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Samuel Johnson

by Thomas Macaulay Franz Holzendorff

Raymund Lull und die Anfänge der Catalonischen Literatur

by Adolph Helfferich

Das Illustrirte Buchbinderbuch

by Ludwig Brade Emil Winckler

Über die Sprache Jacob Grimms

by Karl Gustaf Andresen

Sprache und Schrift: Das Lautdenken für Ohr und Auge

by Karl Böttger

Plays Volume Two: Volume Two (Maugham Plays)

by W. Somerset Maugham

Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. Somerset Maugham’s talent as a playwright. The delightful satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Home and Beauty are included here alongside the insightful war drama For Services Rendered, and Maugham's tense colonial drama The Letter. Eclectic in theme and sardonic in style, these plays are masterpieces of English social comedy and melodrama.

Jeremias Gotthelf der Volksschriftsteller

by Clemens Brockhaus

Julius Springer

by Hermann Kaiser

Plain Words

by Rebecca Gowers Ernest Gowers

'Be short, be simple, be human.'When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since then it has never been out of print.Six decades on, writer Rebecca Gowers has created a new edition of this now-classic work that both revises and celebrates her great-grandfather's original. Plain Words has been updated to reflect numerous changes in English usage, yet Sir Ernest's distinctive, witty voice is undimmed. And his message remains vital: our writing should be as clear and comprehensible as possible, avoiding superfluous words and clichés - from the jargon of 'commercialese' to the murky euphemisms of politicians.In a new preface, this edition draws on an extensive private archive, previously hidden away in family cupboards and attics, to tell the story behind a book that has become an institution: the essential guide to making yourself understood.

The Common Reader: Volume 2

by Virginia Woolf

'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge to correct the opinions of others. Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of whole - a portrait of a man, a sketch of an age, a theory of the art of writing.' So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote. This is her second series of essays, first published in 1932. Here she turns her brilliant eye on Lord Chesterfield's letters, the novels of George Gissing, the poetry of Donne: we meet Dr Burney and Beau Brummell, Christina Rossetti, Geraldine Jewsbury, Jane Carlyle, Mary Wollstonecraft and many others.

Uli, der Pächter: Eine Erzählung (Birkhäuser Klassiker)

by Jeremias GOTTHELF

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