Raises doubts on how seriously we can take Shaw as a political thinker. This title states that despite writing in the 1930s,…

Includes the plays Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer, and Mrs Warren's Profession.…

Messrs Barker and Corbett kept a nation laughing for two decades, and despite the work that went into writing, rehearsing…

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, this work traces the development of Italian art across three…

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• Rok vydání 1995

This is an edition of the Old English epic poem "Beowulf", offering linguistic and glossarial aids on each page.…

Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio…

Growing up in South Wales, Rob Brydon had a passion for radio and soon the Welsh airwaves resounded to his hearty burr.…

• Rok vydání 2005

Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the…

The three plays collected here mirror the era after King Charles II. In Etherege's The Man of Mode, Dorimant meets his…

Through character sketches and anecdotes the author depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to…

Aged just 17, the author walked on stage for the first time in a Glasgow comedy club and brought the house down. He only had…

Dramas by the classical playwright and philosopher are accompanied by a modern work to demonstrate the Roman's impact on the…

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Describes the background of Menander's plays, and provides notes along with new translations of more than fifteen of his…

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• Rok vydání 1995

A wordless book which imitates a zoom lens - in reverse. On each page the focus moves back to reveal a little more. Nothing…

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• Rok vydání 1995

The BBC’s lavish adaptation of ‘Pride and Prejudice’, starring Colin Firth, was eighteen months in the making and continues…

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• Rok vydání 2008

Produkt Music Lesson - Wooten, Victor L. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Putnam Inc.…

• Rok vydání 2006

\nFeatures plays written during the long battles with Sparta that were to ultimately destroy ancient Athens. This title…

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• Rok vydání 1998

Portrays the Russian people. This title presents a series of interlinked stories including "The Shot", in which a duel is…

Need a handbook to your architect's business or studies? Struggling with your DIY project? Interested in the art of…

Provides a tool kit for understanding the world around us. This book is about our obsession with collecting, the quest for…

\nThomas Middleton was one of the most prolific playwrights of the Jacobean era. This collection comprises five of his…

Discusses works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres. This title features writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier.…

Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential…

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• Rok vydání 2005

Even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Many established writers and exciting…

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• Rok vydání 1995

Translated from the Italian, this volume includes plays such as "Six Characters in Search of an Author", "The tragedy Henry…

Tells the Jimmy Choo founder's account of her life in the fashion business. This is a memoir from one of the most successful…

• Rok vydání 2007

Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and…

Why exactly did Van Gogh cut off his ear? Was Warhol an original or just a copyist? This title provides answers to all this.…

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Takes us into the heart of the biggest company on earth, ever, to show how the 'Wal-Mart effect' shapes lives everywhere,…

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In the small university town of Salterton, Ontario, dreams are quietly taking shape, or falling apart. There's the Salterton…

• Rok vydání 2001

Empson has long been applauded for the dazzling intelligence and emotional passion of his poems. Praised in his lifetime by…

With Patterns of India, take a textile-based tour of colorful Rajasthan, India, with historical and cultural insights…

Looks at a century of cinema. This title is the author's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the…

Perhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity.…

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Produkt Sudden Flicker of Light - Thomson, David zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

• Rok vydání 2020

THE BESTSELLING SWEDISH PHENOMENONWhat looks good and why?Design consultant Frida Ramstedt runs Scandinavia's leading…

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For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly…