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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter Benjamin J.A. Underwood)
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling…
€ 6,⁶⁵
The Rule Of Benedict (St Benedict)
Saint Benedict of Nursia (c 480-543 AD) founded twelve monasteries. Benedict wrote a set of rules governing his monks, "The Rule of Benedict", one of the more influential documents in Western Civilization. This translation…
€ 11,⁹⁵
Petersburg (Andrei Bely)
St Petersburg, 1905. An impressionable young university student, Nikolai, becomes involved with a revolutionary terror organization, which plans to assassinate a high government official with a time bomb. But the official is…
€ 17,³⁰
A Woman In Arabia (Gertrude Bell)
During World War I, Georgina Howell worked her way up from spy to army major to become one of the most powerful woman in the British Empire. After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, she was instrumental in drawing the borders that…
€ 13,³⁰
African Myths Of Origin (Stephen Belcher)
Gathering a range of traditional African myths, this collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. All…
€ 17,³⁰
Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works (Aphra Behn)
“We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues”

When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the…
€ 12,⁰⁰
Oroonoko (Aphra Behn)
Aphra Behn, the poet, playwright, novelist and political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This title demonstrates the sophistication and vitality of Aphra Behn's genius. It contains the plays "The…
€ 10,⁶⁵
The Campaign For Domestic Happiness (Isabella Beeton)
Offers tips on selecting cuts of meat, throwing a grand party and hosting a dinner, giving suggestions on staff wages and the cost of each recipe. With such delicious English classics as rabbit pie, carrot soup, baked apple…
€ 9,³⁰
The Age Of Bede (Bede)
The accounts given by Bede and Eddius give the reader an idea of 6th and 7th century life in Britain as Roman Episcopal orthodoxy clashed with the monasticism that was spreading over Ireland and Northern England.
€ 11,⁹⁵
Ecclesiastical History Of The English People (Bede)
Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during…
€ 14,⁶⁰
Three Gothic Novels (Horace walpole Mary shelley William Beckford)
The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: "The Castle of Otranto",…
€ 15,⁹⁵
Vathek and Other Stories (William Beckford and Jack Malcolm)
An enthralling work of Gothic fiction, modelled on the Arabian Nights

This collection of writings features the complete text of William Beckford’s best-known book, Vathek. Beckford’s talent for satire emerges in selections…
€ 17,³⁰