LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter lagerlof

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  • Crystal Dislocations Their Impact on Physical Properties of Crystals
    Peter Lagerlof
    The proposed existence of the edge and screw dislocation in the 1930s, and the subsequent work showing that dislocation theory could explain the plastic deformation of crystals, represent an important step in developing our understanding of materials into a science. The continued work involved with characterization of dislocations and linking them to a variety of physical prope...
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    75,89 €

  • The Emperor of Portugallia
    Selma Lagerlof / Peter Graves
    For poverty-stricken farm labourer Jan, the birth of his daughter Klara gives life a new meaning; his devotion to her develops into an obsession that excludes all else. We are taken from the miracle of a newborn child and a father’s love of his baby girl into a fantasy world emerging as a result of extreme external pressures, in which Jan creates for himself the role of Emperor...
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    19,85 €

  • A Manor House Tale
    Selma Lagerlöf / Peter Graves
    Written in 1899, Selma Lagerlöf’s novella A Manor House Tale is at one and the same time a complex psychological novel and a folk tale, a love story and a Gothic melodrama. It crosses genre boundaries and locates itself in a borderland between reality and fantasy, madness and sanity, darkness and light, possession and loss, life and death. Lagerlöf’s two young characters, Gunna...
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    18,44 €

  • Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey Through Sweden, Volume 2
    Selma Lagerlof / Peter Graves
    Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoys over a century later. The story of the naughty boy who climbs on the gander’s back and is then carried the length of the cou...
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    19,15 €

  • Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey Through Sweden, Volume 1
    Selma Lagerlof / Peter Graves
    Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey through Sweden (1906-07) is truly unique. Starting life as a commissioned school reader designed to present the geography of Sweden to nine-year-olds, it quickly won the international fame and popularity it still enjoys over a century later. The story of the naughty boy who climbs on the gander’s back and is then carried the length of the cou...
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    19,26 €

  • The Phantom Carriage
    Selma Lagerlof / Peter Graves
    ’Written in 1912, Selma Lagerlöf’s The Phantom Carriage is a powerful combination of ghost story and social realism, partly played out among the slums and partly in the transitional sphere between life and death. The vengeful and alcoholic David Holm is led to atonement and salvation by the love of a dying Salvation Army slum sister under the guidance of the driver of the death...
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    18,52 €