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Portable Nietzsche
Av Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann
Häftad, 1994
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187 kr
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The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world’s leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, “Few writers in any age were so full of ideas,” …
Portable Edmund Burke
Av Edmund Burke, Isaac Kramnick
Häftad, 1999
283 kr
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The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament with his powerful defense of the American …
Portable Oscar Wilde
Revised Edition
Av Oscar Wilde, Stanley Weintraub
Häftad, 1981
304 kr
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Includes the following works: Novels—The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays—Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings—De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No …
Portable Romantic Poets
Romantic Poets: Blake to Poe
Av W. H. Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson
Häftad, 1977
289 kr
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DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: A MASTERFUL SELECTION OF WORKS FROM ONE OF THE RICHEST OF ALL LITERARY PERIODS. WILLIAM BLAKE, ROBERT BURNS,SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, LORD BYRON, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, JOHN KEATS, RALPH WALDO EMERSON, EDGAR ALLAN POE. AND MANY OTHERS. "I FIND IT HARD TO USE …
Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
Av Various, George Gibian
Häftad, 1993
293 kr
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan …
Portable Roman Reader
Häftad, 1977
293 kr
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THE CULTURE OF THE ROMAN STATE - ONE OF THE GREAT FORMATIVE FACTS OF OUR WORLD - AS REPRESENTED BY SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF ITS FINEST WRITERS, IN THE BEST ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, INCLUDING: PLAUTUS; LUCRETIUS; CAESAR; CICERO; CATULLUS; VIRGIL; HORACE; LIVY; OVID; SENECA; MARTIAL; SAINT …
Portable William Blake
Av William Blake, Alfred Kazin
Häftad, 1978
304 kr
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'SONGS OF INNOCENCE' AND 'SONGS OF EXPERIENCE', COMPLETE SELECTION FROM THE 'PROPHETIC BOOKS' AND FROM OTHER WORKS OF POETRY AND PROSE. THE COMPLETE DRAWINGS OF "THE BOOK OF JOB" 'AN INSPIRED SELECTION' - THE NEW YORK TIMES. "BLAKE IS NOWHERE BETTER PRESENTED FOR THE GENERAL READER. THE …
Portable Chekhov
Av Anton Chekhov, Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Häftad, 1977
353 kr
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Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is accounted the single most important influence on the development of the modern short story. Edited and …
Portable Plato
Av Plato, Scott Buchanan
Häftad, 1977
244 kr
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Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes …
Portable Milton
Häftad, 1976
304 kr
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The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason …
Portable Medieval Reader
Av Various, James Bruce Ross m. fl.
Häftad, 1977
303 kr
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DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: THE PAGEANT OF THEMIDDLE AGES - IN THEOLOGY, HISTORY, TRAVEL, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE- BROUGHT TO LIFE BY WRITERS OF THE PERIOD 1050-1500. DANTE ALIGHIERI, FRANCESCO PETRARCA, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, PETER ABELARD, LEONARDO DA VINCI, ROGER …
Portable Coleridge
Av Samuel Taylor Coleridge, I. A. Richards
Häftad, 1977
275 kr
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DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER", "CHRISTABEL", "FEARS IN SOLITUDE," "KUBLA KHAN", AND MOST OF THE SHORTERPOEMS. MAJOR SECTIONS OF THE BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA. SELECTIONS FROMSAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE'S LETTERS, LITERARY CRITICISM, NOTEBOOKS, POLITICAL ESSAYS, AND PHILOSOPHICAL …
Portable Cervantes
Av Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Samuel Putnam
Häftad, 1976
301 kr
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Contains Don Quixote , in Samuel Putnam's acclaimed translation, substantially complete, with editorial summaries of the omitted passages; two 'Exemplary Novels, 'Rinconete and Cortadillo' and 'Man of Glass'; and 'Foot in the Stirrup,' Cervantes's extraordinary farewell to life from The Troubles of …
Portable Renaissance Reader
Av James Bruce Ross, Mary Martin McLaughlin
Häftad, 1977
365 kr
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Portable Stephen Crane
Häftad, 1977
283 kr
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“A man is born into the world with his own pair of eyes, and he is not responsible for his vision—he is merely responsible for his quality of personal honesty.” In the course of his tragically abbreviated career, Stephen Crane (1871–1900) saw things that his contemporaries preferred to overlook—the …
Portable Thomas Jefferson
Häftad, 1977
263 kr
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Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle," 1790; "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791; and many other writings.
Portable Chaucer
Revised Edition
Av Geoffrey Chaucer, Theodore Morrison
Häftad, 1977
346 kr
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In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, …
Portable Karl Marx
Av Karl Marx
Häftad, 1983
155 kr
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This book is an outstanding overview of the life and thoughts of Karl Marx. The editor masterfully weaves together Marx's published works and private letters into a rich tapestry of history and ideas. In addition to what you might expect to find in a collection like this (the text of The Communist …
Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
Häftad, 1995
289 kr
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Gathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume—organized chronologically—includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, …
Portable Jack London
Häftad, 1994
275 kr
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Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast," gang member, hobo, sailor, Klondike argonaut, socialist crusader, war correspondent, utopian farmer, and world-famous adventurer: London is the closest thing …
Portable American Realism Reader
Av Various, James Nagel m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
293 kr
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This is an anthology of the American short story between the Civil War and World War I, containing 47 stories by 30 writers. Realist writers, represented by Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin and Willa Cather among others, sought to paint "life as it is, human feelings in their …
