The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction: Volume One
ISBN: 9781032701516 / Angielski / 26-11-2024 Książka dostępna od: 26-11-2024 |
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674,19 zł |
Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology
ISBN: 9780415147545 / Angielski / Twarda / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Classical Mythology in English Literature brings together a range of English versions of three classical myths. It allows students to explore the ways in which they have been reinterpreted and reinvented by writers throughout history. Beginning with a concise introduction to the principle Greco-Roman gods and heroes, the anthology then focuses on three stories:
* Orpheus, the great musician and his quest to free his wife Eurydice from death * Venus and Adonis, the love goddess and the beautiful youth she loved * Pygmalion, the master sculptor who fell in love with his... Classical Mythology in English Literature brings together a range of English versions of three classical myths. It allows students to explore...
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709,67 zł |
Arthurian Literature by Women: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780815333050 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of Arthurian poems, stories, and plays by women, from Marie de France to the present, all of which are either significant examples of Arthurian literature or innovative interpretations of Arthurian tradition. Rather than reproducing brief selections from contemporary novels that are readily available, the volume collects and reprints works that may have been overlooked by students of the Arthurian legend. The volume should be of interest to those studying or teaching women and the Arthurian legend or any other aspect of myth, fantasy, popular literature or women's studies.
A collection of Arthurian poems, stories, and plays by women, from Marie de France to the present, all of which are either significant examples of Art...
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709,67 zł |
Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance
ISBN: 9780195081961 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first collection ever assembled of the most distinctive, influential, and widely appreciated novels and short stories of the Harlem Renaissance, this anthology opens a window on one of the most extraordinary assertions of racial self-consciousness in Western literature. With an insightful introduction to provide historical context and a lucid biographical headnote about each of the authors, this volume brings together under one cover the Harlem Renaissance literature most widely taught. Short stories include "Sweat" (1926) and "The Gilded Six-Bits" (1933) by Zora Neale Hurston, Rudolph...
The first collection ever assembled of the most distinctive, influential, and widely appreciated novels and short stories of the Harlem Renaissance, t...
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710,49 zł |
Family of Fallen Leaves
ISBN: 9780820336008 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral questions about the physical, spiritual, and environmental consequences of war. Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed approximately twenty million gallons of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliants on Vietnam and Laos, exposing combatants and civilians from both sides to the deadly contaminant dioxin. Many of the exposed, and later their children, suffered from ailments including diabetes, cancer, and birth defects. This... This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral qu... |
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728,15 zł |
The Many Ways of Being Muslim
ISBN: 9780877276067 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This landmark collection brings together a range of short fiction written by Muslim Filipinos over nearly seven decades, beginning in the 1940s. As these stories reflect, Muslims in the predominantly Catholic Philippines have helped define the...
This landmark collection brings together a range of short fiction written by Muslim Filipinos over nearly seven decades, beginning in the 1940s. As th...
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782,17 zł |
The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918)
ISBN: 9780748624812 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the most dramatic upheavals in its political, economic and social history. The Union with England, industrialisation and Scotland's subsequent defining contributions throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the culture of Britain and Empire are reflected in the transformative energies of Scottish literature and literary institutions in the period. New genres, new concerns and whole new areas of interest opened under the creative scrutiny of sceptical minds. This second volume of the History reveals the major contribution made by...
Between 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the most dramatic upheavals in its political, economic and social history. The Union with England, ...
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814,81 zł |
The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918)
ISBN: 9780748624829 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History, explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents. It provides an accessible and refreshing picture of both the varieties of Scottish literatures and the kaleidoscopic versions of Scotland that mark literary...
In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of tha...
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814,81 zł |
The Rainy Spell and Other Korean Stories
ISBN: 9780765601384 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society. Three stories have been added to the original edition.
This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japane...
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814,81 zł |
The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (Until 1707)
ISBN: 9780748616152 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history,...
The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages o...
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814,81 zł |
Just Over A Dozen Short Stories: Personal Life Stories
ISBN: 9781791700942 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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890,76 zł |
Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology
ISBN: 9781644697214 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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984,91 zł |
American Short Stories Since 1945
ISBN: 9780195131321 / Angielski / Miękka / 896 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering significantly more comprehensive and inclusive coverage than similar anthologies, this excellent and varied collection features seventy-nine of the best American short stories written between 1945 and the present. Taken together, these stories document the ever-changing reality of American life since World War II--who we are, where we have been, and where we might be going. Striving to make this anthology representative of all the literary voices of the period, editor John G. Parks includes work from such acclaimed authors as Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Flannery O'Connor...
Offering significantly more comprehensive and inclusive coverage than similar anthologies, this excellent and varied collection features seventy-nine ...
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1098,43 zł |
All I Want In A Man
ISBN: 9798673148082 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1119,04 zł |
How Mark Twain Invented Ideas from His Names: I Want to Meet Your English Teacher
ISBN: 9781699057643 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1119,04 zł |
Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume I
ISBN: 9781516550029 / Angielski / Twarda / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1182,15 zł |
Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume II
ISBN: 9781516550111 / Angielski / Twarda / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1182,15 zł |
Mongolian Traditional Literature : An Anthology
ISBN: 9780710306548 / Angielski / Twarda / 870 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction to Mongolian literature, both oral and written, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, provides a rare insight into the changing worldviews-from clan society to Soviet culture-of the Mongolian people.
This introduction to Mongolian literature, both oral and written, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, provides a rare insight into the chan...
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1314,21 zł |