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Hundred Years War Vol 3
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Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol of England's past conquests, was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of his enemies. When he died, in 1377, he was succeeded by a vulnerable child, who was destined to (...)
The Royal George
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Son of the eccentric Adolphus, seventh and favourite son of George III, Prince George was born in 1819 and was briefly heir presumptive to the throne of England until the birth that same year of his cousin Victoria. Instead he became George, second Duke of Cambridge, and rose to be (...)
Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley's own life was as dramatic as her fiction. Even had she not (at the age of 19) authored Frankenstein, one of the greatest horror fables in literature, she would be crucial to the study of Romanticism, as the daughter of two of the great radical thinkers of the day, William Godwin and (...)
Hallelujah Junction
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John Adams is one of the most admired and performed living composers. A musician of enormous range and technical command, he has built a huge audience worldwide through the immediacy and sincerity of his music. Hallelujah Junction isn t so much an autobiography as a fascinating journey through the (...)
Hundred Years War Vol 1
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This text is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history. Beginning with the funeral of Charles IV of France in 1328, it follows the (...)
Letters of Ted Hughes
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At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as excellent training for conversation with the world , and he was to become a prolific master of this art. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely (...)
Noli me tangere. Versión original
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Noli Me Tangere es el texto más célebre de José Rizal. Rizal escribió su novela sobre la sociedad de Filipinas en el siglo XIX en medio de su actividad política, y pretendió denunciar los desmanes del gobierno español y sus instituciones religiosas a través de un relato en el que comparecen las (...)
The Book of Lieder
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This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition thus allowing the reader to engage in (...)
Diana Cooper
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Lady Diana Cooper was in her prime widely regarded as the most beautiful woman in England and the idol of her generation. She was witty, outrageous, generous and loyal. Famous as a member of the aristocratic and intellectual group 'The Cotorie', she later edited the magazine Femina before starting (...)
Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39
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Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally (...)