Leviathan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 (15) Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. Hobbes argues that human beings are Verifica stoc
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories ♡ 14 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 From Mrs Hauksbee's Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney's cot in barracks, to the wild hills of Kafiristan, Kipling re-creates the India he knew in stories by
Miss or Mrs?, The Haunted Hotel, The Guilty River ♡ 15 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and to create an atmosphere of mystery and menace is fully evident in the three novellas reprinted here.
Collected Ghost Stories ♡ 23 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Includes a lively introduction that explores James's conservative, donnish background and the character traits that contributed to the extraordinary power of his closely focused tales,
The Alchemist and Other Plays ♡ 15 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in
An Essay on the Principle of Population ♡ 18 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus remains a byword for concern
French Decadent Tales ♡ 16 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Includes well-known writers such as Maupassant, Lorrain, Mirbeau, and Villiers as well as lesser known figures such as Leon Bloy, Jean Richepin, and the Belgian
The Professor ♡ 19 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 The Professor (1845-6), written before Jane Eyre, challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a working career both before
A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections ♡ 17 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of
Troilus and Criseyde ♡ 19 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 `Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays ♡ 14 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories ♡ 17 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection of
Autobiography and Other Writings ♡ 17 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women.
Tom Brown's Schooldays ♡ 19 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 An active social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind, relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from
Selected Writings ♡ 14 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 This is the only general anthology of Ruskin's writing currently available.Growing status of Ruskin as a major Victorian writer; his centenary in 2002 prompted a
Lyrical Ballads. 1798 and 1802 ♡ 16 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Lyrical Ballads is one of the most important collections of poetry ever published, and includes poems such as 'The Ancient Mariner' and 'Lines written a
Late Victorian Gothic Tales ♡ 14 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The only mainstream anthology to bring together the defining Gothic tales of the 1890sComplements and deepens the context for the most enduring Gothic fiction of
In a Glass Darkly ♡ 17 36 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a master. Known in nineteenth-century Dublin as `The Invisible Prince'
Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales ♡ 22 44 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 This selection of twenty of Hawthorne's tales is the first in paperback to present his most important short works with full annotation in one volume
Evolutionary Writings including the Autobiographies ♡ 16 44 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 This unique anthology brings together a collection of Darwin's most accessible and significant writings to give the best fully rounded picture of his ideas in
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories ♡ 14 36 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 This selection of 21 stories represents the best of James's work, and includes three stories which are not in the Collected Edition
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ♡ 16 36 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality
Tess of the d'Urbervilles ♡ 17 36 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 New introduction by Penny Boumelha describes the novel's controversial publication, the figure of Tess,class, and nature, and the female body, in an original and compelling
North and South ♡ 18 36 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman,
Selected Essays ♡ 18 44 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 This is the only one-volume edition of Virginia Woolf's essays to bring together the best of her essays across the span of her career. Woolf's
The Blithedale Romance ♡ 16 44 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist community outside Boston, The Blithedale Romance tells of the attempts of a like-minded group to begin
Typhoon and Other Tales ♡ 21 44 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland, the country of his birth. 'Typhoon'
Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings ♡ 15 36 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution; his Rights of Man
The Life of Charlotte Brontë ♡ 17 44 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell. It has been collated with the manuscript, and the previous two editions,
Fashion: A Very Short Introduction ♡ 20 36 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of communication. From Karl Lagerfeld's
The Mystery of Edwin Drood ♡ 18 36 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last novel, lay unfinished at his death. Speculation remains rife as to its probably conclusion; evidence suggests that, fascinated
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings ♡ 16 36 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a fascination with drug use and abuse that has continued from his day to ours.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ♡ 20 36 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned
The Female Quixote or The Adventures of Arabella ♡ 14 44 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 Praised by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson, the book quickly established Charlotte Lennox as a foremost writer of the Novel of Sentiment. With an excellent
The Marble Faun ♡ 18 44 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 The fragility - and the durability - of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended
Selected Poetry ♡ 20 31 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality. He is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling,
Selected Poetry ♡ 19 31 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 As a radical young poet in the years following the French Revolution, Coleridge collaborated with Wordsworth in Lyrical Ballads (1798) and was by turns dramatist,
Selected Poetry ♡ 20 31 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 This selection, chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition of Keats's major works, demonstrates the remarkable growth in maturity of his verse, from early poems
The Major Works ♡ 15 49 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.87/5 Tennyson was acclaimed in his own day as the chief poetic voice of his age, and he remains one of the most highly regarded masters
Daisy Miller and Other Stories ♡ 14 31 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 This volume includes Daisy Miller, Pandora, The Patagonia, and Four Meetings
A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings ♡ 16 31 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of
The Years ♡ 14 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.85/5 As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the `present day' of the
The Major Works ♡ 15 53 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.85/5 Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to
Major Works ♡ 16 58 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.84/5 In his tragically short life Keats wrote an astonishing number of superb poems; his stature as one of the foremost poets of the Romantic movement
The Major Works ♡ 28 58 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.87/5 Byron is regarded today as the ultimate Romantic, whose name has entered the language to describe a man of brooding passion. Although his private life
Major Works ♡ 16 58 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.84/5 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, which alone would have secured his place in the history of English literature.
The Major Works ♡ 17 62 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.83/5 This collection represents the best of Coleridge's poetry from every period of his life, particularly his prolific early years, which produced The Rime of the Ancient
Left-behind children in rural China - Ye Jingzhong, James Murray, Wang Yihuan ♡ 21 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Editie in limba engleza Content: PART I. Left-Behind Children in Mid-West China Chapter 1.Impact Study of Rural Labor Migration PART II. Left-Behind Children in the
Reducere 13 LEI Birdsong: York Notes Advanced - Julie Ellam 25% 53 LEI ♡ 23 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.17/5 Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're
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A Clockwork Orange ♡ 11 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.89/5 Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962 and has been controversial ever since. It tells the story of fifteen-year-old Alex - whose chief
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ♡ 7 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the
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Egri csillagok - Gardonyi Geza ♡ 16 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 A mu targya torteneti esemenyekhez kotodik, Buda elfoglalasa es a torok 1552. evi hadjaratanak kiemelkedo fontossagu esemenye, az egri var ostroma szolgal fo temajaul. A
Reducere 0 LEI Anglicisms in romanian. Online communication between theory and practice - Anda-Ileana Duta 12% 45 LEI ♡ 17 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 English loanwords constitute a worldwide linguistic and socio-cultural phenomenon nowadays. Globalisation and technological advances have created a world of interconnectedness, in which English is the
Ne magyarazd, mutasd! - Muhi Sandor ♡ 13 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Tartalomjegyzek: • Bevezeto •A rajztanitas merfoldkovei •Gyermekrajzokrol • Hogyan kepzelem el a kepzomuveszeti neveles, kezmuvesseg tanitasat az elokeszito osztalyokban? • A DVD tortenete •Vannak reformpedagogiai
Reducere 14 LEI A Room with a View - E. M. Forster 26% 54 LEI ♡ 5 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.14/5 '"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no
De lágrimas y de santos ♡ 6 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 Una pasion mistica en un mundo sin Dios. O, en palabras del propio Cioran, «la pasion de lo absoluto en un alma esceptica» : tal
Kepes szotar magyar-nemet ♡ 19 40 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Kepes szotar magyar-nemet. Dictionar ilustrat maghiar-german Tanulas szempontjabol a legtobb gyermek vizualis tipus, szamukra a kepes szotar kulonosen hasznos segitseg a nyelvtanulasban. Szotarunk kedves, szines
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