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Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes
ISBN: 9781443802116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jane Austen's novels remain among the best-loved works of English literature, both in her native Britain and throughout the world. They have inspired numerous sequels, prequels and spin-off volumes, and have been widely adapted for film and television. For generations of readers, Austen's novels have come to represent the essence of the Regency period, epitomising wit, elegance, and a vanished world of politeness and privilege, and harking back to a time of greater moral and social coherence. Austen is also a gentle satirist, justly celebrated for her ironically mocking depictions of the...
Jane Austen's novels remain among the best-loved works of English literature, both in her native Britain and throughout the world. They have inspired ...
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410,71 zł |
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The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson in 35 Volumes
ISBN: 9781443803519 / Angielski / Miękka / 10603 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Louis Stevenson has always been a writer's writer. Contemporaries like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry James were awed by his kaleidoscopic invention and the flawless English of his prose, while later authors like Somerset Maugham and Robertson Davies, drawn to the physical and psychological exotica of his subject, introduced him into their own writing-a quasi-postmodernist way of elevating their own status by alluding to his achievement and doffing their hats at the same time. Yet Stevenson was also, and perhaps foremost, a reader's writer, a phrase that has less currency but far greater...
Robert Louis Stevenson has always been a writer's writer. Contemporaries like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry James were awed by his kaleidoscopic invent...
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1797,02 zł |
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Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes
ISBN: 9781443805407 / Angielski / Twarda / 2150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jane Austen's novels remain among the best-loved works of English literature, both in her native Britain and throughout the world. They have inspired numerous sequels, prequels and spin-off volumes, and have been widely adapted for film and television. For generations of readers, Austen's novels have come to represent the essence of the Regency period, epitomising wit, elegance, and a vanished world of politeness and privilege, and harking back to a time of greater moral and social coherence. Austen is also a gentle satirist, justly celebrated for her ironically mocking depictions of the...
Jane Austen's novels remain among the best-loved works of English literature, both in her native Britain and throughout the world. They have inspired ...
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1232,23 zł |
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 32
ISBN: 9780933784345 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contempo...
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243,89 zł |
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The Novels and Selected Plays of Thomas Holcroft
ISBN: 9781851968015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2064 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Holcroft (1745 1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain and its literature in the 1790s."
Thomas Holcroft (1745 1809) was a key figure in the radical movement of the 1790s. This work is intended for scholars wanting to understand Britain an...
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2438,89 zł |
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Henry Fielding: The Complete Works in 10 Volumes
ISBN: 9781443819121 / Angielski / Miękka / 10 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Henry Fielding is a figure of great significance in English literature and in the history of his own time. A hard-working Justice of the Peace in London, he was involved in establishing England's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, and worked tirelessly to counter social and criminal abuses both on the bench and by writing on legal cases. He was also highly involved in politics, editing three political journals in turn and writing satires and burlesques for the stage which were only cut short by the introduction of theatre censorship. It is, however, Fielding's novels which have...
Henry Fielding is a figure of great significance in English literature and in the history of his own time. A hard-working Justice of the Peace in Lond...
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513,40 zł |
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Women's Writing of the Early Modern Period, 1588-1688: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780748610969 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This multi-genre anthology brings together a wide selection of women's writing from the early modern period. These include writings by Margaret Cavendish, Anna Trapnel, Aphra Behn, Mary Carleton, Mary Herbert, Jane Anger and Rachel Speght. The volume covers a representative range of public and private genres from drama, poetry, literary prose and polemical prose and care has been taken to balance extracts and complete texts.
This multi-genre anthology brings together a wide selection of women's writing from the early modern period. These include writings by Margaret Cavend...
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744,50 zł |
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Weir of Hermiston
ISBN: 9781542893695 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,41 zł |
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Burns and Other Poets
ISBN: 9780748664887 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New essays on Burns' special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary cultureIn this volume, 17 leading Burns scholars, poetry critics and practising poets reflect on the enduring significance of one of the most important poets of the 18th century. They show that Burns was a highly innovative and technically accomplished poet, as capable of transforming earlier traditions as of launching new literary trends. Looks at Burns' place amongst his literary predecessors, contemporaries and heirs, including: * Scottish poets such as Ramsay, Fergusson, Byron, Hogg, MacDiarmid, Paterson, Dunn &...
New essays on Burns' special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary cultureIn this volume, 17 leading Burns scholars, poetry critics and practi...
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128,31 zł |
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Pearl of Great Price: A Literary Translation of the Middle English Pearl
ISBN: 9780761859246 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Middle English poem Pearl is an elegy on the death of a child, written to provide consolation for the loss of a loved one through instruction in Christian theology. The mourning father's faith in God has been shaken by his daughter's death. Having fainted away on his daughter's grave, he is transported in a dream vision to an earthy paradise where he sees his daughter across a stream, transfigured and clothed in garments set with pearls. She explains to him her exalted status as a bride of Christ and shows him a vision of the New Jerusalem. Ravished with his vision, he attempts to cross...
The Middle English poem Pearl is an elegy on the death of a child, written to provide consolation for the loss of a loved one through instruction in C...
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266,27 zł |
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Sorrell and Son
ISBN: 9781781391495 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in England in the 1920s the story is about a fathers love, devotion and sacrifice for his beloved son. Captain Sorrell returns from the war to find his wife has left him with sole responsibility for their son Kit. He is forced to take work as a menial which affects both his dignity and his health. Despite many deprivations, Sorrell strives to ensure his son will have the education and opportunities he never had. His efforts pay off and Kit grows up to become a doctor. The book offers captivating insights into English society between the two World Wars.
Set in England in the 1920s the story is about a fathers love, devotion and sacrifice for his beloved son. Captain Sorrell returns from the war to fin...
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81,73 zł |
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Between Two Stools: Scatology and Its Representations in English Literature, Chaucer to Swift
ISBN: 9780719087943 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between two stools investigates the representation of scatology - humorous, carnivalesque, satirical, damning and otherwise - in English literature from the middle ages to the eighteenth century. While a number of recent publications have attempted to analyse the employment of scatology in literature, culture or the arts, they remain, to date, rare examples of a preparedness to discuss such material. This study is the first to consider the topic over such a long historical period, allowing a thorough and original exploration of its foundations and traditions.
Smith contends that the 'two... Between two stools investigates the representation of scatology - humorous, carnivalesque, satirical, damning and otherwise - in English literature fr...
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436,43 zł |
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J. K. Rowling
ISBN: 9780230008496 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vibrant and timely collection of brand new essays explores the complete Harry Potter series. The volume presents a variety of critical essays by a range of scholars, providing students with much needed guidance on how to approach these immensely popular texts and films, and how to tackle the complex concepts found within Rowling's world.
This vibrant and timely collection of brand new essays explores the complete Harry Potter series. The volume presents a variety of critical e...
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385,09 zł |
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Roald Dahl
ISBN: 9780230283602 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of brand new critical essays which explore the work of a much-loved and internationally-renowned author of children's literature
A collection of brand new critical essays which explore the work of a much-loved and internationally-renowned author of children's literature
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385,09 zł |
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C.S. Lewis
ISBN: 9780230301245 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. C. S. Lewis's seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of original, wide-ranging essays explores the past, present and future importance of The Chronicles of Narnia, providing the most current, and some of the most cutting-edge, research about this popular fantasy series.
C. S. Lewis's seven-book series about the fictional land of Narnia has become an irrefutable classic. This collection of original, wide-ranging essays...
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365,83 zł |
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Myles Away from Dublin
ISBN: 9781843512653 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Flann O'Brien wrote for the provincial National and Leinster Times, adopting the persona of George Knowall, the quizzical and endlessly enquiring country cousin of the metropolitan Myles of Dublin: it is these pieces that are collected in this volume.
Flann O'Brien wrote for the provincial National and Leinster Times, adopting the persona of George Knowall, the quizzical and endlessly enquiring coun...
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72,98 zł |
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The Criticism of Henry Fielding (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9780415617048 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding's criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs considerable light upon Fielding's own critical views, with regard both to his own works and to eighteenth century life and literature at large. The volume includes many of Fielding's well-known and important statements on literature, society and morals, as well as many which are now difficult to obtain. The selection presents the full range of Fielding's criticism, showing the relations between his statements concerning literature and his...
First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding's criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs ...
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243,84 zł |
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Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present
ISBN: 9780415617260 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guide is written by two of the leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature, and explores the influence of medieval cultural concepts on literature and film, including key authors such as Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Mark Twain.
This guide is written by two of the leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature, and explores the influence of medieval cultural concepts on ...
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707,28 zł |
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The Curious World of Dickens
ISBN: 9781851243846 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Dickens is among the greatest English novelists, and the power of his prose can be found in his portrayals of the harsh social realities of his time, from the depiction of poverty-stricken orphan Oliver Twist to the squalor of the slums and skewering of the justice system in Bleak House.
Published to celebrate the twohundredth anniversary of Dickens's birth, this book brings together quotations from Dickens's novels and letters with photographs of their original covers and Victorian-era images--among them, prints, posters, and newspaper pieces--that shed light on the topics... Charles Dickens is among the greatest English novelists, and the power of his prose can be found in his portrayals of the harsh social realities of hi...
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51,35 zł |
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Island Nights, Entertainments
ISBN: 9781542861953 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,49 zł |
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