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Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet's Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales
ISBN: 9780472133444 / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,11 zł |
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An Introduction to Literary Debate in Late Medieval France
ISBN: 9780813069944 / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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326,81 zł |
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An Introduction to Jean Bodel
ISBN: 9780813079028 / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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326,81 zł |
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Old English Shorter Poems
ISBN: 9780674053069 / Staroangielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twenty-five poems and eleven metrical charms in this Old English volume offer tantalizing insights into the mental landscape of the Anglo-Saxons. The Wanderer and The Seafarer famously combine philosophical consolation with introspection to achieve a spiritual understanding of life as a journey. The Wife's Lament, The Husband's Message, and Wulf and Eadwacer direct a subjective lyrical intensity on the perennial themes of love, separation, and the passion for vengeance. From suffering comes wisdom, and these poems find meaning in the loss of fortune and...
The twenty-five poems and eleven metrical charms in this Old English volume offer tantalizing insights into the mental landscape of the Anglo-Saxons. ...
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153,78 zł |
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Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
ISBN: 9781949445022 / Arabski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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302,64 zł |
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Floris i Blancaflor de Robert d'Orbigny
ISBN: 9788409607280 / Kataloński Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,74 zł |
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The Charter Fragment and Pascon agan Arluth
ISBN: 9781782011828 / Cornish / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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206,94 zł |
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Beowulf: A Glossed Text
ISBN: 9780140433777 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classic tale of monster-hunting, dragon-fighting Beowulf, here in its original Old English
Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate his homeland. Through its blend of myth and history, Beowulf vividly evokes a twilight world in which men and supernatural... The classic tale of monster-hunting, dragon-fighting Beowulf, here in its original Old English
Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of l... |
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66,70 zł |
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Purgatorio
ISBN: 9780140448962 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second volume of Dante's epic, printed with the original Italian and Robin Kirkpatrick's sublime translation
Climbing out of Hell, Dante in the Purgatorio reaches an island set in the southern ocean. This is Mount Purgatory, where he encounters the penitents who heroically endure their sufferings and speak of their time on Earth. Strange and fresh at every turn, Dante's narrative evokes the mountain landscape in terms of intense physical sensation, right up to the summit. There, before rising to heaven, he enters the Earthly Paradise, where he is movingly reunited with... The second volume of Dante's epic, printed with the original Italian and Robin Kirkpatrick's sublime translation
Climbing out of Hell, Dan... |
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65,53 zł |
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An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds
ISBN: 9780231127608 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds is the first English verse translation of the Greek satirical poem Diegesis Paidiophrastos ton Zoon ton Tetrapodon. Written by an anonymous author in fourteenth-century Byzantium, this vernacular allegorical poem has long been recognized as a unique document, one that appears to have originated independently of comparable works in other traditions. A medieval Animal Farm, the story describes a convention of animals in which each beast vaunts its uses to humanity while denigrating others, resulting in a cataclysmic battle. The authors...
An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds is the first English verse translation of the Greek satirical poem Diegesis Paidiophrastos ton Zoon ton T...
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513,45 zł |
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An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds
ISBN: 9780231127615 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds is the first English verse translation of the Greek satirical poem Diegesis Paidiophrastos ton Zoon ton Tetrapodon. Written by an anonymous author in fourteenth-century Byzantium, this vernacular allegorical poem has long been recognized as a unique document, one that appears to have originated independently of comparable works in other traditions. A medieval Animal Farm, the story describes a convention of animals in which each beast vaunts its uses to humanity while denigrating others, resulting in a cataclysmic battle. The authors...
An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds is the first English verse translation of the Greek satirical poem Diegesis Paidiophrastos ton Zoon ton T...
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211,30 zł |
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Volume 3 and Volume 4: Purgatory: Italian Text with Verse Translation and Purgatory: Notes and Commentary
ISBN: 9780253336484 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 4 of Indiana s six-volume edition of Dante s Divine Comedy consists of Mark Musa s extensive commentary on the Purgatory. Enlightening for the general reader as well as the student of Italian or comparative literature. Volume 3 is the companion volume, a dual-language edition of Dante s Purgatory. "Volume 4 of Indiana s six-volume edition of Dante s Divine Comedy consists of Mark Musa s extensive commentary on the Purgatory. Enlightening for t... |
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365,83 zł |
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Chaucer Criticism, Volume 1: The Canterbury Tales
ISBN: 9780268000363 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,99 zł |
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Arthurian Romances, Tales, and Lyric Poetry: The Complete Works of Hartmann Von Aue
ISBN: 9780271021126 / Angielski / Miękka / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hartmann von Aue (c. 1170-1215) is universally recognized as the first medieval German poet to create world-class literature. He crafted German into a language of refined literary expression that paved the way for writers such as Gottfried von Strassburg, Walther von der Vogelweide, and Wolfram von Eschenbach. This volume presents the English reader for the first time with the complete works of Hartmann in readable, idiomatic English. Hartmann's literary efforts cover all the major genres and themes of medieval courtly literature. His Arthurian romances, Erec and Iwein, which... Hartmann von Aue (c. 1170-1215) is universally recognized as the first medieval German poet to create world-class literature. He crafted German int... |
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170,68 zł |
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Beowulf: A Prose Translation: Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
ISBN: 9780393974065 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with the historical, linguistic, and literary settings ofBeowulf, including Robert C. Hughes on the origins of the Old English language, E. Talbot Donaldson's presentation of the major features of Old English poetry, new material on Beowulf's tribes and genealogies, three maps, and a facsimile illustration of the manuscript. "Criticism" collects seven new and wide-ranging interpretations ofBeowulf by Fred C. Robinson, Roberta Frank, John D. Niles, Michael Lapidge, Joyce Hill, Helen Bennett, and Nicholas Howe. A Glossary of...
"Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with the historical, linguistic, and literary settings ofBeowulf, including Robert C. Hughes on t...
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58,49 zł |
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The Divine Comedy Selected Cantos: A Dual-Language Book
ISBN: 9780486411279 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Begun about 1307 and completed in 1321, Dante's sublime poetic masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy, " is one of the world's great works of literature. It comprises an extraordinarily vivid and imaginative account of the poet's allegorical journey through the afterlife. Complementing its depiction of the world beyond, the poem's abundant allusions to earthly history and politics, vivid portrayals of Dante's friends and enemies, and many references to contemporary Italian affairs make it an intensely human, realistic portrait of life on earth.
Led in his travels by the classical poet Virgil,... Begun about 1307 and completed in 1321, Dante's sublime poetic masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy, " is one of the world's great works of literature. It ...
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85,71 zł |
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Hymns, Prayers, and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry
ISBN: 9780788501579 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,02 zł |
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Inferno
ISBN: 9780812970067 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Translated by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Dore A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante's key sources and influences. Translated by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Dore A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante's masterpiece that includes a sub... |
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65,51 zł |
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The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9781590171141 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This startling new translation of Dante's Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland's most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also reproducing the intricate rhyme-scheme that is so essential to the beauty and power of Dante's epic, Carson's virtuosic rendering of the Inferno is that rare thing a translation with the heft and force of a true English poem. Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid, Ciaran Carson's Inferno is an extraordinary modern response to one of the great...
This startling new translation of Dante's Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland's most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a...
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65,32 zł |