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Throws a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, this…

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Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has…

An insider's tour through the construction of invented languages from the bestselling author and creator of languages for…

Friedrich Holderlin is recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. Together the works collected here show Holderlin's use…

Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across…

Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and…

Traditional meetings reduce efficiency, kill urgency, and breed compromise and complacency. This book features eight…

Autor : Brene Brown, Popis : Brown offers insights and strategies for understanding shame and overcoming its power over…

• Rok vydání 2020

A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David…

• Rok vydání 2023

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• Rok vydání 2001

To 'put the cart before the horse', have 'the cheek of the devil' or be 'a pillar of society' - these are just some of the…

Deals with the aftermath of the Trojan War for the defeated survivors, as Andromache shows Hector's widow as a trophy of war…

This title presents an insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes…

Combining the private and the public in a way Harrison has made distinctly his own, and drawing on his working-class…

How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did Bottom's dream rewrite the Bible? How did…

This volume brings together Cicero's tentative and undogmatic reflections on the good life, in which he discusses duty,…

RS Thomas was the greatest religious poet writing in English in the 20th century. His poems are an expression of his…

Shows that Shakespeare was a man of the theatre, one among a community of artists in the teeming world of Renaissance…

• Rok vydání 2021

Suitable for all students of Greek theatre and literature, this book examines the dramatic elements of plot, character,…

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• Počet stran 336
• Rok vydání 2024

We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it. Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like…

• Rok vydání 2026

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• Rok vydání 2023

A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life…

Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his…

Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She…

Features a poem expressing tortured feelings of alienation and dislocation. This book also offers translations of the poet's…

Awkward teachers, pompous school governors and fearsome lollipop ladies occasionally make the author's hectic job as a…

With Baudelaire's critical intelligence as his inspiration, the author ranges through his life and work, focusing on two…

Explains the moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, war and other life-or-death…

Offers advice to women of various ages and levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. This work paints…

The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the…

'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain…

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