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The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland [Paperback]
Ernest Walker Marwick(Author); Ernest Marwick(Author)
$18.95ISBN: 9781912476923
Published by : Origin
The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the ‘simmer din’.
Ori... .... Learn More -
Goethe Yearbook 27 [Hardback]
Patricia Anne Simpson(Editor); Birgit Tautz(Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781640140615
Published by : Camden House
Series: Goethe Yearbook
The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, showcasing North American and international scholarship on Goethe and other authors and aspects of the Goethezeit. Volume 27 features the yearbook's first F... .... Learn More -
Stories from South Uist [Paperback]
Angus MacLellan(Author); J.L. Campbell(Translator)
$14.95ISBN: 9781912476756
Published by : Origin
This is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic storytellers, Angus MacLellan, and translated by one of Scotland's finest Celtic Scholars, John Lorne Campbell. The stories in the book include every type of tale fo... .... Learn More -
Duanaire na Sracaire: Songbook of the Pillagers: Anthology of Scotland's Gaelic Verse to 1600 [Paperback]
Wilson McLeod(Editor); Meg Bateman(Translator)
$40.95ISBN: 9781912476787
Published by : Origin
Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together Scotland's Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Io... .... Learn More -
Goethe Yearbook 26 [Hardback]
Patricia Anne Simpson(Editor); Birgit Tautz(Editor)
$85.00ISBN: 9781640140493
Published by : Camden House
Series: Goethe Yearbook
The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language cont... .... Learn More -
Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Professor Julia Boffey [Hardback]
Tamara Atkin(Editor); Jaclyn Rajsic(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781843845317
Published by : D.S.Brewer
The production, transmission, and reception of texts from England and beyond during the late medieval and early renaissance periods are the focus of this volume. Chapters consider the archives and the material contexts in which tex... .... Learn More -
The Medieval Romance of Alexander: The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great [Paperback]
Jean Waquelin(Author); Nigel Bryant(Author); Jehan Wauquelin(Author)
$25.95ISBN: 9781843845201
Published by : D.S. Brewer
The figure of Alexander the Great haunted the medieval imagination - as much as Arthur, as much as Charlemagne. His story was translated more often in medieval Europe than any work except the Gospels. Yet only small sections of the Alexander Roman... .... Learn More -
Un amore primaverile: Inediti di Luigi Pirandello e Jenny [Paperback]
Giuseppe Faustini(Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9788856404142
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Italianistica nel mondo
Volume: 11
This essay focuses on the relationship that tied the famous Italian writer Luigi Pirandello to Jenny Schulz-Lander, a young woman from the Rhine region whom he met during his university studies in Bonn. The Author presents several unpublished text... .... Learn More -
Riscoprire Giuseppe Giusti: Religiosità e modernità [Paperback]
Amedeo Bartolini(Author)
$58.00ISBN: 9788859620136
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Centro Studi sulla Civiltà toscana fra ’800 e ’900 | Fondazione Spadolini Nuova Antologia
Volume: 78
Giuseppe Giusti (1809-1850) was one of the main intellectuals from Tuscany that helped to initiate the Italian Risorgimento process, aimed at unifying the nation by freeing it from the Habsburg hegemony. The essay, proposing Giusti today as a livi... .... Learn More -
Voyage dantesque / Viaggio dantesco: Edizione con testo a fronte [Paperback]
Jean-Jacques Ampère(Author); Massimo Colella(Editor)
$35.00ISBN: 9788859618751
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Voyage dantesque appeared for the first time as anonymous manuscript, which was later attributed to King John of Saxony. The book was then translated and re-published in Florence in 1855. It has been a fundamental text which contributed to spread ... .... Learn More
