Wildside press okt 2011 (19 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Christopher Hobhouse (1910-1940) was a barrister and writer who was killed in action in WWII. This illustrated guide to Oxford University was published in 1939.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Demetra Kenneth Brown (1877 - 1946) was a Greek-American author. Haremlik, published in 1909, was her second book and commanded wide attention. It consists of 10 studies of Turkish women. Other works include Finella in Fairyland (1910), In the Shadow of Islam (1911) and more.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. This volume contains four of Wilde's comedic plays: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windmere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) was an English novelist, poet, and dramatist. He was born in India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Emile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French writer and a major figure in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse. The Joy of Life( Joie de Vivre) is the 12th first in Zola's monumental twenty-volume series, Les Rougon-Macquart.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805-1877) was an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer. He was a voluminous writer of books on Christian ethics, and of popular histories, which were credited with cultivating a popular interest in history. Madame Roland was, together with her husband Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, a supporter of the French Revolution and influential member of the Girondist faction. She fell out of favor during the Reign of Terror and died on the guillotine.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Émile François Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French writer and liberal champion. 'Une page d'amour' ('An Episode of Love') is the eighth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series set among the petite bourgeoisie in Second Empire suburban Paris. It first appeared in serial form in Le Bien public, before being published as a novel in April 1878.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Emile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French writer and a major figure in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse. The two volumes of Paris are part of Zola's The Three Cities: Lourdes, Rome, Paris.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Grace Corin Hodgson Flandrau's (1889-1971) Being Respectable was made into a film in 1924. Flandrau left money to the University of Arizona to create the Grace H. Flandrau Planetarium, now called the Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. His best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, though in France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry. This volume contains three dramas: The Burgraves, Torquemada, and Lucretia Borgia. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was famous for his satirical novels, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society of the 19th century. Arthur Pendennis is born in the country and sets out for London to seek his place in life and society.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Israel Zangwell (1864-1926) was a writer and lecturer, traveling in the United States, through Great Britain, Ireland, Holland, and to Jerusalem. He took a great interest in Zionism. His Mantle of Elijah, about imperialism and the political problems connected with it, was widely read. Loeb, Louis (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an author and playwright. He wrote the first locked room murder mystery novel in 1891.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Emile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French writer and a major figure in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse Fruitfulness [Fecundite] is the first of Zola's Four Gospels - Fruitfulness, Work, Truth, and the unfinished Justice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Violet Clifton (1883-1961) won the 1933 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography for The Book of Talbot, about her husband, Talbot Clifton (1868-1927), a compulsive traveler who fell ill and died during a trip to Timbuktu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) was also known as the 'Georgian Laureate.' His original verse, largely metaphysical poems in dramatic form, and a number of verse plays were collected in this 1930 volume.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Burns Mantle (1873-1948) was a drama critic and annalist, best know for the Best Plays series, which he edited from 1920 until 1947. In addition to declaring the past year's best plays, these volumes forecast the next season's likely best plays around the U.S., gives biographical data on prominent theater figures, and reviews the London and Paris seasons. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nicholas Ostrovsky's Born in the Storm is a romance set in early 20th century Russia.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Regina Maria Roche (1764-1845), a minor Gothic novelist writing in the shadow of Ann Radcliffe, was, a best seller in her own time. The popularity of her third novel, The Children of the Abbey, rivaled that of Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Darley, F. O. C. (illustrator). …