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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Collins is perhaps the single best edition of Wilde’s complete works. Along with the author’s full canon of plays, poems, essays, and novels, this also contains numerous appendixes of biographical information and chronologies of Wilde’s work as well
Lonely Planet Fast Talk Italian: Essential Language for Short Trips (Fast Talk Guide)
When time is short, Fast Talk Italian gives you the essential language to: * do the sights & shop till you drop * book a room & order a meal * get from A to B fast * clinch that crucial deal * get your message across Includes
Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain’s Wife
Book DescriptionFact and fiction are seamlessly woven together in this portrayal of Elizabeth Cook, wife of the great navigator James Cook. Meticulously researched and deftly written, this novel tells the story of a wife left behind for many long
Insiders’ Guide to Memphis, 3rd
Rebecca Finlayson, Nicky Robertshaw
Visitors planning a trip to Memphis will find this comprehensive guide indispensable. Get the inside scoop on all of Memphis’s musical attractions, including Elvis’s Graceland and the Gibson Guitar Factory, and find out the best places to sleep,
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
«The eleventh tale of naval adventure in C.S. Forester’s Hornblower series finds Horatio Hornblower an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. As commander-in-chief of His Majesty’s ships and vessels in
Tale of Genji
Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of the novel-and after more than a millennium, this seminal work about the life and loves of Prince Genji, master poet, dancer, musician and
Script into Performance: A Structuralist Approach
«An analysis of script interpretation for the theater. The text includes theories on performance as well as examples from the works of Shelley, Ibsen and Pinter. In his new preface, Hornby laments the modernization of classic plays which he believes
The Plague
The message is not the highest form of creative art, but it may be of such importance for our time that to dismiss it in the name of artistic criticism would be to blaspheme against the human spirit.
Measuring the World: A Novel
Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann’s novel, a German bestseller widely heralded as an exemplar of «new» German fiction, injects musty history
The Parrot’s Theorem: A Novel
Murder mystery meets mathematical history in this pleasantly whimsical but unfocused debut novel, which begins when a Parisian bookseller named Pierre Ruche receives a priceless collection of historical math books from a wartime colleague named
Parasite Eve
It was this novel, together with Koji Suzuki’s Ring series, that begun the J-Horror boom. A pageturner about the rebellion of mitochondria, it became the Japan Horror Novel Award’s first winner and the inspiration for a videogame that was a
Harry Potter aur Azkaban ka Qaidi: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Urdu
This is the urdu version of the third book in the hugely popular series. It provides a faithful version of all present or potential readers of Urdu.
The Black Grippe
Professor Van der Bergh was one of those elderly men who never grow old. His blue eye was as clear as it had been on his twentieth birthday, his sensitive mouth was as ready to smile as ever it had been in the flower of his youth. A professor of
Lonely Planet Barcelona City Map (Lonely Planet Barcelona City Map)
Lonely Planet?s city maps present the travelers? city in one easy view ? Complete street and sight index makes navigating the city a breeze for walkers and drivers alike ? All new, improved mapping styles and fully