562円 Eugenio Díaz Castro abordó en Manuela temas colombianos, desde una óptica nacional y con la intención clara de resaltar los valores de la nacionalidad: algunos críticos la consideran la primera novela costumbrista de América Latina. Manuela es una novela con personajes de carne y hueso, retratos ...

1,088円 Published together for the first time are three of Ayn Rand's most compelling stage plays. The courtroom drama Night of January 16th, famous for its open-ended verdict, is presented here in its definitive text. Also included are two of Rand's unproduced plays, Think Twice, a clever philosophical ...

894円 A monograph of Golden Age detective fiction from H.R.F. Keating, doyen of classic detective writers. Murder Must Appetize is an affectionate return to the halcyon days of the detective story when Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Wimsey were young and a touch of arsenic was still the ultimate deterre...

1,143円 Mais conto que novela, "fantasista e fantástico", "O Mandarim" afasta-se dos preceitos do realismo-naturalismo "analista e experimental". A intriga gira em torno de um funcionário público, que sonha com fortuna e aventura. Um dia, descobre a fábula do mandarim, rico chinês cuja enorme riqueza ser...

1,088円 **Author of the groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only Palestinians but...

1,267円 In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder we...

3,740円 Artfully demonstrates the linkage of American literary realism to the texts, myths, and resources of the American West From Gold Rush romances to cowboy Westerns, from hard-boiled detective thrillers to nature writing, the American West has long been known mainly through hackneyed representations...

622円 W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is one of the most influential books ever published in this country. In it, Du Bois wrote that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” a prophecy that is as fresh and poignant today as when it first appeared in print in 190...

1,267円 Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of sup...

9,117円 An ebook compilation of inspirational writings, featuring seven classic works in one high quality, fully searchable edition: The compilation includes: ‘Mere Christianity’ ‘The Screwtape Letters’ ‘Surprised by Joy’ ‘The Four Loves’ ‘The Problem of Pain’ ‘The Great Divorce’ ‘Miracles’ C. S. Lewis's...

7,129円 Definitions of humanism have evolved throughout the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of purposes – literary, cultural and political – and reactions against humanism have contributed to movements such as postmodernism and anti-humanism. Tony Davies offers a clear introduction t...

1,594円 _______________ 'Curtis spent a decade trying to negotiate her way past possessive Soviet archivists, and the result of her persistence is the most comprehensive selection of personal documents so far available in any language' - Simon Franklin, Times Literary Supplement 'Ingeniously structured ....