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On Painting (Leon Alberti)
Alberti`s "Della Pittura" was the first modern analytical study of painting. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the…
€ 10,⁶⁵
La Regenta (John rutherford Leopoldo Alas)
First published in 1885, this novel is set in a shabby provincial Spanish town and explores an intelligent and sensitive woman's unsuccessful quest for fulfilment through marriage, adultery and religion.
€ 21,²⁵
The Lost Estate (Henri Alain-fournier)
A story of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, Meaulnes and his restless search for a lost, enchanted world.
€ 7,⁹⁵
The Lost Estate (le Grand Meaulnes) (Henri Alain-fournier)
When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious…
€ 10,⁶⁵
Greek Tragedy (Sophocles Euripides Aeschylus)
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to…
€ 13,³⁰
The Oresteian Trilogy ( Aeschylus)
After the Fall of Troy, King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand.…
€ 13,³⁰
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays (Aeschylus)
Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to…
€ 13,³⁰
The Persians And Other Plays (Aeschylus)
Deals with events from Athenian history, and depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis. This work shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, and relates the pursuit of the…
€ 13,³⁰
The Elegant Economist (Eliza Acton)
Including such English classics as suet pudding, raspberry jam, lemonade and 'superlative mincemeat' as well as evocatively-named creations like 'Threadneedle Street Biscuits', 'Baron Liebig's Beef Gravy' and 'Apple Hedgehog',…
€ 9,³⁰
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling By Peter Ackroyd (Geoffrey Chaucer Peter Ackroyd)
From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London.
€ 13,³⁰
The Death Of King Arthur (Peter Ackroyd)
The legend of King Arthur has retained its appeal and popularity through the ages: Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenevere, the quest for the Holy Grail.…
€ 13,³⁰
An Image Of Africa/ The Trouble With Nigeria (Chinua Achebe)
Asserts the author's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. This title includes "The Trouble with…
€ 6,⁶⁵