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- Dracula & Dracula's GuestPreț special 18.97 LEI Preț standard 25.29 LEIAn interesting and thorough edition which brings together not only Bram Stoker's magnum opus Dracula, but also the lesser known but maybe just as important Dracula's Guest, as well as several horific and terrifying stories from the writer who created the modern myth of the vampire. A rich collection of terror for anyone who is passionate about strange and unusual prose and naratives.
- Women in LovePreț special 13.38 LEI Preț standard 17.84 LEIIt was with outrage and disgust that this novel was received upon it's original publication, as the love affairs of the two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, were more than the public could easily accept.
- Jude the ObscurePreț special 12.90 LEI Preț standard 17.20 LEIJude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.
- Finnegans WakePreț special 15.17 LEI Preț standard 20.23 LEIThis ‘language’ is based on English vocabulary and syntax but, at the same time, self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine with an astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning. Announcing a ‘revolution of the word’, this astonishing book amounts to a powerfully resonant cultural critique - a unique kind of miscommunication which, far from stabilizing the world in meaning, constructs a universe radically unfixed by a wild diversity of…
- Tales of Mystery and ImaginationPreț special 18.78 LEI Preț standard 25.04 LEIThis collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Premature Burial' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart', all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included.
- The Plays of Oscar WildePreț special 12.29 LEI Preț standard 16.38 LEIOscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest.
- The Great Comedies and TragediesPreț special 25.03 LEI Preț standard 33.38 LEIThese Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably, into general goodwill and a spate of marriages. The triumph of these plays lies in the way they mingle humorous stage business and dexterous word play with a more serious study of identity, gender, dreaming, the meaning of love, even of the theatre itself. They reassure us that with…
- The Complete Poems of John KeatsPreț special 23.52 LEI Preț standard 31.36 LEI'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often undervalued even today, the poems on which his reputation rests including the 'Odes' and the two versions of the uncompleted epic 'Hyperion', and work which only came to light after his death including his attempts at drama and comic verse.
- The Collected Poems of W.B. YeatsPreț special 23.52 LEI Preț standard 31.36 LEIW. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. For anyone interested in the…
- The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and ReligionPreț special 25.03 LEI Preț standard 33.38 LEISir James George Frazer (1854-1941) is rightly regarded as one of the founders of modern anthropology. The Golden Bough, his masterpiece, appeared in twelve volumes between 1890 and 1915. This volume is the author's own abridgement of his great work, and was first published in 1922.
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