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• On Being Different Merle Miller Engelstalig Paperback 9780143106968 Maart 2013 96 pagina's A book about being homosexual in the United States. Vanaf 11,86 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Rise And Fall of Athens Plutarch Engelstalig Paperback 9780140449051 September 2023 768 pagina's Vanaf 21,21 Bekijk exemplaren
• Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus Engelstalig Paperback 9780140446081 November 1993 256 pagina's Erasmus ranges from light-hearted jibes to vehement denunciation of the theologians and churchmen, monastic life and the condition of the Church, and then seriously expounds the virtues of... Vanaf 11,86 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Journals of Captain Cook Captain James Cook Engelstalig Paperback 9780140436471 September 1999 688 pagina's Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast... Vanaf 14,88 Bekijk exemplaren
• New Science Giambattista Vico Engelstalig Paperback 9780140435696 April 1999 560 pagina's Giambattista Vico's "New Science" is gradually being re-established as one of the most significant "humanist" achievements since the Renaissance. This book represents his attempt to provide... Vanaf 16,96 Bekijk exemplaren
• Ten North Frederick   Engelstalig Paperback 9780143107101 Juni 2014 464 pagina's The National Book Award–winning novel by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald”. With black wit and penetrating insight, Ten North Frederick stands with Richard... Vanaf 16,11 Bekijk exemplaren
• Dangerous Liaisons Choderlos de Laclos Engelstalig Paperback 9780140449570 Februari 2007 448 pagina's Two former lovers embark on a game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an... Vanaf 12,71 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Time Machine H. G. Wells Engelstalig Paperback 9780141439976 Maart 2005 144 pagina's When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Vanaf 10,16 Bekijk exemplaren
• Dead Souls Nikolay Gogol Engelstalig Paperback 9780140448078 Juli 2004 512 pagina's Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still... Vanaf 12,71 Bekijk exemplaren
• Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence Engelstalig Paperback 9780141441443 Juni 2006 528 pagina's The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her... Vanaf 9,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• Electra and other plays Sophocles, E. F. Watling Engelstalig Pocket 9780140440287 217 pagina's This volume contains four plays by Sophocles (496-406 B.C.), who was the first to give to ancient Greek drama a structure recognizably related to its modern descendant. In 'Electra' he... Vanaf 6,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• Invisible man H. G. Wells Engelstalig Paperback 9780141439983 208 pagina's Depicting one man's transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man is a riveting exploration of science's power to corrupt With his face swaddled in bandages, his... Vanaf 9,31 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Portrait of a Lady Henry James Engelstalig Paperback 9780141441269 Juli 2011 768 pagina's When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom,... Vanaf 12,71 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Mahabharata John D. Smith Engelstalig Paperback 9780140446814 833 pagina's Originally composed in Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, The Mahabharata-with one hundred thousand stanzas of verse-is one of the longest poems in existence. At the heart of the... Vanaf 21,21 Bekijk exemplaren
• Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens Engelstalig Paperback 9780140436143 Januari 2000 864 pagina's Vanaf 12,71 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Engelstalig Paperback 9780140445039 Maart 1989 144 pagina's Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Charlotte. Although he realises that she is to marry Albert, he is unable to... Vanaf 11,86 Bekijk exemplaren
• Orestes and Other Plays Euripides, Philip Vellacott Engelstalig Pocket 9780140442595 439 pagina's Written during the long battles with Sparta that were to ultimately destroy ancient Athens, these six plays by Euripides brilliantly utilize traditional legends to illustrate the futility of... Vanaf 6,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• Pillow book Shonagon S Engelstalig Paperback 9780140448061 400 pagina's A translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the "Tale of Genji", it is one of the major Japanese classics. Vanaf 12,71 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Politics Aristotle Engelstalig Paperback 9780140444216 September 1981 512 pagina's (1) Presents an analysis based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in... Vanaf 8,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• Arthurian Romances De Troyes Chretien Engelstalig Paperback 9780140445213 528 pagina's Fantastic adventures abound in these courtly romances: Erec and Enide, Cligés, The Knight of the Cart, The Knight with the Lion, and The Story of the Grail. For more than seventy years,... Vanaf 14,88 Bekijk exemplaren
• Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief Maurice Leblanc Engelstalig Paperback 9780143104865 Juli 2007 304 pagina's "Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief". Vanaf 13,56 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh Engelstalig Paperback 9780140446746 Juli 1997 560 pagina's (1) A selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely fresh translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for love and his... Vanaf 12,71 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Birds and Other Plays Aristophanes Engelstalig Paperback 9780140449518 September 2003 336 pagina's Two cunning Athenians persuade the birds to build the utopian city of 'Much Cuckoo in the Clouds' in the sky, blockading the Olympian gods and installing themselves as new deities. The... Vanaf 14,41 Bekijk exemplaren
• Far from the madding crowd Thomas Hardy, Ronald Blythe Engelstalig Pocket 9780140431261 493 pagina's Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle... Vanaf 6,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle Engelstalig Paperback 9780140437867 Juli 2001 240 pagina's When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and... Vanaf 8,93 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Water Babies Charles Kingsley Engelstalig Paperback 9780143105091 Augustus 2008 224 pagina's The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in... Vanaf 10,16 Bekijk exemplaren
• Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness Ibn Fadlan Engelstalig Paperback 9780140455076 December 2011 304 pagina's Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan... Vanaf 14,88 Bekijk exemplaren
• On the Genealogy of Morals Friedrich Nietzsche Engelstalig Paperback 9780141195377 November 2013 208 pagina's (1) Features three essays that offer insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology. Vanaf 11,86 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Portable Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe Engelstalig Paperback 9780143039914 September 2006 672 pagina's Compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery. This volume also offers letters, articles, criticism, visionary poetry, and a selection of... Vanaf 10,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• Oroonoko Aphra Behn Engelstalig Paperback 9780140439885 Oktober 2003 144 pagina's Aphra Behn, the poet, playwright, novelist and political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This title demonstrates the sophistication and vitality of Aphra... Vanaf 10,16 Bekijk exemplaren
• Medea and Other Plays Euripides Engelstalig Paperback 9780140441291 Augustus 2004 208 pagina's Features four tragedies, all of which focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. Vanaf 10,16 Bekijk exemplaren
• Aleph and Other Stories Jorge Luis Borges Engelstalig Paperback 9780142437889 Juli 2004 224 pagina's Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an... Vanaf 16,96 Bekijk exemplaren
• Piers the Ploughman William Langland, Jonathan Francis Goodridge Engelstalig Pocket 9780140440874 314 pagina's Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life. Vanaf 6,00 Bekijk exemplaren
• Frankenstein Mary Shelley Engelstalig Paperback 9780141439471 Januari 2003 352 pagina's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient... Vanaf 10,16 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories   Engelstalig Paperback 9780241299852 Maart 2020 528 pagina's This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the... Vanaf 14,88 Bekijk exemplaren
• Uncle Silas J. Le Fanu Engelstalig Paperback 9780140437461 December 2000 528 pagina's Maud Ruthyn is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. Together with his boorish son and a sinister French governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and claim her... Vanaf 14,88 Bekijk exemplaren
• A Parisian Affair and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant Engelstalig Paperback 9780140448122 Juni 2004 352 pagina's Include thirty-three tales that focus on the relationships between men and women, between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants. This title explores the dualistic nature of... Vanaf 12,71 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China Lu Xun Engelstalig Paperback 9780140455489 Oktober 2009 464 pagina's Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. This book presents translations of Lu Xun's... Vanaf 14,88 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Bhagavad Gita   Engelstalig Paperback 9780140447903 Augustus 2008 288 pagina's Recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. This book sets out the lessons Arjuna must learn to change the outcome of the war... Vanaf 8,50 Bekijk exemplaren
• The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other tales of terror Robert Louis Stevenson Engelstalig Paperback 9780141439730 Februari 2003 177 pagina's tevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil, "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," has become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a... Vanaf 6,00 Bekijk exemplaren