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  • The Red Countess
    Hermynia Zur Mühlen / Lionel Gossman
    Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist R...
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    86,25 €

  • The Red Countess
    Hermynia Zur Mühlen / Lionel Gossman
    Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist R...
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    71,88 €

  • Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment
    Lionel Gossman
    The contribution of eighteenth-century Englishmen to the study of medieval life and literature is fairly well known, but it is commonly assumed that in France, the center of Enlightenment, no one--with the exception of a few obscure antiquarians--was seriously interested in the Middle Ages. Gossman argues that the Enlightenment gave great impetus to medieval studies in France a...
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    67,58 €

  • Men and Masks
    Lionel Gossman
    Molière's plays rank among the great comic achievements in the history of the stage. Yet few attempts have been made to understand them as expressing the historical context of the author's time. Most frequently they have been interpreted from the point of view of purely literary history, while the characters have been seen as universal comic types. Lionel Gossman reappr...
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    61,36 €

  • Geneva, Zurich, Basel
    Gordon A. Craig / Gordon ACraig / Lionel Gossman / Nicolas Bouvier
    Recognized by historians and politicians as a model for European unity, Switzerland is nonetheless a difficult country to understand as a whole. Whereas individual Swiss cities have strong identities in the international political, cultural, and economic arenas, the country itself seems to be less than the sum of its parts. To capture the elusive spirit of Switzerland, four emi...
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    118,50 €

  • Thomas Annan of Glasgow
    Lionel Gossman
    In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse, the 'Second City of the Empire,' a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan’s photographic record of this central section of the city prior to its demolition in accorda...
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    39,82 €

  • Thomas Annan of Glasgow
    Lionel Gossman
    In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse, the 'Second City of the Empire,' a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan’s photographic record of this central section of the city prior to its demolition in accorda...
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    68,53 €

  • Geneva, Zurich, Basel
    Gordon A. Craig / Gordon ACraig / Lionel Gossman / Nicolas Bouvier
    Recognized by historians and politicians as a model for European unity, Switzerland is nonetheless a difficult country to understand as a whole. Whereas individual Swiss cities have strong identities in the international political, cultural, and economic arenas, the country itself seems to be less than the sum of its parts. To capture the elusive spirit of Switzerland, four emi...
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    47,91 €

  • Andre Maurois (1885-1967)
    Lionel Gossman
    Respected by his peers and hugely successful internationally in the first half of the twentieth century - in 1935 the English translation of one of his fifteen major biographies was the first book to be published in Allen Lane’s pioneering Penguin paperback series - André Maurois is now hardly read. His liberal humanism, his moderate and conciliatory stance in everything, from ...
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    65,78 €

  • The Passion of Max von Oppenheim
    Lionel Gossman
    Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East, while his massive study of the Bedouins is still consulted by scholars today. He was also an ardent German patriot, ...
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    31,99 €

  • The Passion of Max von Oppenheim
    Lionel Gossman
    Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East, while his massive study of the Bedouins is still consulted by scholars today. He was also an ardent German patriot, ...
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    60,68 €

  • The End and the Beginning
    Hermynia Zur Muhlen / Lionel Gossman
    First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman’s struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Afri...
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    30,85 €

  • The End and the Beginning
    Hermynia Zur M. Hlen / Hermynia Zur MHlen / Lionel Gossman
    First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman’s struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa...
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    53,71 €

  • Brownshirt Princess
    Lionel Gossman
    Marie Adelheid, Prinzessin Reuß-zur Lippe was a rebellious young woman and aspiring writer from an ancient princely family who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded Jugendstil artist who was to join the German Communist Party and later emigrate to the Soviet Union. Ludwig Roselius was a successful Bremen businessman who had made a fortune from his inventio...
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    30,09 €

  • Brownshirt Princess
    Lionel Gossman
    Marie Adelheid, Prinzessin Reuß-zur Lippe was a rebellious young woman and aspiring writer from an ancient princely family who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded Jugendstil artist who was to join the German Communist Party and later emigrate to the Soviet Union. Ludwig Roselius was a successful Bremen businessman who had made a fortune from his inventio...
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    47,18 €

  • The Empire Unpossess’d
    Gossman Lionel / Lionel Gossman
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    54,65 €