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  • Tales from the Riverside
    Larry Landgraf
    Tales from the Riverside tells true and unique stories about one man’s struggle with alligators, snakes, killer bees, and hordes of nasty critters on a daily basis in his swamp. Experience the danger without the need for professional medical services. Life in a swamp is not for everyone. ...
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    22,79 €

  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Thomas De Quincey
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was 'the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight. ...
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    17,94 €

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson
    James Boswell
    This is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell’s personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson’s life by...
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    36,04 €

  • Haiku Master
    Erik Thomas
    A literary vision quest in space & time coming from the mind of a high school student. All poetry written from 9th through 12th grade blended with an emotive exhilarating score of rhyme nuanced by an organized touch of romance. ...
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    11,27 €

  • ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
    WILLIAM H. PATTERSON / WILLIAM HPATTERSON
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    34,12 €

  • A Passionate Sisterhood
    Kathleen Jones
    The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys twelve miles away at Keswick and the women created a kind of extended family tha...
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    12,01 €

  • The Lonely House
    Paul Brody
    During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but ...
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    6,16 €

  • Beat Transnationalism
    John Tytell
    Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca.In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting – via letters from that period...
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    16,04 €

  • La jefa y el monte
    Nitty Rizo Patrón
    Con esta segunda entrega, Nitty Rizo Patrón (Lima, 1943) confirma esa vocación por narrar historias que en La doña y el monte, su primer libro, se tradujo en el medio centenar de crónicas que recogen la etapa fundacional, llena de desafíos y no por ello menos idílica, de su vida marital y familiar en la hacienda El Choloque.En este volumen, titulado La jefa y el monte, Nitty vu...
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    31,20 €

  • D.H. Lawrence and Cornwall
    Philip Prof. Payton
    This book examines D.H. Lawrence’s attempts to establish a utopian community in Cornwall during WWI. Lawrence was drawn to the idea of a ’Celtic Cornwall’ beyond England’s reach and thus remote from the war. But it caught up with Cornwall and Lawrence, resulting in disillusion and eventual expulsion. He described his Cornish sojourn in Kangaroo. ...
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    145,42 €

  • Castles & Ruins
    Rue Matthiessen
    Decades after spending a summer in the Irish countryside with her parents-author Deborah Love and National Book Award winner Peter Matthiessen-Rue takes her young family back to Ireland to revisit locales from that season in the sixties. As a guide, she has her mother’s poetic book, Annaghkeen, named for the castle that overlooked their home in Galway.What begins as a simple, n...
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    15,91 €

  • A Confession
    Leo Tolstoy
    A Confession or My Confession, is a classic Leo Tolstoy book and a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was in his early fifties.The book is a brief autobiographical story of the author’s struggle with a mid-life existential crisis. It describes his search for the answer to the ultimate philosophical que...
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    12,38 €

  • CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
    Theophile Gautier / Guy Thorne
    CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: HIS LIFEBy Théophile GautierWith poems translated by Guy ThorneCharles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet’s poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of the finest poems in the French language. Baudelaire was k...
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    21,21 €

  • El Seminarista y el Nahual
    Pedro Soto Amador
    Un grupo de jóvenes seminaristas se embarca en una misión en la Sierra Zongolica en Veracruz, con el objetivo de moldear su vocación como seminaristas para convertirse en sacerdotes misioneros. No obstante, don Pedrito, uno de los jóvenes líderes religiosos, en su trabajo dentrode la pastoral, tiene un encuentro con don Ismael, un curandero de las montañas, de quien todo mundo ...
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    13,52 €

  • Walden-ish
    Henry David Thoreau / Krimsey Lilleth
    AN AMERICAN CLASSIC, REINVIGORATEDIn 1854, Henry David Thoreau published his famous work, Walden, an experiment in simple living. Thoreau recounts his experiences living alone in a small self-built cabin near Walden Pond, reflecting on the virtue of self-reliance and the pursuit of a meaningful life. He challenges readers to question societal norms and reconnect with the natura...
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    11,35 €

  • My Hospitals & My Prisons
    Paul Verlaine / Richard Robinson
    Autobiographical in nature, but reading more like works of fiction, written in that rare, ephemeral, and nuanced style that the poet is famous for in his early poetry, these two works by Paul Verlaine are a first-ever English translation of My Hospitals, from 1891, and My Prisons, from 1893. Enthusiasts of the Paris Commune and the Belle Epoque will be enthralled by these eye-w...
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    17,88 €

  • Virginia Woolf
    United Library
    Step into the world of Adeline Virginia Woolf, the celebrated English writer whose pioneering contributions to modernist literature and mastery of the stream of consciousness narrative technique have left an indelible mark on the 20th-century literary landscape. Virginia Woolf;s book is an intimate journey through the complex and brilliant mind of a literary icon. Born into pri...
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    9,08 €

  • Virginia Woolf
    United Library
    Ingrese al mundo de Adeline Virginia Woolf, la célebre escritora inglesa cuyas contribuciones pioneras a la literatura modernista y su dominio de la técnica narrativa de la corriente de la conciencia han dejado una marca indeleble en el panorama literario del siglo XX. El libro de Virginia Woolf es un viaje íntimo a través de la mente compleja y brillante de un ícono literario....
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    9,11 €

  • Ten Years a Bohemian
    Émile Goudeau / Richard Robinson
    Ten Years a Bohemian (Dix ans de bohème in French), first published in 1888, is the autobiographical account of a young man, Émile Goudeau, who moves to Paris from the French countryside in the mid- to late-1870s, with high ambitions of becoming a poet. Would that it were so easy! Whimsical and endearing, it tells the story of the Bohemian life of not just one young man, but co...
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    21,47 €

  • Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction
    Syeda Faiqa Mazhar
    Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction is a major study of the life and writings of Nadine Gordimer, a towering figure in the literary and cultural life of South Africa in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, recognised for her fiction through several prizes, most notably the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. It has the makings of a guide, taking the reader through the complexities in Gor...
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    18,43 €

  • Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction
    Syeda Faiqa Mazhar
    Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction is a major study of the life and writings of Nadine Gordimer, a towering figure in the literary and cultural life of South Africa in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, recognised for her fiction through several prizes, most notably the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. It has the makings of a guide, taking the reader through the complexities in Gor...
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    50,04 €

  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    Jeremy W. Johnston
    'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.'  So begins J.R.R. Tolkien’s marvellous tale of wizards, elves, dragons, and dwarves in the children’s book, The Hobbit. Since Bilbo Baggins entered the hearts and minds of readers in 1937, millions of people around the world have gone on to read, watch, and study Tolkien’s epic masterpieces The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarilli...
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    21,83 €

  • Amor De Adolescente..quem Não Teve?
    Laudelina Rodrigues Ferreira
    Quem em juizo perfeito simularia seu proprio afogamento? quem em sã conciência escreveria uma carta de amor,revelando todos os seus sentimentos ? quem teria como plano namorar o irmão do seu grande amor mesmo não havendo nenhum sentimento entre eles com ointuito de ficar proxima do seu grande amor? Amanda fez todos esses planos mirabonantese mais um pouco com o firme proposito ...
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    20,72 €

  • Mark Twain in Berlin Newly Discovered Stories & An Account of Twain’s Berlin Adventures
    Andreas Austilat / MArk Twain
    In fall 1891, Mark Twain headed for Berlin, the 'newest city I have ever seen,' as America’s foremost humorist wrote; accompanied by his wife, Olivia, and their three daughters. Twain, a 'Yankee from head to toe,' according to the Berlin press, conspired with diplomats, frequented the famed salons, had breakfast with duchesses, and dined with the emperor. He also suffered an 'o...
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    16,42 €

  • Una familia para mí
    Gabriela Vicente Irrazabal / Victoria Daona
    Papá se fue de casa cuando yo tenía cinco años y mi hermano era un bebé. Antes de que se fuera, mamá preparó una pascualina y cenaron juntxs, despuéspapá nos saludó y lo vimos salir. Cerró la puerta con llave del lado de afuera. Mamá lavó los platos y nos acostamos. Desde esa noche, mamá, mi hermano yyo dormimos juntxs, en la misma cama. Después mamá se volvió a casar. La escen...
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    5,90 €

  • A Modern Literary Life
    Heather Ingman
    This revelatory new work sets the life of one of the foremost writers of fiction in the 20th-century in its several contexts including her busy life in literary London, and her experiences during the Blitz (when she was an ARP Warden). / The author is a leading scholar noted for her work on Irish fiction, nation, women, and gender. ...
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    65,23 €

  • THE GOLDEN PEN
    ALEXA NAZZARO BELEN / ALEXA BELEN
    The Golden Pen; The key to the American dream In 'The Golden Pen,' Jan Havel Smith, embarks on a quest to uncover his mother’s roots in Central Europe while conducting research on the Austro-Hungarian Empire his ticket for a Nobel or pulitzer prize. His journey leads him to the untrodden parts of European history. As Jan delves deeper into his research, he inadvertently become...
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    30,17 €

  • David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
    Nicholas Royle
    A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton ...
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    30,46 €

  • David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
    Nicholas Royle
    A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton ...
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    159,50 €

  • وانت السبب يابا...
    نوارة نجم
    تقول نوارة نجم في مقدمة سيرتها مع والدها الشاعر الكبير أحمد فؤاد نجم: لم يغب أبي وذكرياته عن خاطري، لم يكن ذكرى في يوم، كان دومًا حاضرًا. لن أروي إلا قصتي (قصته) عبر كاميرا مثبتة في حدقة عين طفلة ثم مراهقة ثم شابة عاشت في ظل شخص استثنائي على المستويين الإبداعي والإنساني، تمر بأحداث لم تفهم بعضها، وطبَّعت مع جُلها باعتبار أن هذه طبيعة الأشياء، ثم تبينت حين نضجت أنها ليست كذلك، و...
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    16,07 €


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