Selected Letters (Catherine the Great)(Paperback)

Selected Letters (Catherine the Great)(Paperback)

Catherine the Great's letters present a vivid picture of Russia in a momentous age. They also offer a unique account of her personal development and intimate life, her strategic acumen as a diplomat and military commander, and her political skills at the Russian court and in handling foreign

Seneca: Selected Letters (Seneca)(Paperback)

The letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging; they offer an urgent guide to Stoic self-improvement but also cast light on Roman attitudes towards slavery, gladiatorial combat and suicide. This edition of a selection elucidates their language, literary style and distinctive approach to philosophy

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,

Ethics - with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters (Spinoza Baruch)(Paperback / softback)

Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder (Snyder Gary)(Paperback)

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

Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (Nietzsche Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

Selected Letters (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

In one of her personal letters, Jane Austen wrote 'Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important.' In fact, letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen's time and in her social position, and Austen's letters have a freedom and familiarity that only

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

Seneca: Selected Letters (Seneca)(Paperback)

Seneca's letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca's personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great Stoic philosophers, Seneca here guides Lucilius' struggle to achieve wisdom and serenity, uninfluenced

Selected Letters (Keats John)(Paperback)

Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development. According to T. S. Eliot, Keats's letters are 'the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet.' They represent one of the most sustained reflections on the poet's art we have from any of

Selected Letters (Cicero)(Paperback)

Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome and witnessed first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by the tyranny of Pompey, Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian. One of Rome's most memorable and keenly observant writers, his letters to friends and

Selected Political Writings - The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays(Paperback / softback)

Avoiding Common Anesthesia Errors (Marcucci Catherine)(Paperback)

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022! The full-color Avoiding Common Anesthesia Errors, significantly updated for this second edition, combines patient safety information and evidence-based guidance for over 300 commonly encountered clinical situations. With a format that suggests

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

Poems and Selected Letters (Franco Veronica)(Paperback)

Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender

Selected Poetry (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birth, childhood, love, marriage, age, and death. Those elegies inspired by the death of his first wife

Captain's Daughter (Pushkin Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Set against the backdrop of the the Pugachev rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and remains one of his most popular

Letters to the Lost (Grey Iona)(Paperback / softback)

A heart-breaking, sweeping love story set between WWII and the present

I Embarked for France - The War Diaries and Letters of an English Family in the Great War(Paperback / softback)

Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka (Hrabal Bohumil)(Paperback)

In these letters written to April Gifford (Dubenka) between 1989 and 1991 but never sent, Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) chronicles the momentous events of those years as seen, more often than not, from the windows of his favorite pubs. In his palavering, stream-of-conscious style that has marked him

Love Letters of Great Men & Women [Illustrated edition] From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day (Charles C. H.)(Paperback)

Blackpool Sisters (Mason Maggie)(Paperback)

'In the grand tradition of sagas set down by the late and great Catherine Cookson'Jean Fullerton on Blackpool LassThe second book in the Sandgronians trilogy1902Babs and Beth are identical in looks, but very different by nature. Kidnapped by gypsies a decade ago as young girls, Beth has accepted

Selected Prose (Lamb Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Brings together the prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose shrewd wit and convivial style have endeared him to generations of readers. This title discusses how his tragic life and sainted reputation, caring for his mentally ill sister Mary, belied the