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Rome's Italian Wars'People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe.' So Livy characterizes Papirius Cursor, one of Rome's famous generals in the fourth century BC. In Books 6 to 10 of his monumental history of Rome, Livy deals with the period in whi... |
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Robinson Crusoe (Royal Collector's Edition) (Illustrated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)On Robinson Crusoe's first seafaring voyage, his ship sinks in a violent storm. On his second voyage he is enslaved by pirates. When Crusoe braves the ocean after several years in Brazil, Providence leaves him as the sole survivor of a shipwreck on a deserted island. Confronted by hunger and the ele... |
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Presence - Collected StoriesThe collected short fiction of America?s leading dramatist of the 20th century in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Though best known for creating some of the greatest dramas of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller was also a master of the short story. Initially published in prestigious venues like ... |
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Big Book of Science Fiction (Jeff VanderMeer)(Brožovaná)Quite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time- past, present, and future !§§What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic c... |
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Penguin Book of Haiku (Anon Anon)(Brožovaná)First Penguin volume§Of best Japanese haiku§Vivid translations§§A Japanese poetry form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, haiku are defined by their brevity: they are usually only three lines long and a total of seventeen syllables. Most famously, they use natural imagery to... |
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Monkey King“The best English edition of the classic Chinese fantasy novel I have ever read.” ?Minjie Chen, Los Angeles Review of Books A Penguin Classic Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China’s Monkey King. The title character, also known as Sun Wukong, is a shape-shifting trickster on a kung-... |
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The Buddenbrooks (Ritchie Robertson,Mike Mitchell)(Brožovaná)''All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that all this could not last much longer, that his demise was imminent.''The Buddenbrooks (1900) was Thomas Mann''s first major success. It draws on his own family history and on his vivid memories of growing... |
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Psychology and the Soul2011 Reprint of 1950 Translation by William Turner. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Recommended, both as a fascinating and little-known document in the history of psychology and as a provocative reading of the history of psychology. (Religiou... |
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Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing (James Joyce)(Brožovaná)'I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism' James Joyce's non-fictional writings address diverse issues: aesthetics, the functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history, England's literature and empire. This collection inc... |
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Kievan RussiaKievan Russia was originally published in a clothbound edition in 1948 as volume two in George Vernadsky's comprehensive series, A History of Russia. It is now available for the first time in a paperbound edition. At the time of its publication Kievan Russia received the following reviews: "The acco... |
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Takuma Nakahira: At the Limits of the Gaze (Takuma Nakahira,Daniel Abbe,Franz Prichard)(Brožovaná)The first English-language collection of Takuma Nakahira's influential writings on photography.At the Limits of the Gaze collects the writings of photographer and critic Takuma Nakahira in English for the first time. A crucial figure within the history of Japanese photography, Nakahira is best known... |
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Music in the Baroque Era from Monteverdi to BachThis vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise of Baroque music. It was written for the music student and music lover, with the aim of acquainting them with this great period of music history and helping them to gain a historical understanding of music without which baroque music cannot be full... |
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Orient Express""The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness of rails and points, round the corners of abandoned trucks."" As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, its voyage binds toge... |
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Unwomanly Face of WarA long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington |
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Compleat Angler'I envy no body but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.' A unique celebration of the English countryside and the most famous book on angling ever published, Walton's Compleat Angler first appeared in 1653. In 1676, at Walton's invitation, his friend Charles Cotton contributed his pi... |
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Arabian NightsThe Arabian Nights - stories told by Queen Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights, to beguile the Sultan into deferring her execution - first began to appear in the West in the early 18th century, firing in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it.... |
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Jane Eyre & Wuthering HightsIn 'Jane Eyre & Wuthering Heights,' readers are presented with two masterpieces that not only defy the romantic norms of their times but also delve deeply into the complexities of human passions and societal constraints. Both novels, while distinct in style and narrative, explore themes of love, rev... |
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Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin,Neil Gaiman)(Pevná)A deluxe hardcover edition of the queen of science fiction s trailblazing novel about a planet full of genderless beings part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand... |
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The Complete Essays of Plutarch (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Plutarch)(Pevná)The Complete Essays of Plutarch includes 133 chapters on nature, Plutarch's Symposiacs, as well as his collection of literary essays. Plutarch was a Platonist, but was open to the influence of the Peripatetics, and in some details even to Stoicism despite his criticism of their principles. He reject... |
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The Year of the WindNina, a Peruvian writer in Spain on the eve of the pandemic, is pulled back into her nation’s fraught history after a fleeting encounter with a woman who is a doppelgänger of Bárbara, a cousin lost to time. The games, the candor, and the secrets of her youth come alive again, but these memories are ... |
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