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In the face of Europe's rising nationalism and intolerance, this timely anthology by Czech writers addresses a key issue for today. The courage of Czech writers is legendary. During the Cold War they kept their nation's conscience alive by clandestine publishing while imprisoned as "dissidents" or collecting garbage, washing windows or selling fish as "non-persons, " and then they took the lead in the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that overthrew c...

Brecht here describes the years in which the distinctive aspects of the Reformation took shape. During this time four difficult conflictsthe Peasants' War, the interchange between Luther and Erasmus, debates on the Lord's Supper, and the rise of Anabaptist groupsstrengthened the need to fashion new orders for govering the church and the need to develop new patterns for worship and the instruction of youth. Luther the theologian was occupied wi...

Secret Service agent Doyle Coldiron gets into hot water before you can say, "Just the facts, ma'am." Soon he's swept up in an outrageous flood of events in this cockeyed look at Washington life and at the confusing business of falling in love in the 1990s. "Among the wittiest American novelists writing today."--Joseph Heller, author of CATCH-22, "Run, don't walk, to your nearest store for NIGHT OF THE AVENGING BLOWFISH."--Milwaukee Journal.

One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description.Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae.The reader i...

Targeted federal aid to needy city areas is difficult to maintain due to political pressure to broaden geographical coverage. This text assesses the Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) programme, examining specific events, both legislative and administrative, which tended to lessen its impact.

The arguments over the economic policies of the Reagan Administration will continue until sufficient time has elapsed for a consensus to be possible. In the meantime, it is necessary for contemporary scholars to record their opinions as a base for the consensus. Campagna has recorded his conclusions based on considerable research on Reagan Administration policies. He begins by describing what was planned by the government. From there, he discu...

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.It all demonstrates ...

In Mandelstams Essays ist eine geistige Biographie eingeschrieben, hier eröffnen sich die gedanklichen Hintergründe seiner Weltsicht und seiner Poetik. Anhand der Essays kann der Leser den Weg Mandelstams verfolgen, wie er sich von der anfänglichen Beschäftigung mit ausschließlich ästhetischen Fragen zu eindeutigen politischen Stellungnahmen bewegt, bis hin zu dem auf Stalin gemünzten Epigramm vom »Seelenverderber und Bauernschlächter«. Mandel...

Die hier - im russischen Original und in der deutschen Übersetzung - versammelten Gedichte Ossip Mandelstams entstanden zwischen seiner Reise in den Kaukasus und nach Armenien im Jahre 1930 und seiner ersten Verhaftung am 13. Mai 1934. Fünf Jahre lang hatte Mandelstam keine Gedichte mehr geschrieben. Seit 1928 war er Verfolgungen ausgesetzt. In den >Moskauer Heften< findet er zu seiner Sprache zurück, nimmt das Gespräch mit seiner Epoche auf -...

Im fernen Urga hofft er, von seiner dunklen Melancholie erlöst zu werden. Aber auch in der Ferne ist das Eigene immer dabei. So wird die lange Reise zu einer Wiederbegegnung mit sich selbst und der Entdeckung, dass sich zwischen Chinas Gärten und hupenden Taxis ein Reich der Gleichzeitigkeit öffnet, das Raum und Zeit umfasst, Melancholie und Glück.

Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time.

One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description.Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae.The reader i...

William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his a...

This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and Kipling was equally at home with dramatic monologues and extended ballads.He is often thought of as glorify...

The major publication in the general area of the history of crime, the criminal courts, policing, and punishment in all geographical regions from ancient to modern times.

These Paraphrases address the modern reader with the relevance of the moral issues they define and the perennial importance of the theological questions they raise.

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