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  • A Narrative on Calligraphy by Sun Guoting - Translated by KS Vincent POON and Kwok Kin POON Revised and Enchanced Edition
    Kwan Sheung Vincent Poon / Poon Kwok Kin
    A Narrative on Calligraphy (Shu Pu, 書譜)  was written in 687AD by the renowned Tang dynasty calligrapher Sun Guoting (孫過庭) of the seventh century and is regarded to be one of the most important narratives in examining the traditional art of Chinese calligraphy.  Yet, there is currently no satisfactory English translation of it.  This book provides readers an accurate, annotated,...
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    15,40 €

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin
    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is Franklin's unfinished book on his own life, which he wrote from 1771 to 1790. It has become one of the most famous and influential autobiographies ever written. ...
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    24,74 €

  • Playing Hesiod
    Helen Van Noorden
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    38,90 €

  • The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception
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    56,92 €

  • Aristophanes
    Ian C. Storey
    This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes’ comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. It launches a much-needed new series of books each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Six chapters highlight the play’s context, themes, staging and legacy including its response to contemporary wartime politics...
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    115,40 €

  • Plautus
    David Christenson
    This is the first volume dedicated to Plautus’ perennially popular comedy Casina that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Latin. It launches a much-needed new series of books, each discussing a comedy that survives from the ancient world. Four chapters highlight the play’s historical context, themes, performance and reception, including its refl...
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    115,46 €

  • Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    In 15 all-new essays, this volume explores how science fiction and fantasy draw on materials from ancient Greece and Rome, ’displacing’ them from their original settings-in time and space, in points of origins and genre-and encouraging readers to consider similar ’displacements’ in the modern world. Modern examples from a wide range of media and genres-including Philip Pullman’...
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    128,18 €

  • The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics
    Victoria Rimell
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    47,46 €

  • Euripides
    Luigi Battezzato
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    36,75 €

  • Euripides
    Luigi Battezzato
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    120,24 €

  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    David Hume
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    21,62 €

  • Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries
    This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in medieval literary and medievalism studies, providing a springboard for future research. ...
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    163,52 €

  • Critical Moments in Classical Literature
    Richard Hunter
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    34,62 €

  • ’La Belle Dame qui eust mercy’ and ’Le Dialogue d’amoureux et de sa dame’
    Joan Grenier-Winther
    La Belle Dame qui eust mercy and Le Dialogue d’amoureux et de sa dame are two late-medieval poems in which a courtly gentleman and lady debate the merits of his pleas for her affections. In both cases, the lady is recalcitrant, dismissing her suitor’s lovesickness as a trifle, denying that she ever gave any sign of encouragement, and wishing to protect her reputation. The lady ...
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    23,81 €

  • Ovid’s Revisions
    Francesca K. A. Martelli / Francesca KAMartelli
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    35,63 €

  • Beloved Delhi
    Saif Mahmood
    ‘A riveting resurrection of the city of poets, the city of history, Saif Mahmood’s learned and evocative book takes us to the heart of Delhi’s romance with Urdu verse and aesthetics.’—Namita GokhaleUrdu poetry rules the cultural and emotional landscape of India—especially northern India and much of the Deccan—and of Pakistan. And it was in the great, ancient city of Delhi that ...
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    23,21 €

  • A Hundred Merry Tales
    John Rastell
    Rastell's A Hundred Merry Tales was the first English jest book, and would set a pattern for succeeding generations, who came to see it as a window on a lost 'Merry England.'Originally published in 1524-5, this charming collection of amusing (sometimes scurrilous) anecdotes was celebrated by contemporaries among the defining books of the Tudor era, and is even name-...
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    19,54 €

  • Green Hill (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)
    Lorna Knowles Blake
    The recurrent theme of “home” connects the wide-ranging subjects of Lorna Knowles Blake’s Green Hill. These exquisitely crafted poems in free verse and metrical forms include conversations with such masters as Homer, Blake, Lorca, Saint John of the Cross, Giacomo Puccini, and Duke Ellington, in addition to reflections upon marvels of the natural world—oceans, flowering trees, b...
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    14,35 €

  • Theogony, Works and Days, and the Shield of Heracles
    Hesiod / Hugh G. Evelyn-White / Hugh GEvelyn-White
    Greek poet Hesiod, who lived sometime during the 8th and 7th century B.C., is regarded as one the most important poets of classical antiquity. What little is known of him largely comes from his own epic poetry, in which he unconventionally inserted details of his life. Only three of his works, the “Theogony,” “Works and Days,” and the “Shield of Heracles” survive to this day in...
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    9,33 €

  • The Book of Margery Kempe
    Margery Kempe / Tony D Triggs
    Dating from the fifteenth century, The Book of Margery Kempe is the first known autobiography in English. In it the author describes, in unembarrassed, down-to-earth detail, her madness, financial ruin, religious ecstasies, marital problems and dangerous treks to distant shrines. The result is a unique portrait of a strange medieval character, living out a colourful life in a t...
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    21,23 €

  • Greek Lyric
    Felix Budelmann
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    39,00 €

  • Greek Lyric
    Felix Budelmann
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    120,04 €

  • Texts and Violence in the Roman World
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    144,34 €

  • Gesta Romanorum
    Christopher Stace
    This is the most complete translation ever attempted of these moral tales, and will be a valuable source text for all scholars and students of medieval literature. ...
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    53,99 €

  • Purandaradasa’S (And Others’) 108 Verses, Transliterated, Translated and Interpreted
    V. Vasumathi
    This is an English transliteration, translation, and interpretation of the original works of the famous saint and composer Sri Purandara Dasa, who composed and sang around fifteen thousand devotional songs. Individual verses numbering to more than a hundred popular songs have been summarized for better understanding. The aim is to include a wider audience. This book enables the...
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    23,84 €

  • A Hundred Merry Tales
    John Rastell
    Rastell's A Hundred Merry Tales was the first English jest book, and would set a pattern for succeeding generations, who came to see it as a window on a lost 'Merry England.'Originally published in 1524-5, this charming collection of amusing (sometimes scurrilous) anecdotes was celebrated by contemporaries among the defining books of the Tudor era, and is even name-...
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    29,34 €

  • Alexander the Great
    Jacob Abbott
    Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history               Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Charles I, Charles II, Cleopatra, Cyrus ...
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    20,29 €

  • Claudian the Poet
    Clare Coombe
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    126,60 €

  • Alexander the Great
    Jacob Abbott
    Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history               Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Charles I, Charles II, Cleopatra, Cyrus ...
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    9,88 €

  • Alfred the Great
    Jacob Abbott
    Jacob Abbott was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. Check out the following list of books to take and exciting, informative, and easy to understand stroll through history                Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Charles I, Charles II, Cleopatra, Cyrus...
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    9,91 €


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