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  • 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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    9,13 €

  • The Autobiography Of A Super-Tramp
    William Henry Davies
    The Autobiography Of A Super-Tramp: Preface By Bernard ShawThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional la...
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    12,37 €

  • John Barleycorn
    Jack London
    Wrestling with the disease of alcoholism for most of his life, Jack London tells all in his autobiography John Barleycorn. Beginning with a discussion of the prohibition movement and its effects, London explores the ways that alcohol affects daily life in the Victorian era. Because there were not many forms of affordable entertainment or reliable communication, bars were the p...
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    10,63 €

  • A Journal to Stella
    Jonathan Swift
    Published posthumously in 1766, A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift is a complete collection consisting of sixty-five letters he wrote to Esther Johnson, whom he bestowed the name of Stella. It is known that Stella is the name Swift gave to Esther Johnson. They met when she was only eight years old and knew each other for the entirety of the rest of their lives. Swift was fi...
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    25,15 €

  • A Journal to Stella
    Jonathan Swift
    Published posthumously in 1766, A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift is a complete collection consisting of sixty-five letters he wrote to Esther Johnson, whom he bestowed the name of Stella. It is known that Stella is the name Swift gave to Esther Johnson. They met when she was only eight years old and knew each other for the entirety of the rest of their lives. Swift was fi...
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    18,06 €

  • Paula
    Isabel Allende
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    14,68 €

  • Super Schoolmaster
    David Ben-Merre / Robert Scholes
    Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career. ...
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    127,13 €

  • Mark Twain’s Youthful Adventures | US Author with the Wildest Imagination | Biography 6th Grade | Children’s Biographies
    Dissected Lives
    Read about the life and times of Mark Twain. Learn about the major events in his life, which have inspired him to write youthful adventures. How did Mark Twain grow to have such a wild imagination? Reading about the life of someone in the past will also reveal the socio--economic conditions prevalent at the time. Go ahead and secure a copy today. ...
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    19,40 €

  • Mark Twain’s Youthful Adventures | US Author with the Wildest Imagination | Biography 6th Grade | Children’s Biographies
    Dissected Lives
    Read about the life and times of Mark Twain. Learn about the major events in his life, which have inspired him to write youthful adventures. How did Mark Twain grow to have such a wild imagination? Reading about the life of someone in the past will also reveal the socio--economic conditions prevalent at the time. Go ahead and secure a copy today. ...
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    29,45 €

  • On Robyn Davidson
    Richard Cooke
    ’She is a feminist icon, one of our most consequential authors and a unique individual. But perhaps we should start with something she is not: Robyn Davidson does not like to call herself a writer, or at least not a Writer.’ Robyn Davidson, author of the classic memoir Tracks, has led a remarkable life of writing and nomadic travel. In this bracing, eru...
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    20,87 €

  • On Beverley Farmer
    Josephine Rowe
    ’Across Farmer’s works, there has always been an attraction to those beings who occupy two realms … Once one has lived elsewhere, lived differently, it doesn’t matter whether she stays to forge a new life or turns back towards the old, or moves on once again; there will always be the shadow, the after-image, of the life not lived.’ Beverley Farmer’s writing reflects on rest...
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    19,01 €

  • Remembering Keats - Essays & Poetry in Dedication to the Romantic Poet
    Various
    'Remembering Keats' is a brand-new collection of poetry and essays by various authors dedicated to English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821). Together with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was a key figure during the second generation of Romantic poets most famous for such poems as 'Sleep and Poetry', 'Ode to a Nightingale', and 'On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer'...
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    25,96 €

  • A Dedication to Sir Richard Francis Burton
    Various
    Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (1821–1890) was a British writer, poet, linguist, explorer, translator, geographer, ethnologist, orientalist, Freemason, diplomat, and cartographer best remembered for extensively travelling in and exploring Africa, Asia, and the Americas. An extraordinary polyglot, he spoke 29 languages and gained extensive knowledge of many different cultu...
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    16,45 €

  • Jane Austen’s Prayers
    Emma Darlington
    Jane Austen is known as the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and other witty and romantic novels. What is less known is that Jane was a deeply religious person, and was devoted to God. She wrote beautiful, heartfelt prayers to read with her family in the evenings. For the first time, you can read Jane Austen’s original prayer sheets in her beautiful neat handwriting...
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    13,01 €

  • The Sarashina nikki
    Musume Sugawara no Takasue / Kōchi Doi
    Sugawara no Takasue no Musume (1008-59), a lady-in-waiting to Princess Sukeko, is a typical exponent of Heian court culture-her sharp awareness of beauty only checked by her keen sense of its transitory nature.Inspired by Murasaki Shikibu’s then already famous Genji monogatari, the author seeks to achieve the same romantic fulfillment of that work’s hero and commits her thought...
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    16,23 €

  • Life on the Mississippi
    Mark Twain
    'But the basin of the Mississippi is the Body of the Nation... Latitude, elevation, and rainfallall combine to render every part of the Mississippi Valley capable of supporting a dense population. As a dwelling-place for civilized man it is by far the first upon our globe.' -Editor’s Table, Harper’s Magazine (1863) Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a brilliant memoir by Mark ...
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    27,68 €

  • James Baldwin
    Frederick Noland
    James Baldwin is one of 20th America’s greatest and most underappreciated writers. Born into poverty, Baldwin pushed against America’s race restrictions. He expatriated to Europe but his heart remained in The States. Drawn in by news of his homeland brutal, bloody and sometimes deadly Civil Rights struggle he returned. More than 30 years after his death, James Baldwin’s work co...
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    35,02 €

  • Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry
    Mollie Godfrey
    Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her early death from cancer in January 1965, Lorraine Hansberry’s short stint in the public eye changed the landscape of American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry (1930-1965) became both the first African American woman to have a play produced on Broadway and the first to win the prestigious New Y...
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    42,85 €

  • Conversations with Dana Gioia
    John Zheng
    Conversations with Dana Gioia is the first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual, covering every stage of his busy, polymathic career. Dana Gioia (b. 1950) has made many contributions to contemporary American literature and culture, including but not limited to crafting a personal poetic style suited to the age; leading the revival...
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    42,70 €

  • Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry
    Mollie Godfrey
    Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her early death from cancer in January 1965, Lorraine Hansberry’s short stint in the public eye changed the landscape of American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry (1930-1965) became both the first African American woman to have a play produced on Broadway and the first to win the prestigious New Y...
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    158,30 €

  • Conversations with Dana Gioia
    John Zheng
    Conversations with Dana Gioia is the first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual, covering every stage of his busy, polymathic career. Dana Gioia (b. 1950) has made many contributions to contemporary American literature and culture, including but not limited to crafting a personal poetic style suited to the age; leading the revival...
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    158,16 €

  • Howard Jacobson
    David Brauner
    This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson’s novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction. ...
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    157,40 €

  • Mr. Sulu Grabbed My Ass, and Other Highlights from a Life in Comics, Novels, Television, Films and Video Games
    Peter David
    Peter David, award-winning writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games, has boatloads of stories to tell about his 30-year career. Whether it was attending George Takei’s wedding, being described as Will Smith’s bodyguard, or wandering around on the set of Babylon 5, David has been telling anecdotes of his life for years. Here they are all in one place, ...
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    42,86 €

  • Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
    John Bunyan
    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) is a spiritual autobiography by English author and Puritan preacher John Bunyan. Written while Bunyan was serving a lengthy prison sentence for preaching without a license, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners is both a record of Bunyan’s personal experience, the story of his conversion, and a document of a time of historical an...
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    9,91 €

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson
    James Boswell
    Considered one of the best written biographies of all-time, The Life of Samuel Johnson gives insight into the glowing mystique of the prominent English writer. By incorporating key elements from his past and personal relationships, James Boswell creates an extensive narrative of the revered figure.Drawn from Boswell’s own journals, the author recounts the life and experiences o...
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    18,78 €

  • Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
    John Bunyan
    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) is a spiritual autobiography by English author and Puritan preacher John Bunyan. Written while Bunyan was serving a lengthy prison sentence for preaching without a license, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners is both a record of Bunyan’s personal experience, the story of his conversion, and a document of a time of historical an...
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    16,98 €

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson
    James Boswell
    Considered one of the best written biographies of all-time, The Life of Samuel Johnson gives insight into the glowing mystique of the prominent English writer. By incorporating key elements from his past and personal relationships, James Boswell creates an extensive narrative of the revered figure.Drawn from Boswell’s own journals, the author recounts the life and experiences o...
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    25,85 €

  • Michael Gold
    Patrick Chura
    An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years. ...
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    126,60 €

  • Balzac
    Edgar Evertson Saltus
    BalzacThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create ...
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    9,45 €

  • Between Two Millstones, Book 2
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Clare Kitson / Melanie Moore
    'Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delineates his idyllic time in rural Vermont, where he had the freedom to work, spend time with his family, and wage a war of ideas against the Soviet Union and other detractors from afar. At his quiet retreat . . . the Nobel laureate found . . . ’a happiness in free and uninterrupted work.’' -Kirkus ReviewsThis compelling account concludes Nobel Prize-w...
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    32,88 €


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