wyszukanych pozycji: 10
The Making of Percy's Reliques
ISBN: 9780198184591 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Thomas Percy's Reliques (1765) is one of the founding texts of English literature, an epoch-making collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined the canon of popular poetry and dramatically influenced Romanticism. This is the first monograph devoted to Percy's seminal work. It unravels Percy's working methods and examines his correspondence, library, and papers.
Thomas Percy's Reliques (1765) is one of the founding texts of English literature, an epoch-making collection of historical and lyrical ballads that d...
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1293,77 zł |
The Vampire: A New History
ISBN: 9780300254839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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71,47 zł |
Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide
ISBN: 9781848311152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think. Nick Groom and Piero explore how Shakespeare became so famous and influential, and why he is still widely considered the greatest writer ever. They investigate how the Bard has been worshiped at different times and in different places, used and abused to cultural and political ends, and the roots of intense...
Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire...
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46,32 zł |
Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today
ISBN: 9781639365036 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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139,10 zł |
The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag
ISBN: 9781786491480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The first history of the icon used by everyone from the royalty to pop stars, revised and updated.
The first history of the icon used by everyone from the royalty to pop stars, revised and updated.
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61,76 zł |
The Italian
ISBN: 9780198704430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presence dominates a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration in the dreadful dungeons of the Inquisition. Uncertainty and doubt lie everywhere, in Radcliffe's last and most unnerving novel.
Ann Radcliffe defined the "terror" genre of writing and helped to establish the Gothic novel, thrilling readers with... Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in ki...
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51,46 zł |
The Monk
ISBN: 9780198704454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.'
The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, is overwhelmed with desire for a young girl; once having abandoned his monastic vows he begins a terrible descent into immorality and violence. His appalling fall from grace embraces blasphemy, black magic, torture, rape, and murder, and places his... 'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.'
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43,21 zł |
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today
ISBN: 9781838957001 / Miękka / 2023 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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66,92 zł |
Coastal Works: Culture of the Atlantic Edge
ISBN: 9780198795155 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical: a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. This collection presents a series of essays that create new contexts for coastal study in literary history and criticism.
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical: a s...
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417,30 zł |
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199586790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home decor and contemporary fashion. This Very Short Introduction captures the history of the Gothic from ancient times to the present. It covers the sack of Rome by the barbarian tribes, mediaeval architecture, popular culture in the sixteenth century (including ballads and Revenge Tragedy), political theories of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the...
The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock mu...
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46,32 zł |