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Imitation of the Rose - Clarice Lispectorová
Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector.
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The Gift of the Magi - Henry O.
Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. O. Henry is one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century and a true master of the short story. This selection of tales ranges from Christmas in New York t...
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Tales of the Jazz Age
Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this title captures America during the Jazz Age.
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Kandinsky Wassily
Anotace: A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most famous abstract painters of all time, urges the reader to free themselves from art`s traditional bonds to material reality. In this radical theoretical work, he calls for a spiritual revo...
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Czech Photography of the 20th Century
Czech Photography of the 20th Century, published simultaneously in Czech and English versions, is the first book to present the main trends, figures, and works of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century to such a large extent. Its 517 plates include not only the most important, well-known photographs and photomontages, but also works that have ...
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Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the dev
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Idea of History
Examines how the idea of history has evolved from the time of Herodotus to the twentieth century, and offers the author's own view of what history is.
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History of Western Thought
A comprehensive introduction to the history of Western Philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to Twentieth Century thought. The book covers the key figures
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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2 - Patrick McGuinness
<p>'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The IndependentA major new celebration of the French short story across the twentieth centuryThe short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. Here are fables, puzzle...
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space - Adam Higginbotham
<p>From the New York Times-bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger space shuttle disaster based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research - riveting history that reads like a thriller'Gripping' ED CAESAR * 'Masterly' GEOFF DYER * 'Incredible' TIM HARFORDOn the morning of 2...
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History of Insanity and the Asylum
An honest history of insane asylums, from the Middle Ages to the Victorian era and the twentieth century.
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Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? - Daniel Chandler
<p>Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like?This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler argues in this hugely...
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The Imitation of the Rose - Clarice Lispector
<p>Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century.The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writ...
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The Gift of the Magi - Olivier Henry
<p>Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.O. Henry is one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century and a true master of the short story. This selection of tales ranges from Christmas in New York to the ca...
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Concise Untold History of the United States
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth century
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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food - Dunlop Fuchsia
Anotace: `A brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force` Claudia Roden`Fuchsia Dunlop is one of the world`s best writers on Chinese food` Ken Hom CBE The epic tale of the world`s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishesChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn ...
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie
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Bismarck´s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe - Rachel Chrastil
<p>Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order. Other countries looked on in helpless amazement. Pushing aside further French resistance, a new German Empire was proclaimed (as a deliberate humiliation) in the Palace of Ve...
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Jewish Century, New Edition
This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: "The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular,
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How Democracies Die : The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future - Steven Levitsky
<p>How does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us? In the twenty-first century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explain why...
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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Bruce Fulton
<p>‘An ever-surprising and stylistically diverse anthology that will surely stand as the touchstone collection of Korean literature for decades to come’ Literary ReviewThis eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and c...
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Cambridge History of American Poetry
A comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing to
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Little Feminist History of Art
An introduction to the feminist art movement: one of the most ambitious, influential and enduring artistic movements of the twentieth century.
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History of Britain Through Books
A journey through Britain told through seminal books of the twentieth century, from A Room of One's Own to Heart of Darkness. These books explore the
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History of Crime in Australia
This book provides a lively and accessible account of AustraliaÂ’s most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century, and of
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After the Map
Examines the history of the mapping sciences in the twentieth century and their relationship to the history of territory
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Analysis of Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples
Albert HouraniÂ’s A History of the Arab Peoples is unsurpassed as an overview of Arab history from the rise of Islam to the late twentieth century. Go
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Czech Photography of the 20th Century - kolektiv autorů
<p>Czech Photography of the 20th Century, published simultaneously in Czech and English versions, is the first book to present the main trends, figures, and works of Czech photography from the beginning to the end of the last century to such a large extent. Its 517 plates include not only the most important, well-known photographs and photomontages, but also works t...
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The Lottery - Jackson Shirley
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Wassily Kandinsky
<p>A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most famous abstract painters of all time, urges the reader to free themselves from art's traditional bonds to material reality. In this radical theoretical work, he calls for a spiritual revol...
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Styles of Radical Will
A collection of essays that contains some of the important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics "The Aesthetics of Sil
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Anatomy of Fascism
Fascism was the major political invention of the twentieth century and the source of much of its pain. How can we try to comprehend its allure and its
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Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts - Various
Anotace: A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the original Italian alongside an expert English translation, pr...
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Moments of Reprieve
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience wi
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Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts - Various
Anotace: A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insig...
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Civilization and Its Discontents - Freud Sigmund
Anotace: Freud`s epoch-making insights revolutionized our perception of who we are, forming the foundation for psychoanalysis. In Civilization and its Discontents he considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness. Focusing on what he perceives to be one of society`s greatest dangers; `civilized` sexual morality, he asks, does repression compromise...
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Ulysses - Joyce James
Anotace: The greatest novel of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful Clothbound Classics centenary editionFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition. It has survived censorship, controversy and legal action, ...
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Mrs Dalloway - Woolfová Virginia
Anotace: `One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century` Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith`s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her frien...
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Selected Poems of Cavafy
C P Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical ev
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The Naked Neanderthal - Slimak Ludovic
Anotace: In this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery`With the style of a poet and imagination of a philosopher, Ludovic Slimak probes the minds of Neanderthals. . . This fun and provocative book is a reminder that we still have a lot to learn about biological intelligence` Steve BrusatteWhat if we have com...
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Kokoro - Soseki Natsume
Anotace: Kokoro, meaning `heart`, is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the early twentieth century, when the death of the emperor Meiji gave way to a new era in Japanese politicial and cultural life, the novel enacts the transition from one generation to the next in the dynamic between Sensei,...
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The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political
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My Friend Maigret: Inspector Maigret #31 - Simenon Georges
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranea...
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Pity of it All
Presents history of German Jews, tracing the journey of a people and their culture from the mid eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich. This
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The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth C (1416526153)
Kniha - autor Peter Watson, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá - autor Peter Watson, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá A virtuoso tour through the cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present. This is a grand, sweeping cultural history in the bestselling tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, with the resonance and histo...
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (9780143106487)
Kniha – autor Howard Phillips Lovercraft, anglicky, - autor Howard Phillips Lovercraft, anglicky This is a definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a "Penguin Classics" Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie. Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1...
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Diaries by Franz Kafka - Kafka Franz
Anotace: An essential new translation of the author`s complete, uncensored diaries - a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century`s most influential writers`The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world` - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka`s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, incl...
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Cambridge History of the Cold War 3 Volume Set
This is a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world politics in the twentieth century. Volume I examines the origins,
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Metamorphosis - Kafka Franz
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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Shooting an Elephant - Orwell George
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranea...
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The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
<p>Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, translated by Susan Massotty, and includes an introduction by Elie Wiesel, author of Night.</p> <p>...
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Spike Milligan: Man of Letters
Collects from one of the greatest comics of the twentieth century to some of its most famous politicians, actors, celebrities and rock stars (as well
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Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings - Austenová Jane
Anotace: Jane Austen`s brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.Jane Austen`s earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. But it is also a product of the eighteenth...
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Social History of Maternity and Childbirth
People are fascinated by stories of childbirth, and the sources to document maternity in Britain in the twentieth century are rich and varied. This bo
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Magician
From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, ant...
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East of Eden (9780241980354)
Kniha - autor John Steinbeck, 736 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of the First World War, the Trasks and the Hamiltons will helplessly replay the fall of Adam...
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The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
<p>Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean isl...
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Girl, Woman, Other : Winner of the Booker Prize 2019 - Bernardine Evaristo
<p>This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past...
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World Crisis 1911-1918
Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With pers
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
<p>This is a definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a "Penguin Classics" Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie. Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outp...
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