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Sanditon and Other Stories (Everyman's Library) by Jane Austen; Peter Washington (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman Library Classics Ser.
In time for the highly-awaited TV series, a new edition of Jane Austen's delightful final work, set in a newly established seaside resort with a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators In the final months of Jane Austen's life, she began work on a new novel about social drama in the small seasi ...Show more
The Art of Byzantium - Between Antiquity and the Renaissance by Thomas F. Mathews
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
A beautiful and affordable introduction to Byzantine art which explores the city of Constantinople, the development of icons as a medium of religious devotion, palaces and fashions of palace life, churches where interior decoration in mosiac and fresco rose to golden heights and highly exportable object ...Show more
The Art of the Dutch Republic by Mariet Westermann
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This interpretive study of the artistic culture of the Dutch Republic in the 17th century describes the art of the period as it was experienced by the people of the period and how it appears to us today. The book investigates the 17th-century Dutch art market, the themes of Dutch art and the parallels b ...Show more
The Art of the Dutch Republic by Mariet Westermann
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This interpretive study of the artistic culture of the Dutch Republic in the 17th century describes the art of the period as it was experienced by the people of the period and how it appears to us today. The book investigates the 17th-century Dutch art market, the themes of Dutch art and the parallels b ...Show more
The Art of the Northern Renaissance by Craig Harbison
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This book evokes the art of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Northern Europe in all its richness and splendor. The works of Van Eyck, Bosch, Bruegel, D rer, and other masters are considered within the larger context of a changing society in which church and state, Protestant and Catholic, man and woman, ...Show more
The Body in Sculpture by Tom Flynn
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This is a history of sculpted representations of the human body, acknowledging the critical debates about the body, as well as the aesthetic and historical significance of individual works of art. The book's coverage ranges from prehistory to postmodernism and incorporates both the great achievements of ...Show more
The Complete English Poems by John Donne; Robin Hamilton (Editor); C. A. Patrides (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: The\Everyman Library
No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, ...Show more
The Renaissance Florence by Richard Turner
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This volume explores the social, political and economic background to the great works of art of the Florentine Renaissance. It shows how artistic patrimony rests on a firm Gothic base, from which grew a dynamic urban society whose secular values were underlined by the rediscovery of pagan antiquity.
The Rise of the Sixties by Thomas E. Crow
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman Art Library
This account of the years 1955-69 examines artists from Europe and America who worked throughout the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War and the general social crises of the time. The book explores the relationship between art and politics, showing how the rhetoric of one informed or subverted the ot ...Show more
World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: The\Everyman Library
Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.