Autobiography and Selected Letters, Volume II: Letters 51-193 (Libanius)(Pevná vazba)

Autobiography and Selected Letters, Volume II: Letters 51-193 (Libanius)(Pevná vazba)

A professing pagan in an aggressively Christian empire, a friend of the emperor Julian and acquaintance of St. Basil, a potent spokesman for private and political causes--Libanius can tell us much about the tumultuous world of the fourth century. Born in Antioch to a wealthy family steeped in the

Autobiography and Selected Letters (Libanius)(Pevná vazba)

A professing pagan in an aggressively Christian empire, a friend of the emperor Julian and acquaintance of St. Basil, a potent spokesman for private and political causes--Libanius can tell us much about the tumultuous world of the fourth century. Born in Antioch to a wealthy family steeped in the

Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931 (Haffenden John)(Pevná vazba)

Features letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Hodgson - that shows the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions could, at times,

Open Letters : Selected Writings, 1965-1990 - Václav Havel

The twenty-five years' worth of essays, letters, interviews and reportage colected in this volume portay Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright with the courage to criticize a dicatorship to his becoming the president of Czechoslovakia

Selected Orations (Libanius)(Pevná vazba)

Libanius (314-393 CE) was one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism. His story, as presented in his Autobiography and the Life by Eunapius, is supplemented by information from a correspondence of over 1500 items and 64 extant orations. A native of Antioch, he began his

Selected Letters (Walpole Horace)(Pevná vazba)

Offers an extensive selection of author's letters, arranged by subject so that you can choose from themes including social life, the Court, politics, literature, and the evolution of his Gothic castle and art and book collections at Strawberry

The Letters of Gertrude Bell Volumes I and II (Bell Gertrude)(Paperback)

Artists' Letters: Leonardo Da Vinci to David Hockney (Bird Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Artists' Letters is a collection of intriguing, entertaining, moving, significant, surprising, witty and insightful correspondence from great

Selected Letters, Volume 2 (Petrarca Francesco)(Pevná vazba)

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative sample from his enormous and fascinating

Selected Letters, Volume 1 (Petrarca Francesco)(Pevná vazba)

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative sample from his enormous and fascinating

The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Anderson William)(Paperback)

Available for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America's most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder--a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work.The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a vibrant, deeply personal

Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas (Beard Lee)(Pevná vazba)

Featuring reproductions of key works and selected letters, Ben Nicholson: Writings and Ideas is an invaluable resource to all those interested in the work of this key British artist and the period in which he

Selected Poems (Keats John)(Pevná vazba)

Keats is celebrated as a writer in three forms: lyric verse, narrative verse and letters. All three are represented here in a volume which reprints all the famous odes, a selection os sonnets and other short poems, both versions of HYPERION, extentsive selections from ENDYMION, and the complete

Letters of Intent - Selected Essays (Ozick Cynthia (Author))(Pevná vazba)

A selection of essays by the acclaimed and beloved writer Cynthia Ozick, collected by David

Selected Letters (Bront Charlotte)(Paperback)

Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters of Charlotte Bront� are our most direct source of information about the lives of the Bront�s and our closest approach to the author of Jane Eyre. In them Charlotte writes of life at Haworth Parsonage,

Fifty Letters of Pliny (Pliny the Younger)(Paperback)

A collection of 50 letters by Pliny selected and edited with introduction and notes by A. N

Voltaire: Philosophical Letters - Or, Letters Regarding the English Nation (Voltaire)(Pevná vazba)

Letters to Friends (Cicero)(Pevná vazba)

Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published not long after his death, over 800 of them were rediscovered by Petrarch and other humanists in the fourteenth century. Among classical texts this

Commentaries (Pius II)(Pevná vazba)

The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius

Commentaries (Pius II)(Pevná vazba)

The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius

Commentaries (Pius II)(Pevná vazba)

The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius

Collected Stories (Kafka Franz)(Pevná vazba)

Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief

Diaries and Selected Letters (Bulgakov Mikhail)(Paperback)

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his

Love Letters of Great Men (Various)(Pevná vazba)

Remember the wonderfully romantic book of letters by Beethoven, Byron and Napoleon that featured in the Sex and the City film? That collection never actually existed, but all of the letters referenced in the film were real; so Macmillan decided to create Love Letters of Great