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  • More Letters from the American Farmer
    J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
    This is a critical edition of the essays that J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) wrote in English but did not include in Letters from an American Farmer. First published in 1782, Letters from an American Farmer is an eighteenth-century cultural masterpiece. Written in English by a French-born immigrant, it is a collection of semiautobiographical writings in epistolary...
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    126,90 €

  • La Vie de Saint Alexis
    T. D. Hemming
    This is the first critical edition of a neglected version of the Life of Saint Alexis found in a late twelfth century manuscript written in England containing several other saints’ lives, and now, after many adventures, in the Bibliothèque nationale. ...
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    46,19 €

  • Montaigne Amongst The Moderns
    D M Marchi
    '. . . an original book that attempts and succeeds in understanding the idea of Modernity from the reworking of Montaigne’s Essais. · Philippe Desan'. . . a most significant contribution to Montaigne studies . . . thoroughly researched, well conceived and composed . . . which will reach out and be of interest to a wider audience than scholars and student of French thought and ...
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    163,03 €

  • Blood, Bread, and Poetry
    Adrienne Rich
    Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past. ...
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    17,40 €

  • Next
    Eric Liu
    Who really are the 'twentysomething' Americans? In this anthology of lively and intelligent, original personal essays, sixteen diverse and talented writers aged 24 to 32 cut through the stereotypes and reveal through their own stories the true face of their generation. Humorous, ironic, satiric, or angry, the eight men and eight women contributors grapple with how coming of age...
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    17,46 €

  • Old Songs in a New Cafe
    Robert James Waller
    From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be. ...
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    29,87 €

  • Staying Put
    Scott Russell Sanders
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    17,01 €

  • A Writer’s Eye
    Eudora Welty
    A Writer’s Eye: Collected Book Reviewsby Eudora Weltyedited, with an introduction by Pearl Amelia McHaneyAlthough she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also as an astute literary critic. Her essays on the art of fiction and on the writers who enlarged the range of the short story and the novel are definitive pi...
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    49,88 €

  • Emerson and the Conduct of Life
    David Robinson
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    136,64 €

  • Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy
    William Walker
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    112,05 €

  • New Essays on ’Daisy Miller’ and ’The Turn of the Screw’
    Vivian R. Pollack / Vivian RPollack
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    25,18 €

  • Death and Representation
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    40,45 €

  • Will Rogers’ World
    Bryan B. Sterling / Bryan BSterling / Frances N. Sterling / Frances NSterling / Will Rogers
    Will Rogers still touches us more than a hlf century after his death in this comprehensive collection of his pithy commentaries about goverment, presidents, business, and philosophy. ...
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    12,74 €

  • Paradise of Bombs
    Scott Russell Sanders
    Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. ...
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    16,29 €

  • Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing
    Allon White
    Before his death from leukemia a the the age of 37, Allon White had become known as one of the most important literary and cultural critics of his generation. Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing represents a summation of the work which, as Stuart Hall explains in an extended introduction, transformed cultural studies in the 1980s. ...
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    78,05 €

  • The Politics of Rhetoric
    Bernard Duffy / Martin Jacobi
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    121,66 €

  • Essays on Pope
    Pat Rogers / Rogers Pat
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    124,19 €

  • Author and Audience in Latin Literature
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    124,14 €

  • The Theory and Practice of Text-Editing
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    80,13 €

  • Political Controversy
    Robert Donald Spector
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    95,87 €

  • Philosophaster
    Robert Burton
    Philosophaster is a satirical play written by Robert Burton, a 17th-century English scholar and writer. The play follows the story of a young man named Philomathes, who is obsessed with philosophy and wants to become a great philosopher. However, he lacks the necessary knowledge and understanding of the subject, and instead relies on empty rhetoric and sophistry to impress othe...
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    36,12 €

  • Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
    Francis Bacon
    Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral is a collection of essays written by the renowned philosopher and statesman, Francis Bacon. This book is a compilation of fifty-eight essays, divided into two sections: Civil and Moral. The Civil essays focus on topics related to politics, government, and public life, while the Moral essays explore topics related to human nature, ethics, and ...
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    29,98 €

  • Metaphor & Memory
    Cynthia Ozick
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    15,75 €

  • New Essays on a Farewell to Arms
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    25,23 €

  • Freud’s Vienna & Other Essays
    Bruno Bettelheim
    From one of the world’s leading child psychologists comes a new collection of wide-ranging essays in which he reflects on the people, events, and cultural influences that have shaped him and his work. ...
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    16,67 €

  • An Invitation to the Opera
    John L. Digaetani / John LDigaetani / John Louis DiGaetani
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    15,78 €

  • Saint Croix Notes
    Noah Adams
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    16,62 €

  • Essays Ancient and Modern
    Bernard MacGregor Walke Knox
    Linked by the events of Bernard Knox’s remarkable life, the twenty-five chapters of 'Essays Ancient and Modern' cover subjects ranging from Hesiod, Homer, and Thucydides to Auden, Forster, and the Spanish Civil War. With a masterful eye for the telling detail, Knox continually reminds us that we share the present with antiquity’s living past. A soldier in Italy finds a battered...
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    44,34 €

  • The Mirror Maker
    Primo Levi / Raymond Rosenthal
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    14,26 €

  • Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice
    Louis MacNeice
    Here is a personal, social, and intellectual history of a major writer who explains himself and his interests in an unusually open way, revealing a considerable amount about himself and his vital affinities. ...
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    178,52 €


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