Samuel: 2879 books

Mabelin is a demon huntress, a fighter of evil and a natural enemy of demons. In a twisted display of irony, a demon appears and destroys her village. Determined to avenge her shattered home, the huntress embarks on a perilous journey alongside her boggart apprentice, Beckham. Along the way, she faces...

El gran hallazgo de la modernidad, afirma Samuel Monder, es el deseo, cuya entidad se organiza enteramente en el lenguaje “en términos de fórmulas retóricas, cuestiones narrativas e intercambios verbales”. El deseo es un querer que sobrepasa la aptitud de representación que posee el pensar....

It is hardly necessary to apologise for the miscellaneous character of the following collection of essays. Samuel Butler was a man of such unusual versatility, and his interests were so many and so various that his literary remains were bound to cover a wide field. Nevertheless it will be found that...

For many years a link in the chain of Samuel Butler's biological works has been missing. "Unconscious Memory" was originally published thirty years ago, but for fully half that period it has been out of print, owing to the destruction of a large number of the unbound sheets in a fire at...

**Retrouvez dans cette analyse approfondie du Malade imaginaire de Molière tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre classique ! Persuadé qu'ils le maintiennent en vie, Argan est obsédé par les traitements médicaux de M. Purgon, son médecin, et M. Fleurant, son apothicaire....

Major Samuel S. Forman hailed from a family that played a prominent role in the early years of the U.S. colonies and the transition to nationhood. In the late 1700s, Forman took an extended river journey down some of America's most storied waterways, a trip that is exhaustively recounted in this detailed travelogue.

Samuel Peter Shaws drama of love and betrayal is peopled by the Sink Set, a group of fickle, moneyed sophisticates living in London's leafy southern suburbs. For all but one of them, the Iraq War is sobering but coincidental, a backdrop against which they shrug and carry on. Colly Wolfson, a member...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Seven Legs Across the Seas - A Printer's Impressions of Many Lands. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of...

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerFeatured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Representative of the type of moon-voyages being published prior to the 19th century: full of sharp satire, high adventure and low humor. The pseudonymous "Samuel Brunt" is taken to the moon...

- And your husband forgave you. But what did you do? Decided that forgiveness was offensive and walked out on your marriage. With nothing. Into nothing. - Into everything, I think. It's 1959. Robert leaves Ibsen's A Doll's House outraged by its attack on the sanctity of marriage; his...

I know. No country matters. Not in the kitchen. Not on a Sunday. Not in England. After six lonely weeks with nobody but her disabled boy for company, Rita Affleck, wealthy, beautiful and consumed by jealous love, welcomes home her husband Alfred. But, far from the passionate reunion she so...

This is noisily Protestant England - the England of William and Mary's Glorious Revolution at the end of a century of civil strife. This is London in the 1690s, the monster city tamed into awe by our only Orpheus: Henry Purcell. Monarchs, princes, prostitutes, wigmakers, composers, tapsters,...

"The Flying Death" is action-packed, well written, a real page-turner. Samuel Hopkins Adams was a muckraking investigative journalist, and his newspaper and magazine articles about the evils of advertising in general and medical advertising in particular are generally credited with forcing Congress to create the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA.

The great hero Kam Daishen lies dead; taking his name and armour, a young woman sets out to complete the slain knight's quest. For twenty years, civil war has wracked the Darician Plateau; now the armies of the Empress Kaesa stand poised to seize victory. From the smoke of war comes a rebel...