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41The Stolen White Elephant , Twain Mark (2016)
Pale Terror Goes Him, Death and Devastation Follow! This is from the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted. This is one of 46 new… 96 руб42Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? , Shakespeare William (2016)
And when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars. This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best. It… 192 руб43Letters to a Young Poet , Rainer Maria Rilke (2016)
What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on… 101 руб44The Body Politic , Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2016)
No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist. In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of… 192 руб45Why I am So Clever , Nietzsche Friedrich (2016)
Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether? I have never reflected on questions that are none - I have not squandered myself. The first three chapters of Nietzsche's autobiography… 101 руб46Hannibal (2016)
We have nothing left in the world but what we can win with our swords. The remarkable account of Hannibal crossing the Alps with his elephants and winning the Battle of the Trebbia. It is one of 46… 192 руб47How to be a Medieval Woman , Kempe Margery (2016)
And then he, completely astonished at her words, left off his lewdness, saying to her as many a man had done before, Either you are a truly good woman or else a truly wicked woman. Brave, outspoken… 172 руб48To be Read at Dusk , Dickens Charles (2016)
The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man. Three ghostly tales from a master of the form, The Signalman, The Trial… 91 руб49The Nun of Murano , Casanova Giacomo (2016)
You are not my first passion, my divine friend, but you shall be my last. In this episode from his infamous memoirs, swashbuckling serial seducer Casanova falls for a beautiful nun on the Venetian… 101 руб50A Nervous Breakdown , Chekhov Anton (2016)
I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know! From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural… 193 руб
