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ean: 9781940953601, isbn: 9781940953601,

“Guðbergur Bergsson achieved success with his novel Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller, which shocked Icelandic readers in innumerable ways, lashing out as it does at the Icelandic society of the post-war years for its cultural confusion, amorality, and ...

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ean: 9780674011304, isbn: 0674011309,

The first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women, Famous Women affords a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their po...

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ean: 9781592405589, isbn: 9781592405589,

In the first major literary biography of L. Frank Baum, Rebecca Loncraine tells the story of Oz as you've never heard it, with a look behind the curtain at the vivid life and eccentric imagination of its creator. L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wiz...

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ean: 9780674995888, isbn: 0674995880,

Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth ...

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ean: 9780674995901, isbn: 0674995902,

Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth ...

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ean: 9780674995895, isbn: 9780674995895,

Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth ...

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mpn: Illustrated, ean: 9780312426200, isbn: 0312426208,

A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the YearIn 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first comprehensive English dictionary. Imagining he could complete the job in three years, Johnson in fact took more than eight, and the...

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ean: 9781405121781, isbn: 1405121785,

In this rigorously researched biography Jürgen Malitz invitesreaders to reconsider the reputation of the Roman Emperor Nero.Focuses on the growing tension between Nero’s artistictendencies and his role as emperor.Steers readers through the diverse...

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ean: 9780674072237, isbn: 9780674072237,

Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens’s early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in ...

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ean: 9780140449228, isbn: 0140449221,

The life story of a Russian master as he told it to others From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, Chekhov wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspondents, including family and friends, his pub...

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ean: 9780393062601, isbn: 0393062600,

"Will reveal Donne to a new generation...[and] propel John Stubbs into the first rank of biographers."―Peter Ackroyd Metamorphosing from scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English p...

ean: 9781166796976, isbn: 1166796973,

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

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mpn: Map, 1 halftone, ean: 9780195169126, isbn: 0195169123,

In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia. In four years, Maconochie transforme...

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mpn: 24515702, ean: 9780820424002, isbn: 0820424005,

In these memoirs the author presents not only the events in his very unusual life but also a kaleidoscopic view of twentieth-century history. Burns's career as a classicist was interrupted first by Hitler's invasion of Austria, then by years of strug...

ean: 9781580469265, isbn: 1580469264,

Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat's classic My Century. Taking the form of an extended interview with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venc...

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ean: 9780801870569, isbn: 0801870569,

By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day, eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is now available in a new paperback edition.CBS radio broadca...

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mpn: 13 black and white illustrations, 1 map, ean: 9780198149248, isbn: 0198149247,

The emperor Constantine changed the world by making the Roman Empire Christian. Eusebius wrote his life and preserved his letters so that his policy would continue. This English translation is the first based on modern critical editions. Its Introduc...

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ean: 9780199588848, isbn: 0199588848,

Hailed as "excellent" (Harper's), "distinctly eye-opening" (WashingtonPost.com), and "astonishingly detailed" (Wall Street Journal), this marvelous biography draws on over a decade of archival research to explore all aspects of William Hazlitt's life...

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ean: 9780862920043, isbn: 0862920043,

The Histories (also known as The History) of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Written from the 450s to the 420s BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, they serve as a record of the ancient traditions, p...

ean: 9781378856338, isbn: 1378856333,

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...