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The Hunting RugThe son of a general in the pre-war Hungarian army, Ádám Topporczy had enjoyed a golden youth. Family estates, Transylvanian maids, a free-and-easy life among the chattering classes of Budapest, an affair with a famous actress, a career pursued without trying too hard to catch up - but all come to a... |
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Beowulf Manuscript"Beowulf" is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. But this volume offers something unique. For the first time in the history of "Beowulf"... |
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MiddlemarchThe classic Victorian masterpiece that paints a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants in the midst of modern changesIn Middlemarch, George Eliot explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town facing immense political, cultural, and societal change. The quiet drama of o... |
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Carl von Clausewitz - On War'War is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to our will'Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this landmark treatise on the art of warfare, which presented war as part of a coherent system of political thought. In... |
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Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-AggadahThe first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic literature ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908-11, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own righ... |
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Varied TypesQueens and Emperors, artists and poets, priests and politicians: all are subject to G. K. Chesterton’s collected biographies. ‘Varied Types’ spans the streets of London, travels to the edges of the British empire and doubles back into the depths of history. In a series of essays, Chesterton paints t... |
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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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Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Slipcase Edition)A beautiful and faithfully reproduced slipcase edition of the best-selling, revolutionary publication from one of history''s most visionary artists.Widely recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, Songs of Innocence and of Experience also occupies a key position in the history of Western ar... |
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City of God (St Augustine)(Brožovaná)"Powerful people [are] still turning to [City of God] for guidance and insight. . . . The two most prominent American Catholics [JD Vance and Pope Leo XIV] have each been profoundly influenced by [it]. . . . The vice president has credited it with significantly informing his values, calling Augustin... |
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Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)(Brožovaná)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series designWinner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competitionGold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream is edited with an introduction by Russ McDonald and wa... |
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)(Pevná)The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, Arkhipelag GULAG) Note 1 is a three-volume non-fiction text written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was first published in 1973, and translated into Engli... |
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How to Speak BritThe quintessential A to Z guide to British English perfect for every egghead and bluestocking looking to conquer the language barrier Oscar Wilde once said the Brits have "everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."Any visitor to Old Blighty can sympathize with Mr. Wilde... |
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Penguin Book of HaikuFirst 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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The Vampire of Vourla and Other Greek Vampire Tales, 1819-1846Vampires are usually associated in the popular imagination with Transylvania and other Eastern European locales. But in this new collection, editor Álvaro García Marín has uncovered the earliest appearances of vampires in English literature, revealing their surprising origin in Greece. This volume i... |
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Fantasy (Roberts,Adam)(Brožovaná)One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the genre, Adam Roberts traces the central forms and influences on fantasy through the centuries to ... |
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Paratexts (Gérard Genette)(Brožovaná)Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English t... |
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Monsters in the Archives (Caroline Bicks)(Pevná)A fascinating, first of its kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King - all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives.After Caroline Bicks was named the University of Maine's in... |
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MuqaddimahThe Muqaddimah (المقدمة), often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, i... |
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Takuma Nakahira: At the Limits of the GazeThe 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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Fire of Love and the Mending of Life"Here in one volume are two classic books by English religious writer, hermit, and mystic RICHARD ROLLE DE HAMPOLE (1300ż1349). In The Mending of Life, Rolle tells the story of his life and his miracles, from the pain of his conversion as a young man to his settling after a period of wandering with ... |
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