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In addition to a new translation of Praise of Folly, this volume also includes other works by Erasmus: Pope Julius Barred from Heaven, Epigram against Pope Julius II and a selection of his Adages. Together with the extensive annotation of the texts, these help to set Erasmus's masterpiece.

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This volume also contains a further selection of Leonardo da Vincis fragmentary writings, in the form of fables and aphorisms. Taken together, these pieces provide an invaluable insight into the thought processes of one of the Renaissances most productive minds.

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Populated with unforgettable characters, such as Alikhanov's fellow guides Mitrofanov and Pototsky or the KGB officer Belyaev, and presented here for the first time in the English language, Pushkin Hills is arguably Dovlatov's most personal work and a poignant metaphor on the Russian attitude towards life and art.

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Pygmalion here presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 has spawned a great number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myths undiminished ability to find new incarnations in modern life.

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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Rudin, Turgenev's first novel, is a subtle examination of human weakness which foreshadows many of the themes in the author's later work, with its lead character personifying the type of the "superfluous man" which came to dominate much of the literature of nineteenth-century Russia.

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The basis for Glinka's famous opera of the same name, Ruslan and Lyudmila - Pushkin's second longest poetical work - is a dramatic and ingenious retelling of Russian folklore, full of humour and irony.

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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"Secretum" - Petrarch's best-known work in Latin - is a fascinating and pioneering example of the autobiographical genre.

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Essential collection of Oscar Wilde's best plays: Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, The Importance of Being Earnest, Salome and an Ideal Husband.

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This volume includes an essential selection of Blake's poetry, from the lesser-known Poetical Sketches to his celebrated Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the "prophetic works" inspired by the French Revolution.

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This volume provides a generous selection of his poetry, from the sonnet 'Ozymandias' to famous lyrics such as 'Ode to the West Wind' and 'Lines Written among the Euganean Hills', to the longer poems of his maturity, Adonais and Epipsychidion, all thoroughly annotated and presented in chronological order.

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Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature. This book is here presented in brand new translation English next to Italian.

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This volume contains Tristan Tzara's famous manifestos, which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became essential texts of the modern movement and models for Breton's Surrealist manifestos.

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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Based on the most authoritative edition and edited using a fresh, intelligent editorial approach, this new edition of Silas Marner contains extensive notes on the text together with extra material about the author's life and works.

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This edition contains over twenty illustrations, a thematic guide and the texts of the libretti in the original with literal translations. There is also a bibliography, discography and DVD guide, together with a list of websites that will allow the reader to explore the opera further.

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A work of great poetical beauty and satirical strength, and a lasting historical document of timeless value, Simplicius Simplicissimus is one of the greatest picaresque novels in the Western canon.

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This volume - here presented in Stephen Pimenoff's lively new translation - bristles with wit and humour, and is tinged by that understated note of melancholy and lyricism that is a trademark of Chekhov's writing.

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Around this love story Turgenev constructs a sharply satirical expose of his countrymen, which famously embroiled its author in a heated quarrel with Dostoevsky. A melancholy evocation of impossible romance, Smoke represents the apogee of Turgenev's later fiction.

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Set against the chequered background of the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes, prostitutes, parasites and the poor - Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli' poems deal with life's elementals. This selection of poems represent people from every course and manner of life - housewives, mothers, beggars, lovers, popes, thieves, gossips and more.

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Cecco Angiolieri found comfort for his bad luck only by pouring venomous scorn upon his miserly parents. This book contains some of his harsh sonnets along with the Italian text.

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Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series of popular classics, Sons and Lovers is here presented with an extensive critical apparatus, extra reading material including a section of photographs and notes.

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Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in magazines. This collection gathers them, providing an insight into the author's storytelling apprenticeship and his steady growth towards excellence.