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Holderlin A Play in Two Acts
ISBN: PB: 9780857427137, Seagull Books, September 2019
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The work of German poet Frederich Holderlin (1770-1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers from Paul Celan to Rainer Maria Rilke to Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche. Yet, despite the international renown and respect his hymns and e...
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£11,99
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Sentence to Hope A Sa'dallah Wannous Reader
ISBN: HB: 9780300221343, Yale University Press, May 2019
464 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Sa'dallah Wannous is acknowledged to be one of the Arab world's most significant playwrights, writers, and intellectuals of the twentieth century. This first English-language collection brings together his major plays and essays. Selections include t...
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£25,00
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Comedies
ISBN: PB: 9780857424693, Seagull Books, February 2018
224 pp., 19x15.2 cm
Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little known work has been translated into English, readers have...
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£18,50
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American Circus
ISBN: HB: 9780300185393, Yale University Press, August 2012
432 pp., 27.3x20.4 cm, 327 colour illus.
The circus is a source of nostalgia for Americans of all ages, either from memories of attending P. T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth", or through the colourful evocations in many movies, television programmes, and books. Interest in the circus phe...
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£50,00
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Fireworks Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History
ISBN: HB: 9780226893778, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 36 halftones, 16 colour illus.
Fireworks are synonymous with celebration in the twenty-first century. But pyrotechnics – in the form of rockets, crackers, wheels, and bombs – have exploded in sparks and noise to delight audiences in Europe ever since the Renaissance. Here, Simon W...
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£47,00
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