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  • The Cædmon Manuscript
    Bernard J. Muir
    The Cædmon Manuscript is one of three extant anthologies of English Christian poetry produced in England before 1000 CE. ...
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    296,57 €

  • The History of the Peloponnesian War
    Thucydides
    One of the greatest history books ever written now features a new introduction, which provides the first comprehensive overview of this seminal work for contemporary readers. The new introduction is divided into four parts: (A) ’The Causes of the Peloponnesian War’; (B) ’A Brief Overview of the Course of the War’ (this is necessary as Thucydides’ work ends abruptly in 411 BC, s...
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    24,02 €

  • Numerology Made Easy
    Templum Dianae Media
    Numerology Made Easy'The Complete GuideBook to Numerology for Beginners'To scientists following conventional beliefs, numbers are seen as symbols representing relative quantities. However, when viewed from a broader, metaphysical perspective, numbers take on a deeper and more profound meaning.The Complete Book of Numerology uncovers the hidden significance behind the numbers th...
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    16,68 €

  • Silius Italicus’ Punica
    Antony Augoustakis / Neil W. Bernstein
    This book offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus’ Punica. ...
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    72,86 €

  • The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability
    Alice Hall
    This book introduces debates about definitions of disability and explores intersectional approaches to disability and gender, race, class, sexuality and ethnicity. Divided broadly into sections according to literary genre, this is an important resource for those interested in exploring the field of literature and disability studies ...
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    84,44 €

  • Consolations
    Seneca / Stewart Aubrey
    'Death is a release from and an end of all pains: beyond it our sufferings cannot extend: it restores us to the peaceful rest in which we lay before we were born.'Dealing mainly with the themes of death and suffering, Seneca makes philosophy appear here as a form of therapy, Stoic introspection allowing to find meaning in the most painful situations. Therefore it is essential t...
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    12,55 €

  • Literary Criticism in Antiquity
    J. W. H. Atkins
    Originally published in 1934, this book contains the first volume of Atkins’ ’sketch’ of the development of ancient literary criticism. ...
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    57,19 €

  • Literary Criticism in Antiquity
    J. W. H. Atkins
    Originally published in 1934, this book contains the second volume of Atkins’ ’sketch’ of the development of ancient literary criticism. ...
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    59,13 €

  • SANSKRIT - AN ANCIENT INDIAN LANGUAGE
    Vijay Bali
    Natya Shashtra (Drama Treatise) is one of the oldest surviving compositions in classical Sanskrit evolved by an Indian sage Bharat Muni in the year 500 BC or prior to the year 100 BC. It deals with performing arts viz Dance, Drama and Music. It sets the parameters through ethical laws for composers, actors, dancers, directors and organizers for stage shows to entertain royalty ...
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    14,08 €

  • Greek Memories
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    48,37 €

  • Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World
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    41,89 €

  • The Gradual Acceptance Of The Copernican Theory Of The Universe
    Dorothy Stimson
    The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe is a historical work by Dorothy Stimson. The book chronicles the development and acceptance of the heliocentric model of the solar system, which was proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century. Stimson traces the evolution of the Copernican theory from its origins in ancient Greek astronomy to its eventual ...
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    13,03 €

  • Alcibiades I
    Plato
    'Alcibiades I' is a dialogue written by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, believed to have been written around 390 BCE. The dialogue features a conversation between Socrates and Alcibiades, a prominent Athenian politician and military commander. In the dialogue, Socrates attempts to educate Alcibiades on the true nature of politics, virtue, and wisdom. Alcibiades is presente...
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    10,68 €

  • Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
    Ewen Bowie
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    63,49 €

  • Xenophon of Athens
    Noreen Humble
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    46,12 €

  • Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers
    Tom Mackenzie
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    41,90 €

  • Demigods of India
    Dr Anshumali
    Demigods of India: In this book, the author has made an honest effort to provide readers with a faithful picture of Hindu beliefs, based on sacred texts. The author has consciously avoided any prejudice or theological bias and refrained from commenting on passages quoted, except where necessary for clarity. The author has included both positive and negative aspects of Hindu god...
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    14,29 €

  • William Byrd, Consort Music
    Anne Martin
    Anne Martin worked as a music teacher after graduating from Homerton College, Cambridge with a degree in Music and Education. She became interested in Early Music and the recorder in her twenties and has taught the recorder and conducted recorder groups for many years as well as arranging music, composing and writing. Her interest in the consort music of William Byrd led to the...
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    50,33 €

  • THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement, and colors the tale with suggestions of the super...
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    26,25 €

  • THE ETHICS
    Benedict de Spinoza
    The book is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply the method of Euclid in philosophy. Spinoza puts forward a small number of definitions and axioms from which he attempts to derive hundreds of propositions and corollaries, such as 'When the Mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it', 'A free man thinks of nothing less than of death', and 'The human Mind ca...
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    23,06 €

  • THE SCARLET LETTER
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The Scarlet Letter was one of the first mass-produced books in the United States. It was popular when first published and is considered a classic work of American literature. The novel has inspired numerous film, television, and stage adaptations. Critics have described The Scarlet Letter as a masterwork, and novelist D. H. Lawrence called it a 'perfect work of the American ima...
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    23,08 €

  • THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER
    J.W. Von Goethe
    The Sorrows of Young Werther, a story about a young man’s extreme response to unrequited love, is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm. These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim, whose peasants have enchanted him with their simple ways. There...
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    16,75 €

  • THE TRIAL
    Franz Kafka
    The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and The Brothers K...
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    22,03 €

  • TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
    Jules Verne
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel’s fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d’éducation et de récréation. A deluxe octavo edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871. The book was widely acclaimed on its relea...
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    27,34 €

  • THÉRÈSE RAQUIN
    Émile Zola
    Thérèse Raquin is an 1868 novel by French writer Émile Zola, first published in serial form in the literary magazine L’Artiste in 1867. It was Zola’s third novel, though the first to earn wide fame. The novel’s adultery and murder were considered scandalous and famously described as 'putrid' in a review in the newspaper Le Figaro. Thérèse Raquin tells the story of a young woman...
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    22,08 €

  • THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
    Henry James
    The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who, 'affronting her destiny,' finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Like many of James’s novels, it is set in Europe, mostly England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpie...
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    28,36 €

  • Sacrament an Alter/The Sacrament of the Altar
    This first ever critical edition of a pivotal Cornish-language text opens to the Tudor historian-and the general reader-a new window onto a crucial example of the reception of John Foxe, and gives fascinating insights into a possible alliance between Church Papism and recusancy in Tudor Cornwall. ...
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    131,22 €

  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
    Albert T. Clay / Morris Jastrow Jr.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature and the second oldest religious text, after the Pyramid Texts. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Bilgamesh (Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh'), king of Uruk, dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC). These independent stories...
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    16,40 €

  • MISS LONELYHEARTS
    Nathanael West
    Miss Lonelyhearts is a novella by Nathanael West. It is about a male newspaper advice columnist who provides advice to lonesome people who becomes so affected by their desperate letters that he spirals into depression, drinking, and ill-considered sexual affairs, which leads to his downfall. In the story, Miss Lonelyhearts is the pseudonym for an unnamed male newspaper columnis...
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    14,22 €

  • FRANKENSTEIN
    Mary Shelley
    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was ...
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    22,07 €


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