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  • The Life of Samuel Johnson
    James Boswell
    This is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell’s personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson’s life by...
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    36,04 €

  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Thomas De Quincey
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was 'the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight. ...
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    17,94 €

  • Haiku Master
    Erik Thomas
    A literary vision quest in space & time coming from the mind of a high school student. All poetry written from 9th through 12th grade blended with an emotive exhilarating score of rhyme nuanced by an organized touch of romance. ...
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    11,27 €

  • ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
    WILLIAM H. PATTERSON / WILLIAM HPATTERSON
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    34,12 €

  • PARIS, I LOVE YOU BUT YOU’RE BRINGI
    ROSECRANS BALDWIN
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    16,34 €

  • A Passionate Sisterhood
    Kathleen Jones
    The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys twelve miles away at Keswick and the women created a kind of extended family tha...
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    12,01 €

  • The Lonely House
    Paul Brody
    During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but ...
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    6,16 €

  • Beat Transnationalism
    John Tytell
    Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca.In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting – via letters from that period...
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    16,04 €

  • AMERICAN ISIS
    CARL ROLLYSON
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    17,10 €

  • Amor y muerte
    Gloria Elena Ossa Olguín
    Levantarme cada día y empezar a respirar de nuevo, me cues-ta, me duele hasta la médula. No puedo sacar de mi cabeza y de mi cuerpo aquella liberación que sentí, cuando el vein-tisiete de diciembre, a las 11:45 pm. Me dijeron... ¡Doña Glo-ria, venga!Bajé despacio la escalera. «Ya partió», repetí para mí. Un leve temblor se apoderó de mi cuerpo, mi mente se cerró y no sabía cómo...
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    20,80 €

  • Yo antes de los treinta
    Adrián Lázaro
    Yo antes de los treinta narra las experiencias personales y profesionales que el autor Adrián Lázaro ha superado, experiencias que le han brindaron el conocimiento para ir mejorando y construyéndose día con día, buscando un equilibrio de vida que le permita ser una persona virtuosa o, como la mayoría de las personas lo llaman, llegar a un estado de felicidad. Este es un libro q...
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    9,88 €

  • Delirio Azul
    Felix Carrera Leal
    En las vastas llanuras donde la vida parece repetirse con la calma del río y el rumor del viento, Moisés guarda un secreto que lo consume: el recuerdo de una mujer de ojos azules, tan intensos que marcaron su destino para siempre. Entre relatos orales, noches de hacienda y viejas grabaciones en casetes, se revela la voz de un hombre atrapado entre la pasión, la obsesión y la no...
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    13,52 €

  • A life of William Shakespeare
    Sidney Lee
    'A Life of William Shakespeare' by Sidney Lee is a comprehensive biography of the legendary playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Published in 1898, this book delves into the life and times of Shakespeare, exploring his upbringing, education, family life, career, and enduring legacy. Sidney Lee, a renowned literary critic and biographer, meticulously researched Shakespeare’s...
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    16,10 €

  • Pushkin
    Yuri Lotman / Ilya Nemirovsky
    This volume presents a chronological biography of Alexander Pushkin, often held to be Russia’s national poet and writer. Lotman pays special attention to the development of Pushkin’s social and political thought throughout the poet’s life, painting a picture of the poet as having been deeply in tune with and even involved in the most pressing socio-political challenges of his a...
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    25,08 €

  • Under the Table
    FootRubSlave
    In the glittering apartments and gated enclaves of Delhi and Gurgaon, elite women host kitty parties, network, and indulge in self-care-relaxed, empowered, and unseen. Beneath the table, however, lies another reality: the invisible labor of service providers who make it all possible.Under the Table: Hidden Lives in India’s Elite Social Circles offers an intimate, anonymized gli...
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    5,60 €

  • Scars of the Past
    Gonçalo JN Dias
    'Naturally, this is not a novel; it is the purge of my heart.'With that unfiltered frankness, the author opens the door to a youth forged from fear and excess, from encounters and farewells, from long nights and broken dreams.Between lectures, bars, and sudden passions, a raw yet luminous portrait of the human soul takes shape, where vulnerability and audacity live side by side...
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    19,33 €

  • The Anatomy of Longing
    Max Nabati
    In 2002, Max Nabati set out on a simple journey to see as much as he can. He returned haunted by many things as well as nine sculptures. This book is his confession: a lyrical travelogue through a hidden country called Desire, whose monuments are not of stone, but of the human heart projected onto marble and bronze.Moving from the sacred chill of the Vatican to the worldly glow...
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    9,28 €

  • Zola
    H.H.Soltan
    Émile Zola se situe à la croisée de la littérature, de la science et de la justice sociale. Dans Zola : une vie dans le naturalisme, H. H. Soltan propose une étude complète et accessible de l’écrivain qui a transformé le roman en un outil permettant d’explorer les forces les plus profondes de la société.Cet ouvrage retrace l’évolution intellectuelle de Zola, des paysages de Pro...
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    52,44 €

  • The Anatomy of Longing
    Max Nabati
    In 2002, Max Nabati set out on a simple journey to see as much as he can. He returned haunted by many things as well as nine sculptures. This book is his confession: a lyrical travelogue through a hidden country called Desire, whose monuments are not of stone, but of the human heart projected onto marble and bronze.Moving from the sacred chill of the Vatican to the worldly glow...
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    9,85 €

  • Jackdaw Cake
    Norman Lewis
    With dry, laconic wit, Norman Lewis remembers his transformation from stammering Welsh schoolboy to worldy wise, multilingual sergeant in the Intelligence Corps, on the cusp of becoming a writer.With a calm, observant gaze from the start, the young Norman moves from Spiritualist parents in Enfield to live with supremely dotty aunts in Carmarthen, whose baking of a weekly cake t...
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    26,68 €

  • Alvorecer Da Primavera
    Yuri Carvalho
    Alvorecer da Primavera é uma antologia poética que reúne 77 poemas e letras de canções escritas entre 2017 e 2025 para romances e discos caseiros.A ideia de reunir o principal em uma antologia é uma forma de profilaxia poética, que busca preservar e organizar esses trabalhos, evitando que se percam no tempo e na desordem de estarem dispersos.Alguns poemas, como “Luzia” e “Quand...
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    9,88 €

  • Rupert Brooke
    Keith Hale
    Keith Hale, editor of Friends & Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914, here examines the bowdlerization of Brooke in existing biographies and looks into the poet’s self-proclaimed bisexual identity. Hale examines the same-sex relationships Brooke enjoyed with Michael Sadleir, Charles Lascelles, and Denham Russell-Smith as well as the poems ...
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    27,76 €

  • 大沽河
    刘路
    一首大沽河的幽情悲歌 （序） 王一梁 生命是可以这样开始的：仰头，望见一片没有边际的蓝。而天空之下一无所有。若果真如此，人间何来这许多苦，许多爱？有一个人，终其一生在怀念一条河。他曾是律师，名字镌刻在中国司法史的暗面与光里。那些注定被铭记的辩护，是他的荣光，也是他的原罪。后来，他写下《光荣与梦想--我的律师手记》，墨迹未干，故土已成他乡。法治的长路尽头，大洋彼岸，他放下法典，拾起笔--从此，他是浪游的写作者，是词语的囚徒与君王。他是刘路。一个错生了时代的律师，一个在文字里泅渡的作家。读他的散文，恍若遇见孙犁的《白洋淀纪事》。清浅如水，深澈亦如水。刘路坦言，自己倾心于白洋淀派的简净。无心插柳，却成荫。这本《大沽河纪事》，是记忆的溯游，亦是沉默的证词。作家的启蒙，往往始于一阵偶然的风--某个清晨或黄昏，某...
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    29,49 €

  • Masculine Beauty
    Michael Wilson
    This volume seeks to give readers and scholars a single source to consult when the aim is to read Whitman’s homoerotic verse. It contains only those poems Whitman wrote exploring masculine beauty and/or same-sex affection. An abridged introduction by John Burroughs places the work in its historical context.Sometimes gay readers and scholars have occasion to seek out the homoero...
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    23,16 €

  • Rupert Brooke of Rugby
    Keith Hale
    Rupert Brooke of Rugby, revised 2nd edition, contains biography and commentary as well as Brooke’s poetry, prose, and photographs. The edition includes Keith Hale’s complete Rupert Brooke: The Bisexual Brooke, Updated and Expanded Edition, Brooke’s Collected Poems with introductions by Margaret Lavington and George Edward Woodberry, and Brooke’s Letters from America with an int...
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    43,61 €

  • O Cálice
    Bianca Barki
    Laura é filha de um pastor bastante conhecido em sua cidade, mas decidiu seguir um caminho oposto ao de seu pai, acreditando que assim poderia aproveitar melhor a vida.Mergulhou em um mundo de drogas e prostituição, sem perceber o quanto estava se destruindo.Na escuridão, ela se perdeu, afastando-se daquilo que um dia conheceu como a verdadeira luz.Mas, ao se afundar cada vez m...
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    14,04 €

  • O Convento Franciscano
    Edson Souza
    Neste livro envolvente e rigorosamente documentado, o jornalista Edson Souza — diretor do Impacto Litoral Norte SP — convida o leitor a mergulhar na história do Convento Franciscano e da Paróquia de Nossa Senhora do Amparo, localizados no tradicional bairro de São Francisco da Praia, em São Sebastião.A partir de vasta pesquisa em arquivos históricos, registros e depoimentos loc...
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    22,88 €

  • Diário De Um Acadêmico
    Edison Mendes
    Usa-se muito o termofadadopara se dizer que o ser humano está destinado à evolução. Não importa o que se faça, a decisão que se tome,, o caminho que se escolha seguir, o resultado será sempre a evolução. Talvez mais ou menos lenta, mas, não se consegue fugir àquilo que fomos destinados.A quem discordar, basta refletir nas guerras antigas, cujas armas eram paus e pedras, quando ...
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    16,59 €

  • The Secret Life of Gabriele d’Annunzio
    Tommaso Antongini
    The Secret Life of Gabriele D’Annunzio was the first major biography of d’Annunzio, published in the year of his death 1938 and written by his friend and personal assistant of forty years, Tommaso Antongini.'[Antongini] knows everything about d’Annunzio’s private life from 1908 on. ... As a collection of d’Annunzian anecdotes and witticisms Mr. Antongini’s volume is the richest...
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    29,48 €

  • Coração Periférico
    Diego Rbor
    Quem sente o Coração Periférico? Neste livro o leitor poderá conhecer e sentir a síntese da poesia periférica contemporânea. As rajadas poéticas de Diego Rbor mesclam temas como amor, cultura, habitação, educação, sexualidade, gênero, entre muitos outros, nesta sétima obra literária do autor. ...
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    11,96 €


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