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    Selected Prose

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    Serien Buch 41 - Peter Lang Ltd.
    As well as a highly respected poet and editor, Mick Imlah (1956–2009) was one of the finest literary critics of his generation. He spent most of his twenty-five-year career working for the Times Literary Supplement, reinterpreting familiar writers from Tennyson and Trollope to Larkin and Muldoon, and – as his interest in his Scottish background grew – elucidating those fallen from favour, such as Lesen Sie mehr

    € 38,82

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  • Sacred Trash

    The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

    Serien series Jewish Encounters Series
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  • Venice: Lion City

    The Religion of Empire

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  • Isaac Newton

    Serien series Very Interesting People
    Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of Lesen Sie mehr

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  • On the Seven Seas

    Wargames Rules for the Age of Piracy and Adventure c.1500–1730

    von Chris Peers
    Serien Buch 7 - Osprey Wargames
    On the Seven Seas is a set of wargames rules covering the high adventure and low morals of the world of the pirate. The rules cover licensed privateers such as da Gama and Drake, ruthless pirates of the Spanish Main, Blackbeard, the Barbary corsairs, the wako of the Far East, not to mention the anti-pirate squadrons, Spanish garrisons and native warriors from around the world that found themselves Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Selected Poems

    Serien series Oxford World's Classics
    'If I by miracle can be This livelong minute true to thee 'Tis all that heav'n allows.' The Earl of Rochester was England's first celebrity poet, a byword for the theatricality, licentiousness, and scepticism of the Restoration age. But his scandalous reputation belies the variety and sophistication of his work: his love poems set new standards not only of sexual explicitness but also of Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Marriage and Violence

    The Early Modern Legacy

    Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what—or who—must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan contends, that its logical consequence is conflict.Dolan ranges over sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Puritan advice literature, sensational accounts of "true crime," and late twentieth-century Lesen Sie mehr

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  • African Culture and Melville's Art

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  • Emily Dickinson in Context

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    Complex Identities in the Atlantic World

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  • Voices of Italian America

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    von Martino Marazzi
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