works of Rudyard Kipling: Volume I
ISBN: 9781588278142 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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178,47 zł |
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Intentions
ISBN: 9781595403346 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - CYRIL (coming in through the open window from the terrace). My dear Vivian, don't coop yourself up all day in the library. It is a perfectly lovely afternoon. The air is exquisite. There is a mist upon the woods, like the purple bloom upon a plum. Let us go and lie on the grass and smoke cigarettes and enjoy Nature. VIVIAN. Enjoy Nature! I am glad to say...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Societ...
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61,53 zł |
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Intentions by Oscar Wilde, Literary Collections, Essays, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN: 9781598188530 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Decay of Lying" -- from 1889 -- is an essay couched as a dialogue that Wilde once called it a "trumpet against the gate of dullness." The substance revolves around Wilde's Aestheticism, and he argues (through one character and another) that Art is superior to Nature. . . . "Pen, Pencil and Poison" -- from 1889 -- is a biographical essay on the notorious writer, murderer and forger Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, who used the pen name "Janus Weathercock" and here Wilde puts forward the notion that that Wainewright's criminality reveals the soul of a true artist. In "The Critic as... "The Decay of Lying" -- from 1889 -- is an essay couched as a dialogue that Wilde once called it a "trumpet against the gate of dullness." The subs... |
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63,42 zł |
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Outsiders Looking in: The Rossettis Then and Now
ISBN: 9781843311058 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume demonstrate how the Rossettis from the celebrated Dante Gabriel and Christina to the comparatively neglected Maria and William drew upon a shared cultural experience, and describe how each contributed to the intellectual debates of the age and played a substantial role in their various fields. Bringing together significant contributions from some of the most renowned experts on the Rossettis, Outsiders Looking In provides important new perspectives on this talented family and their brilliant legacy."
The essays in this volume demonstrate how the Rossettis from the celebrated Dante Gabriel and Christina to the comparatively neglected Maria and Willi...
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648,82 zł |
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Outsiders Looking in: The Rossettis Then and Now
ISBN: 9781843311065 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume demonstrate how the Rossettis from the celebrated Dante Gabriel and Christina to the comparatively neglected Maria and William drew upon a shared cultural experience, and describe how each contributed to the intellectual debates of the age and played a substantial role in their various fields. Bringing together significant contributions from some of the most renowned experts on the Rossettis, Outsiders Looking In provides important new perspectives on this talented family and their brilliant legacy."
The essays in this volume demonstrate how the Rossettis from the celebrated Dante Gabriel and Christina to the comparatively neglected Maria and Willi...
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116,66 zł |
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John Henry Newman: Selected Writings to 1845
ISBN: 9781857545456 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This selection from the most productive Christian pen of the 19th century is also an introduction to one of its most compelling and troubled minds. John Henry Newman (1801-1891) was a dominant figure in both the Anglican and the Roman Catholic churches. His writings and his human presence in Oxford and elsewhere had an abiding impact on both communions and contribute still to the spirit of ecumenicism.
This selection from the most productive Christian pen of the 19th century is also an introduction to one of its most compelling and troubled minds. Jo...
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54,12 zł |