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Satire
ISBN: 9780415480819 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a comic tool or a political weapon? Is Satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Combining thematic, theoretical and historical approaches, John Gilmore introduces and investigates the tradition of satire from classical models through to the present day. In a lucid and engaging style, Gilmore explores: the moral politics of satire whether satire is universal, historically or geographically limited how satire translates across genres and media the boundaries of free speech and legitimacy. Using examples including the literature...
What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a comic tool or a political weapon? Is Satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Com...
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615,96 |
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Sword of the Battle Priest
ISBN: 9781430325055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lucius Carabas and the Anti-Terrorist Task-Force, using a mixture of magic and military strategy, pursue the Terrorist Team from Delta Alpha Two-an empire building planet steeped in the arts of science and wizardry. The days seem dark and the Earth corrupted to the point of destruction. Having come through a nuclear war and arisen from the ashes as a new, beautiful planet, Earth, once again, falls prey to the wiles and corrupting influence of the Delta Alphans. The White Priesthood and Earth Forces are the only ones that can prevent the hostile take over and destruction of planet Earth, and...
Lucius Carabas and the Anti-Terrorist Task-Force, using a mixture of magic and military strategy, pursue the Terrorist Team from Delta Alpha Two-an em...
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65,43 |
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Two Moons on the New Horizon
ISBN: 9780578019659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Jericho's small comfortable life as a Chip technology professor at Prime University takes a quick turn when one of his creations, chip MlD, a chip designed to transmute matter and energy, creates a living body for itself and comes to life. He soon finds himself whirling through space and meeting with an advance species of beings known as the Imperial Ones, who are urging his empire, the Tek Empire, to become part of a federation of an empire more than 1,000 galaxies extending through space. Jericho moves from a world of academia and merging with his chip to a quick paced world of adventure.
Jericho's small comfortable life as a Chip technology professor at Prime University takes a quick turn when one of his creations, chip MlD, a chip des...
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87,72 |
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Fulfilling The Prophecies: Book Four of the Keran Chronicles
ISBN: 9781477550854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this Reverse Gender Sci-Fi novel, King Marlin, the first male ruler of the Purple Area, is placed in charge when his mother is defeated by the Black Area who knows that having a man leading an area will lead to scandal. A coup occurs as the women of Purple Area depose the royal leader of an area for the first time in Aquin history because of his gender. Marlin and his wife Laura are forces to begin a new area known as Rainbow Area, created to accept all outcasts and free thinkers as equals. Marlin and Laura struggle together to create a new area based on justice and equality with the help...
In this Reverse Gender Sci-Fi novel, King Marlin, the first male ruler of the Purple Area, is placed in charge when his mother is defeated by the Blac...
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52,33 |
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Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781611175837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ADVERTISEMENT. Richard Hurdis was held to be objectionable by many, if I may believe the language of the press, as too stern, gloomy and even savage of character. I know not how this may be, but I know that it was truthful, and drawn from the life. The story which succeeds, and which, in respect to the general mn- teriel, is its proper sequel, may be held censurable as in the other extreme. But it is no less...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR editio...
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157,69 |
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The Wigwam and the Cabin: The Arkansas Edition
ISBN: 9781557286246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Wigwam and the Cabin focuses on the Southern frontier that Simms knew so well, a frontier whose vernacular, courage, humor, folklore, violence, injustice, and beauty are vividly brought to life through the strokes of his pen. I have seen the life, Simms wrote, -- have lived it -- and much of my material...is the planter, the squatter, the Indian, the negro -- the bold and hardy pioneer, the vigorous yeomen -- these are the subjects. Simms's portrayal of frontier life is the more realistic and graphic in all nineteenth-century American...
Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Wigwam and the Cabin focuses on the Southern frontier that Simms knew so well, a frontier whose ...
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152,75 |
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Stories and Tales
ISBN: 9781611174816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 879 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, the Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina Libraries reissue authoritative editions of out of print works by William Gilmore Simms, antebellum South Carolina's preeminent man of letters. Full content from these volumes will also be available online via www.sc.edu/library. As part of the inaugural effort, the six volumes of The Letters of William Gilmore Simms-first published by USC Press between 1952 and 1982-are also being reissued in their first paperback editions. Each volume also includes a new scholarly...
In partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, the Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina Libraries reissue authoritative ...
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246,38 |
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An Early and Strong Sympathy : The Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms
ISBN: 9781570034411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Literary writings that reveal nineteenth-century perceptions of Native Americans; Novelist William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) and the Indians who lived in the southeast United States during the nineteenth century have shared a similar and unfortunate fate - both have been largely neglected in mainstream scholarship of literature and ethnohistory. In a volume that remedies this oversight, John Caldwell Guilds, an authority on Simms, and Charles Hudson, an authority on Southeastern Indians, collaborate to reveal fresh perspectives on both. They offer an anthology of Simms's writings that...
Literary writings that reveal nineteenth-century perceptions of Native Americans; Novelist William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) and the Indians who lived...
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197,11 |
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William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier
ISBN: 9780820350387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. William Gilmore Simms (1807-1870), the antebellum South's foremost author and cultural critic, was the first advocate of regionalism in the creation of national literature. Now being rediscovered by a new generation of scholars, Simms has come to be acknowledged as the ancestral father of modern southern literature. This collection of essays emphasizes his multifaceted portrayal of America's westward migration and examines his depictions of the frontier from traditional and theoretical perspectives. As a whole, these essays represent a tribute to Simms's achievement and versatility. This... William Gilmore Simms (1807-1870), the antebellum South's foremost author and cultural critic, was the first advocate of regionalism in the creatio... |
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178,92 |
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The Forayers: Or the Raid of the Dog Days
ISBN: 9781557287410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 590 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Historical novelist William Gilmore Simms first published The Forayers in 1855 at the peak of his reputation and ability. Simms had set out to create a prose epic through a series of linked novels detailing American history and struggles from early colonization to the mid-nineteenth century. The Forayers, which was the sixth book in his series of eight Revolutionary War novels set in the South, describes events around Orangeburg, South Carolina, before the Battle of Eutaw Springs (itself covered in this novel's sequel, Eutaw). It features such characters as Hell-fire Dick, a hardhearted,...
Historical novelist William Gilmore Simms first published The Forayers in 1855 at the peak of his reputation and ability. Simms had set out to create ...
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152,75 |
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