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The English Language : A User's Guide
ISBN: 9781585101856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Updated and expanded from one of the most popular grammar sites on the web, this book provides a modern guide to English usage for the 21st century. With topics arranged alphabetically and written in an enjoyable and readable tone, The English Language: A User's Guide will help students and writers understand the nature of the language, explaining the 'why' of the rules as well as what constitutes good grammar and style. Going beyond the prescriptive wrong /right examples, Jack Lynch includes examples of weak/strong, good/better, disputed/preferred, and informal/formal usage.
Updated and expanded from one of the most popular grammar sites on the web, this book provides a modern guide to English usage for the 21st century. W...
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87,93 zł |
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The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800
ISBN: 9780199600809 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 750 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, 44 authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The contributors discuss poems in social contexts, poetic identities, poetic subjects, poetic form, poetic genres, poetic devices, and criticism. Even experts in eighteenth-century poetry will see familiar...
In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, 44...
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631,42 zł |
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Bragg V1: The Dead Never Forget, the Missing and the Dead, Pieces of Death
ISBN: 9781941298527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 686 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) BRAGG V1
The first three, powerhouse novels in Jack Lynch's Edgar Award-nominated and two-time Shamus Award-nominated Bragg series. Private investigator Peter Bragg learns that The Dead Never Forget when he's hired by a retired mobster to find out who is threatening his eleven-year-old daughter. Bragg's relentless search for The Missing and the Dead pits him against a brilliant serial killer obsessed with the expressions of death on his victim's faces. Edgar Award Finalist Bragg becomes the hunter and the hunted as killers descend on the city to find... BRAGG V1
The first three, powerhouse novels in Jack Lynch's Edgar Award-nominated and two-time Shamus Award-nominated Bragg series. ... |
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129,43 zł |
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Critical Insights: Benjamin Franklin: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587656408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Perhaps no figure is more central to the myth and promise of America than Benjamin Franklin. A true Renaissance man, Franklin conducted scientific experiments, wrote political satires and treatises, and is credited with numerous inventions. This title examines several facets of America's most famous polymath.
Perhaps no figure is more central to the myth and promise of America than Benjamin Franklin. A true Renaissance man, Franklin conducted scientific exp...
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425,24 zł |
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Critical Insights: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587656040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of the most studied authors in the English language. This volume in the Critical Insights series brings together some of the high points of the last half-decade of Hawthorne criticism. It offers a suitable starting point for those interested in studying this 19th century American literary master.
Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of the most studied authors in the English language. This volume in the Critical Insights series brings together some ...
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425,24 zł |
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Samuel Johnson in Context
ISBN: 9781107429574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Few authors benefit from being set in their contemporary context more than Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson in Context is a guide to his world, offering readers a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century life and culture as it relates to his work. Short, lively and eminently readable chapters illuminate not only Johnson's own life, writings and career, but the literary, critical, journalistic, social, political, scientific, artistic, medical and financial contexts in which his works came into being. Written by leading experts in Johnson and in eighteenth-century studies, these chapters offer...
Few authors benefit from being set in their contemporary context more than Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson in Context is a guide to his world, offering...
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220,38 zł |
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Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780754665281 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that forgery, fakery, and fraud make explicit the usually unspoken grounds on which Britons made sense of their world. Confrontations with inauthenticity, in other words, bring tacitly understood conceptions of reality to the surface. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary print and manuscript sources"not only books and pamphlets, but ballads, comic prints, legal proceedings, letters, and diaries"Lynch focuses on the debates they provoked, rather than the forgers...
In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that forgery, fakery, a...
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733,16 zł |
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The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800
ISBN: 9780198861348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 818 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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207,68 zł |
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Critical Insights: Dracula: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587656125 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Since its publication in 1897 Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print, and - while many monsters have come before Dracula, and many since - Stoker's vampire has taken on an iconic status. This volume in the Critical Insights series considers this Gothic classic from a variety of critical viewpoints.
Since its publication in 1897 Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print, and - while many monsters have come before Dracula, and many since - ...
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425,24 zł |
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Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined Our Language
ISBN: 9781567928075 / Twarda / 2024 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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250,48 zł |
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Critical Insights: The Canterbury Tales: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587657238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Considered one the English language's most masterful works, Geoffrey Chaucer's series of tales has managed to stay relevant and prominent for more than six hundred years. The essays in this set discuss several individual tales including the The Knight's Tale, the recurring use of irony in The Merchant's Tale, a feminist reading of The Wife of Bath's Tale, the idea of gender and eroticism in The Miller's Tale, and the anti-Semitism and representation of the Jews in The Prioress' Tale.
Considered one the English language's most masterful works, Geoffrey Chaucer's series of tales has managed to stay relevant and prominent for more tha...
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425,24 zł |
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Samuel Johnson in Context
ISBN: 9780521190107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A work of reference on 'the age of Johnson', putting literature in the context of the society that produced it.
A work of reference on 'the age of Johnson', putting literature in the context of the society that produced it.
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441,57 zł |
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The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson
ISBN: 9780521819077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put. He argues that scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics defined themselves in relation to "the last age" or "the age of Elizabeth." This interdisciplinary study is of interest to cultural as well as literary historians of the eighteenth century.
Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past w...
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423,05 zł |
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Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9781138261945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that forgery, fakery, and fraud make explicit the usually unspoken grounds on which Britons made sense of their world. Confrontations with inauthenticity, in other words, bring tacitly understood conceptions of reality to the surface. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary print and manuscript sources not only books and pamphlets, but ballads, comic prints, legal proceedings, letters, and diaries Lynch focuses on the debates they provoked, rather than the forgers...
In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that forgery, fakery, a...
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278,55 zł |
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Critical Insights: Jane Austen: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587656385 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) By all accounts, Jane Austen seems to have lived a quiet, circumscribed life. Never out of print, her six novels have attracted a legion of enthusiastic fans and spawned multiple unofficial sequels and prequels as well as television and film adaptations. This title brings together a variety of essays discussing Austen and her work.
By all accounts, Jane Austen seems to have lived a quiet, circumscribed life. Never out of print, her six novels have attracted a legion of enthusiast...
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425,24 zł |
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The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson
ISBN: 9780521143974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put. He argues that scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics defined themselves in relation to "the last age" or "the age of Elizabeth." This interdisciplinary study is of interest to cultural as well as literary historians of the eighteenth century.
Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past w...
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206,36 zł |
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The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual (Volume 24) Volume 24
ISBN: 9781684483013 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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650,08 zł |
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Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary
ISBN: 9780521848442 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, the first great English dictionary and one of the most famous books in the English language, appeared in April 1755. To commemorate the 250th anniversary, this volume brings together fourteen original essays by international scholars representing several disciplines: literature, lexicology, linguistics and bibliography. The essays explore familiar and unfamiliar aspects of Johnson's masterpiece, ranging from the history of patronage to the book's typographical design, from the political background to the treatment of compound words....
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, the first great English dictionary and one of the most famous books in the English language, appe...
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423,05 zł |
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Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary
ISBN: 9780521049887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A collection of original essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Dictionary.
A collection of original essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Dictionary.
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206,36 zł |
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Uncommon Sense
ISBN: 9780595095162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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38,35 zł |