Broadview press ltd aug 2009 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The philosophical problem of evil-that a supposedly good God could allow terrible human suffering-troubled the minds of eighteenth-century thinkers as it troubles us today. Voltaire's classic novel Candide relates the misadventures of a young optimist who leaves his sheltered childhood to find his way in a cruel and irrational world. Fast-paced and full of dark humor, the novel mocks the suggestion that 'all is well' and challenges us to create a better world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Foreshadows twenty-first-century concerns about terrorism and international espionage. This book is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to the Russian embassy and the British government.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Concert of Voices combines poetry, fiction, drama, and essays in an anthology of world literature in English. This second edition preserves the first edition's breadth and its balance of established and less widely known authors, while including a large selection of exciting new material. Biographical information and explanatory notes have been updated and expanded, and new pieces by Cyril Dabydeen, Vikram Seth, Wole Soyinka, Pauline Johnson, Rudy Wiebe, and many other authors have been added.…