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Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid contributes to our understanding of the Roman poet Ovid, the Renaissance writer Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions through history. It examines the ways in whichMilton drew on Ovid's...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-02-02
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52,33€
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An original and wicked first novel set in the post-War years, by an author shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize.Ambrose Feeney has seen his hopes and ambitions dashed by others' influence and his own inertia. His Limerick is an old siege city of walls, both real and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-11-10
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The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-09-29
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The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet, while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-09-29
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47,45€
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Conversable Worlds addresses the emergence of the idea of 'the conversation of culture'. Around 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. Conversation became increasingly important as a model and...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-09-15
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34,07€
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The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William Congreve for more than twenty years, until his sudden death in 1999. This was a task he had taken over from Herbert Davis, to whom this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-04-07
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The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William Congreve for more than twenty years, until his sudden death in 1999. This was a task he had taken over from Herbert Davis, to whom this...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-04-07
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The late D. F. McKenzie worked on this comprehensive edition of the works of the playwright, poet, librettist, and novelist William Congreve for more than twenty years, until his sudden death in 1999. This was a task he had taken over from Herbert Davis, to whom this...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-04-07
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A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel,A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-03-01
ePub
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To celebrate the launch of Quick Reads in 2006, The Sun ran a short story competition called 'Get Britain Reading' in order to find the hidden talent among its ten million readers.It was judged by Sun columnist and bestselling author Jane Moore.The Sun Book of Short...
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Transworld Digital
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2011-01-11
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'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.'
In their collaborative early writings the Brontës created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays....
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OUP Oxford
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2010-09-23
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'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.'
In their collaborative early writings the Brontës created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-09-23
ePub
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'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.'
Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-09-09
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11,15€
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'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of art: the battle for existence is their picture.'
Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists, played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-09-09
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'Dangerous as lucifer matches.'
That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë's husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our most direct...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-09-09
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10,13€
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'Dangerous as lucifer matches.'
That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë's husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our most direct...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-09-09
ePub
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10,13€
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Written by experienced A-level examiners and teachers who know exactly what students need to succeed, and edited by a chief examiner, Philip Allan Literature Guides (for A-level) are invaluable study companions with exam-specific advice to help you to get the grade you...
Editeur :
Philip Allan
Parution :
2010-07-30
ePub
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'I see her now - cousin Phillis. The westering sun shone full upon her, and made a slanting stream of light into the room within.'
Elizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were equally...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-03-11
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9,12€
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What does it feel like to drive a lorry that's out of control?What really goes on in a school full of unruly children?Could you travel all over the world for work?Whether we love it or hate it, work has a huge impact on our lives and in recent times working life has...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-03-04
ePub
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Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-02-25
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26,77€
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