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Ondřej Šindelář, Sergio Azzolini, Risonanza Praga – Duality / Zimmermann, Vaňhal - Fagotové koncerty

Dva skladatelé. Dva fagotisté. Dvě premiéry. Jedna velká hudební hostina. Fagot se coby sólový nástroj nevyskytuje v koncertantní literatuře zrovna často. Koncert pro dva fagoty, to už je teprve rarita; mohla vzniknout jen v prostředí…

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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management - Isabella Beeton

''As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.'' A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of…

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Rebellion - Joseph Roth

At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded…

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Swann In Love - Marcel Proust

The self-contained novella from Proust’s classic masterpiece.

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Uncle Silas - Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu

''The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.''In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophobic…

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Classical Art - Caroline Vout

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What…

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Tales of Moonlight and Rain - Akinari Ueda

First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of…

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The Portable Thoreau - Henry Thoreau

Self-described as ''a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot'', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his…

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The Penguin Book of Mermaids

A unique anthology of mermaid tales from around the world, many of which have never appeared in English beforeAmong the oldest and most popular mythical beings, mermaids and other merfolk have captured the imagination since…

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Gods and Mortals - Sarah Iles Johnston

An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths.

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The Same Old Story: New Translation - Ivan Goncharov

Filled with dreams of pursuing a career as a poet, the young Alexander Aduev moves from the country to St Petersburg, where he takes up lodgings next to his uncle Pyotr, a shrewd and world-weary…

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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stanley Appelbaum

The Dover Bookshelf presents a collectible hardcover edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald''s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. This volume is not merely a reading copy, but a work of art that will enhance the aesthetic of…

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On the Eve: New Translation - Ivan Sergejevič Turgeněv

On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family,…

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An Essay on the Principle of Population - Thomas Malthus

As the world''s population continues to grow at a rapid rate, Malthus''s classic warning against overpopulation gains ever more importance. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) examines the tendency of human numbers to…

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Empire Writing

`The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.'' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the…

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Protagoras - Plato

''You are going to entrust your soul to the care of a sophist. But I should be surprised if you even know what a sophist is.''In the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled…

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Torture Garden - Octave Mirbeau

"A century after its first publication, this book is still capable of shocking. The opening satire is probably meaningful only to scholars of French political history, but the subsequent journey into the Far East accentuates…

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A Place Bewitched and Other Stories (riverrun editions) - Nikolai Gogol

A wounded solider vanishes into notoriety.A nose is found in a loaf of bread.Places - like the Nevesky Prospect - are not what they seem. Nikolai Gogol was one of the nineteenth century''s greatest and…

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Boule de Suif - Guy de Maupassant

A carriage transporting ten passengers fleeing from Rouen is stopped at a village inn by Prussian soldiers, who decide to detain them until one of their party, the prostitute Boule de Suif, consents to sleep…

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Moby-Dick - Herman Melville, Nathaniel Philbrick

In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of…

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A Shepherd's Life - W.H. Hudson

Considered a classic at the time of its publication in 1910, A Shepherd''s Life is a rare account of the lives of those who lived on and worked the land in nineteenth-century rural Britain. A…

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The Apocalypse of the Birds - Elena L Dugan

Identifies and contextualises a new work within the Animal Apocalypse, dated to the dawn of the First Jewish Revolt.

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Ivan Vyzhigin - Faddei Bulgarin

With his translation, Michael R. Katz makes available the first bestselling novel in Russia, Faddei Bulgarin's social satire Ivan Vyzhigin (1829). The novel is an amusing picaresque filled with local color and comical portraits, narrated…

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Sidonius: Letters Book 5, Part 1 - Giulia Marolla

Studies the first half of Sidonius’ fifth book of letters from a philological, literary and historical perspective

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