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  • The Complete Essays of Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner
    This early work by Charles Dudley Warner was originally published in 1904. Born in Massachusetts, USA in 1829, Charles Dudley Warner was a gifted and popular writer with a keen interest in the social questions of his time. He became the first president of the National Institute for Arts and Letters and was a friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored The Gilded Age. This co...
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    48,14 €

  • Teatro español entre dos siglos a examen
    José Romera Castillo
    Una vez más, tenemos entre manos un eslabón de una ya larga cadena de trabajos del profesor José Romera Castillo sobre estudios teatrales. Dentro de las ricas y variadas aportaciones, que van desde nuestro teatro áureo hasta la teatralidad más reciente, este examen, centrado en diversas producciones tanto textuales como espectaculares, de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y los ini...
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    15,14 €

  • Tourists, Retirees, and Other Reasons to Stay in Bed
    David Grimes
    David Grimes’s humor column runs three times a week in the Sarasota Herald Tribune. David began writing his humor column in 1985 when it became clear that he had no talent for other, more useful jobs at the paper. David has gleaned a lifetime of wisdom from his 25 years as a Florida resident and offers us his sage advice on topics such as these:Granny sweat boosts healthHow to ...
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    9,47 €

  • Candor and Perversion
    Roger Shattuck
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    21,29 €

  • A Single Raindrop
    Vincent Vinci
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    11,65 €

  • Porphyry
    G. Clarke
    Porphyry’s On Abstinence from Killing Animals is one of the most interesting books from Greek antiquity for both philosophers and historians. In it, Porphyry relates the arguments for eating or sacrificing animals and then goes on to argue that an understanding of humans and gods shows such sacrifice to be inappropriate, that an understanding of animals shows it to be unjust, a...
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    167,45 €

  • Essays of the Masters
    Charles Neider
    This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature. ...
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    15,29 €

  • Mediocrity in Ten Easy Steps
    Al Michaud
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    17,31 €

  • Here First
    Twenty-seven Native American writers describe their lives and art in this compelling collection.When the editors Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann asked twenty-seven Native American writers to describe their lives in relation to their art, they received an extraordinary array of responses -- twenty-seven pieces of autobiographical remembrance united only by a common set of Native A...
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    21,18 €

  • The Writer on Her Work
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    19,07 €

  • Ordine e Struttura Musicale nella Divina Commedia
    Raffaele De Benedictis
    In questo lavoro l’autore esamina la musica della Divina commedia nelle sue variegate tappe. La musica è una componente intrinseca dell’anima umana già nella teoria musicale di Pitagora e nella concezione platonica dell’armonia del mondo. Nel medioevo la suddetta tradizione musicale fu tramandata da Severino Boezio attraverso il suo De institutione musica. In questa specie di...
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    30,27 €

  • No Other Book
    Randall Jarrell
    Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century’s leading American men of letters. Although he saw himself chiefly as a poet, publishing a number of books of poetry, he also left behind a sparkling comic novel, four children’s books, numerous translations, haunting letters, and f...
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    15,93 €

  • Playwrights at Work
    Paris Review / Review Paris Review
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    19,92 €

  • Drumming Through Woodsmoke
    Jamie Longstreth
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    15,04 €

  • Winter Hours
    Mary Oliver
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    13,32 €

  • The American Mystery
    Tony Tanner
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    60,35 €

  • The Messenger Reader
    Paul Robeson / Zora Neale Hurston
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    21,18 €

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    William Shakespeare
    A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM ...
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    11,19 €

  • Kafka Ou L’Innocence Diabolique
    Alexandre Vialatte
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    11,47 €

  • Environmental Literature
    Patricia D. Netzley / Patricia DNetzley
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    120,05 €

  • Riffs & Reciprocities
    Stephen Dunn
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    14,30 €

  • A Dangerous Profession
    Frederick Busch
    Frederick Busch has a voracious appetite for reading and writing great literature. A Dangerous Profession explores this passion in a series of thoughtful, funny, insightful essays on topics ranging from books encountered during his boyhood in Brooklyn to the etiquette of literary critique learned once he had become a published author. Vividly describing his career’s growth as h...
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    17,98 €

  • A Dream Deferred
    Shelby Steele
    'Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation’s circumscribed public discourse on race.' --New York TimesFrom the author of the award-winning bestseller The Content of Our Character and White Guilt comes an essay collection that tells the untold story behind the polarized racial politics in America today. In A Dream Deferr...
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    17,64 €

  • Hoboken Fish & Chicago Whistle
    Daniel Manus Pinkwater
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    19,61 €

  • Hunting for Hope
    Scott Russell Sanders
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    18,02 €

  • Just Before Dark
    Jim Harrison
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    16,18 €

  • The Opportunity Reader
    Modern Library / Sondra Kathryn Wilson
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    24,67 €

  • Nine Essays on Homer
    The essays in this collections address questions of intense interest in Homeric studies today: the questions of performance and poet-audience interaction, especially as depicted in idealized performances within the Iliad and the Odyssey; the ways in which epic incorporates material of diverse genres, such as women’s laments, blame poetry, or folk tales; how the ideological bala...
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    73,67 €

  • Always in Pursuit
    Stanley Crouch
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    16,37 €

  • Beat Writers at Work
    Paris Review
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    16,41 €