wyszukanych pozycji: 62
The English Opium-Eater : A Biography of Thomas De Quincey
ISBN: 9780753827895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Thomas De Quincey was a man who engaged with nearly every facet of literary culture and his writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, William Burroughs and Peter Ackroyd. This biography argues for the critical importance and enduring value of this neglected critic, essayist and biographer.
Thomas De Quincey was a man who engaged with nearly every facet of literary culture and his writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Cha...
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82,48 zł |
Things That Don't Matter
ISBN: 9780359081714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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42,65 zł |
The Red Pulpit
ISBN: 9781843279402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rob Morrison's life altered unaccountably in a single night. He woke up one morning with schizophrenia. How could he handle it? What did this mean? One look at his face in the mirror while he was scraping away with his razor confirmed every detail of the woe and distress he was feeling inside. How on earth could he recover? For much of his time, while utterly insane, Rob expected help from a divine agency. Eventually he regained his sanity, not from religion but with the help of dedicated support workers, counsellors and clinicians. This is the story of a man dragged back from the abyss by...
Rob Morrison's life altered unaccountably in a single night. He woke up one morning with schizophrenia. How could he handle it? What did this mean? On...
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63,26 zł |
Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Nizam Al-Din Al-Nisaburi
ISBN: 9780415663991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to explain the cross-fertilization of scientific and religious thought in Islamic civilization. Nisaburi did not consider himself a scientist alone, being commissioned by his patrons to work in a variety of fields. Islam and Science examines in detail the relationship between the metaphysics of Nisaburi's science, and statements he made in his Qur'an commentary and in other non-scientific writings. Sources suggest that Nisaburi was inspired to... In examining the work of eminent fourteenth century Iranian Shiite scholar Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi, this book is the first rigorous attempt to exp... |
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229,93 zł |
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
ISBN: 9780393249057 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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132,00 zł |
English Opium-Eater: A Biography of Thomas de Quincey
ISBN: 9781605982809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Author of the scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. His friendships with leading poets and men of letters in the Romantic and Victorian periods including William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge have long placed him at the center of nineteenth century literary studies. His writing was a tremendous influence on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and William Burroughs. De Quincey is a topical figure for other reasons, too: a self-mythologizing autobiographer whose attitudes to drug-induced... Author of the scandalous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) has long lacked a full-fledged biography. Hi... |
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101,97 zł |
Men are the thing to fear
ISBN: 9781312012479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. History sometimes suggests that the only thing worse than a man without a purpose is a man with one. Be that as it may, Danny Kaneen, failed novelist, womanizer, part-time gourmet chef and problem drinker, is unwittingly and hilariously failing his way toward a better understanding of the suffering world, right here in the benighted landscape of the American masses. He's stumbling toward a purpose. Together with his unscrupulous lawyer friend Dale Credenza, Danny is unwittingly on a collision course with human need. And with love. Look out. Be afraid. Such discoveries don't always have the...
History sometimes suggests that the only thing worse than a man without a purpose is a man with one. Be that as it may, Danny Kaneen, failed novelist,...
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95,26 zł |
The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 1: Periodical Essays, 1805-14
ISBN: 9781138763142 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of...
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679,50 zł |
Thomas de Quincey: New Theoretical and Critical Directions
ISBN: 9780415876681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey and the burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the Romantic age and beyond necessitates a critical examination of De Quincey. In this spirit, ten of the top De Quincey scholars in the world have come together in this volume to engage directly with the immense amount of new information to be published on De Quincey in the past two decades. The book features wide-ranging and incisive assessments of De Quincey as essayist, addict, economist, subversive, biographer, autobiographer, aesthete, innovator, hedonist, and... The ongoing critical fascination with Thomas De Quincey and the burgeoning recognition of the centrality of his writings to the Romantic age and be... |
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240,39 zł |
The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 6: Poetical Works, 1822-59
ISBN: 9781138763197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of...
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679,50 zł |
The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 2: Periodical Essays, 1815-21
ISBN: 9781138763159 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of...
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679,50 zł |
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780415268509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Robert Morrison sets Pride and Prejudice within the social contexts of female conduct books and political tales of terror and traces criticism of the novel from the nineteenth century to the present, including material on the 1995 film adaptation. Extensive introductory comment and annotation complement extracts from critical and contextual texts. The book concludes with fourteen widely studied passages from Pride and Prejudice, reprinted with editorial comment.
Robert Morrison sets Pride and Prejudice within the social contexts of female conduct books and political tales of terror and traces criticis...
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104,49 zł |
A parting memorial, consisting of Miscellaneous Discourses
ISBN: 9783747703847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 475 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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109,87 zł |
The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 5: Poetical Works, 1801-21
ISBN: 9781138763180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of...
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679,50 zł |
Thomas de Quincey: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780199676897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 658 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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637,65 zł |
The Selected Writings of Leigh Hunt Vol 4: Later Literary Essays
ISBN: 9781138763173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of Hunt's poetry, and an extensive selection of his periodical essays.
This edition makes available in a single edition all of Hunt's major works, fully annotated and with a consolidated index. The set will include all of...
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679,50 zł |
Shipping Container Homes: Beginner's Guide To Building Your Own Shipping Container Home: (How To Build a Small Home, Foundation For Container Ho
ISBN: 9781979267533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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39,76 zł |
Arden House: Books 1 and 2
ISBN: 9780986272301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Arden House follows the adventures of Autumn and Latin through a post apocalyptic mid Atlantic landscape as they escape from trouble in the only home either has ever known. In their travels they come across the Quaker town of Arden nestled in the woods of northern Delaware. They take refuge there and try to help the struggling village survive while finding their place in a harsh new world.
Arden House follows the adventures of Autumn and Latin through a post apocalyptic mid Atlantic landscape as they escape from trouble in the only home ...
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63,47 zł |
The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World
ISBN: 9781786491251 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Superb' The Economist 'Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising' New York Times The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world. The Regency began on 5 February 1811 when the Prince of Wales replaced his violently insane father George III as the sovereign de facto. It ended on 29 January 1820, when George III died and the Prince Regent became King as George IV. At the centre of the era is of course the Regent himself, who was vilified by the masses for his selfishness and...
'Superb' The Economist 'Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising' New York Times The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain -...
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66,92 zł |
An Alt Tale
ISBN: 9781500332341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,28 zł |