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  • Orbit
    Jon Judy
    The creators behind the legends of Spider-Man, Superman, Wonder Woman, and more were hardly overnight successes. Read the collected biographies of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and William M. Marston, the creative forces behind the superheroes that started a revolution in graphic fiction storytelling. First time in print! ...
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    23,44 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume IX
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    7,94 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume X
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    9,08 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume XII
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    9,15 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume V
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    6,91 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume IV
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    8,06 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume III
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    9,18 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume II
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    9,91 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume I
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    10,60 €

  • Memoirs of Casanova Volume VII
    Giacomo Casanova
    Memoirs of Casanova (1792) is the autobiography of Italian adventure and socialite Giacomo Casanova. Written at the end of his life, the Memoirs capture the experiences of one of Europe’s most notorious figures, a man whose escapades as a gambler, womanizer, and socialite are matched only by his unique gift for sharing them with the world. More than perhaps any other man, Casan...
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    8,03 €

  • St. Simons Memoir
    Eugenia Price
    Her joyous remembrance of her first decade on an enchanted islandAnd of those cherished friends who inspired her best-selling trilogy, Lighthouse, New Moon Rising, and Beloved Invader. After only a few golden hours on Georgia’s St. Simons Island, Eugenia Price longed to make it her home. Even though she loved her old town house in Chicago, and her busy writing and lecturing sch...
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    23,55 €

  • St. Simons Memoir
    Eugenia Price
    Her joyous remembrance of her first decade on an enchanted islandAnd of those cherished friends who inspired her best-selling trilogy, Lighthouse, New Moon Rising, and Beloved Invader. After only a few golden hours on Georgia’s St. Simons Island, Eugenia Price longed to make it her home. Even though she loved her old town house in Chicago, and her busy writing and lecturing sch...
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    15,68 €

  • The Celtic Twilight
    William Butler Yeats
    The Celtic Twilight (1893) is a collection of stories written and edited by W.B. Yeats. Compiled at the height of the Celtic Twilight, a movement to revive the myths and traditions of Ancient Ireland, The Celtic Twilight captures a wide range of stories, songs, poems, and firsthand accounts from artists and storytellers dedicated to the preservation of Irish culture.In 'Belief ...
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    17,08 €

  • How I Became an Englishman
    John Peter
    Peter had recently turned eighteen when he heard rumours that a demonstration was going to take place that day. He and his classmates of his prestigious school were instructed not to attend, which naturally made them all the more eager to do so. ...
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    10,44 €

  • Charles Baudelaire - A Study of His Life and Poetry
    Various
    Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821–1867) was a French poet, art critic, and essayist who was among the first people to translate the work of Edgar Allen Poe. Baudelaire’s wonderful poems are known for their masterful use of rhyme and rhythm which, together with their Romantic exoticism, inspired a whole generation of poets including Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Malla...
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    21,28 €

  • The Story of Yone Noguchi
    Yone Noguchi
    The Story of Yone Noguchi (1914) is a memoir by Yone Noguchi. Both a leading modernist poet in English and Japanese and a dedicated literary critic who advocated for the cross-pollination of national poetries, Yone Noguchi lived an extraordinary life. In clear prose and with a confidence earned through decades of dedication to literature, he tells his own story and reflects on ...
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    9,91 €

  • Canada’s Storytellers
    Andrew David David Irvine / Andrew David Irvine
    The definitive bibliography of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards.Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Antonine Maillet, Carol Shields, Marie-Claire Blais, Gilles Vigneault... For over three quarters of a century, the Governor General’s Literary Awards have been instrumental in recognizing many of Canada’s best authors, illustrators and translators. The resu...
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    94,47 €

  • The Poetical Works of George Herbert
    George Herbert
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    32,49 €

  • The Poetical Works of George Herbert
    George Herbert
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    54,18 €

  • The Best of Orwell - A Collection of Essays
    George Orwell
    Collected in this volume are the finest essays by George Orwell, one of the greatest British writers of the twentieth century, spanning a diverse range of topics from writing and literature to travel and politics. Known for having strong opinions on the subject of literature, many of the best examples of Orwell’s reviews, criticisms, and writings on language are featured in th...
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    29,52 €

  • Homage to Catalonia
    George Orwell
    As the world shuddered on the brink of World War Two, the Spanish Civil War broke out. Set in 1936, this seminal memoir recounts George Orwell’s time spent volunteering in the Republican army. First published in 1938, this is the personal account of Orwell’s service in the Spanish communist Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). Homage to Catalonia is a fantastically de...
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    24,37 €

  • Down and Out in Paris and London
    George Orwell
    A fascinating and thought-provoking insight into poverty in the late 1920s, Down and Out in Paris and London is George Orwell’s memoir chronicling his time living as a vagabond in the two prosperous cities. First published in 1933, this autobiographical volume is George Orwell’s first full-length work. Recounting his experiences working casual manual-labour jobs and living on...
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    24,44 €

  • Conversations with Donald Hall
    John Martin-Joy
    Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall’s evolving views on poetry, poets, and the creative process over a period of more than sixty years. Donald Hall (1928-2018) reveals vivid, funny, and moving anecdotes about T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, a...
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    158,44 €

  • Conversations with Donald Hall
    John Martin-Joy
    Conversations with Donald Hall offers a unique glimpse into the creative process of a major American poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher. The volume probes in depth Hall’s evolving views on poetry, poets, and the creative process over a period of more than sixty years. Donald Hall (1928-2018) reveals vivid, funny, and moving anecdotes about T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, a...
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    42,98 €

  • Akimbo 2 - A Sowbug’s Life (cont’d)
    Kim Parrish
    This second book in the Akimbo series recounts the remarkable life of Kim Parrish, a retired Canadian teacher looking back on his life through snippets of poetry and salutes to his travels, taking him to the far corners of the world.A hockey and football player in his youth, the author once had a pet crocodile. Having survived a stroke and a heart attack, this inspiring journey...
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    9,27 €

  • BRUT
    Harold Jaffe
    Harold Jaffe is well-known for his docufiction, which is at once personal and detached, serious and satirical, familiar and esoteric. He has been recognized for pinpointing and even aestheticizing the media pathology that informs and increasingly determines our daily lives. In BRUT, Jaffe addresses an extraordinary range of films, writers, painters, philosophers, and “outsider”...
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    19,01 €

  • The Burning Brand
    Cesare Pavese / A. E. Murch / AEMurch
    2021 Reprint of the 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. For Cesare Pavese introspection was the only way of life. It led not to escape through fantasy but to an intensification and 'purification' of experience through an anguished search for the truth about himself and the world in which he lived. Pavese, wh...
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    22,90 €

  • Conversations with John Berryman
    Eric Hoffman
    The poetry of John Berryman (1914-1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political, sexual, racial, and technological transformations of the twentieth century, and their impact on the psyche and spirit, both individual and collective. He was just as likely to find inspiration in his local newspaper as he was from the poetry of Hopkins or Mil...
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    42,99 €

  • Conversations with John Berryman
    Eric Hoffman
    The poetry of John Berryman (1914-1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political, sexual, racial, and technological transformations of the twentieth century, and their impact on the psyche and spirit, both individual and collective. He was just as likely to find inspiration in his local newspaper as he was from the poetry of Hopkins or Mil...
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    158,45 €

  • Mr. Moonlight of the South Seas
    Brandon Oswald
    Mr. Moonlight of the South Seas examines the life of American author Robert Dean Frisbie who, at the age of twenty-four, left the United States for the unknown adventurous ports of the Pacific Islands in the early 1920’s. He first landed in Papeete, Tahiti, which at the time was a bustling town and the start-off point for many visitors to the region. He would stay a few years l...
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    13,46 €