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  • Study Guide to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Shakespeare’s most famous and widely performed plays for the stage. As a comedy of the sixteenth-century, Shakespeare expertly examines the unpredictability and impact of romantic love. Moreover, love is the most prominent theme, expressed...
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    6,75 €

  • Study Guide to The Comedies by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Shakespeare, considered one of the greatest playwrights in history. Titles in this study guide include Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale, and...
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    17,20 €

  • Study Guide to Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, the last of Shakespeare’s political tradegies. As an unusual and intense, intellectual drama, Shakespeare employs single narrative line and striking images, but the most effective moments in the play are developed through understated silence. Moreover, he imple...
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    12,93 €

  • Study Guide to Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakepeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2, the gripping third installment of kingship and rebellion. As a detail-rich history of the sixteenth century, Shakespeare skillfully combines history and comedy, moving from intense battle scenes of kings to simple scenes of country life. Moreover, his com...
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    8,36 €

  • Gothic incest
    Jenny DiPlacidi / TBD
    Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764-1847. ...
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    36,63 €

  • Skymningstankar och nattvakor
    Helena Nyblom / Selma Lagerlöf / Zacharias Topelius
    På en grushög längst inne i valvet satt den vansinniga och höll i sin famn ett halvmurket benrangel, kring vilket några gulgråa, ursprungligen vita tyglappar fladdrade för luftdraget... Och den galna satt och vyssjade benranglet som ett litet barn och sjöng så gott hon kunde sina barndomsvisor, och i hennes förr så vilda ögon glänste nu den renaste, lycksaligaste modersglädje.M...
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    28,75 €

  • Clark Ashton Smith
    David E. Schultz / David ESchultz / S. T. Joshi / Scott Connors / STJoshi
    In 1978, Donald Sidney-Fryer published the first full-scale bibliography of Clark Ashton Smith, Emperor of Dreams. In the more than forty years since that book’s appearance, the publication and study of Smith’s work have increased exponentially, and a new, more exhaustive bibliography is long overdue. The three compilers of this volume, all leading authorities on Smith, have no...
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    31,86 €

  • Essays in Petto
    Montague Summers
    'Essays in Petto' is a collection of essays by English writer Montague Summers, first published in 1928. Within them, Summers explores the subject of Gothic literature, looking in particular at the work of notable writers including Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Byron, and others. A detailed examination of Gothic romance by a master of the supernatural. Contents include: 'Ann Radc...
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    22,31 €

  • The Steampunk Handbook
    Phoebe Darqueling
    Author and lecturer Phoebe Darqueling has compiled and updated her best articles from The Steampunk Journal and beyond to surprise, inform, and delight Steampunk and Gaslamp Fantasy fans old and new. Within these pages, you'll find a stroll through the first 30 years of the Steampunk genre, background information about the technological and cultural underpinnings that inspi...
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    11,84 €

  • Patrick Modiano
    Manuel Peris Mir
    En Modiano la figura del perro es a veces un explorador anímico en el deambular del protagonista por las calles de París, a veces un guía en la búsqueda fantasmagórica de personajes desaparecidos, en ocasiones un doble simbólico del narrador, cuando no del hermano muerto, e incluso de ambos, en un sujeto desdoblado que los aúna: el perro y yo / mi hermano y yo; de forma que la ...
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    18,50 €

  • Philip K. Dick
    David Sandner
    Philip K. Dick was a visionary writer of science fiction. His works speak to contemporary fears of being continually watched by technology, and the paranoia of modern life in which we watch ourselves and lose our sense of identity. Since his death in 1982, Dick’s writing remain frighteningly relevant to 21st century audiences. Dick spent his life in near poverty and it was only...
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    54,40 €

  • Apocalyptic Ecology in the Graphic Novel
    Clint Jones
    As awareness of climate change grows, so do the number of cultural depictions of environmental disaster. Graphic novels have reliably produced dramatizations of such disasters. Many use themes of dystopian hopefulness, or the enjoyment readers experience from seeing society prevail in times of apocalypse. This book argues that these generally inspirational narratives contribute...
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    57,62 €

  • Italian Crime Fiction in the Era of the Anti-Mafia Movement
    William Farina
    Over the last three decades, Italian crime fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity. The origins of the New Italian Epic, as it has been coined by some of its proponents, can be found in the widespread backlash against the Mafia-sponsored murders of Sicilian magistrates which culminated with the assassinations of Judges Giovanni Falc...
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    94,01 €

  • Schabraco and other Gothic Tales from the Ladies’ Monthly Museum, 1798-1828
    Jennie MacDonald
    In 1798, a prospectus appeared for The Lady’s Monthly Museum, a bold new project which – in contrast to the predominance of men’s magazines at the time – would be edited by a “Society of Ladies” and would include wholesome entertainment exclusively intended for young women. But with the inclusion of the Gothic tale “Schabraco” in its second issue, the magazine attracted immedia...
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    42,90 €

  • I dödens lustgård
    Frank Heller / Helena Nyblom / Zacharias Topelius
    En underskön vampyrkvinna med dödliga kyssar. En läkare som föryngrar sina patienter genom att operera in apkörtlar. Den förmodligen första detektivberättelsen på svenska -- ett skrämmande och tragiskt mysterium publicerat bara två år efter Morden på Rue Morgue. Och här finns novellen som August Strindberg stal intrigen ifrån till Ett drömspel.Detta och mycket mer kan läsas här...
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    24,39 €

  • Nattens paradis
    Frank Heller / Henning Berger / Runar Schildt
    -- Husch, sade han -- se, se! Och han fumlade med några knappar på väggen. Belätet reste sig morrande och knorrande, fjädrar surrade och hjul väste. Gestalten steg upp och glodde på mig med ett par grådaskiga ögonlinser. När därtill underkäken plötsligt föll ned med en smäll och visade ett gapande hål och bruna betar, ryggade jag tillbaka i avsmak. -- Ack, sade uppfinnaren -- d...
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    24,44 €

  • Horrid Mysteries - A Story from the German of the Marquis of Grosse
    Carl Grosse / Peter Will
    Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that usually combines fiction with horror, romance, and death. The genre’s origin is attributed to the novel, 'The Castle of Otranto', which was written by English author Horace Walpole and first published in 1764. 'The Horrid Mysteries' is the English translation by Peter Will of the German Gothic novel 'Der Genius by Carl Grosse'. It wa...
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    23,29 €

  • True Crime Parallels to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie
    Anne Powers
    Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era. This book takes ten of her most famous works and shows their relationship to ten of crime history’s most famous and sensational cases--cases whose notoriety still resounds to this day. Addressing both novels and short stories, the author illu...
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    72,14 €

  • Study Guide to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, one of the most famous novels of Victorian literature. As Emily Brontës sole work, Wuthering Heights unveils the harsh reality behind a toxic and abusive relationship, in which the complex characters are unpredictable. Moreover, Brontë’s lyrical and mystic novel...
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    8,44 €

  • Study Guide to Moby Dick by Herman Melville
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, deemed by author Raymond Weaver as 'indisputably the greatest whaling novel.' As an 1851 tragic epic, Moby Dick tells the story of a captain’s expedition to track down and seek revenge on a whale from the point of view of one of the sailors. Moreover, Melville uses a...
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    8,38 €

  • Study Guide to Utopia by Thomas More
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas More’s Utopia, originally written in Latin in 1516 and considered a great political and philosophical satire. As a rhetorical work from the early 16th century, there has been much debate amongst scholars on what More’s intentions were for writing. Moreover, Utopia makes a mirror so that r...
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    6,80 €

  • Study Guide to The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for JRR Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of one of the most well-known series in the world-Lord of the Rings Trilogy. As an epic novel of the mid twentieth century, Tolkien used elements of Nordic folk, Christianity, and realism to create the Middle-earth world. Moreover, The Lord of ...
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    8,58 €

  • Study Guide to The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, a book that pioneered the feminist science fiction movement. As a science-fiction, fantasy novel of the mid to late 1900s, The Left Hand of Darkness explores androgyny, tragedy, and love. Moreover, Le Guin’s writing shows that in fantasy, journeys into...
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    8,46 €

  • Study Guide to Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, an immediate popular success when it was published as Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in 1726. As a novel of eighteenth century Britain, Gulliver’s Travels was a satire on human nature and a parody of the ''''travellers’ tales'''' literary s...
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    12,81 €

  • Stories of Shape-Shifting
    Robert E Howard
    Compiled and introduced by Mythologist and lycanthropy specialist Wulfric Thorsson, this book collects all the works by famed pulp writer Robert E. Howard concerning the themes of physical transformation and metamorphosis. Werewolves are here, and werehyenas and other beastmen, as well as startling depictions of arcane changes and unnatural hybrids.The stories are superbly ente...
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    14,06 €

  • A Gothic Bibliography
    Montague Summers
    First published in 1940, 'A Gothic Bibliography' contains an extensive list of some of the most notable Gothic novels compiled by Montague Summers. Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that usually combines fiction with horror, romance, and death. The genre’s origin is attributed to the novel, 'The Castle of Otranto', which was written by English author Horace Walpole and fi...
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    37,69 €

  • Imagining the Unimaginable
    Glyn Morgan
    Imagining the Unimaginable examines popular fiction’s treatment of the Holocaust in the dystopian and alternate history genres of speculative fiction, analyzing the effectiveness of the genre’s major works as a lens through which to view the most prominent historical trauma of the 20th century. It surveys a range of British and American authors, from science fiction pulp to Pul...
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    160,95 €

  • The Big Somewhere
    Steven Powell
    James Ellroy’s identity as a crime writer is rooted in his extraordinary life story and relationship with his home city of Los Angeles. Beginning with the unsolved murder of his mother, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, in 1958, Ellroy’s early life played a large role in shaping his obsessions with murder, the criminal underworld of L.A. and the redemptive power of the feminine. Ellroy’s...
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    55,11 €

  • Agency in The Hunger Games
    Kayla Ann
    For 21st-century young adults struggling for personal autonomy in a society that often demands compliance, the bestselling trilogy, The Hunger Games remains palpably relevant despite its futuristic setting. For Suzanne Collins’ characters, personal agency involves not only the physical battle of controlling one’s body but also one’s response to such influences as morality, trau...
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    57,52 €

  • Littérature Fantastique Belge et Belgitude
    Anchal Verma
    Littérature Fantastique Belge Et Belgitude a un double but. D’abord, découvrir l’univers fantastique belge francophone de Jean Ray, afin d’examiner chez Jean Ray, l’essence du fantastique, par le biais de son recueil de nouvelles fantastiques Le Grand Nocturne. Cet ouvrage a aussi pour but d’examiner des traits de la belgitude, autrement dit, de dévoiler, dans quelle manière la...
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    20,50 €


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