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13 produkter
Explosionist
E-bok, 2009
57 kr
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A series of mysteries. An explosion of truths. The Explosionist: Someone sets off a bomb outside fifteen-year-old Sophie''s boarding school, but no one can figure out who. The Medium: Soothsayers and séance leaders are regular guests at her great-aunt''s house in Scotland, but only one delivers a …
Invisible Things
E-bok, 2010
57 kr
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Sixteen-year-old Sophie knows there is more to the story of her parents'' death. And she''s on a mission to find the truth. To aid her in solving the decades-old mystery, Sophie has enlisted her best friend, Mikael, whose friendship has turned into something more. It''s soon clear that Sophie''s …
Breeding
A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2008
1238 kr
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The Enlightenment commitment to reason naturally gave rise to a belief in the perfectibility of man. Influenced by John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many eighteenth-century writers argued that the proper education and upbringing--breeding--could make any man a member of the cultural elite. Yet …
Reading Style
A Life in Sentences
Inbunden, 2014
891 kr
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A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her book shows how style …
Reading Style
A Life in Sentences
Häftad, 2016
234 kr
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A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her book shows how style …
Pride and Prejudice (The Norton Library)
Av Jane Austen, Jenny Davidson
Häftad, 2022
125 kr
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Part of the Norton Library seriesThe Norton Library edition of Pride and Prejudice features the complete text of the first (1813) edition. An introduction by Jenny Davidson discusses the novel’s sharp observations of class and gender distinctions, the complexity of its social world, and Austen’s …
Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness
Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
Häftad, 2007
842 kr
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In Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness, Jenny Davidson considers the arguments that define hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue in its own right. She shows that these were arguments that thrived in the medium of eighteenth-century Britain's culture of politeness. In the debate about the …
Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness
Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
Inbunden, 2004
1872 kr
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In Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness, Jenny Davidson considers the arguments that define hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue in its own right. She shows that these were arguments that thrived in the medium of eighteenth-century Britain's culture of politeness. In the debate about the …
Reading Jane Austen
E-bok, 2017
309 kr
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Whether you''re new to Austen''s work or know it backwards and forwards already, this book provides a clear, full and highly engaging account of how Austen''s fiction works and why it matters. Exploring new pathways into the study of Jane Austen''s writing, novelist and academic Jenny Davidson …
Reading Jane Austen
E-bok, 2017
312 kr
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Whether you''re new to Austen''s work or know it backwards and forwards already, this book provides a clear, full and highly engaging account of how Austen''s fiction works and why it matters. Exploring new pathways into the study of Jane Austen''s writing, novelist and academic Jenny Davidson …
Reading Jane Austen
Inbunden, 2017
1554 kr
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Whether you're new to Austen's work or know it backwards and forwards already, this book provides a clear, full and highly engaging account of how Austen's fiction works and why it matters. Exploring new pathways into the study of Jane Austen's writing, novelist and academic Jenny Davidson looks at …
Reading Jane Austen
Häftad, 2017
336 kr
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Whether you're new to Austen's work or know it backwards and forwards already, this book provides a clear, full and highly engaging account of how Austen's fiction works and why it matters. Exploring new pathways into the study of Jane Austen's writing, novelist and academic Jenny Davidson looks at …
Duchess of Angus
Av Margaret Brown Kilik, Jenny Davidson
E-bok, 2020
268 kr
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Written in the 1950s and discovered by family members years after her death, Margaret Brown Kilik’s shocking coming-of-age novel of the emotional and sexual brutality of young women’s lives in wartime San Antonio deserves a place on the shelf alongside classic novels like Sylvia Plath’s The Bell …
