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  • Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction
    A J Dalton / Hazel Butler
    WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS 2018 - NON-FICTION.2 of the papers have been nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017: Kim Lakin-Smith and Juliet McKenna.JULIET MCKENNA'S PAPER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA AWARDS 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NON-FICTION 2018!“Gender identity and sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction” is the first Call for Papers of Ac...
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    22,39 €

  • Soyinka’s Language
    Obioma Ofoego
    This book explores in depth the uses of language in Wole Soyinka’s plays, poetry and prose. The author approaches Soyinka’s works through meticulous close readings, giving the writer his due by capturing the complexities, ambiguities, and nuances of his language.   ...
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    50,30 €

  • 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 €

  • Attah, v’HaLevy, v’HaGeir
    Menashe R. Frank
    Attah, v’HaLevy, v’HaGeir is an eclectic compilation of divrei Torah based on the parashat hashavuah. Over an eighteen year period, on a weekly basis, Menashe Frank recorded at least one interesting, provocative or inspirational d’var Torah that he heard or read.  Contributors range from close personal friends to the greatest Torah scholars in history.  His handwritten notes ev...
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    26,66 €

  • Twentieth Century Korean Literature
    Chiangje U / Kwangho Yi / Nam-ho Yi
    This short volume offers essential information and a basic framework for understanding twentieth-century Korean literature. Growing out of a continuous tradition of over 2,000 years, twentieth-century Korean literature, termed “modern Korean Literature” by Korean scholars, has been shaped by profound social and political transformations on the peninsula. Those decades of great ...
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    23,43 €

  • Dubliners
    James Joyce
    Unabridged value reproduction of Dubliners by James Joyce is the 1914 classic written during the heyday of Irish nationalism. Every vignette stands alone, yet every vignette is part of the same tapestry, producing both a personal and profound effect for the reader.Shocking for his time because of its realism, today Dubliners is a portal back to the gritty reality of the Irish e...
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    17,61 €

  • Canterbury Tales
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    The Canterbury Tales was Chaucer’s magnum opus. He uses the tales and the descriptions of the characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church. Structurally, the collection resembles The Decameron, which Chaucer may have come across during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. The tales are told as part ...
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    35,78 €

  • 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 €

  • HEAVENLY LOVE
    Edmund Spenser
    EDMUND SPENSER: HEAVENLY LOVE: SELECTED POEMSA selection of the great poems by Edmund Spenser. Edmund Spenser created a drama of England in his poetry. The ’dream’ occurs throughout his poetry, but finds its most concentrated expression in The Faerie Queene, with its epic treatment of the ’dream of Albion’, a myth-making vision of Blighty as the expression of Elizabeth I’s ma...
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    12,04 €

  • PARADISE OF GOLDEN LIGHTS
    PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
    PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: PARADISE OF GOLDEN LIGHTS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the odes, hymns and paeans of England’s breathless, angelic, anarchic poet. Famous poems, such as ’Ode to the West Wind’ and ’The Cloud’, are set beside extracts from Prometheus Unbound and Epipsychidion. New poems and new illustrations have been added to this edition. Percy Shelley is one of the...
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    12,19 €

  • Gawain and the Four Daughters of God
    Anne Hamilton
    A mathematical ’aventure’, exploring an interlocked, layered design within the four poems of Cotton Nero A.x. Key structural elements are identified as mathematical metaphors for theological concepts; e.g. 490 as ’seventy times seven’ alludes to forgiveness or 101 as a ’Pythagorean Comma’ alludes to the Music of the Spheres. The author concludes from an analysis of the numeric...
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    39,53 €

  • Thierry and Theodoret
    Domenico Lovascio
    Enthusiastically praised by Charles Lamb and A. C. Swinburne but unjustly neglected since the early twentieth century, Thierry and Theodoret dramatizes events from medieval French history. With its disenchanted depiction of royalty, its eerie instability in terms of genre, and its black comic overtones, Thierry and Theodoret strikes as a distinctive specimen of tragic drama in ...
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    157,39 €

  • The Drama of Love and Death - A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration
    Edward Carpenter
    Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 - 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early activist for rights for homosexuals. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore, and a friend of Walt Whitman.As a philosopher he was particularly known for his publication of Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure in which he proposes that civilisa...
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    14,37 €

  • Love’s Cure, or The Martial Maid
    José A. Pérez Díez
    A fully annotated critical edition of John Fletcher and Philip Massinger’s ground-breaking comedy Love’s Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615), a fascinating exploration of the journey of two transgender characters in an adverse heteronormative society. This Revels Plays edition offers a modernised text and a full critical commentary. ...
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    35,53 €

  • Bestsellers and masterpieces
    Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the ’modern canon’ of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval studies. ...
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    44,13 €

  • Hyde Park
    Eugene Giddens
    Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into the shifting nature of the genre and early modern conceptions of London and courtship. ...
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    35,95 €

  • Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition
    The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state of the field now and its future directions. ...
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    43,87 €

  • Graveyard Gothic
    This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video games. The chapters incorporate discussion of Gothic texts from around the world, offering a compelling new account of the graveyard’s importance as a key location for Gothic art and culture. ...
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    157,32 €

  • The Invisible Man
    Herbert George Wells
    On a bitter evening in the depths of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives to the remote English village of Iping, his face swaddled in bandages.The Invisible Man tells the tale of Griffin, a scientist who has found a way to make himself invisible. To his anger and dismay, however, the experiment appears irreversible. Freed from the constraints of the law and rejected by a soci...
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    12,50 €

  • Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    With seething rage Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most influential works. Corruption and treachery bring this story to life as the king’s ghost demands that his son get revenge on his uncle Claudius for pouring poison in his ear. With his mother married to Claudius the new king Hamlet swears his friends to secrecy as they set out to get revenge. William Shakespeare is widely re...
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    12,60 €

  • Well, After All
    Frank Frankfort Moore
    Well, After All by Frank Frankfurt Moore is about the life of cunning and sharp-witted lawyer Cyril Mowbray. Excerpt: 'It was an interesting scene, beyond doubt,' said Mr. Westwood, the senior partner in the Bracken-shire Bank of Westwood, Westwood, Barwell, & Westwood. 'Yes, I felt more than once greatly interested in the day.' 'Greatly interested? Greatly interested?' said Cy...
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    15,24 €

  • Artifacts for Diderot’s Elements of Physiology
    Gregory Bringman
    Artifacts for Diderot’s Elements of Physiology is a translation of Denis Diderot’s rare 18th Century work, Éléments de physiologie, situating it in light of New Materialism and other current debates in continental philosophy. It takes one of many possible theoretical tours through this oeuvre of Diderot, as well as incorporates other supplementary artifacts, including translati...
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    50,77 €

  • 谁说尽上海
    喻智官
    长篇小说《长恨歌》--著名作家王安忆的代表作，二〇〇〇年获茅盾文学奖并入选一九九〇年代最有影响力的中国作品榜，二〇〇一年获首届'花踪世界华文文学奖'。借助一九九〇年代兴起的民国热和'上海怀旧'时尚，《长恨歌》被先后改变成话剧、电影、电视剧登场。经过二十年的沉淀，《长恨歌》堂而皇之地成为了'经典'......一部《长恨歌》，一个王琦瑶，被誉为说尽了上海这座城市和上海人那些年的故事。长篇小说《福民公寓》--身居海外的自由写作者喻智官的作品。小说围绕文革，书写一九四九至一九八〇年代上海市民的生死歌哭。二〇〇四年和二〇一二年先后在港台出版，寄往国内的书籍被大陆海关没收，自然被归为'禁书'了。二〇〇八年，加拿大一位叫愚翁的读者，在自己网页列出四本喜欢的书：《一九八四》《动物农庄》《福民公寓》《论语别裁》。二〇一六年，大陆极少数在网上读到《福民公寓》的人中，有自...
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    11,18 €

  • 誰說盡上海
    喻智官
    長篇小說《長恨歌》--著名作家王安憶的代表作，二〇〇〇年獲茅盾文學獎幷入選一九九〇年代最有影響力的中國作品榜，二〇〇一年獲首届'花踪世界華文文學獎'。借助一九九〇年代興起的民國熱和'上海懷舊'時尚，《長恨歌》被先後改變成話劇、電影、電視劇登場。經過二十年的沉澱，《長恨歌》堂而皇之地成爲了'經典'......一部《長恨歌》，一個王琦瑤，被譽爲說盡了上海這座城市和上海人那些年的故事。長篇小說《福民公寓》--身居海外的自由寫作者喻智官的作品。小說圍繞文革，書寫一九四九至一九八〇年代上海市民的生死歌哭。二〇〇四年和二〇一二年先後在港臺出版，寄往國內的書籍被大陸海關沒收，自然被歸爲'禁書'了。二〇〇八年，加拿大一位叫愚翁的讀者，在自己網頁列出四本喜歡的書：《一九八四》《動物農莊》《福民公寓》《論語別裁》。二〇一六年，大陸極少數在網上讀到《福民公寓》的人中，有自...
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    11,18 €

  • The Poor Little Rich Girl
    Eleanor Gates
     As Gwendolyn stared at the line the reflection of her small face in the mirror grew suddenly all white as if some rude hand had reached out and brushed away the pink from cheeks and lips. Eleanor Gates was an American playwright who created seven plays that were staged on Broadway. Her best known work was the play The Poor Little Rich Girl, which was produced by her husband in...
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    16,15 €

  • Tiny Luttrell
    E. W. Hornung
    Tiny Luttrell, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of ...
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    24,70 €

  • Titan
    Jean Paul / Charles Timothy Brooks
    Titan: A Romance. V. 1, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned c...
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    30,85 €

  • Soldiers Three
    Rudyard Kipling
    Soldiers Three, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of...
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    26,86 €

  • Les proverbes communs
    Jean de Véprie
    Les proverbes communs, un livre classique, a été considéré comme important tout au long de l’histoire de l’humanité, et pour que cet ouvrage ne soit jamais oublié, chez Alpha Editions, nous avons fait des efforts pour sa préservation en rééditant ce livre dans un format moderne pour les générations présentes et futures. Tout ce livre a été reformaté, retapé et conçu. Ces livres...
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    19,04 €

  • Toilers of Babylon
    B. L. Farjeon
    Toilers of Babylon: A Novel, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scan...
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    29,84 €


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