Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection (Pepys Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection (Pepys Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, the Fire of London. This book offers an eyewitness account along with lively descriptions of the author's socializing, his amorous entanglements, his theater-going &

The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Pepys Samuel)(Paperback)

Richard Le Gallienne's elegant abridgment of the Diary captures the essential writings of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), a remarkable man who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666. Originally scribbled in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's quotidian

Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self (Tomalin Claire)(Paperback / softback)

Focuses on the remarkable diaries of Pepys and brings his story vividly to life once

Who Was: Samuel Pepys? (Harrison Paul)(Paperback / softback)

A series of biographies which introduce readers to key figures in

The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn (Willes Margaret)(Paperback)

An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship

The Lives of the Poets: A Selection (Johnson Samuel)(Paperback)

Here is a substantial selection of Samuel Johnson's magisterial and unforgettable portraits of the lives of the English poets of the 17th and 18th centuries. Originally covering the lives of 52 poets, with the primary focus on Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope, Johnson's Lives was described by Thomas

Capital (Lanchester John)(Paperback / softback)

The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is

Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Samuel Beckett directed Krapp's Last Tape on four separate occasions: this volume offers a facsimile of his 1969 Schiller-Theater notebook. Professor Knowlson writes that in these notes 'we see Beckett simplifying, shaping and refining, as he works towards a realization of the play that will

Life of Samuel Johnson (Boswell James)(Paperback / softback)

In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed anecdotes, Johnson emerges as a sociable

Selected Essays (Johnson Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also included here is the best of

Babel-17 (Delany Samuel R.)(Paperback / softback)

BABEL-17 is the novel which catapulted Samuel R. Delany into the front rank of SF

Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. This book includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage, as well for

Samuel Johnson: Selected Works (Johnson Samuel)(Pevná vazba)

An anthology of the essential and enduring works of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain's preeminent man of letters--moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet--and his influence endures to this day. This anthology, designed to make Johnson's essential

Grief Works - Stories of Life, Death and Surviving (Samuel Julia)(Paperback / softback)

Creeps - A Samuel Johnson Adventure: 3 (Connolly John)(Paperback / softback)

The adventures of Samuel Johnson, his dog Boswell, two demons, four dwarfs and a very polite

The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and

Year I Didn't Eat (Pollen Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Path To Wing Chun (Kwok Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

First & Second Samuel- Everyman's Bible Commentary (Laney J. Carl)(Paperback)

The books of Samuel focus on the lives of three men: Samuel, Saul, and David. They are first seen as individuals rising in their respective careers. As time passes, their lives more frequently interact and become interwined with each other. J. Carl Laney covers these two books section by section,

Pleasing MR Pepys (Swift Deborah)(Paperback)

Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, Anne O'Brien and Elizabeth Chadwick, Deborah Swift brings a unique period in history to vivid, fascinating life in her acclaimed Pepys trilogy. 'Laced with emotional intensity and drama, Pleasing Mr Pepys...(has) an intricate plot that features red

More Pricks Than Kicks (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters, as woman after woman comes crashing through his solipsism. More Pricks contains in embryo the centrifugal world

Molloy (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback)

Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett's famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies (Malone meurt) and two years later by The Unnamable (L'Innommable). Few works of contemporary literature have been so universally

Watt (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was first published in

Molloy (Beckett Samuel)(Paperback / softback)

Molloy is Samuel Beckett's best-known novel, and his first published work to be written in French, ushering in a period of concentrated creativity in the late 1940s which included the companion novels Malone Dies and The