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  • Walt Whitman’s Champion
    Jerome Loving
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    22,35 €

  • Charles Lamb
    Charles Lamb
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    69,58 €

  • The Dance of Life
    Havelock Ellis
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    68,94 €

  • Collection of Essays
    George Orwell
    George Orwell's collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following  One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his time with singular vigor through pen and paper. In this selection of essays, he ranges from reflections on his boyhood schooli...
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    13,45 €

  • Dickens, Dali & Others
    George Crwell / George Orwell
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    17,41 €

  • The Peregrine Muse
    Robert J. Clements / Robert JClements
    Most of the essays in this collection illustrate the manner in which Italian letters influenced European writers from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. Other essays treat of the relationship between emblem and courtesy books--and the identity of literary and artistic theory in the Renaissance. ...
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    44,90 €

  • The Art of Philosophizing
    Bertrand Russell
    The essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nuclear warfare and the containment of communist aggression. In those years the author was teaching philosophy at American universities and exercising a growing influence on America’s ...
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    10,05 €

  • The Peregrine Muse
    Robert J. Clements
    These essays illustrate how the muse of Italian Renaissance literature wandered throughout Western Europe, inspiring the best of writers: Ronsard, Lopez Pinciano, Burton, Marheurite de Navarre, Desportes, and indeed, even up until those as modern as Rilke. 3 ...
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    38,63 €

  • From the Ground Up
    Lewis Mumford
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    19,28 €

  • Samuel Pepys in Paris and Other Essays
    Urban T. Holmes Jr. / Urban THolmes Jr.
    Three annotated essays are examined and conjectures are made as to events probably occurring during the period. The essays are 'Samuel Pepys in Paris,' 'Medieval Gardens,' and 'A Twelfth-Century Schoolmaster.' ...
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    38,22 €

  • Letters on Art and Literature
    Francois Mauriac
    France’s great Catholic author and Nobel Prize winner unfolds his thoughts on a variety of topics in a series of letters written to such men as Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Schaeffer and Jacques Rivière. Readers of “Proust’s Way”, “Men I Hold Great” and “The Stumbling Block” will find intense interest in Mauriac’s reflections on the death of Georges Bernanos, the Claudel-...
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    13,55 €

  • The Essays of Elia
    Charles Lamb
    This edition of The Essays of Elia reproduces Charles Lamb’s classic reflections on English culture, faith and social life as it stood in the early 19th century.A much-loved figure of his time, Charles Lamb published numerous reflections on the changing and evolving nature of England’s society. Gifted at choosing topics that were unusual yet capable of holding reader’s interest...
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    14,71 €

  • The Mirror of the Sea
    Joseph Conrad
    Author Joseph Conrad described, in his essay collection The Mirror of the Sea (1906) and his novel The Arrow of Gold (1919), having, during his time in Marseilles, France, smuggling arms to Spain for the Carlist supporters of Carlos de Borbón y de Austria-Este, pretender to the Spanish throne. Although it likely he was involved in something other than weapons.  ...
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    24,39 €

  • Mark Twain’s Library of Humor
    Mark Twain
    'Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages representative of every period and section.'-The Associate Editors in the modern Introduction to Mark Twain’s Library of Humor (1888)Mark...
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    36,22 €

  • Roughing It
    Mark Twain
    'This book is merely a personal narrative and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation...Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter.'-Mark Twain (1872) Roughing It (...
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    21,06 €

  • English Traits
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The book has no equal in its kind. It is the wittiest work of America’s wittiest writer.' -Mark van Doren, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writer, and criticIn English Traits (1856), Ralph Waldo Emerson blends his observations of the English character based on travels in England with insights gained from his extensive reading of British history. Because of its playfulnes...
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    17,94 €

  • Miscellaneous Essays
    Thomas De Quincy
    'Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.'-Thomas de Quincey Miscellaneous Essays (1851) is a collection of essays by Thomas De Quincey, who has been called '...one of the greatest prose stylists of the English Romantic era.' It has also been sai...
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    16,90 €

  • Use of Great Men
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    '...great men exist that there may be greater men. The destiny of organized nature is amelioration, and who can tell its limits.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Use of Great Men (1850) Use of Great Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850) is one of seven essays about notable scholars whom the author discusses in his collection entitled Representative Men (also available from Cosimo Classics). I...
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    7,47 €

  • Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1849)Nature-Addresses and Lectures (1849) is a collection that brings together several short commentaries by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson is among the most quoted of American writers, and his essays are considered classics. This volume includes Emerso...
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    26,04 €

  • The Poet
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    '. . . for the poet is representative. He stands among partial men for the complete man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the common-wealth.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet The Poet, written by Ralph Waldon Emerson between 1841 and 1843, is an essay in which Emerson argues for the United States, when it was a relatively young nation, to establish a position of national ...
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    7,56 €

  • Politics
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The theory of politics, which has possessed the mind of men, and which they have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Politics (1844)Politics (1844), by Ralph Waldo Emerson details the author’s views of the transitory nature of politi...
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    7,39 €

  • Manners
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Manners (1844)Emerson’s essay on Manners (1844) is an explication of the value of ...
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    7,53 €

  • The Over-Soul
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul The Over-Soul (1841) is a treatise on transcendentalism. Emerson was one of the original authors of this philosophical system, and in his essay, he argues the basic principles of individualism and free thought. He also elaborates on his belief that God lives in each of us, that we...
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    7,47 €

  • Spiritual Laws
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson In Spiritual Laws (1841), Emerson makes a case for simplicity as the path to serenity and success. According to the author, our intellects are clouded by material interests, and...
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    7,53 €

  • Self-Reliance
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance Self-Reliance (1841) is an essay that articulates Emerson’s belief in the importance of individualism and the need for each individual to rely on their own ideas and instincts. It offers an analysis of what the author describes as...
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    8,92 €

  • Prudence
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.'-Ralph Waldo Emerson, PrudenceThis essay on Prudence (1841) was originally delivered by Emerson as a lecture in a course on human culture in the winter of 1837-8. In it, he sought to balance his lofty positions on love and friendship with practical experience, l...
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    7,36 €

  • Heroism
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common, the heroic.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson, HeroismIn his essay on Heroism (1841), Emerson maintai...
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    7,36 €

  • Nature
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man: space, the air, the river, the leaf.'-Ralph Waldo EmersonNature (1836) was originally written by Ralph Waldo Emerson as a long essay in which he began to break away from traditional religious and social thinking and formulated the ideas and beliefs that were basic to the philosophy of Transcendentalism. In this ...
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    6,74 €


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