Modern Classics – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

David Day
Ring Legends of Tolkien Deluxe Edition

The most popular legends about the Rings of Power are discussed in detail in this deluxe edition that will hold a special place on your bookshelf.The history of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middl…

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David Day
A Dictionary of Tolkien Deluxe Edition

Dive into the fantastical world and vocabulary of J. R. R. Tolkien with this deluxe edition that will stand out on your bookshelf.Step into the extraordinary world of J. R. R. Tolkien with this beautifull…

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Wendy Larson
Optimism, Literature, and Culture in American Capitalism and Chinese Socialism

This book examines the similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. Comparing radically differen…

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Susan Byrne
The Aesthetic Turn in Cervantes

This book reveals the central role played by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in the development of modern-day aesthetics.

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Louise Glück
Poems

Penguin Modern Classics

A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intel…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Suspicion

Penguin Modern Classics

A taut psychological thriller from 'a master crime writer' (Financial Times) -- now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her m…

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Brigitte Reimann,
Woman in the Pillory

Penguin Modern Classics

A gripping, never-before-translated novella by the cult writer of Siblings Kathrin - five years into a disenchanting marriage - struggles to work the farm with her sister-in-law while her husband Heinrich…

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George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier

Penguin Modern Classics

Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped sl…

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George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant

Penguin Modern Classics

This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes "Shooting an Elephant", "My Country Right or Left", "Decline of an English Mu…

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Mary Renault
Fire from Heaven

Virago Modern Classics

INTRODUCED BY TOM HOLLAND He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid'. Alexander is born to rule. Caught in a power struggle for his…

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Karl Polanyi
The Great Transformation

Penguin Modern Classics

'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written ' Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect 'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a must-read' Ma…

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José Hernández, G J Racz
The Gaucho Martãn Fierro and Martãn Fierro's Return

'Some verses flow on out of men like headstreams course through a canal. The same holds true for mine, old pal- though I can't say they're worth a lick, they still pour out of me real quick, like sheep es…

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Michael Lackey,
German Exile Biofiction

Shows how after the Nazis came to power, prominent exile writers used biofiction to provide readers with a means of identifying root causes of political oppression.There were biofictions before the 20th c…

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Irena Makaryk, Irena R Makaryk
Shakespeare in Ukraine

Often regarded as a playwright "beyond nationality," Shakespeare has played a central role in Ukraine's cultural history over the past two centuries. His works have served as both a lens for exp…

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Cecilia Farr
As I Was Saying

An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein's masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein's novel represents a peak of modernist literature: fille…

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Lena Mattheis
Queer Forms and Pronouns

Queer Forms and Pronouns is a journey into the world of gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in literature. Pronouns are frequently discussed in the contexts of language policies, grammar, and inclusion, b…

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Julianne Sandberg,
Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic Title Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots o…

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Alan Wald
Bohemian Bolsheviks

Bohemian Bolsheviks is a sharp reminder that historical narrative not only shapes our sense of the terrain under our feet, but the horizon in front of us. Marxist political alignment engages a welter of i…

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