Literacy English – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 4

Emily McAvan
Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

The first comprehensive look at the religious significance of this century's contemporary English literature, this book examines in detail important writers such as Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie from…

lieferbar ab 28.5.2026.

Buch

Harriet Fletcher
Gothic Celebrity

Covering literature, visual media and popular culture, this book explores how the Gothic is consistently used to disrupt the narrative of immortality that modern celebrity culture has created and how toge…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

John Julius Norwich
The Ultimate Christmas Cracker

In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Christine Ferguson
Open Secrets

Open Secrets sheds new light on the fascinating popular fiction produced by key writers within Britain's occult revival, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Gyles Brandreth
Dancing by the Light of the Moon

Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion 'Gyles has discovered the secret o…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Giuseppe Pezzini
Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation

Taking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazad-dûm, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous scholarship…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair,
Dares Paradise

Two long poems by eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic poet, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, revived and reintroduced for twenty-first century Anglophone readersLittle of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair'…

lieferbar ab 15.9.2026.

Buch

Claudia Olk
Shakespeare and Beckett

"The danger is in the neatness of identifications", Samuel Beckett famously stated, and, at first glance, no two authors could be further distant from one another than William Shakespeare and Sa…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

John Burnside
Selected Poems

Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace.In this Selected Poems…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Elena Emma Sottilotta
Seekers of Wonder

Women's cultural and political engagement with oral tales and traditions in European peripheriesWith Seekers of Wonder , Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women's manifold roles in th…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Adam Lecznar,
Wole Soyinka

This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka's engagement with the classical past. Nigerian author and activist Wole Soyinka was the first Black African author to win the Nobel Prize for Litera…

lieferbar ab 17.9.2026.

Buch

The World of a Christmas Carol: A 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle of the Classic Dickens Tale Illustrated by Michael Kirkham

In this lovingly detailed, expansive illustration of Dickens's famous tale, Michael will tell the story of Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation from miser to benefactor as he is visited by the Spirits of Chr…

Erscheint bald

Spiele

Stephen Greenblatt
Will in the World - How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of t…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Mark Twain,
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Norton Critical Editions

This Norton Critical Edition includes:The American first edition text, plus the reinstated "raft passage" from Life on the Mississippi (1883), complete with all original illustrations by Edward …

sofort lieferbar

Buch

Sophie Gee
Making Waste

The obsession with waste in eighteenth-century English literatureWhy was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers su…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

W. H. Auden,
Selected Poems of W. H. Auden

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden's Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, …

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

Erscheint bald

Buch

Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

Erscheint bald

Buch

W H Auden,
The Shield of Achilles

Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden's National Book Award--winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles , which w…

lieferbar ab 25.8.2026.

Buch