Well-known authors from A-Z
Explore the vast array of literary pieces written by authors from A through Z. This collection spans centuries of literary brilliance, from the ancient epics of Aeschylus to the realist novels of Émile Zola. Delve into works that have shaped cultural and intellectual landscapes, featuring iconic authors whose words have stood the test of time. Whether you’re interested in the philosophical musings of Aristotle, the timeless plays of Shakespeare, or the groundbreaking fiction of contemporary writers, this category offers a rich tapestry of stories and ideas. Embark on a historical journey through the ages, discovering the diverse voices that have contributed to the ever-evolving narrative of human experience.
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Johann Valentin Andreae: Gesammelte Schriften / Band 8: Turbo, sive moleste et frustra per cuncta divagans ingenium (1616)
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frommann-holzboog Verlag e.K., German, Latin. Hardcover. New. 542 p., 2 Lesebändchen, 12,3 x 17,8 cm. 'Turbo', published in Strasbourg under a pseudonym, is the only drama among Andreae's Latin works which has been preserved. 'Turbo ...
B
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Bernard Bolzano Gesamtausgabe / Reihe I: Schriften. Band 11,1: Wissenschaftslehre §§ 1-45
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frommann-holzboog Verlag e.K., German. Hardcover. New. 269 p., 18,1 x 25,4 cm. This critical edition of Bolzano’s main philosophical work incorporates his own corrections, among other things. It originated as Bolzano’s attempt to refute s ...
C
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Kalam ? Lectio Divina
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The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is a thirty-volume series that renders the current state of knowledge on the origins and development of the Bible in its different canonic forms in Judaism and Christianity. F ...
D
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Abraham Lincoln: A Play; with introduction by Arnold Bennett.
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[PU: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company.], THEATRE - RARE, First Edition. Octavo. XII, 112 pages. Hardcover / Original, illustrated boards with spinelabel. Signed in full by actor Henry Stephenson on the titlepage: "Henry Stephenson - 10.X ...
E
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William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest: Selected Works
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[EAN: 9781941701423], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 43.27], [PU: David Zwirner Books], Very Good; Hardcover; Light wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; Good binding; This book ...
F
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Dune.
Description:
Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 13.84], [PU: Chilton Book Company], DUNEFRANK HERBERT, Jacket, VGC. Chilton Book Company, 1965. Book Club Edition. Apparently a first book club edition with 1681 printed inside the bottom back flap and Book Club Ed ...
G
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German Civil Code Volume I: Books 1-3: §§ 1-1296 (Beck international)
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[EAN: 9783406700354], New book, [PU: C.H. Beck Aug 2020], BÜRGERLICHES GESETZBUCH - BGB; MEDIATION; RECHT; SCHULD (FINANZIELL) SCHULDRECHT ÜBERSCHULDUNG; PRIVATRECHT; ZIVILGESETZ; ZIVILRECHT; BGB AT; SACHENRECHT; SCHULDRECHT; ZIVILRECHT, Neuware -The ...
H
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The Age of Innocence
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gewerbliches Angebot, [SC: 6.95], leichte Gebrauchsspuren, [PU: Aurum Press], 25 x 26,3 cm, 214, [GW: 1495g], [ED: Hardcover], 1995, DE, Accompanied by lyrical poetry, this collection showcases the nude portrait photography David Hamilton is known fo ...
I
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Nostradamus 2014: Prediction Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems
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*Nostradamus 2014: Prediction Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems * / pdf eBook für 149.99€ / Aus dem Bereich: eBooks-Sachthemen & Ratgeber-Computer & Internet pdf eBook eBook pdf no Medien > Bücher > E-Books eBooks > Sachthemen & Ratgeber > ...
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Bernard Bolzano Gesamtausgabe / Reihe I: Schriften. Band 12,3: Wissenschaftslehre §§ 223-268
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frommann-holzboog Verlag e.K., German. Hardcover. New. 239 p., 18,1 x 25,4 cm. This critical edition of Bolzano’s main philosophical work incorporates his own corrections, among other things. It originated as Bolzano’s attempt to refute s ...
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Andre Kertesz. The Manchester Collection
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United Kingdom: Penguin Books. Good+. 1982. No Edition Stated. Paperback. 6 X 0.25 X 8 inches; B&W photographs. About 50 pages. Unpaginated. Light foxing on the exterior edges of textblock and first few and last few pages. Minor curls on cover edg ...
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Self Portrait: Photographs by Lee Friedlander
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New York: Haywire Press. Good. 1970. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Small oblong 4to, unpaginated, only about good in pictorial wraps. (covers quite shelf-rubbed and worn; some wear to tips; previous owner's small ink stamp to inside front ...
M
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Newsweek Magazine, November 1, 1937
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. Hardcover. Fair. Edward Seago. 72, xiv, [2] pages. Black and White illustrations. Name of previous owner in ink on fep. Some of the illustrations are in color. Spine faded. Cover has edge fading, wear, and ...
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L'Allemagne., Comment Elle Construit (L'Architecture nouvelle en Allemagne)
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Berlin: Reichsbahnzentrale für den deutschen Reiseverkehr, n/d. Softcover. g. 8vo. Original illustrated wraps. 44 bound double-page fold-outs. Profusely illustrated with reproductions in photogravure (duotone) by E. H. Börner, Julius Söhn, Hans Bre ...
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Origenes: Werke / Der Johanneskommentar
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The series is devoted to Christian texts from the Greek-speaking parts of the ancient Roman Empire. Published since 1897 (first in Leipzig, then in Berlin) by the Royal Prussian Academy under the project Griechische Christliche Schriftsteller, which ...
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Farewell to Bosnia
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[EAN: 9781881616221], [SC: 45.03], [PU: Scalo Publishers, Zurich, Switzerland], PHOTOGRAPHY, First edition. Large hardcover. Text in English. One of the most powerful photographic examination of the horrors of war. A collection of black and white pho ...
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Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
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USA: Angriff Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1974. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0913022144 . pp. xi, 1348. Index. "Shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world ...
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The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Deluxe Edition: 0
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[EAN: 9781683964650], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS], HUMOR COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS MEDIA TIE-IN LITERARY FORM COMIC STRIPS CARTOONS, Über den AutorFirst active in comics as the indie creator of Captain Kentucky and The Pertwillaby ...
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Stielers Hand-Atlas. 100 Karten in Kupferstich. Mit 162 Nebenkarten. Neunte, von Grund aus neubearbeitete und neugestochene Auflage. Siebenter berichtigter Abdruck
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RARE original-colour lithograph, with descriptive separate text page from volume 36, taf.20 [plate], folds as issued. The map sheet covers the NW part of the USA: from Washington and California to Oregon, Idaho, till the Rocky Mountains. Pre-publica ...
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Gas Stations: 1982 and 1986
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New book, [SC: 35.4], [PU: Nazraeli Press, Paso Robles, California], Jacket, To subscribe to the One Picture Book Two series, and receive a copy of each future book and signed print at the subscription price of $40, please inquire (limited availabili ...
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Lee Friedlander: America by Car
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Budapest: Moritz Burian, 1880. Hardcover. fair. 8vo.70pp. 24pp. 1/4 cloth over decorative brown paper covered boards. Perpetual calendar for both the Jewish and civil year (for the years 1861 to 1930). Contains 70 calendar tables for 20 past and 50 ...
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![C. Velleii Paterculi quae supersunt ex historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus cum integris animadversionibus doctorum curante Davide Ruhnkenio [David Ruhnken].](https://images.find-more-books.com/buch/cover/MzQxMjgzNDM3NDg3NTtodHRwczovL3BpY3R1cmVzLmFiZWJvb2tzLmNvbS9pbnZlbnRvcnkvODYwODgzNzEzNS5qcGc%3D.jpg)
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Connoisseur Illustrated Magazine Collectors, Vol 1
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Used, very good, [SC: 4.99], [PU: Otto Limited 1903-1904, London], THE CONNOISSEUR MAGAZINE COLLECTING, A collection of issues of the British antiquarian magazine The Connoisseur. Comprised of volumes VI, VII, VIII and IX, published between 1903 and ...
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Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Third Earl of Shaftesbury: Standard Edition (SE). II. Moral and Political Philosophy: Bd 2.: An Inquiry concerning Virtue, or Merit; An Inquiry concerning Virtue
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frommann-holzboog Verlag e.K., English. Hardcover. New. 316 p., 17,2 x 24,4 cm. Content: An Inquiry concerning Virtue, or Merit An Inquiry concerning Virtue The earliest published versions of both ›The Moralists‹ and ›Inquiry‹ u ...
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Voices from the Korean War
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"In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place." -- from the book South K ...
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Matter / Burn Out
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Condition: New (sealed, still in publisher's shrinkwrap). First edition. Softcover. 304 pages. 11.2 x 8.2 x 1 inches. ISBN: 9784902080582. "Daisuke Yokota has presented to the public an immense installation using 100,000[?] photographic prints coated ...
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Axial Turbine Aerodynamics for Aero-engines: Flow Analysis and Aerodynamics Design Zhengping Zou Author
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[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press / Springer / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin], This book is a monograph on aerodynamics of aero-engine gas turbines focusing on the new progresses on flow mechanism and design met ...
About: Well-known authors from A-Z
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Here is a list of the most well-known international authors from A through Z:
- Chinua Achebe
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Albert Camus
- Charles Dickens
- Umberto Eco
- William Faulkner
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Hermann Hesse
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- James Joyce
- Franz Kafka
- Harper Lee
- Herman Melville
- Vladimir Nabokov
- George Orwell
- Marcel Proust
- Qian Zhongshu
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- William Shakespeare
- Leo Tolstoy
- Wole Soyinka
- Voltaire
- Virginia Woolf
- Xue Xinran
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- Emile Zola
Famous German authors from A through Z:
- Hannah Arendt
- Ewald Arenz
- Wolfgang Borchert
- Heinrich Böll
- Bertolt Brecht
- Paul Celan
- Lena Christ
- Hedwig Dohm
- Alfred Döblin
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Michael Ende
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Hans Fallada
- Theodor Fontane
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Günter Grass
- Jakob Grimm (der eine der Brüder Grimm)
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Hermann Hesse
- Heinrich Heine
- E.T.A. Hoffmann
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Carl Leberecht Immermann
- Ernst Jünger
- Franz Kafka
- Immanuel Kant
- Erich Kästner
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Siegfried Lenz
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Charlotte Link
- Thomas Mann
- Karl May
- Thomas Murner
- Herta Müller
- Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
- Nele Neuhaus
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ferdinand Oppenberg
- Jean Paul
- Franz von Pocci
- William Quindt
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Luise Rinser
- Nelly Sachs
- Anna Seghers
- Johann Friedrich Schiller
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Theodor Storm
- Ludwig Thoma
- Georg Trakl
- Kurt Tucholsky
- Ludwig Uhland
- Thomas Valentin
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Martin Walser
- Christoph Martin Wieland
- Franz Werfel
- Christa Wolf
- Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg
- Carl Zuckmayer
- Stefan Zweig