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

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…

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

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

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

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

Tomcat Murr is a loveable animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be…

In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form…

From Hitler's vast Chancellery to Saddam Hussein's Mother of all Battles mosque, from Olympic stadiums to Donald Trump's…

Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial school teacher Peredonov torments his students and has…

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Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses ...magic forests and enchanted towers ...little pigs and big bad wolves ...Fairy…

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

Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where…

'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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Revealing that Conrad actually hated sailing and Emily Bronte was so tough she was known as 'The Major', among many other…

Features personal and professional works of Machiavelli. This book strives to do away with many of the myths that have…

Taliesin Jones is a boy on the brink of adulthood, faced for the first time with life's biggest questions. Taliesin's life…

Offers an opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light.…

Presents the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimless man who discovers a purpose to his life through the Jewish…

This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck's writing of "East of Eden", his longest and…

• Rok vydání 1992

A story about the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and…

Can the world be governed by agreement rather than conflict? In 1945 the world's powerful nation states came together to…

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Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this book is an enquiry into the…

'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and…

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The jaw-dropping story behind North Korea's dangerous cyber-criminals, the Lazarus Group, who hacked Hollywood and the world…

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