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63 produkter
Our Mutual Friend
Av Charles Dickens, Adrian Poole
Häftad, 1997
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
149 kr
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter AckroydOur Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the Thames, …
The American
Häftad, 2009
118 kr
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`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!' A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is introduced to Claire de Cintré, …
Ambassadors
Häftad, 2008
149 kr
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The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in Penguin Classics.Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious …
Our Mutual Friend
Av Charles Dickens, Adrian Poole
E-bok, 2004
105 kr
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter AckroydOur Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the Thames, …
Washington Square
E-bok, 2010
82 kr
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''She will do as I have bidden her.'' Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by Catherine''s romantically-minded aunt, Mrs …
Washington Square
E-bok, 2010
82 kr
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''She will do as I have bidden her.'' Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by Catherine''s romantically-minded aunt, Mrs …
Tragedy
A Very Short Introduction
Av Adrian Poole
E-bok, 2005
106 kr
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What do we mean by ''tragedy'' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians and …
Tragedy
A Very Short Introduction
Av Adrian Poole
E-bok, 2005
106 kr
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What do we mean by ''tragedy'' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians and …
American
E-bok, 1999
106 kr
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`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!''A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is introduced to Claire de Cintré, …
American
E-bok, 1999
106 kr
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`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!''A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is introduced to Claire de Cintré, …
What Maisie Knew
E-bok, 2008
82 kr
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What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James''s finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their …
Aspern Papers and Other Stories
E-bok, 2013
82 kr
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''There''s no baseness I wouldn''t commit for Jeffrey Aspern''s sake.'' The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his mistress and muse, a recluse in an old palazzo in Venice, tended by her ingenuous niece. A predatory …
Aspern Papers and Other Stories
E-bok, 2013
82 kr
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''There''s no baseness I wouldn''t commit for Jeffrey Aspern''s sake.'' The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his mistress and muse, a recluse in an old palazzo in Venice, tended by her ingenuous niece. A predatory …
Daisy Miller and An International Episode
E-bok, 2013
82 kr
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''an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence'' Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or corrupt? Has he lived too long in Europe to judge her properly? Amid the romantic scenery of Lake Geneva …
Daisy Miller and An International Episode
E-bok, 2013
82 kr
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''an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence'' Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or corrupt? Has he lived too long in Europe to judge her properly? Amid the romantic scenery of Lake Geneva …
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
Av Poole, Adrian Poole m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
2260 kr
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The debts that English poetry owes to the Classics are massive and various. But they have been richly repaid by the astonishingly inventive tradition of translation to which some of the greatest poets in the English language have contributed, including Chaucer and Jonson, Dryden and Pope, Tennyson …
Tragedy
A Very Short Introduction
Av Adrian Poole
Häftad, 2005
127 kr
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What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians and …
Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One
Volume 10 An Anglo-American Tragedy
Inbunden, 2024
2585 kr
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This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual …
What Maisie Knew
Häftad, 2008
106 kr
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What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their …
Washington Square
Häftad, 2010
106 kr
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'She will do as I have bidden her.'Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by Catherine's romantically-minded aunt, Mrs Penniman, …
The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
Häftad, 2013
118 kr
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'There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.'The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his mistress and muse, a recluse in an old palazzo in Venice, tended by her ingenuous niece. A predatory critic is …
Daisy Miller and An International Episode
Häftad, 2013
106 kr
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'an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence'Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or corrupt? Has he lived too long in Europe to judge her properly? Amid the romantic scenery of Lake Geneva and …
Victorian Shakespeare
Volume 2: Literature and Culture
Av Adrian Poole, Gail Marshall
E-bok, 2003
1782 kr
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What did the Victorians think of Shakespeare? The twelve essays gathered here offer some answers, through close examination of works by leading nineteenth-century novelists, poets and critics including Dickens, Trollope, Eliot, Tennyson, Browning and Ruskin. Shakespeare provided the Victorians with …
Dictionary of Criminology
Inbunden, 2019
1826 kr
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Originally published in 1983. This Dictionary provides a wide-ranging guide to concepts and terminology frequently used in criminology. It will not only inform and stimulate, but will also bring clarity and integration to a subject where the understanding of key words and phrases is essential. …
Dictionary of Criminology
Häftad, 2020
604 kr
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Originally published in 1983. This Dictionary provides a wide-ranging guide to concepts and terminology frequently used in criminology. It will not only inform and stimulate, but will also bring clarity and integration to a subject where the understanding of key words and phrases is essential. …
Dictionary of Criminology
E-bok, 2019
710 kr
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Originally published in 1983. This Dictionary provides a wide-ranging guide to concepts and terminology frequently used in criminology. It will not only inform and stimulate, but will also bring clarity and integration to a subject where the understanding of key words and phrases is essential. …
Dictionary of Criminology
E-bok, 2019
710 kr
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Originally published in 1983. This Dictionary provides a wide-ranging guide to concepts and terminology frequently used in criminology. It will not only inform and stimulate, but will also bring clarity and integration to a subject where the understanding of key words and phrases is essential. …
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Av Adrian Poole
Häftad, 2009
604 kr
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In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The …
The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Av Adrian Poole
Inbunden, 2009
2003 kr
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In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The …
Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats
Great Shakespeareans: Volume IV
Av Adrian Poole
Inbunden, 2010
3093 kr
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This title presents a comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. It focuses on Shakespeare's reception by English romantic period writers. "Great Shakespeareans" offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest …
