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A gripping micro-history, set in Shakespeare's London. '(A) fascinating insight into a lost and lurid world' }Telegraph

The three short fictions in this unique collection, Sarrasine, The Unknown Masterpiece, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes, deal with the relationship between artistic ideals and sexual desires. They show Balzac's mastery of the seductions of storytel

Now available in Oxford Paperback Reference, the fourth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations brings together both words of wisdom and things that might have been better left unsaid. A mouth-watering collection for anyone with an i

The Handbook is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize th

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is a private notebook of philosophical reflections with universal significance. Drawing on Stoic philosophy, Marcus confronts challenges that affect us all in our struggle to live meaningful lives. This edition includes a

This Very Short Introduction presents Martin Luther as historians now see him. Instead of singling him out as a modern hero, the book emphasizes the context in which Luther worked, the colleagues who supported him, and the opponents who adamantly opp

Jennifer Roberts introduces the background and writing of the 5th century Greek thinker and researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who invented the genre of historical investigation. She discusses all aspects of his work, including his fascination wi

Lena Orlin paints a dense picture of everyday life in Renaissance England, with an emphasis on personal privacy, the built environment, and the life story of a remarkable undiscovered woman - merchant's wife and mother of four, Alice Barnham - with a

Boek The Oxford History Of Britain, geschreven door Morgan, Kenneth O., uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain

A young man, in despair over gambling debts, buys a magical animal skin that grants his every wish but hastens its owner's death in the process. Balzac's compelling tale is here presented in an exuberant new translation, with an illuminating introduc

Boek Paris Metro Tales, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Boek The Ends Of Life, geschreven door Keith (Fellow of All Souls Colle, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain

Phineas Finn, the handsome Irishman, is intent on making a career in government. His love life marches hand in hand with his political career, and in both he must decide whether to stay true to his principles. The second ofTrollope's Palliser novels,

Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. With a full English translation of the 1215 charter, Nicholas Vincent introduces the document t

Surveys the history of the province from the plantations of the early seventeenth century to partition and the formation of Northern Ireland in the early 1920s, and onwards to the 'Troubles' of recent decades. A major contribution to the history of I

V. S. Pritchett, one of our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.

The buzzing life of bars, warm evenings by the Manzanares river, the subterranean terrors of the Metro, student days in the sixties, the ruthless underworld of the city's mafia - this captivating anthology reflects the kaleidoscopic character of Madr

Rochester's scandalous reputation belies the variety and sophistication of his love poems and satires. This new, modern-spelling edition is the most textually up to date, based not on the unreliable printed editions but on the most authoritative manu

Boek International Law As Social Construct, geschreven door Focarelli, Carlo, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Recht algemeen

An entertaining and accessible book which examines the influence that the King James Bible has had on the English language. Acclaimed and popular linguist Crystal looks at how its words and phrases continue to feed into our language today, and are gi

Boek A Kingdom United, geschreven door Senior Lecturer in History, Univ, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain

Dickens is his own words: the closest we have to an autobiography. Here is a selection of 450 letters, ranging from his earliest writing as a schoolboy, right up to the last afternoon of his life. Previously, these letters have only been available in

John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. His ideas have had a central influence on many of areas of economics used today, both in theory and practice. In this Very Short Introduction Lord Robert Skidels

This Very Short Introduction explores the history of the 18th-century Enlightenment movement. Considering its intellectual commitments, Robertson then turns to their impact on society, and the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers sought to further th

Boek David Hume: A Treatise Of Human Nature, geschreven door Hume, David, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain

Against a background of government incompetence and financial scandal, Arthur Clennam searches for the key to the affairs of the Dorrit family, prisoners for debt in the Marshalsea. Mixing humour and pathos, irony and satire, Little Dorrit reveals a

Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories contains such gens as 'May Day,' 'The Diamond As Big As The Ritz' and 'The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of related manuscript material and a comprehensive in

Young immigrant Karl Rossmann has a series of adventures in a vision of an ultra-modern America that is both fantasy and social satire. Full of incident, and blackly humorous, Kafka's first novel is newly translated by Ritchie Robertson in an edition

Boek Victorian Fairy Tales, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with Wordsworth's famous P

A full-scale critical edition of Seneca's Medea which offers a substantial introduction, a new Latin text, an English verse translation, and a detailed commentary. Boyle locates the play firmly in its contemporary, historical, and theatrical context

As the central feature on the American political landscape, it is only natural that s

Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how

The British Empire influenced many aspects of the world we live in today. The international system remains heavily marked by British imperialism, and the borders, nations, and federations it created. This Very Short Introduction introduces and define

The only critical edition of Morrison's searing tale of life in the slums of London's East End