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  • Notes on Shakespeare - Lectures by Coleridge
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the English Romantic Movement. He was also a member of the famous Lake Poets, together with William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. Coleridge had a significant influence on the the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and American Transcendentalism in general, and played a...
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    22,01 €

  • The Martyr of Style - Essays & Excerpts on Gustave Flaubert
    Various
    Hailed as one of the greatest western novelists of all time, French author Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) first became famous for his debut novel “Madame Bovary” (1857), a seminal work of literary realism that resulted in Flaubert being put on trail for obscenity. Mentor of the celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant. Flaubert was highly influential and is generally considered to be ...
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    22,01 €

  • Rêv’Evolution
    Milcah Damana
    Rêv’Evolution is a collection of thoughts written by different authors. Through several feathers, we get hooked on epic tales, noble thoughts, economics, politics, history... Beyond the cognitive, the social dominates the authors’ vision, encouraging a general awareness. It is a valiant and strong youth that joins hands together, after becoming aware of their qualities and mora...
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    6,28 €

  • The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
    Michel De Montaigne
    The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1877) is a collection of essays and letters by Michel de Montaigne. Originally published in French as Essais (1580), this edition was translated by English poet Charles Cotton in the late-17th century and republished by William Carew Hazlitt, the grandson of renowned English essayist and critic William Hazlitt. 'No man living is more free from...
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    37,30 €

  • The Best American Travel Writing 2021
    Jason Wilson / Padma Lakshmi
    'The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person’s experience in some other physical place and culture,' writes Padma Lakshmi in her introduction, 'and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time and space.' The essays in this year’s Best American Travel Writing are an antidote to the isolation of the year 2020...
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    14,49 €

  • The Best American Essays 2021
    Kathryn Schulz / Robert Atwan
    A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz'The world is abundant even in bad times,' guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, 'it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness.' The e...
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    14,67 €

  • The Best American Food Writing 2021
    Gabrielle Hamilton / Silvia Killingsworth
    The year’s top food writing, from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country. Edited by Silvia Killingsworth and renowned chef and author Gabrielle Hamilton. 'A year that stopped our food world in its tracks,' writes Gabrielle Hamilton in her introduction, reflecting on 2020. The stories in this ed...
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    16,59 €

  • Unfettered Hearts
    THIS IS VOLUME 1 HARDCOVER WITH PREMIUM COLOROpen the pages of this beautiful coffee-table book and meet the everyday people who share their amazing stories - stories of challenge and heartache that transform into moments of triumph and growth. Hear the beat of courageous hearts and feel the power of love and transformation.Dozens of ordinary people now have shared their extrao...
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    40,47 €

  • Unfettered Hearts | Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things Volume 1
    Sharon CassanoLochman
    THIS IS THE BLACK & WHITE EDITIONOpen the pages of this beautiful coffee-table book and meet the everyday people who share their amazing stories - stories of challenge and heartache that transform into moments of triumph and growth. Hear the beat of courageous hearts and feel the power of love and transformation.Dozens of ordinary people now have shared their extraordinary stor...
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    18,76 €

  • Unfettered Hearts | Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things Volume 1
    Sharon CassanoLochman
    THIS IS THE COLOR EDITION OF THE PAPERBACK.Open the pages of this beautiful coffee-table book and meet the everyday people who share their amazing stories - stories of challenge and heartache that transform into moments of triumph and growth. Hear the beat of courageous hearts and feel the power of love and transformation.Dozens of ordinary people now have shared their extraord...
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    34,50 €

  • Mayhem to Miracles
    Kathleen O’Keefe Kanavos / Rev. Ariel Patricia
    Hope is the magic elixir that can transform life’s troubles into a sense of grace and meaning. Experience modern-day miracles as 30 inspiring individuals share their high-fives and down-lows of moving through physical challenges, abusive relationships, addictions, lost and found love, and more.Read the personal testimonies of everyday people and prominent figures, including: Co...
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    23,66 €

  • Every Little Thing
    Mary Lou Sanelli
    A fine-tuned, beautiful book that looks with a sharp eye and a generous spirit at one’s sense of place as it was in the five years leading up to 2021. And as it is. Now.So much more than a collection of essays, this is a writer’s soul laid bare. Filled with universal experience, every page reveals Sanelli’s profound understanding of the strength and resilience of the human spir...
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    21,70 €

  • Ties that Bind
    Frances Magers Massey
    'Ties that Bind: A Journal of Family, Faith, Friends, and Frolics' is a happy, heartwarming collection of reminiscences about family and friends, place, and Southern tradition. The 37 short essays and 13 poems in 'Ties that Bind' celebrate the author’s life’s defining and memorable moments picked from her childhood in rural Mississippi, Baptist college days, career-start in Mem...
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    17,51 €

  • Essays and Poems
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    During the 1800s in America, the rise of industrialization reduced the cost of goods allowing people to have more possessions than ever before. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions created vanity. Instead, they valued the individual’s relationship with divinity. One of the movement’s most famous members, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote prolifica...
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    16,75 €

  • Breaking into Song
    Adam Lenson
    A collection of essays that explore the divide and polarisation of opinion over musical theatre, and what we can do to stay open-minded and make musicals better. ...
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    14,40 €

  • From Odessa With Love
    Vladislav Davidzon
    'Born in Tashkent, raised in Moscow and New York City, an editor in Odessa, a correspondent in Paris, there seems nowhere Davidzon hasn’t been, no one he hasn’t met. The result is a distinctive voice and eye, an eclectic mix of the cultural critic, the political analyst and the liberal cosmopolitan, evident from the first page of this delightful book' - Mark Galeotti, Universit...
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    42,17 €

  • BLOOMING HEART BEGINNINGS - WMWM SPRING 2021
    Leila Goldstein / Luna Randolph / Micah Burke
    WE MAKE THE WORLD MAGAZINE (WMWM) is a seasonal creative literary and arts based magazine made by and for kids. This magazine was born from the belief that each and everyone of us has the power to make our world through our perceptions, thoughts, and actions. We hope our articles, creative writing, recipes, poetry, jokes, drawings and photography entertain, educate, and inspire...
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    14,96 €

  • Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
    Jerome K. Jerome / Jerome KJerome
    Featuring twelve simple yet profound essays, Jerome K. Jerome’s Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a humorous and clever collection. Each essay is crafted around a timeless and relatable issue, such as the unfortunately common inability to make decisions. On the Art of Making Up One’s Mind observes this to be a common practice. Beginning with the story of a young woman who ...
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    17,76 €

  • What Do I Know?
    Jack Remick
    The essays in this book center around the questions of love, wisdom and knowledge through time. What is love in the twenty-first century? Is there a wisdom to marriage? Are our bodies 'naturally wise'? What is the nature of orgasm? The meaning of sex? The author uses examples from ancient authors such as Pascal, Marcus Aurelius, and Descartes to clarify the issue of the decay o...
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    19,96 €

  • Areopagitica
    John Milton
    From the introduction of printing into England, the liberty of the press had been modified from time to time by royal proclamations. In 1557 the Stationers’ Company of London was formed. The exclusive privilege of printing and publishing in the English dominions was given to 97 London stationers and their successors by regular apprenticeship. All printing was thus centralised i...
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    11,28 €

  • Areopagitica
    John Milton
    From the introduction of printing into England, the liberty of the press had been modified from time to time by royal proclamations. In 1557 the Stationers’ Company of London was formed. The exclusive privilege of printing and publishing in the English dominions was given to 97 London stationers and their successors by regular apprenticeship. All printing was thus centralised i...
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    17,77 €

  • Pothos
    Rosa Campbell
    Epipremnum aureum, devil’s ivy, or (somewhat erroneously) pothos is not special. It is not symbolically useful, it is not rare, it is not hard to grow or care for. But in the aftermath of unexpected death, an impossible-to-kill houseplant might have something to say about keeping going.In Pothos, Campbell traces a polyvocal narrative of loss, absent presence, and queer homemaki...
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    13,82 €

  • Tremendous Trifles
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Tremendous Trifles is comprised of 39 chapters, each functioning as their own essay or story. With whimsical, light-hearted prose, vivid figurative language, and unparalleled insight, Chesterton covers a variety of philosophical principles of everyday life. Chesterton often used ordinary events and objects to explain deeper matters. Using relatable and accessible examples, Trem...
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    17,77 €

  • The Silver Domino
    Marie Corelli
    Author Marie Corelli’s brilliant commentary on the personal and professional politics of the literary community full of colorful characters fueled by fame, criticism and competition. It’s a bold and insightful depiction of nineteenth century publishing.At the time of publication, Marie Corelli was an established writer who had been criticized for her style and subject matter. I...
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    17,83 €

  • What’s Wrong with the World
    G. K. Chesterson / G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterson
    G.K. Chesterton delivers insightful commentary on modern behavior and social practices influenced by big business, gender roles, government and other notable figures throughout his lifetime. The book is inspired by his own personal beliefs regarding faith, family and the working man.What’s Wrong with the World is a critical analysis of various topics covered by acclaimed writer...
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    18,51 €

  • The Road
    Jack London
    During the catastrophic economic depression of the 1890s, young Jack London found himself in the same situation as many others-homeless and unemployed. After a failed American investment and crop failure, the nation found itself in a panic. As London recounts these times, he tells stories of hopping on freight trains, consequently being forcefully removed. While living as a hob...
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    17,06 €

  • Intentions
    Oscar Wilde
    Intentions consists of multiple essays in which Wilde combats the popular argument that art must adhere to a moral standard and serve a benevolent purpose. It’s a direct contrast to longstanding tradition in contemporary literature.Oscar Wilde delivers four irreverent essays that criticize the norm and celebrate the unexpected. Intentions features four of his works: 'The Decay ...
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    17,83 €

  • Interrogating the Abyss
    Chris Kelso
    'Just when you think Kelso has taken you as far as he can, he proves you wrong, setting off in a bold new direction.'-​John Langan, author of The Fisherman'Lyrical, intelligent and deeply astute.'-Laura Mauro, Black StaticInterrogating the Abyss is the first volume in the collected interviews, essays, and fictions of Chris Kelso. It’s an exploration of darkness and a dissection...
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    17,66 €

  • The Secret World. John Le Carre’s Books & Films
    Jorge Pinto Mazal
    Following the experience of comparing a novel and its film adaptation, I made a list of my favorite movies based on Le Carré’s books. I decided to select my personal preferences and write a short text about the links between literature and film. I never intended to write an academic essay. The book contains brief reviews of Le Carré’s books and their film adaptations. It includ...
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    12,63 €

  • Readings Prosaic and Poetic
    Food For The Heart And MindCollected over many years, this thoughtfully curated treasury of readings reaches out across multiple cultures and traditions. Open it on almost any page and you will find something to inspire you. It is awash with masterpieces of the writer’s craft.This literary gem is artfully organized under twelve headings which is itself a poem of a kind, and rea...
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    64,24 €


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