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The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney
ISBN: 9780199558223 / Angielski / Twarda / 1464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Philip Sidney is one of the most important authors of the Elizabethan era. He died at the age of 31 and in that time wrote the first great English novel, the Arcadia; the first major Petrarchan sonnet-sequence in English, the Astrophil and Stella; and the first important English critical text, the Defence of Poesy. His short life was extraordinarily eventful. He was the son of the Viceroy of Ireland and the nephew and heir of the Queen's favourite, the Earl of Leicester. At 17 he began a three-year tour of Europe, during which he was received at the Court of France, decorated by the...
Sir Philip Sidney is one of the most important authors of the Elizabethan era. He died at the age of 31 and in that time wrote the first great English...
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The Letters of Adam Marsh: Volume II
ISBN: 9780199575848 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first Franciscan friar to occupy a chair of theology at Oxford, Adam Marsh became famous both in England and on the continent as one of the foremost Biblical scholars of his time. He moved with equal assurance in the world of politics and the scholastic world of the university. Few men without official position can have had their advice so eagerly sought by so many in high places. He was counselor to King Henry III and the queen, the spiritual director of Simon de Montfort and his wife, the devoted friend and counselor of Robert Grosseteste, and consultant to the rulers of the Franciscan...
The first Franciscan friar to occupy a chair of theology at Oxford, Adam Marsh became famous both in England and on the continent as one of the foremo...
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Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895-1958
ISBN: 9780199587643 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book comprises a selection of some 750 letters of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, selected from an extant corpus of about 3,300. The letters are arranged chronologically and have been chosen to provide a cumulative pen-picture of the composer in his own words. In general the letters reflect VW's major preoccupations: musical, personal and political. It was not VW's way to discuss his inner creative processes but he does discuss his music, once it had been written: for example there is much to illustrate the process of 'washing the face' of his major pieces before, and after, they...
The book comprises a selection of some 750 letters of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, selected from an extant corpus of about 3,300. The letters...
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349,66 |
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Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s
ISBN: 9780520247802 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary is an insider s view of the film studios of the 1920sand the first from a secretary s perspective. Rich in gossip, it is also an eyewitness report of Hollywood in transition. In the summer of 1924, Valeria Belletti and her friend Irma visited California, but instead of returning home to New York, the twenty-six-year-old Valeria decided to stay in Los Angeles. She moved into the YWCA, landed a job as Samuel Goldwyn's personal and social secretary and proceeded to trip over history in the making. As she recounts in her dozens of letters to Irma,...
Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary is an insider s view of the film studios of the 1920sand the first from a secretary s perspective. Rich in ...
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194,85 |
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A Diary from Dixie: As Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861 (1
ISBN: 9780548856208 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia...
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168,11 |
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Albert Einstein, the Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
ISBN: 9780691160238 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as to a Colorado banker who asked whether Einstein believed in a personal God. Witty rhymes, an exchange with Queen Elizabeth of Belgium about fine music, and expressions of his devotion to Zionism are but some of the highlights found in this warm and enriching book. Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archi... |
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77,28 |
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A Diary of The Lady : My First Year As Editor
ISBN: 9780718192327 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Rachel Johnson was appointed the new editor of the oldest women's weekly magazine in the world, she was facing the challenge of her career. This is Rachel's hilarious, and at times suicidally frank, account of her first year in charge at The Lady.
When Rachel Johnson was appointed the new editor of the oldest women's weekly magazine in the world, she was facing the challenge of her career. This ...
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87,59 |
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From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943?45
ISBN: 9780752446080 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The period from 1943 to 1945 saw some of the most important events of World War II, and few were fully aware of the decisions that were to affect the outcome of this global conflict. Yet, a young wartime secretary, Olive Christopherson, spent this remarkable time working in Churchill's famous Cabinet War Rooms. She became one of a tiny inner circle of people party to the political secrets of the crucial final years of the conflict. Working for long hours in an underground bunker opposite St. James' Park, Olive wrote a series of letters to her fiance filled with incredible details about the...
The period from 1943 to 1945 saw some of the most important events of World War II, and few were fully aware of the decisions that were to affect the ...
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55,31 |
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Twain: Letters from Hawaii
ISBN: 9780824802882 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever. --Mark Twain I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration... |
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 20, 1872
ISBN: 9781107038448 / Angielski / Twarda / 904 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 20 includes letters from 1872, the year in which The expression of the...
This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. N...
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544,53 |
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Lectures On Rhetoric And Belles Letters
ISBN: 9781428644076 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia...
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211,26 |
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The Book Beautiful: Walter Pater and the House of MacMillan
ISBN: 9781472513359 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The letters collected here comprise an important chapter in the life of Walter Pater's literary career. They record in great detail the relations between this Victorian man of letters and his publisher, Macmillan and Co. Specifically they illustrate how such discussions affected the form as well as the content of his books. The book provides a very full illustration and analysis of the crucial influence of the author-publisher relationship to literature. The letters collected here comprise an important chapter in the life of Walter Pater's literary career. They record in great detail the relations b... |
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Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)
ISBN: 9781551118086 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The appendices alone provide material for an entire course, linking [the text] to literary, philosophical, sentimental, and feminist concerns. An unparalleled achievement for Wollstonecraft scholarship." -- Mary Favret, Indiana University, Bloomington
"The appendices alone provide material for an entire course, linking [the text] to literary, philosophical, sentimental, and feminist concerns. An unp...
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116,32 |
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The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763)
ISBN: 9781554810420 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A pioneering woman traveler's impressions of Turkey are collected with a wealth of contemporary historical documents in this edition.
A pioneering woman traveler's impressions of Turkey are collected with a wealth of contemporary historical documents in this edition.
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146,69 |
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French Arthurian Literature V: The Lay of Mantel
ISBN: 9781843843382 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Text with facing translation of an undeservedly neglected, humorous French lay, in which the women of Arthur's court have their virtue challenged by a magic mantle.
Text with facing translation of an undeservedly neglected, humorous French lay, in which the women of Arthur's court have their virtue challenged by a...
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318,35 |
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Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010
ISBN: 9781846684005 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chris Mullin's bestselling 'A View From the Foothills' provided a riveting insider's account of life as a junior minister. Funny and self-deprecating, the new diaries run from his sacking by Blair as a minister after the 2005 elections to Election Day 2010 as he prepares to step down after 23 years as an MP.
Chris Mullin's bestselling 'A View From the Foothills' provided a riveting insider's account of life as a junior minister. Funny and self-deprecating,...
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75,44 |
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Travels in the South of France: Introduction by Victor Brombert
ISBN: 9781847492920 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhal's travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities such as Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseilles, peppered with numerous personal digressions, anecdotes and cultural musings. Both an addition to the Stendhalian canon and a pioneering work of the travel-writing genre, Travels in the South of France provides an illuminating perspective on this popular region and the phenomenon of tourism in general.
Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhal's travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities such as Bordeaux, Toulou...
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Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of his Life and Writings, Composed by Himself
ISBN: 9781108072168 / Angielski / Miękka / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the death of Edward Gibbon (1737 94), his unpublished papers were left to his friend John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield, who published them in two volumes in 1796. Gibbon had written six manuscript accounts of his own life, and, according to Sheffield, had always intended to publish his autobiography in his lifetime. The memoir as edited by Sheffield begins with Gibbon's family history, and taking in his education, travels, and career as a historian, finishes with his anxiety over the future of Europe in 1788. Sheffield then continues the story until Gibbon's death through his...
On the death of Edward Gibbon (1737 94), his unpublished papers were left to his friend John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield, who published the...
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456,09 |
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A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine : The Last Diaries
ISBN: 9780099564959 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tony Benn's diaries chronicle both the public and the personal events of the last decade of his life at Westminster and his retirement thereafter.
Tony Benn's diaries chronicle both the public and the personal events of the last decade of his life at Westminster and his retirement thereafter.
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82,44 |
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Art & Letters July-Winter 1918: 2 Volumes
ISBN: 9780415761062 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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186,06 |
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