Literature: History & Criticism
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The Dark Powers of Tolkien: An illustrated Exploration of Tolkien''s Portrayal of Evil, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History
David DayCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion are some of the greatest tales of good versus evil ever told. From the crea...
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The Hobbits of Tolkien: An Illustrated Exploration of Tolkien''s Hobbits, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History
David DayCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99An entire race was born when J.R.R. Tolkien scrawled on a leaf, 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' From the invention of that single w...
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The Heroes of Tolkien: An Exploration of Tolkien''s Heroic Characters, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History
David DayCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99In J. R. R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, Middle-earth endured cataclysmic wars and critical battles, causing great ...
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Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
Catherine McIlwaineCurrent price €40.79Original price €50.99This richly illustrated book explores the huge creative endeavour behind Tolkiens enduring popularity. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images of...
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The Odyssey
HomerCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and powe...
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The Divine Comedy
DanteCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Dante's Divine Comedy is one of the most highly regarded works of world literature and a classic that continues to inspire fiction and poetry today...
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Burning Questions: The Sunday Times bestseller from Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood
Margaret AtwoodCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50In Burning Questions Atwood aims her constant curiosity and impish humour at our world and reports back to us on what she finds.In it she seeks ans...
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Mere Humanity: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien on the Human Condition
Donald T WilliamsCurrent price €15.99Original price €19.99Current price €15.99Original price €19.99Save 20% -
Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Michael SimsCurrent price €15.99Original price €16.99'Fascinating A stimulating contribution to our never-ending fascination with Holmes himself, and, even more perhaps, his genial creator' Sunday Ti...
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The History of the Hobbit: One Volume Edition
J.R. R. TolkienCurrent price €97.50Original price €124.00Brand new deluxe edition of this definitive companion to The Hobbit, quarter-bound, stamped in gold foil with a unique design inspired...
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Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses
Carus BooksCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson burst into public awareness when he opposed the compulsory use of newfangled gender-pronouns. He ...
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Pessoa: An Experimental Life
Richard ZenithCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99FINALIST: 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHYA NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'A revelation. Such a revolutionary literary discovery...
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The Writer''s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
Thames & Hudson LtdCurrent price €34.99Original price €36.99The Writer''s Map winner of Trade Illustrated category in the British Design and Production AwardsPhotography & Illustrated Travel Book of the ...
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Tamburlaine the Great: Parts One and Two
Christopher MarloweCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Tamburlaine the Great, Part One and Part Two are the first plays that Christopher Marlowe wrote for Londons then new freestanding, open-air public ...
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Circe and the Cyclops
HomerCurrent price €6.29Original price €6.99'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...'The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress ...
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Praise of Folly
Desiderius ErasmusCurrent price €13.99Original price €14.50Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour...
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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Samuel BeckettCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Written in French and first performed at the Théâtre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Becket...
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the princess saves herself in this one
Amanda LovelaceCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award, the princess saves herself in this one is a collection of poetry about resilience. It is about writing y...
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William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Macbeth
PHI LearningCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The Tragedy of Macbeth is the shortest tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Macbeth, the protagonist of the play, is portrayed as a successful S...
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The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The definitive illustrated guide
David PringleCurrent price €26.65Original price €32.50This essential reference book details everything the novice needs to know about the genre and everything the well-read fan is calling out for. Lavi...
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The Odyssey
HomerCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Homer's great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King ...
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Lord of the Flies SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 42
SparkNotesCurrent price €9.89Original price €10.99When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...
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