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Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century A Companion to Literary Theory is a collection of 36 original essays, all by noted scholars in their field, designed to introduce the modes and ideas of conte…
Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century A Companion to Literary Theory is a collection of 36 original essays, all by noted scholars in their field, designed to introduce the modes and ideas of conte…
A collection of original essays and innovative reading strategies—provides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways Reading Dickens Differently features contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars, offering creative wa…
A collection of original essays and innovative reading strategies—provides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways Reading Dickens Differently features contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars, offering creative wa…
What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course…
What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality – this was the thesis of Aristotle’s Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course…
Historical Narrative Offers Introduction to Romanticism by Placing Key Figures in Overall Social Context Going beyond the general literary survey, A History of Romantic Literature examines the literatures of sensibility and intensity as well as the a…
Historical Narrative Offers Introduction to Romanticism by Placing Key Figures in Overall Social Context Going beyond the general literary survey, A History of Romantic Literature examines the literatures of sensibility and intensity as well as the a…
44 songs from the repertoire of the singer with notes and lyrics classified type and explanations of foreign words, unfamiliar words and dialect.
The songs are recorded in various radio stations and CDs.
One of them is in German – the singer's o…
44 songs from the repertoire of the singer with notes and lyrics classified type and explanations of foreign words, unfamiliar words and dialect.
The songs are recorded in various radio stations and CDs.
One of them is in German – the singer's o…
Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers in 1844 and the sequel Twenty Years After in 1845. But what happened to the protagonist of both novels, the famous hero d'Artagnan, in the meantime? The Cardinal's Red Lily tells an alternate s…
Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers in 1844 and the sequel Twenty Years After in 1845. But what happened to the protagonist of both novels, the famous hero d'Artagnan, in the meantime? The Cardinal's Red Lily tells an alternate s…
Over about 200 years, up until the 1930s, the open valley of the River Tawe became one of the most heavily industrialised areas of the developed world. The 'Holy Grail' which lay beneath the lands of Graig Trewyddfa, in Swansea, locally kno…
Over about 200 years, up until the 1930s, the open valley of the River Tawe became one of the most heavily industrialised areas of the developed world. The 'Holy Grail' which lay beneath the lands of Graig Trewyddfa, in Swansea, locally kno…
This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of this kind constantly recycled criticism of a half-dozen of the same works. In this study, the aim was to…
This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of this kind constantly recycled criticism of a half-dozen of the same works. In this study, the aim was to…
Adam Brown, a British army Major in command of security for the British embassy in Beijing, learns of an impending Chinese nuclear strike against America. As all communications are compromised, Adam makes a coded call home for extraction – but as the…
Adam Brown, a British army Major in command of security for the British embassy in Beijing, learns of an impending Chinese nuclear strike against America. As all communications are compromised, Adam makes a coded call home for extraction – but as the…
Meine Pferde, meine Heiler beginnt mit einem Kindheitstrauma des sexuellen Missbrauchs. Durch das Zusammensein mit Pferden verwandelt Shelley Rosenberg ihre Erfahrung in ein Zeugnis der Selbstheilung. Für Reiter jeden Alters, für diejenigen, die Entf…
Meine Pferde, meine Heiler beginnt mit einem Kindheitstrauma des sexuellen Missbrauchs. Durch das Zusammensein mit Pferden verwandelt Shelley Rosenberg ihre Erfahrung in ein Zeugnis der Selbstheilung. Für Reiter jeden Alters, für diejenigen, die Entf…
The Egyptians are disillusioned, disappointed, fatigued and silent. Caught between power and powerlessness. Their 'revolution' has failed. Once again they're enjoying being governed. By an elite clique, of all things. It was precisely …
The Egyptians are disillusioned, disappointed, fatigued and silent. Caught between power and powerlessness. Their 'revolution' has failed. Once again they're enjoying being governed. By an elite clique, of all things. It was precisely …
"There are stories I want to tell, there are stories that I try to keep a secret. If you listen carefully you will get to know me. I am the city."
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Experience «A Day in the City», a day like no other in a place like no other. A place filled…
"There are stories I want to tell, there are stories that I try to keep a secret. If you listen carefully you will get to know me. I am the city."
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Experience «A Day in the City», a day like no other in a place like no other. A place filled…
"The Second Jungle Book" is a sequel to «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermo…
"The Second Jungle Book" is a sequel to «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermo…
A dangerous affair: Revenge for justice. Power and control. Set among the power games of the Mafia and the rich and beautiful of Italy, on the island of Ponza, in Ferrara and in London. Corruption involving Italy's high and mighty: the Clan, mul…
A dangerous affair: Revenge for justice. Power and control. Set among the power games of the Mafia and the rich and beautiful of Italy, on the island of Ponza, in Ferrara and in London. Corruption involving Italy's high and mighty: the Clan, mul…
More than a quarter of a century living away from the country she grew up in, the author finds she is constantly revisiting her native land, when often only inside her head. It is a journey which never seems to end. This collection of poems and short…
More than a quarter of a century living away from the country she grew up in, the author finds she is constantly revisiting her native land, when often only inside her head. It is a journey which never seems to end. This collection of poems and short…
This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postc…
This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postc…
This fascinating account, envisages as a virtual film, Alexander the Great's early life tracing events from his birth, through to his boyhood and thence to the brink of manhood. He inherited his father Philip's military brilliance and his m…
This fascinating account, envisages as a virtual film, Alexander the Great's early life tracing events from his birth, through to his boyhood and thence to the brink of manhood. He inherited his father Philip's military brilliance and his m…
It had never been attempted before, and might never be done again. One man watching another man write a novel from beginning to end.<br /> <br />On September 1, 2014, in an 11th floor apartment in New York, Lee Child embarked on the twent…
It had never been attempted before, and might never be done again. One man watching another man write a novel from beginning to end.<br /> <br />On September 1, 2014, in an 11th floor apartment in New York, Lee Child embarked on the twent…
These three stories represent all that remained of Hemingway's early work after the suitcase full of his manuscripts was stolen in the Gare de Lyon. A masterful collection of three early works by the widely-agreed upon master of literature, Erne…
These three stories represent all that remained of Hemingway's early work after the suitcase full of his manuscripts was stolen in the Gare de Lyon. A masterful collection of three early works by the widely-agreed upon master of literature, Erne…
The famous Fairy Tales written by the Brothers Grimm. Over 50 well-known and less well-known fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in one volume! The book includes classics like Rapunzel, Mother Holle or Rumpelstiltskin and many more. Exciting stories th…
The famous Fairy Tales written by the Brothers Grimm. Over 50 well-known and less well-known fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in one volume! The book includes classics like Rapunzel, Mother Holle or Rumpelstiltskin and many more. Exciting stories th…