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  • An Earnest Blackness
    Eugen Bacon
    In this debut collection of personal essays, Eugen Bacon offers critical perspectives on blackness, Afrofuturism, colonialism, historicity, and (mis)recognition as she explores the untapped possibilities of speculative fiction. Using a variety of analytic, narrative, and anecdotal techniques, Bacon shares her experiences as an African Australian woman, mother, and writer who oc...
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    26,62 €

  • Not that it Matters
    A. A. Milne
    Not that it Matters by A. A. Milne is a compilation of short stories and essays. A. A. Milne is widely known for his creation of Winnie-the-Pooh, but if you would like to see a different side of his creative mind this book is for you. 'We had another amusement as children, in which I suppose the modern child is no longer able to indulge. We used to wait until the tide was just ...
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    9,68 €

  • Empire Eternal
    Sinclair Jenkins
    'The men who founded these great civilizations are long gone, but their blood still lives within us. We are called to conquer. Our age, like every other age, is a war of all against all for the domination of space.' Throughout the 19th and through the early 20th centuries, the European Great Powers established direct control over the majority of the planet, and suzerainty over ...
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    29,26 €

  • Why We Fight
    Antelope Hill Publishing
    What is worth fighting for?What would motivate someone to sacrifice for something outside of themselves? What could inspire someone to bring the weight of the world’s most powerful institutions down upon themselves?Many great writers have given their answer to these questions. Now, Antelope Hill Publishing is giving the chance for a new generation to share what animates them to...
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    28,92 €

  • Critical Essays on William Faulkner
    Robert W Hamblin
    Critical Essays on William Faulkner compiles scholarship by noted Faulkner studies scholar Robert W. Hamblin. Ranging from 1980 to 2020, the twenty-one essays present a variety of approaches to Faulkner’s work. While acknowledging Faulkner as the quintessential southern writer--particularly in his treatment of race--the essays examine his work in relation to American and even i...
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    42,48 €

  • Blogging Toward Infinity
    Kenneth Ring
    This is Ken Ring’s last book, and though he claims to spend most of his days whimpering, his farewell to writing, as his final essays will demonstrate, certainly goes out with a bang. As he veers unsteadily toward eighty-seven, Ring has lost none of his verve or literary panache. As always, his essays sparkle with his usual wit, but mainly reflect Ring’s more serious concern to...
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    18,46 €

  • A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
    Jonathan Swift
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    45,97 €

  • An Old Lion Roars at Dementia
    J. Stewart Schneider J.D. / J.D. J. Stewart Schneider
    There is no more precious experience than a human life with all its sharp elbows and soft spots. Yet when one’s life is complete, we satisfy ourselves with a simple gravestone noting name and dates. Nothing about that life’s struggles nor yet its celebrations, nothing of guidance to the coming generation. This book, not an autobiography, represents the memories and thoughts of ...
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    16,04 €

  • Things I forgot to tell the world
    james syring
    THIS STARTLING, PROVOCATIVE, UPROARIOUSLY FUNNY COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, POEMS, CHARACTER SKETCHES AND ODD THOUGHTS AND IDEAS WAS ORIGINALLY TO BE PUBLISHED AS A LAST WORK ONLY AFTER MY DEATH BUT I REALIZED THAT I NEED THE MONEY NOW.THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO EVERY HACK, SCHLOCK WRITER I HAVE EVER READ FOR THEY INSPIRED ME NOT TO REACH FOR THE LOFTY HEIGHTS OF THE GREAT LITERARY TA...
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    15,74 €

  • By The Christmas Fire
    Samuel McChord Crothers
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSBy The Christmas FireThis 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...
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    7,96 €

  • Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
    Zygmunt G. Barański
    Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the three crowns of Italian literature, dealt with literature, doctrine, and reality in distinct, yet also overlapping, ways. In this major collection of nineteen essays, Barański explores how they endeavoured to create and establish their authority and identity as writers, while developing new ideas about literature and its status in the world, ...
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    33,82 €

  • The Foreign Connection
    Jamie McKendrick
    The word ’foreign’ has gathered hostile associations but its Latin root - foris: a door - is close to the spirit of these writings which explore openings and connections across and within artforms, eras, cultures and languages. McKendrick traces a series of dynamic, often unexpected refigurations of idea, image and structure from Gaius Valerius Catullus to Valerio Magrelli, fro...
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    20,73 €

  • George buchanan
    Golu Kumar
    BIOGRAPHYScottish historian and humanist scholar George Buchanan (Scottish Gaelic: Seras Buchanan; February 1506–28 September 1582) lived in Edinburgh. Buchanan was ''the deepest intellectual Scotland produced in the sixteenth century,'' according to historian Keith Brown. During the Scottish Reformation, his philosophy of opposing regal usurpation was widely adopted. The ease ...
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    11,92 €

  • On Being Ill
    Virginia Woolf
    2022 Reprint of the 1926 edition.   Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  'On Being Ill' is an essay by Virginia Woolf that appeared in T. S. Eliot’s 'The New Criterion' in January 1926. The essay sought to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. Woolf writes, 'Co...
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    6,40 €

  • The Mediterranean Apprenticeship of British Slavey
    Gustav Ungerer
    The present study attempts to map out neglected research territory and to marshal a powerful body on silenced evidence that disprove the current view that the English in early modern Europe were laggards in exploting black Africans and Moors as salves and domestic servants.The finding of the authors researches, carried out in Spanish and English archives, have brought to light ...
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    15,00 €

  • ’For That Moment Only’ and Other Prose Works, by Michael Field,
    Over the past thirty years the work of Michael Field - the penname of the couple Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper - has become established as one of the most important, and unique, literary voices of the fin de siècle. Although they are today remembered for their lyric poetry and verse drama, by sheer weight of volume alone, Bradley and Cooper wrote far more prose than poetry...
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    23,67 €

  • ’For That Moment Only’ and Other Prose Works, by Michael Field,
    Over the past thirty years the work of Michael Field - the penname of the couple Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper - has become established as one of the most important, and unique, literary voices of the fin de siècle. Although they are today remembered for their lyric poetry and verse drama, by sheer weight of volume alone, Bradley and Cooper wrote far more prose than poetry...
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    57,98 €

  • Sharing Our Journeys 2 (Queer BIPOC Elders Tell Their Stories)
    Sequel anthology to Sharing Our Journeys: Queer Elders Tell Their Stories. Queer BIPOC Elders Tell Their Stories is a volume of essays from authors who speak of the pain and ridicule of being different, courage in the face of ostracism, same-sex love and transitioning genders when and where they were illegal from a perspective of various BIPOC communities. 'The success of c...
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    16,08 €

  • The Road Ahead and Miles Behind
    Mike Liguori
    The Road Ahead and Miles Behind follows a father and son on the road, and shares the painful, resounding conversations of the past, the healing of the present, and the promise of a new future.  ...
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    10,38 €

  • What Are You
    Lindsay Lerman
    Radically imaginative and intense, challenging language to be slow and fast, soft and hard, drunk and sober, What Are You performs its own destruction and recreation.  Hypnotic, dreamlike, lyrical essays tell the story of a woman trapped in a destructive love affair with the universe. Her understanding of power, desire, and complicity must be transformed again and again. Addres...
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    13,59 €

  • The Colour Of Life
    Alice Meynell
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSThe Colour Of Life: And Other Essays On Things Seen And HeardThis 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. T...
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    7,66 €

  • The Complete Works Of Brann The Iconoclast (Volume XII)
    William Cowper Brann
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSThe Complete Works Of Brann The Iconoclast (Volume XII)This 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-se...
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    13,22 €

  • The Complete Works Of Brann The Iconoclast (Volume X)
    William Cowper Brann
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSThe Complete Works Of Brann The Iconoclast (Volume X)This 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-sett...
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    12,32 €

  • The Complete Works Of Brann The Iconoclast (Volume I)
    William Cowper Brann
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSThe Complete Works Of Brann The Iconoclast (Volume I)This 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-sett...
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    12,31 €

  • Andalusia of all times
    ANTONIO GALA
    The men who fought, suffered, and loved are none but ourselves, and we shall be in hundreds of years those who shall rejoice, suffer, and fight in this very landTartessos was here. Betica and al-Andalus were here. Tartessos, Betica, and al-Andalus are still here. And they shall be here we shall be here in the same way and in a different one until the sea runs dry and the stars ...
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    56,16 €

  • The Long, Slow Summer Sun
    Proval Volk
    Proval Volk. Quirky, quizzical, and always restless, wandering, and wondering. Find a comfortable chair and your favorite robe, and explore the mind of Volk in this collection of poems, fictional stories, essays, sayings, and journal entries.  Discover his thoughts on men and manhood, the depth of the beauty of a woman, and the endless drama that can be found in the most mundan...
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    14,53 €

  • Thoughts & Painkillers
    Roig Vilaró
    A young adult takes on a challenge against his natre. These thoughts and painkillers bleed honesty and humbleness. Now, through childhood stories, bruises unfold and victorious mindsets lay in your hands. ...
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    16,00 €

  • Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis
    John Howard
    This first critical biography of radio broadcaster, stage director, and auteur filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis examines his prolific body of work within the socio-political context of his times. Best known as a bold modernist for triple-Oscar-winner Zorba the Greek, Michael likewise was hailed as an astute classicist for his inventive interpretations of Euripides. Working across s...
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    18,50 €

  • Less Than What You Once Were
    Aaron Brown
    Less Than What You Once Were begins in a pivotal moment for the speaker-during the 2008 'Battle of N’Djamena' in Chad’s capital. This destabilizing experience-in which the speaker’s home is broken into-results in the family embarking on a months-long departure from the place, and the narrative begins to cycle through childhood memories, from the first night when Brown lands at ...
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    19,19 €

  • THE BOOK OF MASKS
    Remy de Gourmont / Jack Lewis
    THE BOOK OF MASKS BY REMY DE GOURMONT A collection of pieces exploring artistic figures from the renowned French author and critic Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915), best-known for books such as Le Probleme du Style, The Book of Masks, Mystical Latin and Decadence and Other Essays On the Culture of Ideas. De Gourmont was associated with many of the leading literary figures of the la...
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    18,86 €


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