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Tuffa gänget #3: En gnagares hämnd
De Onda Killarna är på väg att få en RIKTIGT DÅLIG DAG! Herr Varg och hans elaka kompisar har bråkat med fel marsvin. Och denna elaka lilla hårboll vill ha hämnd! Kommer de att …
Imagined Empires
Imagined Empires, first published in 1999, demonstrates that early American culture, and in particular literature, took great interest in South American civilisations, especially …
From Chaucer’s Pardoner to Shakespeare’s Iago
In The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages the American critic Harold Bloom claims that Shakespeare drew on Chaucer’s Pardoner when creating the villain Iago for his …
Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics
In this unique insight into the history and philosophy of mathematics and science in the mediaeval Arab world, the eminent scholar Roshdi Rashed illuminates the various historical, …
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half …
Shakespeare's Montaigne
An NYRB Classics Original Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne's best reader--a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between …
Shakespeare's Surrogates
Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' …
Robert Browning's Rondures Brave
Browning's Fra Lippo Lippi says that we may pass things a hundred times and never see them. One thing that Browning's readers have passed without seeing, or at least without …
Shakespeare's Early History Plays
Like many of his fellow playwrights, Shakespeare turned to national history for inspiration. In this study, Dominique Goy-Blanquet provides a close comparison of the Henry VI plays …
National Theatres in a Changing Europe
Examining the ways in which national theatres have formed and evolved over time, this new collection highlights the difficulties these institutions encounter today, in an …
Old Myths - Modern Empires
This study gives substantial coverage and close critical attention to a wide range of Coetzee's published writings, in the attempt to situate his oeuvre within the framework of …
A Brief Description of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Public Buildings, Palaces, Gardens, Squares, &c. with an Alphabetical List of All the Streets, Squares, Courts, Lanes and Alleys, &c. Within the Bills of Mortality.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …