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Letters To A Young Poet

de Rainer Maria Rilke

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 What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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Letters To A Young Poet

de Rainer Maria Rilke

12,86€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

 Over the course of six years, Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This volume also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written too in letter form. Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
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The Civil War - Together With The Alexandrian War, The African War, And The Spanish War

de Julius Caesar

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 A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with immediacy and power. "The Civil War" is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world.
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Down And Out In Paris And London

de George Orwell

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 Deals with the underworld of society. In this book, the author documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and more.
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Shooting An Elephant - And Other Essays

de George Orwell

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 Presents an account of the author's experience as a police officer in imperial Burma. This collection features the essays that include classics such as "My Country Right or Left", "How the Poor Die" and "Such, Such were the Joys", his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, and boys' weeklies.
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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

de Edward Gibbon

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 Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, this title provides a selection and bridging commentary that enables the reader to acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the author's work.
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Henry And June

de Anaïs Nin

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 The brilliant tale of Anais Nin's true love affair with Henry Miller, and her ambiguous, charged relationship with his wife, June. Drawn from the journals of a single momentous year in Paris, Henry and June provides a wildly lyrical account of a woman's sexual awakening and the disillusion of idealized marriage.
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84 Charing Cross Road

de Helene Hanff

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 A timeless classic that should be on every book-lover's 'must read' list. First published in 1971, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD has never been out of print.
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Tetrabiblos - Or Quadripartite

de Ptolemy

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 In Tetrabiblos, a core text in the history of astrology, the preeminent ancient astronomer Ptolemy treats the practical use of astronomical knowledge: making predictions about individualsâ€™ lives and the outcome of human affairs.
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The Doors of Perception - And Heaven And Hell

de Aldous Huxley

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 Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. 'Concise, evocative, wise and, above all, humane, The Doors of Perception is a masterpiece' Sunday TimesIn 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. Huxley described his experience with breathtaking immediacy in The Doors of Perception. In its sequel Heaven and Hell, he goes on to explore the history and nature of mysticism. Still bristling with a sense of excitement and discovery, these illuminating and influential writings remain the most fascinating account of the visionary experience ever written. WITH A FOREWORD J.G. BALLARD

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Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

de Thomas de Quincey

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 Offers an account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. This autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes the author's surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey.
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Daphnis And Chloe

de Longus

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 Longus' romance tells the story of two teenagers, who love each other but do not know how to make love. Divine presences mingle with peasant life in this colourful story of the mystery of love and sexual initiation. Ronald McCail's new translation is immensely readable and does full justice to one of the most popular of classical romances, a precursor to the modern novel.
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Reborn - Early Diaries 1947-1963

de Susan Sontag

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 A selection from the author's diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence through to when she was in her early thirties.
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Against Interpretation And Other Essays

de Susan Sontag

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 Argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a critical approach to aesthetics.
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The First Emperor - Selections From The Historical Records

de K. E. (Associate Professor Of Religion (Chinese) And Humanities (Chinese), Reed College) Brashier e Sima Qian

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 Sima Qian tells the story of the First Emperor, founder of the Qin dynasty, in whose reign the Great Wall was built and whose tomb was guarded by the famous terracotta warriors excavated in 1974. His account details the ruthless exercise of power but also the creation of an empire that endured until 1911.
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The Saga Of The Volsungs - The Norse Epic Of Sigurd The Dragon Slayer

de Jesse Byock

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 Combines mythology, legend and human drama. This book focuses on the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer who acquires magical knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries. It incorporates strands from the oral narratives of the fourth and fifth centuries, when Attila the Hun and other warriors fought on the northern frontiers of the Roman Empire.
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The Iliad

de Homer

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 A translation of Homer's poem of war which is a magnificent testimony to the power of the Iliad. This volume retells the story of Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both Greeks and Trojans.
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The Complete Essays

de Michel de Montaigne

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 Containing various essays, this work discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience.
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Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am' - All And Everything Third Series

de G. Gurdjieff e George Gurdjieff

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 Helps in understanding the nature and intensity of personal effort that is required for an all-inclusive work on oneself. This book presents a series of talks which the author gave to his pupils in New York in 1930, and an incomplete essay on 'The Outer and Inner World of Man'.
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A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman

de Mary Shelley

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 Edited with an introduction and notes by Miriam Brody ‘I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves’ Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft’s work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage – Walpole called her ‘a hyena in petticoats’ – yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism. Miriam Brody’s introduction discusses the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, the political background to her work and its lasting influence. The edition also includes further reading and a note on the text
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Road To Wigan Pier

de George Orwell

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 Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
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Love Letters: Vita And Virginia

de Virginia Woolf e Vita Sackville-West

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 Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.
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Hippocrates, Volume Iii - On Wounds In The Head. In The Surgery. On Fractures. On Joints. Mochlicon

de Hippocrates

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 Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born on Cos in or before 460 BC), but they are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body.
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Selected Letters

de Séneca

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 This is the largest selection of Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca's letters currently available. In them Seneca advises his friend Lucilius on how to do without what is superfluous, whether on the subject of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions. We learn too about Seneca's personal and political life in the time of Nero.

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