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Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)

poet, literary historian, historian, playwright, literary critic, biographer, journalist, radio editor, literary editor, television presenter

  • University of Cambridge, Yale University

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Dickens
Blake
Chaucer
Shakespeare
T.S. Eliot
Introduction to Dickens
Poe
Wilkie Collins
Ezra Pound and his world
Newton
Brief Lives 3
Alfred Hitchcock
Brief Lives 2
Brief Lives 1
Charlie Chaplin
J.M.W. Turner
London - The Biography (London a Biography)
John and Elizabeth Smith Family History
Turner
Isaac Newton
The Life of Thomas More (Anne of Green Gables Novels (Audio))
Ėdgar Po
The Canterbury Tales
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Chatterton
Milton in America
The Clerkenwell tales
Hawksmoor
The last testament of Oscar Wilde
The Fall of Troy
The Plato Papers
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
The Thames
The great fire of London
Dickens' London
The Lambs of London
Kingdom of the dead
Dressing Up
Cities of blood
First light
Albion
English music
The house of Doctor Dee
Three brothers
The History Of England
Queer City
Illustrated London
The beginning
A Brief Guide To William Shakespeare
Voyages Through Time
London under
Venice
Foundation
Revolution
The diversions of Purley and other poems
Notes for a new culture
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763
Ancient Rome (Voyages Through Time)
The English ghost
Innovation
London lickpenny
THE DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY
Rebellion
A Traveller's Companion to London
Escape from Earth
Dominion
Christmas Stories
Ancient Greece (Voyages Through Time)
History of England, Volume II -- Tudors
The trial of Elizabeth Cree
Peter Ackroyd Voyages Through Time
The collection
Covent Garden: The Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Markets
The book of Isaiah
Abuse of Power
Tudors
Foundation : Volume 1
Civil War The History of England
Tudors
A History Of England Volume 1 Foundation
Doors of Perception
The death of King Arthur
Christmas Books
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Das Tagebuch des Oscar Wilde
Complete Works of Charles Dickens
Richard Wentworth, Eugene Atget
Jack the Ripper and the East End
Le dossier Platon
Londres, Una Biografia
Capturing a common destiny
The Beginning Voyages Through Time
Mr Cadmus
English Actor
Dom doktora Di
Revolution
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
English Soul
Victor Frankensteinin Vaka Defteri
Platon Gunlukleri
Gymnast Gilly the Novice
Innovation
Revolution
Dickens Part 3
La Sombra de Hawksmoor
Shakespeare Title 3 CD
Bir Zamanlar Londra'da
Londra Yaniyor
Albion Header
London - The Abridged Edition
Civil War
Shakespeare Title 2 CD
Der Fall des Baumeisters
Tomas Moro
Ancient Americas (Voyages Through Time)
Abridged Dickens
Dickens Part 2
Oscar Wilde'in Son Vasiyeti
London Luminaries and Cockney Visionaries
Diario de Victor Von Frankenstein
London?
Colours of London
Das Haus des Magiers
Doktor Dee'nin Evi
Shakespeare Title 1 CD
Cinayet Sanati
Albion Showcard
Shakespeare Title 4 CD
London. Die Biographie
Der Golem von Limehouse
La Rome antique
Ingiliz Hayalet
Country life
Ancient Egypt (Voyages Through Time)
Peter Ackroyd's Voyages Throug
Tudors
The Thames Part 4 CD
Limehouse Golem
Londres Bajo Tierra
London the Biography (Signed)
Our Mutual Friend
Die Geschichte der Welt. Reise ins Weltall.
Canterbury Hikayeleri
Peter Ackroyd Titles X1 S/W
Dickens Part 1
Brief Lives 8 - Untitled
Pocket Canons Bible II
A Christmas dinner by Charles Dickens
Foundations/Fire and Pest Whs Pack
Wie es uns gefa llt
London
Trois frères (Roman étranger)
İlk Işık
P.E.N. new fiction I
Le Golem de Londres
De val van Troje
Strangers to correction
Darkness
Secret London
El Diario de Platon
Rijk van de farao's
Premières Lueurs
Review of fisheries legislation
Mary Lamb
Dickens - Cube
Ayelet Waldman
Ayelet Waldman (born 1964)

lawyer, journalist

  • Wesleyan University, Harvard Law School

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Bad Mother
A really good day
Ima raʻah
Fight of the Century
Girls who like boys who like boys
Daughter's keeper
Red Hook Road
The big nap
Murder Plays House
Nursery crimes
Bye-Bye, Black Sheep
Death gets a time-out
A playdate with death
Red Hook Road
Love and other impossible pursuits
The cradle robbers
Love and other impossible pursuits
Kingdom of olives and ash
Love and treasure
Inside this place, not of it
The Big Nap
Nursery crimes
Death gets a time-out
The cradle robbers
Death gets a time-out
Nursery Crimes
And Murder Makes Three
Modern Love, Revised and Updated
Unter guten Freunden. Ein Fall für Juliet Applebaum
El Amor Y Otros Imposibles/ Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
A playdate with death
Loving Learning
Red Hook Road
Zomerse fuga
The Big Nap (Mommy-Track Mystery) by Ayelet Waldman (2001-06-01)
אהבה ועוד משימות בלתי אפשריות
Qué día más bueno
Ahavah ṿe-otsarot aḥerim
[(The Big Nap)] [By (author) Ayelet Waldman] published on (July, 2002)
Qué día más bueno
Daughter's Keeper
Neḳudat mifgash
De weg door het park
Bad Mother
Gilles Lapouge
Gilles Lapouge (1923-2020)

journalist

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En toute liberté
Le flâneur de l'autre rive
Bataille de Wagram
Pirates And Buccaneers
La bataille de Wagram
Utopie et civilisations
Le singe de la montre
Dictionnaire amoureux du Brésil
Besoin de mirages
L' incendie de Copenhague
Équinoxiales
L' encre du voyageur
Pirates, boucaniers, flibustiers
La mission des frontières
Un soldat en déroute
Le bruit de la neige
Le bois des amoureux
Les folies Koenigsmark
Les Pirates
En étrange pays
Piraten. Seeräuber, Freibeuter, Bukanier und andere Jäger der Meere
La maison des lettres
L' univers de Michel Ange
La légende de la géographie
Nuits tranquilles à Belém
L'âne et l'abeille
Les pirates
Vitorino Nemésio
Vitorino Nemésio (1901-1978)

poet, journalist

  • Law School of the University of Coimbra, University of Lisbon

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Obras completas
A mocidade de Herculano, 1810-1832
Quase que os vi viver
A mocidade de Herculano até à volta do exílio (1810-1832)
Ondas médias
Vida e obra do Infante D. Henrique
Destino de Gomes Leal
Stormy isles
STORMY ISLES: AN AZOREAN TALE -(EURO 15.66)
O campo de São Paulo
Relac̜ões francesas do romantismo português
Era do átomo, crise do homem
Exilados, 1828-1932
O campo de São Paulo
Relações francesas do romantismo português
Corsário das ilhas
Vida e obra do Infante D. Henrique
Vida e Obra do Infante D. Henrique
A poesia dos trovadores
A poesia dos trovadores
Isabel de Aragão, raínha santa
Vitorino Nemésio
Portugal, a terra e o homem
Era do átomo, crise do homem
Caatinga e terra caída
Sob os signos de agora
Conhecimento de poesia
Poemas brasileiros
Açores actualidade e destinos
O verbo e a morte
Caderno de caligraphia e outros poemas a Marga
Caatinga e terra caída
Obras completas de Vitorino Nemesio
Corsário das ilhas
Vitorino Nemésio
Nem toda a noite a vida
A arte de escrever
Miscelânea de estudos em honra do Prof. Vitorino Nemésio
Mau tempo no canal
Varanda de Pilatos
O natal português
Isabel de Aragão, Rainha Santa
Raul Brandão
Canto de véspera
Varanda de Pilatos
Portugal, a terra e o homem
Sob os signos de agora
Regards sur la génération portugaise de 1870
Ode ao Rio
Mau tempo no camal
A casa fechada
Stormy Isles
Caatinga e terra caída
Sapateia açoriana, andamento holandês e outros poemas
Limite de idade
La voyelle promise & autres poèmes
Mau tempo no canal
O retrato do semeador
O segredo de Ouro Preto e outros caminhos
Teatro e Ficção
Jornal do observador
Jornal do observador
Portugal e o Brasil na história
OBRAS COMPLETAS DE VITORINO NEMÉSIO, VOL. XIV - Ondas Médias - Biografia eLiteratura - Jornal de Vitorino Nemésio 1 -(EURO 15.96)
Vultos e perfis
Viagens ao pé da porta
Canto de véspera
Poesias de Vitorino Nemésio
Portugal, a terra e o homem
Obras completas de Vitorino Nemésio
L'animal harmonieux et autres poèmes
Poesia, 1935-1940
ONDAS MÉDIAS -Ver.-Obras Completas de Vitorino Nemésio, Vol.XIV - Ondas Médias
Conhecimento de poesia
Exilados, 1828-1832
Exilados (1828-1832)
O mistério do Paço do Milhafre
Mau tempo no canal
A casa fechada
Poemas brasileiros
A casa fechada
Jornal de Vitorino Nemésio
Thomas Nauerth
Thomas Nauerth (born 1961)

theologian, professor, Catholic theologian, opinion journalist

  • University of Münster

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Untersuchungen zur Komposition der Jakoberzählungen
Zeugnis, Liebe und Widerstand
Fabelnd denken lernen
Plough Quarterly No. 11 - Alien Citizens
Nigel Lawson
Nigel Lawson (1932-2023)

journalist, politician, editor

  • University of Oxford, Westminster School

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The View from No.11
An appeal to reason
The state of the market
Clinical Chemistry
Nigel Lawson Diet Book
Britain's Economy
Rules versus discretion in the conduct of economic policy
Una mirada fría al calentamiento global
Autumn Statement, 1989
Una mirada fría al calentamiento global
A cool look at global warming
Appeal to Reason
Una mirada fría al calentamiento global
Autumn Statement, 1990
Tax Reform
Memoirs of a Tory Radical
Diego Abad de Santillán
Diego Abad de Santillán (1897-1983)

economist, historian, translator, journalist, editor, politician, anarcho-syndicalist, trade unionist

  • Complutense University of Madrid

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Memorias, 1897-1936
Ricardo Flores Magón
Ökonomie und Revolution
Por qué perdimos la guerra
Los fundamentos de la geografia economica de America
After the revolution
La F.O.R.A
Historia institucional argentina
História del movimiento obrero español
Historia argentina
Gran enciclopedia de la provincia de Santa Fé
Juan Lazarte, militante social, médico, humanista [por Diego Abad de] Santillán [Angel] Inbali [y Angel J.] Cappelletti
De Alfonso XIII a Franco
La bancarrota del sistema económico y político del capitalismo
Las cargas tributarias : apuntes sobre las finanzas estatales contemporáneas
Alfonso XIII, la II república, Francisco Franco
Historia de la Revolución Mexicana
En torno a nuestros objetivos libertarios
Estrategia y táctica
Diccionario de argentinismos de ayer y de hoy
El organismo económico de la Revolución
Historia institucional argentina
Por qué perdimos la guerra
La revolución y la guerra en España
El anarquismo y la revolución en España
Ludwig Thoma
Ludwig Thoma (1867-1921)

journalist, playwright, poet lawyer, poet, lawyer

  • Wilhelmsgymnasium

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Das grosse Ludwig Thoma Buch
Ein Leben in Briefen, 1875-1921
Der Briefwechsel zwischen Ludwig Thoma und Albert Langen, 1899-1908
Nimm's leicht
Moral
Bayernbuch
Jozef Filsers Briefwexel
Lausbubengeschichten
Vom Advokaten zum Literaten
Für Politiker
Die Lokalbahn
Der Münchner im Himmel. Satiren und Humoresken
Agricola
Der Jagerloisl
Waldfrieden, lustspiel in einem aufzuge
Das Säuglingsheim
Der Münchner im Himmel. Bayerische Geschichten
Lausbubengeschichten aus meiner Jugendzeit
Lausbubengeschichten, Tante Frieda. Josef Filsers gesamter Briefwexel. Erzählungen, Satiren
Tante Frieda
Sämtliche Beiträge aus dem "Miesbacher Anzeiger" 1920/21
Eine bayerische Freundschaft in Briefen
Heilige Nacht. Eine Weihnachtslegende
Das Beste von Ludwig Thoma
Briefwechsel eines bayrischen Landtagsabgeordneten, mit 20 Zeichnungen von Eduard Thöny
Ausgewählte Werke in drei Bänden
Der Munchner im Himmel
Krawall
Lottchens geburtstag
Der Wittiber
Krawall und andere Geschichten
Theater
Das lustige geschichtenbüchlein
Die Sippe
Der Münchner im Himmel
Meine Bauern
Der heilige Hies
Ausgewa hlte Werke in einem Band
Gelähmte Schwingen
Erinnerungen
Lausbubengeschichten
Ausgewählte Werke in einem Band
Briefwechsel eines bayrischen Landtagsabgeordneten
Assessor Karlchen und andere Geschichten
Gesammelte Werke
Andreas Vöst: Bauernroman
Geschichten von Ludwig Thoma
Der Münchner im Himmel. Großdruck. Satiren und Humoresken
Der Jagerlöisl und andere Geschichten
Der Schusternazi ; Der alte Feinschmecker ; Waldfrieden
Der postsekretär im himmel
Der Postsekreta r im Himmel
Geschichten aus Bayern
Nachbarsleute
Heilige Nacht
Andreas Vöst
Altaich
Kirchweih
Das Ka lbchen ; Der umgewendete Dichter ; Onkel Peppi ; Heimkehr
Ausgewählte Briefe
Das grosse Malöhr im Juni 1903
Münchnerinnen, Roman
Der Ruepp: Roman
Das lustïge geschichtenbüchlein
Krawall, lustige Geschichten
Magdalena
Der Ruepp
Ludwig Thoma für die Jugend
Papas Fehltritt
Cora
Unbekanntes, verstecktes, entdecktes
Peter Spanningers Liebesabenteuer
Kleinstadtgeschichten
Ausgewählte Werke
Ein Mu nchner im Himmel
Neue grobheiten
Das Kälbchen
Lausbubengeschichten aus meiner Jugendzeit; mit 35 Zeichnungen von Olaf Gulbransson
Mein Bayernland
Der Heiratsvermittler und andere Geschichten
Erinnerungen
Der Münchner im Himmel
Lausbubengeschichten. Tante Frieda.
Erinnerungen
Bayernbuch
Tante Frieda
Ausgewählte Werke
Das grosse Malöhr im Juni 1903
Münchnerinnen
Lausbubengeschichten aus meiner Jugendzeit
Ein Münchner im Himmel.
Magdalena
Moritaten
Die Lokalbahn
Die Medaille
Jozef Filsers Breifwexel
Das säuglingsheim
Der Wilderer
Neue grobheiten
Agricola
Der Wittiber ; Der Ruepp
An Angel from Munich. A Book Version of the Moving Picture.
Andreas Vöst ; Filser-Briefe
Jozef Filsers gesamelter Briefwexel
Ludwig Thoma zum 100. Geburtstag
Hochzeit