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Literaturkritik - Englische und Irische Literatur
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collins Classics)Autor: Oscar Wilde
Taschenbuch, 02.09.2021
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Der Fall Alice im Wunderland: KriminalromanAutor: Guillermo Martínez
Buch, Broschiert, 29.05.2020
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Peter Rabbit and Other Tales Peter Hase und andere Geschichten: dtv zweisprachig für Einsteiger – EnglischAutor: Beatrix Potter
Taschenbuch, 13.03.2020
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary ShelleyAutor: Charlotte Gordon
Taschenbuch, 25.02.2016
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Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama: Unchaste Signification (Early Modern Literature in History)Autor: M. Fahey
Taschenbuch, 01.01.2011
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British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s (British Women’s Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, 2, Band 2)Herausgeber: Adrienne E. Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
Gebundene Ausgabe, 27.08.2020
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IvanovAutor: Anton Chekhov
Taschenbuch, 06.01.2009
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Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare)Herausgeber: Richard Andrews, Rex Gibson
Taschenbuch, 20.01.2014
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Mord ist eine Wissenschaft: Was schon Agatha Christie über Rechtsmedizin wusste | Die Forensikerin über Blutspuren und Fingerabdruck, Giftmord und ObduktionAutor: Carla Valentine
Buch, Broschiert, 04.10.2022
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Shakespeare für DummiesJohn Doyle, Ray LischnerTaschenbuch |
The Book of Prefaces: A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th CenturyGebundene AusgabeThe preface usually contains one of four pleasures, says anthologist Alasdair Gray. There is the biographical snippet, full of gossipy details that "make us feel at home in earlier times. " There is the author's attempt to forestall criticism (in first editions) or to answer it (in later ones). There is the report on the state of civilization, both favorable (see Walt Whitman) and unfavorable (see Karl Marx). And there is the attack on other writers or translators, sometimes bridging centuries and containing spears thrown at the long dead. All four pleasures are well represented in this 640-page treasury of English and American intros, which runs from an A. D. 675 translation of Genesis to the 1920 poems of Wilfred Owen. Why stop there? " The flow is stopped at 1920, " admits Gray in his own disarmingly self-effacing preface, "by costs of using work still in copyright. " This is anything but anthology-on-the-cheap, however. Gray (< I> Lanark and < I> A History Maker) poured 16 years of research into < I> The Book of Prefaces, and adds considerable value with his own running commentary, which straggles down the margins in brash red ink. Gray on the God of Genesis: " This God, with revenge in mind, first makes earth ugly as hell. " Among God's anthologized fellows are Mark Twain, who defends his use of Southern dialect in < I> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Lewis Carroll, who anticipates his critics' charges of writing nonsense in < I> The Hunting of the Snark and proceeds to prove their case; and Charles Darwin, who recalls how the seeds of < I> The Origin of Species were sown aboard the H M S < I> Beagle. Gray mixes scholarly research with playful eccentricities: When was the last time you saw a book's typesetter, typist, and publisher memorialized in pen-and-ink drawings? And "with this in their lavatory, " writes the cheeky author, "everyone else can read nothing but newspaper supplements and still seem educated. " He may be right. < I>-Claire Dederer |
English Literature in ContextTaschenbuch |
White Horizon: The Arctic in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination (Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century)Jen HillTaschenbuch |
Vercelli Homilies, Ix-Xxiii (Toronto Old English Series, 5, Band 5)Vercelli BookGebundene Ausgabe |
Round Ireland With A FridgeTony HawksTaschenbuchOn his only prior visit to Ireland, songwriter/comic Tony Hawks had seen a man hitchhiking with a refrigerator. For years, he was wont to tell the tale during late-night drinking matches, and after one particularly heavy-duty night of partying, he awoke to find a bet scrawled pillow-side: a friend wagered 100 pounds that Hawks wouldn't travel Ireland for a month with a refrigerator at his side. Out of this stupid premise, a ridiculously amusing book was born. Quickly discovered by the Irish media, the thumbing Englishman finds that he and his box fridge are elevated to celebrity status, and there's no dearth of rides, places to stay or goofy people to meet, from kings to spoons players to locals who take his fridge surfing. As insightful about the strange inner workings of Hawk's mind as it is about charming peculiarities of Irishmen-it's doubtful that Hawks would have been similarly embraced by Germans, Italians, or the French-< I> Round Ireland with a Fridge is an entirely silly, heart-warming tale told in a rollicking funny and refreshing style. -< I> Melissa Rossi |
The Complete Short Stories (Oxford World's Classics)Oscar WildeTaschenbuch |
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and othersFrank Cottrell Boyce, William Dalrymple, Margaret Drabble, Simon Callow, Tony Robinson, Tracey Emin, J.K. Rowling, Holly Johnson, Pete Townshend, Melvyn Bragg, Jeffrey Boakye, Onjali Rauf, Will Hutton, Prue Leith, Jonathan Meades, Chris Riddell, Various, Philip Ardagh, Mary Beard, Brian Catling, Shami Chakrabarti, Chris Cleave, Peter J Conradi, Lindsey DavisGebundene Ausgabe |
Writing Britain's RuinsGebundene Ausgabe |
Will in der Welt: Wie Shakespeare zu Shakespeare wurdeStephen GreenblattB, Broschiert |
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