Collins Classics brings you a haunting selection of the finest horror stories from classic literature - featuring works by Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mary Shelley - with additional content.
Places Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world and investigates the entanglement among books, knowledge, and colonialismThe Atlantic Republic of Letters offers an alternative intellectual history of early America.
From the bestselling author of 'Elizabeth and Mary', the remarkable love story of Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, set against the turbulence and romance of 17th-century England.
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism.
Die komplexen und meist konfliktreichen Relationen von Zirkulation und Kontrolle sind uns heute allgegenwärtig: Menschen, Daten, Ideen, Geld, Viren oder Güter zirkulieren und produzieren prekäre Situationen wie Migration, WikiLeaks, Bankenkrisen, Waffenhandel, alternative Währungen oder Krankheiten.
Das Sonett konstituiert in seiner langen Geschichte immer wieder soziale Räume für spezifische Gemeinschaften – zwischen Lebenden, aber auch über die Jahrhunderte hinweg mit historischen Personen.
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
Georgien – ein Land, dessen einzigartige Schrift, tief verwurzelte religiöse Traditionen und reiches kulturelles Erbe eine literarische Geschichte von unvergleichlicher Tiefe und Schönheit hervorgebracht haben.
El caballero de Olmedo es una obra de teatro de Lope de Vega basada en una leyenda y cancion popular que narra un crimen que ocurrio entre Medina y Olmedo.
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse.
Dieses eBook: "Das Leben der Schwedischen Gräfin von G***" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Anthony Trollope's 'The Palliser Novels & The Chronicles of Barsetshire: Complete Series' is a magnum opus in the realm of Victorian literature, encompassing a rich tapestry of political and social commentary.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Werk 'Gesammelte Gedichte' präsentiert eine Sammlung seiner poetischen Werke, die einen bemerkenswerten Einblick in die literarische Welt des 18.
Friedrich Schiller: Erzählungen ist eine Sammlung von Erzählungen, die von dem renommierten deutschen Dichter und Dramatiker Friedrich Schiller verfasst wurden.
**A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR** Lively and humane Reade s enthusiasm and curiosity are winning GUARDIANSummoned in Haiti s struggle against colonial rule, read in prison by the young Malcolm X, and reimagined by Virginia Woolf - this is the revolutionary history of Milton's epic poem Paradise LostOrlando Reade shows the many different, surprising, and often contradictory ways in which Milton s epic poem Paradise Lost has been read across centuries and continents.
In Charlotte Bronte's 'Shirley (Unabridged)', readers are transported to the Yorkshire textile industry during the Industrial Revolution, where the protagonist, Shirley Keeldar, challenges societal norms and explores themes of gender roles, class struggle, and feminist ideals.
Karl Philipp Moritz' Werk 'Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahre 1782' ist ein faszinierendes literarisches Werk, das die Reiseerlebnisse des Autors in England detailliert beschreibt.
Sherwood Anderson's 'Poor White' is a poignant and insightful novel that delves into the lives of ordinary working-class Americans in the early 20th century.