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  • Best Korean Short Stories Collection 2 대한민국 베스트 단편 소설모음집 2
    Meet the very finest of Korean short stories. This compilation of 17 short stories bring you the essence of Korean literature, covering the early 1900's to the late 1900's. Also ideal for advanced Korean learners.대한민국 문화의 정수를 담아 1900년초부터 1900년후반까지의 거장들의 작품을 담은 모음집. 한국 문화와 언어를 공부하는 상급자 수준의 학생들에게 교재로도 적합한 도서. ...
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    10,78 €

  • the post calvin
    After three years of publishing daily pieces online, the post calvin is proud to present the post calvin: selected essays. Editors Josh deLacy, Will Montei, Debra Rienstra, and Abby Zwart have gathered suggestions from writers and chosen pieces that represent the heart and soul of the post calvin. the post calvin is a daily online journal that features twenty-eight regular wri...
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    13,30 €

  • From Dawn to Daylight
    Dawn Downey
    Dawn Downey’s second collection of essays is for everyone who savors down-to-earth stories with a twist of wisdom. Deeply honest and deeply personal, her observations are laced with quirky insights and self-deprecating humor. She draws inspiration from the flu, the garden, bad knees and bad TV. She explores larger themes of loss and estrangement, while retaining a youthful outl...
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    9,50 €

  • The Book of Days
    The Book of Days is an illustrated anthology from the 2015 Sydney Writers’ Festival. The book was designed live during the festival at a workstation next to the Pier 2/3 Main Stage at Walsh Bay. The anthology is divided into two parts. The first is a selection of writing and illustrations from festival presenters. It includes excerpts of what was read or shown at festival event...
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    25,66 €

  • Color
    Kenneth A. McClane / Kenneth AMcClane
    In 1991, acclaimed poet Kenneth A. McClane published Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, a volume of essays dealing with life in Harlem, the death of his alcoholic brother, and the complexities of being black and middle-class in America. Now, in Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History, McClane contributes further to his self-described 'autobiographical sojourn' with a second collectio...
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    28,20 €

  • DeFacto Feminism
    Judy Juanita
    Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU’s 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto… blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini Templeton and literary criticism. An act of self-definition with the feel of memoir, these essays follow a long line of thinkers, including Anna...
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    14,63 €

  • Heart Eater
    Sun Yung Shin
    Heart Eater traces the author’s childhood and how she went from being a nameless, abandoned nine-month-old baby in Seoul, South Korea to, as an adult, becoming an award-winning Asian American author who writes in multiple genres. The book is made of short essays, or “field notes,” that explore moments and experiences in the author’s life that made her pay extra attention to the...
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    21,20 €

  • A Room of One’s Own
    Virginia Woolf
    Read a few pages before you check the date. The wit, the wandering, the refusal to be tidy about a hard question: A Room of One’s Own reads so fresh and so stylistically original that it could have been written today. And yet Virginia Woolf delivered this argument as two lectures at Cambridge in October 1928, and revised it into a book the following year. Its central claim is n...
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    18,02 €

  • Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 3
    Robert Bridges
    A hush falls over the English countryside as dusk settles, and in that quiet, the lyrical voice of a bygone era rises-measured, contemplative, and suffused with longing. This distinguished collection gathers verse from one of Britain’s most refined poetic minds, whose mastery shaped the landscape of late 19th century poetry. Each poem is a testament to the subtle power of langu...
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    22,94 €

  • Wonder
    Gary Waddell
    The world is still full of wonder. We’ve just been too busy to look.'Lovely... approachable... poetic.' - 4 out of 5 stars, Foreword Clarion Reviews'I couldn’t put it down. A profound read - and I say that with no hyperbole. It spoke to something missing in me that I cannot verbalize yet.' - Bonnie Lieberman, Mom and School Board PresidentWe move through our days half-awake - r...
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    13,92 €

  • Nearest Exit
    Dylan Bassett
    Nearest Exit is a fragmented memoir set in airports around the world. It treats the airport as a charged zone of anonymity and exposure where moments of confession, absurdity, and recognition emerge in transit. Composed from conversations and encounters with strangers, it takes up topics such as mental illness, suicide, religion, pornography, gambling addictions, technology, we...
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    16,39 €

  • Sin manual de instrucciones
    Consuelo Luján Gade
    La vida no viene con manual de instrucciones… pero la etiqueta puede ayudarte.En estas páginas encontrarás todo lo que nunca te enseñaron sobre la etiqueta: desde cómo sentarte a la mesa hasta cómo vestir en cada ocasión, cómo saludar, cómo actuar en la mesa o en un cóctel, qué hacer (y qué evitar) en un evento, cuál es el origen de muchas normas y, sobre todo, por qué siguen t...
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    20,00 €

  • 10 melhores crônicas - Carmen Dolores
    Carmen Dolores
    No início do século XX, Carmen Dolores, pseudônimo de Emília Moncorvo Bandeira de Melo (1852-1910), consagrou-se como a cronista mais lida e influente do jornal carioca O Paiz. Esta coletânea reúne dez de suas mais contundentes e refinadas crônicas, nas quais a autora analisa as contradições da Belle Époque carioca com olhar crítico, sensível e pioneiro. Entre temas como os dir...
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    13,10 €

  • The Write Path III
    Bob Vogel / Steven Aiello
    In a region long defined by conflict, The Write Path Ill - Healing, Unity and the Future: Israeli, Palestinian, and International Students Finding Common Ground Through Writing gives voice to the young people navigating the painful realities of war. Building on the success of our two previous volumes, this new collection of personal narratives broadens its lens to showcase poig...
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    17,44 €

  • The Pythian Reader
    Colin R Robert Denhart
    A curated anthology of timeless wisdom on friendship, charity, and benevolenceFor more than a century, fraternal orders like the Knights of Pythias have drawn on humanity’s great literary and spiritual traditions to teach the virtues that bind communities together. The Pythian Reader gathers this wisdom into a single volume - a living commonplace book of stories, poems, sacred ...
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    15,33 €

  • Teorias contemporaneas
    Lauro Zavala
    Han transcurrido más de 30 años desde la publicación del Tomo I de las Teorías del Cuento en 1993, pero finalmente se publican los materiales que originalmente formaban parte de esta compilación, dirigida a los practicantes, estudiosos y lectores del cuento.Este volumen se inicia con varios textos de cuentistas que escriben sobre otros cuentistas y algunas poéticas personales d...
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    28,03 €

  • Las cuotas del amor
    Nisariuc .
    Antes de Las cuotas del amor existió otro libro que fue quemado hace diez años. Su autor lotituló Escapando de mí mismo, un manuscrito oscuro y prohibido, algo que el mundo nodebía conocer. De sus cenizas nació esta historia con una nueva perspectiva sobre lo queestamos dispuestos a hacer para crear vínculos, para ser elegidos, comprendidos o suficientespara alguien y para enfr...
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    14,51 €

  • Sin pedir permiso: Ensayos de una hija y un padre sobre sentir, romperse y seguir vivos
    Maayan Fleitman
    Sin pedir permiso es un libro de ensayos y poesía escrito a dos voces: la de Maayan Fleitman, de trece años, y la de su padre, Dan Fleitman.Desde dos orillas de la vida –la adolescencia y la madurez– ambos escriben sobre lo que no siempre cabe en palabras: la identidad, el cuerpo, el amor, el miedo, la rabia, la ternura, la familia, la pérdida y el deseo de seguir vivos.Este li...
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    14,04 €

  • Leonardo, Poe, Mallarmé
    Paul Valéry / James R. Lawler / Malcolm Cowley
    A collection of Valéry’s essays on three artists who were of central importance to himPaul Valéry had an enduring fascination with Leonardo, Poe, and Mallarmé and his essays on these fellow artists are among his most important writings. This volume presents those essays along with extensive selections on these figures from Valéry’s Notebooks. Valéry’s Leonardo and Poe were almo...
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    47,22 €

  • Masters and Friends
    Paul Valéry / Martin Turnell
    A collection of Valéry’s essays and speeches on a wide range of philosophers, novelists, and poetsMasters and Friends is a collection of Paul Valéry’s essays and speeches on writers who shaped his mind, interests, and affections: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust, Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, Nerval, Rilke, Bergson, and others. The volume also ...
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    47,35 €

  • Occasions
    Paul Valéry / Frederick Brown / Roger Shattuck
    A collection of Valéry’s occasional writingsThis selection of Paul Valéry’s occasional pieces—speeches, interviews, and articles—reveals his life as a public figure in constant demand. Included are his speech upon his reception to the French Academy; his address welcoming Marshal Pétain into the same body; memorial addresses honoring Émile Verhaeren and Henri Brémond; an articl...
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    35,74 €

  • Aesthetics
    Paul Valéry / Ralph Manheim
    A collection of Valéry’s writings on the making of “works of the mind”—in art, philosophy, history, and scienceFor Paul Valéry, art consisted of all that the mind makes for its own pleasure and use, not only works of art in the usual sense but also philosophy, history, and the pure sciences—in his words, all the “works of the mind.” This volume presents the opening lecture of h...
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    41,77 €

  • Analects
    Paul Valéry / Stuart Gilbert
    A collection of Valéry’s shorter prose writingsThis book brings together smaller volumes and booklets in which Paul Valéry published selections of his shorter prose writings: aphorisms, moral reflections, poetic observations, flashes of wit or fancy, even jokes—a variety of remarks and impressions, many of them first recorded in his Notebooks.The Collected Works of Paul Valéry,...
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    65,04 €

  • Moi
    Paul Valéry / Jackson Mathews / Marthiel Mathews
    A collection of Valéry’s autobiographical writingsMoi presents a selection of Paul Valéry’s writings that portray his inner life as an artist. Included are several short autobiographical pieces in which Valéry talks about his early childhood, his adolescence, his military experience, his travels, his poetry, and his acquaintances. The volume also contains selections from the Va...
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    47,41 €

  • An Anthology
    Paul Valéry
    A compelling selection of Valéry’s poetry and proseDrawn from the authoritative Collected Works of Paul Valéry, this anthology offers an introduction to the diverse genius of this important poet and essayist. The volume features “The Evening with Monsieur Teste” (1896), from Jackson Mathews’s National Book Award–winning translation of the novel Monsieur Teste. It includes such ...
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    41,53 €

  • Vanhanpojan huomioita
    Onni W. Arima
    Yksinäinen hahmo kuljeskelee 1900-luvun alun Suomen hiljaisilla kaduilla, havainnot terävinä ja nokkeluus pinnan alla hiljaa kytevänä. Poikamiehen näkökulmasta hän tarkastelee muutoksessa olevaa yhteiskuntaa ja tarjoaa kuivahumoristisia pohdintoja sinkkuelämästä ja ihmisluonnon omituisuuksista. Jokainen essee on ikkuna hienovaraisiin ironioihin ja yksinolon hillittyihin iloihin...
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    17,42 €

  • Aphorisms from the Madhouse
    Henry Piironen
    Aphorisms from the MadhouseMost of what a person calls 'myself' was installed by someone else. This book is 787 short entries working out what follows from that.The entries run one to three sentences. Each one is complete in itself. There is no chapter structure, no argument to track, and nothing that requires you to have read the page before.The method is compression. A positi...
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    18,56 €

  • Nueve lecturas sobre literatura colimense del siglo XIX y un anexo instrumental
    Carlos Ramírez Vuelvas
    Este libro reúne dos décadas de investigación sobre literatura colimense del siglo XIX. Ofrece una mirada rigurosa y sugerente sobre una tradición literaria poco explorada. A través de nueve ensayos, el autor vincula la producción literaria con su contexto histórico, social y cultural, revelando los procesos de construcción de la modernidad en un ámbito regional. Lejos de ser u...
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    12,48 €

  • أشقاء الزورق الواحد - Siblings of the Same Boat
    Raed Aleid / رائد العيد
    يقدّم كتاب أشقاء الزورق الواحد لرائد بن خليل العيد رحلة أدبية وتأملية في السيرة الذاتية والقراءة والذاكرة والهوية والألم والحب والموت والبحث عن المعنى. لا يتعامل المؤلف مع السيرة الذاتية بوصفها موضوعا أكاديميا مجردا، بل يقرأها من موقع القارئ الذي يجد في الكتب رفقة تقاوم العزلة ووسيلة لفهم الذات والعالم.عبر فصول موضوعية متعددة، يجمع المؤلف سير أصحاب المهن والتجارب والظروف المتقا...
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    23,28 €

  • Blood in the Desert
    T. J. English
    'English is such a vivid and skillful storyteller that it becomes impossible to resist the urge to turn the page.'-CrimeReadsAn essential collection of T. J. English’s finest literary journalism, spanning true crime, jazz, boxing, police corruption, the desert Southwest, and George Carlin.The world of print journalism may be waning, but the art of reporting is anything but dead...
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    20,61 €


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