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John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)

poet, philosopher, literary critic

  • University of Cambridge, Sherborne School
Owen Glendower
Porius
Morwyn
After My Fashion
Rodmoor
A Glastonbury Romance
Wolf Solent
Maiden Castle
Weymouth Sands
The Meaning of Culture
Visions and revisions
The Brazen Head
Wood and Stone
The Art of Happiness
The complex vision
Atlantis
Homer and the Aether
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Hal W. and Violet Trovillion
Autobiography
Confessions of two brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Suspended judgments
Mortal strife
One hundred Dante books
Samphire
Mandragora
Ducdame
Three fantasies
Dostoevsky
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Glyn Hughes
Les sables de la mer
The pleasures of literature
The diary of John Cowper Powys 1931
Essays On De Gourmont And Byron
One hundred best books, with commentary and an essay on books and reading
John Cowper Powys letter, 1937-54
Odes and Other Poems
In defense of sensuality
Essays on de Maupassant, Anatole France, William Blake
Romer Mowl and other stories
Up and Out
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Ichiro Hara
The letters of John Cowper Powys to G.R. Wilson Knight
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Philippa Powys
La fosse aux chiens
The diary of John Cowper Powys, 1930
Rabelais, his life
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg
John Keats, or, Popular paganism
The art of growing old
The Dorset year
The diary of John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane
Powys on Keats
The Inmates
All or Nothing
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Sven-Erik Täckmark
Les enchantements de Glastonbury
In spite of
The war and culture
Dorothy M. Richardson
Letters of John Cowper Powys to his brother Llewellyn
An Englishman up-state
Real Wraiths
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Clifford Tolchard
A philosophy of solitude
The letters of John Cowper Powys to Frank Warren
The letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson
Jobber Skald
Letters to Henry Miller
The religion of a sceptic
John Cowper Powys
Psychoanalysis and morality
The diary of John Cowper Powys for 1929
Granit
Obstinate Cymric
Paddock calls
Letters from John Cowper Powys to C. Benson Roberts
100 Best Books
Letters of John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson, 1935-1956
Poems 1899
Rabelais : His life
Suspended judgments, essays on books and sensations
The pleasures of literature;
Owen Glendower T1 Les tours de Mathrafal
John Cowper Powys
Wolf's-Bane Rhymes
Den Otidsenlige och den aktuelle
Brazen Head
Letters to His Brother Llewellyn Volume I (1975)
Poems
John Cowper Powys Autobiography
LES ENCHANTEMENTS DE GLASTONBURY (DU MONDE ENTIER)
Samphire
Visions and Revisions; a Book of Literary Devotions
Powys and Lord Jim
V & a Style Calendar 2006
Complex Vision
John Cowper Powys on vivisection in "Autobiography."
Wolf Solent
Confessions of Two Brothers, John Cowper Powys [and] Llewellyn Powys
Syllabus of a course of six lectures on English novelists
Dostoievsky
John Cowper Powys on Thomas Hardy
Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams (1921-1988)

philosopher, professor, sociologist, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar

  • University of Cambridge, King Henry VIII School Abergavenny
Keywords
The country and the city
Living in the future
Modern tragedy
Writing in society
Drama from Ibsen to Brecht
George Orwell
The Politics of Modernism
Marxism and literature
All things betray thee
Communications
What I came to say
Orwell (Modern Masters)
Television
Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America
Towards 2000
The year 2000
Second generation
The volunteers
Politics and Letters
Raymond Williams On Culture And Society Essential Writings
Culture
The Raymond Williams reader
The fight for Manod
The English novel from Dickens to Lawrence
The Columbia guide to the Latin American novel since 1945
Border Country
English drama
Culture
Problems in materialism and culture
The country and the city
Resources of hope
The Volunteers
MCSE training guide
Culture and Materialism
Modern tragedy
The Long Revolution
Culture and society, 1780-1950
George Orwell
Essays
Loyalties
Politics and letters
The Country and the City
People of the Black Mountains
Tenses of imagination
What I Came to Say (Radius Books)
Country and city in the modern novel
Cobbett
Communications
Drama in performance
What I came to say
Secondgeneration
The sociology of culture
Cobbett
Country and city in the modern novel
Resources of hope
The defenders of Malta
Contact--human communication and its history
People of the blackmountains
Drama from Ibsen to Brecht
Modern tragedy
Culture and materialism
The English novel
Who speaks for Wales?
Border Country
Drama in a dramatised society
Culture & society
Second Generation
Towards 2000
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
May Day Manifesto 1968
The Welsh industrial novel
Historia de la comunicación
The Welsh industrial novel
Culture and Politics
Culture and technology
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
Kultur ve Materyalizm
Second Generation
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
English novel from Dickens to Lawrence
Britain in the sixties
May Day Manifesto 1968
English / H / Highlight
A lecture on realism
The existing alternatives in communications
The existing alternatives in communications
Preface to film
Britain in the sixties
The English novel
Economic development through cooperatives
Anahtar Sozcukler
Los medios de comunicación social
English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence
Reading and criticism
Introduction
Realism
Realism, naturalism and their alternatives
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
Drama in performance
Drama, from Ibsen to Eliot
Delmarva Poultry Cooperative Inc
Tenses of imagination
Kültür
Il popolo delle Montagne Nere
Modernizmin Siyaseti
Loyalties
Fight for Manod
Kültür ve Toplum 1780-1950
What I Came to Say
Reading and criticism
Country and the City
On high and popular culture
Modern Trajedi
People of the Black Mountains Vol. I
Drama, from Ebsen to Eliot
People of the Black Mountains Vol. Ii
Democracy and Parliament
Socialism and ecology
Border country
Communications and community
Loyalties
Politics and Letters
Communications
Innovationen
The fight for Manod
Border country
Historia de la comunicación
Problems in Materialism
Drama from Ibsen to Brecht
Centenary Edition Raymond Williams
Communications
The long road from Leros
El Campo y la Ciudad
Raymond Williams in conversation with Kenneth Churchill
The existing alternatives in communication
The Volunteers
Raymond Williams
John Clare
Charles R. Johnson
Charles R. Johnson (born 1948)

philosopher, literary scholar, man of letters

  • Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Stony Brook University
Middle Passage
Divorce without fear
The history of the Hell Hawks
Topics in Matrix Analysis
Matrix Analysis
Youssef Ziedan
Youssef Ziedan (born 1958)

historian, philosopher

  • Cairo University
Jean-François Marmontel
Jean-FranƧois Marmontel (1723-1799)

philosopher, politician, journalist, poet, historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, encyclopƩdistes

Memoirs of Marmontel
Poetique françoise
Poetique françoise
Contes moraux
Les Incas
Moral tales
Belisaire
Bélisaire
Incas
Poetique francĢ§oise
MeĢmoires de Marmontel
Marmontel's moral tales
Select translations and imitations from the French of Marmontell [!] and Gresset
Mémoires
Memorie sulla vita del signor G. Francesco Marmontel
Œuvres compleĢ€tes de Marmontel
Eléments de littérature
Memorie sulla vita del signor G. Francesco Marmontel
Déjeuners du village
Contes moraux
Les Incas, ou, la destruction de leĢ“mpire du Pérou
Memorie sulla vita del signor G. Francesco Marmontel
BeĢlisaire
Contes moraux
Silvain
Les Incas
Éléments de littérature
The shepherdess of the Alps
Memoires de Marmontel
The Incas, or, The destruction of the empire of Peru
Classic tales, serious and lively
La neuvaine du Cythère
The history of Belisarius, the heroick and humane Roman general
Memoirs of Marmontel
The Peruvian
Bélisaire
Epitre a Son Excellence M. l'abbeĢ comte de Bernis, conseiller d'Etat, ambassadeur aupreĢ€s de Leurs MajesteĢs ImpeĢriales, sur la conduite respective de la France & de l'Angleterre
Moral Tales
Bélisaire: Fragments de philosophie morale
Les contes moraux
Correspondance ..
Les contes moraux
Mémoires de Marmontel : secrétaire perpétuel de l'Academie francĢœais. / Précédés d'une introduction par m. F. Barrière
La bergère des Alpes
Le Huron
mémoires
Memoires de Marmontel
The misanthrope corrected
The widow of the village, or, The adventures of innocence
Moral tales, by M. Marmontel. Translated from the French. In two volumes. ... Cooke's edition. Embellished with superb engravings
Moral tales, by M. Marmontel
Denis le tyran
MeĢmoires de Marmontel, secreĢtaire perpeĢtuel de l'AcadeĢmie francĢœais
Silvain
Contes moraux
Mémoires de Marmontel, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie français /précédés d'une introduction par m. F. Barrière
Suite de contes moraux
Le Huron
The specious friend, or, A wife of ten thousand
L' ami de la maison
Œuvres posthumes de Marmontel, historiographe de France, secrétaire perpétual de l'Académie française
Select moral tales
[Oeuvres choisies de Marmontel] ..
Élémens de littérature
Belisarius
La neuvaine de CytheĢ€re
Zophilette
Belisarius
Zemire et Azor
Sylvian
Marmontel
Marmontel et Polymnie
Éléments de littérature
Poétique françoise
Memoirs of Marmontel
Denis le tyran,: tragédie
Poetique francĢ§ois
La fausse magie
Memoirs of Jean François Marmontel
Contes moraux
Zemire et azor, comedie en quatre actes et en vers, melee de chants
Les Incas
Montalde; or, The honest Breton
Aristomene
Selima & Azore
Bélisaire
Contes moraux
Oeuvres de monsieur Marmontel
Bélisaire
L'amitié à l'épreuve
Zemire et Azor
Nouveaux contes moraux
PenseĢes philosophiques, ou L'ame de monsieur de Marmontel
Memoirs of Marmontel, written by himself
Los Incas, ó, la destruccion del imperio del Perú
Oeuvres complettes de M. Marmontel, historiographe de France ..
Oeuvres complètes
Œuvres complettes de M. Marmontel
Belisarius. By M. Marmontel, ... To which are added, Fragments of moral philosophy, by the same author, in three essays, never before translated: I. Of glory. II. Of the great. III. Of grandeur
The Incas: or, The destruction of the empire of Peru
Belisarius. A tale. By M. Marmontel. ... Cooke's edition. Embellished with superb engravings
Roland
Trois contes moraux
Oeuvres complètes
Belisaire
Oeuvres complètes
Oeuvres complètes
Oeuvres complètes
Les Incas, ou, La destruction de l'empire du Pérou
Contes Moraux, T. 2
BeĢlisaire, et fragmens de philosophie morale
Oeuvres complètes
Poetique françoise
Bélisaire
Le Huron
Oeuvres complètes
Œuvres de Marmontel
Les Incas, ou, La destruction de l'empire du Pérou
Zemira e Azore
Contes moraux
Oeuvres complètes
Select translations and imitations from the French of Marmontell [sic] and Gresset
The widow of the village, or, Adventures of innocence
Tales translated from the French of M. Marmontel. Consisting of The village breakfasts, ... Vol.II
The Incas: or, The destruction of the empire of Peru
Zémire et Azore
Oeuvres complètes
Oeuvres complètes
Essai sur les romans
Le Huron
Œuvres posthumes
Memoirs
The moral tales of M. Marmontel. Translated from the French by C. Denis, and R. Lloyd, ..
Oeuvres complètes
Denis le Tyran
The widow of the village: or, The adventures of innocence
Les Incas, ou, La destruction de l'empire du Perou
Memoirs of Jean Francois Marmontel
Mémoires
Les Incas, ou, La destruction de l'empire du Pérou
Belisarius. By M. Marmontel, ... A new translation
Contes Moraux, T. 3
Oeuvres complètes
Bergère des Alpes
Oeuvres complètes
Contes moraux, T. 1
Oeuvres complètes
Annette et Lubin
Oeuvres complètes
Oeuvres complètes
Aristomène
Contes moraux et pièces choisies de M. Marmontel
Oeuvres complètes
Liu Xiang
Liu Xiang

poet, historian, philosopher, astronomer, politician, librarian

Shlomo Kalo
Shlomo Kalo (1928-2014)

philosopher, composer, translator, poet

  • Tel Aviv University
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (1618-1693)

military personnel, courtier, philosopher

Histoire amoureuse des Gaules
Les memoires de Messire Roger de Rabutin comte de Bussy
M©Øemoires
Correspondance avec le peĢ€re Bouhours
Histoire amoureuse des Gaules, suivie de La France galante, romans satiriques du 17e siècle attribués au comte de Bussy
Correspondance de Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, avec sa famille et ses amis, 1666-1693
Correspondance avec le peĢ€re ReneĢ Rapin
Les mémoires de messire Roger de Rabutin comte de Bussy, lieutenant general des armeés du roy ..
Lettres de messire Roger de Rabutin comte de Bussy ...
Histoire généalogique de la maison de Rabutin
Mémoires secrets de m. le comte de Bussy Rabutin
Mémoires de Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy
Correspondance avec sa famille et ses amis, 1666-1693
Lettres de messire Roger de Rabutin comte de Bussy ...
Discours aĢ€ sa famille
L' usage des adversitez
Amours des dames illustres de France
Loves empire, or, The amours of the French court
Lettres de messire Roger de Rabutin comte de Bussy ...
Correspondance de Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy avec sa famille et ses amis (1666-1693) Nouvelle éd. revue sur les manuscripts et augmentée d'un très-grand nombre de letters inédites
Lettres de Messire Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy..
Correspondance de Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, avec sa famille et ses amis
Les lettres de messire Roger de Rabutin comte de Bussy
Lettres inédites
Histoire en abreĢgeĢ de Louis le Grand, quatorzieĢme du nom, roy de France
Amours des dames illustres de notre siecle
Les memoires de messire Roger de Rabutin
Lettres de messire Roger de Rabutin comte de Bussy ...
Mémoires
Les meĢmoires de Messire Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, lieutenant geĢneĢral des armeĢes du roi, et mestre de camp geĢneĢral de la cavalerie leĢgeĢ€re
Histoire de Louis XIV, roy de France et de Navarre
Discours du comte de Bussy Rabutin à ses enfans
Dits et ineĢdits
Les lettres de Messire Roger de Rabutin
Amours des dames illustres de France
Mémoires
Lettres de messire Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy ... avec les reponses
Mémoires de Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy
Histoire du Palais Royal
Histoire du Palais Royal
Histoire amoureuse des Gaules
Bussy-Rabutin, ou, Le désoeuvrement de l'épistolier
Les illustres mal-heureux