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  • Life Stories
    David Remnick
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    23,07 €

  • Crime and Punishment in the England of Shakespeare and Milton, 1570-1640
    John W. Weatherford
    Crime has been present in all cultures and societies, since the beginning of time. This work focuses on the punishments common in England around the time of Shakespeare and Milton, presenting descriptions of more than fifty criminal cases. Information comes from narratives printed for the popular news media at the time of the event. Details of everyday life in England and fa...
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    42,86 €

  • Who’s Who of Twentieth Century Novelists
    Tim Woods
    Scholarly and informative, but at all times highly readable and enjoyable, Who’s Who of Twentieth Century Novelists gives a superb insight into the richness and diversity of the art form that is the twentieth century novel. ...
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    165,94 €

  • Conversations with Wole Soyinka
    Biodun Jeyifo
    Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is the most prominent writer from the African continent and one of the greatest living playwrights in the English language. His plays have been produced by the leading professional and repertory companies and stages in the English-speaking world including the National Theatre in Britain and the Lincoln Center in New York. At the same time, Soyinka h...
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    42,82 €

  • Misgivings
    C. K. WILLIAMS
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    15,00 €

  • Wannabe
    Badgwendel
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    17,31 €

  • An Ambrose Bierce Companion
    Robert L. Gale / Robert LGale
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    105,70 €

  • Ring
    Jonathan Yardley
    Sportswriter, storyteller, humorist-Ring Lardner was an American original, and in this affectionate, entertaining, and authoritative biography, Pulitzer Prize winning critic Jonathan Yardley gives us a new look at Lardner’s all too short life and career. ...
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    17,54 €

  • From There to Here
    Robert M. Rock / Robert MRock
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    16,71 €

  • Poet in America
    Scott Donaldson
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    21,10 €

  • The Secret Opinions of Irving B. Gerson
    Irving B. Gerson / Irving BGerson
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    21,40 €

  • Tolstoy
    A. N. Wilson / ANWilson
    In this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson traces the roots of Tolstoy's art to his relationship with God, w...
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    26,96 €

  • The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia
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    105,32 €

  • William Makepeace Thackeray
    Peter L. Shillingsburg / Shillingsberg
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    133,21 €

  • Joseph Conrad
    Jeffrey Meyers
    Filled with provocative new assessments and new facts, this biography presents the contradictory, tormented life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim , and one of the great figures of modern literature. ...
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    15,62 €

  • Le Commerce du Parnasse
    Françoise Pascal
    This edition of Françoise Pascal’s collection epistolary highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter. Now in its first modern edition, this text provides new insights into seventeenth-century life and the discourses of galanterie and préciosité. ...
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    45,86 €

  • Letters from the Editor
    Harold Wallace Ross
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    21,18 €

  • Christopher Marlowe
    Lisa Hopkins
    Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life situates the individual works of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas covered include: Marlowe’s preference for foreign settings and his unusually accurate depictions of them; the importance of his scholarly background; his consistent portrayal of family groups as fissured and troubled; the challenge that his work...
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    133,16 €

  • S.T. Coleridge
    Seamus Perry
    Meeting Coleridge was one of the Romantic age’s most memorable experiences, and many of his contemporaries left vivid records--Wordsworth, Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats, Emerson, and many now forgotten. This book is a comprehensive, fully annotated collection of such reminiscences. Drawing on an eclectic range of material (including journals, letters, poems, and comic portraits), and ...
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    132,64 €

  • Katherine Mansfield
    Angela Smith
    In a letter, Katherine Mansfield wrote: 'I hate the sort of license that English people give themselves-to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid.' This book explores Mansfield’s idiosyncratic aesthetic by focusing on her position as an outsider in Britain: a New-Zealander, a woman writer, a Fauvist, and eventually a consumptive. H...
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    133,08 €

  • Caresse Crosby
    Anne Conover
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    12,48 €

  • Living to Tell
    Eddy Douglas Brown
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    9,67 €

  • Reminiscences of a Russian Antiquarian Bookseller
    Paula Israelewicz
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    19,90 €

  • A Mug Up with Elisabeth
    Marilyn Westervelt / Melissa Hayes
    Here is the essential reference for fans of Elisabeth Ogilvie’s books -- and a wonderful introduction to one of Maine’s most prolific writers. ...
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    15,86 €

  • Dr. Johnson’s Women
    Norma Clark / Norma Clarke
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    297,85 €

  • Thomas Morton of 'Merrymount'
    Jack Dempsey
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    25,25 €

  • Norma Fox Mazer
    Arthea J S Reed / Arthea J.S. Reed / Arthea J.SReed / Arthea JSReed
    In Norma Fox Mazer: A Writer’s World, Reed chronicles her discovery that, although Mazer’s husband and his work are thoroughly intertwined with and complimentary to her own, the author 'is fiercely independent-a feminist.' ...
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    92,11 €

  • Naipaul’s Truth
    Lillian Feder
    V.S. Naipaul once described his purpose as an author as nothing less than a 'commitment to deliver the truth.' One of the world’s greatest, and most controversial, living writers, he has written extensively about the enduring economic, cultural, and psychological effects of colonialism, particularly its assaults on individual identity. In Naipaul’s Truth, Lillian Feder, noted a...
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    36,72 €

  • Enchanted Evening
    M M Kaye
    In the first volume of her autobiography, 'The Sun in the Morning, 'M.M. Kaye detailed the first eighteen years of her life in India and England and introduced readers to her love affair with India. She brought to life its people, scents, vibrant colors, and breathtaking landscapes. In the second volume, 'Golden Afternoon, 'she happily returned to her beloved India after years ...
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    19,61 €

  • Francis Ledwidge
    Elizabeth Cassidy Olson
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    7,95 €


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