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28 produkter
Frankenstein
or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text
Av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nick Groom
Häftad, 2019
93 kr
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By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...Frankenstein is the most …
The Monk
Häftad, 2016
118 kr
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'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.'The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin …
The Italian
Häftad, 2017
130 kr
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'Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.' Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further …
The Castle of Otranto
A Gothic Story
Häftad, 2014
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
111 kr
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'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole …
Frankenstein
or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text
Av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nick Groom
Inbunden, 2018
218 kr
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By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...'Frankenstein is the most …
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien
What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today
Av Nick Groom
Häftad, 2023
187 kr
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'Fascinating.... Wonderfully exhilarating.' Mail on SundayFinalist for The Tolkien Society Best Book AwardAn engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.What is it about Middle-Earth and …
Italian
E-bok, 2017
117 kr
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''Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.'' Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further …
Italian
E-bok, 2017
25 kr
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''Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.'' Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further …
Castle of Otranto
A Gothic Story
E-bok, 2014
59 kr
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''Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!'' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole …
Castle of Otranto
A Gothic Story
E-bok, 2014
15 kr
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''Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!'' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole …
Monk
E-bok, 2016
95 kr
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''He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.'' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin …
Monk
E-bok, 2016
20 kr
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''He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.'' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin …
Gothic
A Very Short Introduction
Av Nick Groom
E-bok, 2012
23 kr
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The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the …
Coastal Works
Cultures of the Atlantic Edge
Av Jos Smith, Nick Groom m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
1244 kr
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In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been …
Coastal Works
Cultures of the Atlantic Edge
Av Jos Smith, Nick Groom m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
1244 kr
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In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been …
Frankenstein
or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text
Av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nick Groom
E-bok, 2018
71 kr
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By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...'' Frankenstein is the most …
Frankenstein
or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text
Av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nick Groom
E-bok, 2018
15 kr
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By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...'' Frankenstein is the most …
The Making of Percy's Reliques
Av Nick Groom
Inbunden, 1999
5787 kr
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Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) is one of the founding texts of English literature, and epoch-making collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined the canon of popular poetry. It dramatically influenced Romanticism and the writing of Wordsworth and Coleridge, …
Coastal Works
Cultures of the Atlantic Edge
Av Allen Et Al, Nicholas Allen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1978 kr
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In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been …
Vampire Tales
Av Nick Groom
Inbunden, 2026
215 kr
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'The pang of the bite, the sudden spurting of blood, and the monstrous horror of the act.'This collection, edited by Nick Groom, explores the extraordinary variety and range of the vampire in English literature prior to the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897): it includes classical and …
The Gothic
A Very Short Introduction
Av Nick Groom
Häftad, 2012
130 kr
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The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the …
Vampire
A New History
Av Nick Groom
Häftad, 2020
185 kr
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An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scenePublished to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first …
Vampire
An Edinburgh Companion
Inbunden, 2025
1343 kr
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The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion examines the recurrent figure of the vampire from its folkloric origins, through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, to those twentieth- and twenty-first century innovations that have disseminated the un-dead across global popular culture. …
Vampire
An Edinburgh Companion
Av HUGHES WILLIAM, Nick Groom m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
359 kr
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The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion examines the recurrent figure of the vampire from its folkloric origins, through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, to those twentieth- and twenty-first century innovations that have disseminated the un-dead across global popular culture. …
Union Jack
The Story of the British Flag
Av Nick Groom
Häftad, 2017
146 kr
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Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and fascinating past, from the development of the Royal Standard and seventeenth-century clashes over the …
Introducing Shakespeare
A Graphic Guide
Av Nick Groom
Häftad, 2010
124 kr
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Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think.Nick …
Seasons
A Celebration of the English Year
Av Nick Groom
Häftad, 2014
280 kr
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Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award and runner-up for Countryfile Book of the Year. For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But what do they mean to us now that we lead increasingly atomised and urban lives and our weather …
El vampiro
Una nueva historia
Av Nick Groom
E-bok, 2020
127 kr
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Tres siglos después de que un brote vampírico aterrorizara a la Europa central y dos siglos después de que el The Vampyre de Polidori irrumpiera en la escena literaria, llega esta nueva historia acerca del vampiro, que rastrea sus orígenes hasta un momento y un lugar: 1725, en las fronteras …
