Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: matthew lewis

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  • DIGITAL GENDER-SEXUAL VIOLATIONS
    MATTHEW HALL / JEFF HEARN / RUTH LEWIS
    This groundbreaking book argues that the fundamental issues around how victim-survivors of digital gender-sexual violations (DGSVs) are abused can be understood in terms of gender and sexual dynamics, constructions, positioning and logics. The book builds upon Hall and Hearn's previous work, Revenge Pornography, but has been substantially reworked to examine other forms of DGSV...

    $960.00

  • THE CITY CROWN BY BRUNO TAUT
    MATTHEW MINDRUP / ULRIKE ALTENMÜLLER-LEWIS
    This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut’s early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban concept where people would live in a garden city of ’apolitical socialism’ and peaceful collaboration around a single purpose-free c...

    $1,420.00

  • THE MONK
    MATTHEW G. LEWIS
    A pious monk is driven by sexual desire into the depths of sin and depravity in this eighteenth-century classic of Gothic fiction. Ambrosio is the abbot of the Capuchin monastery in Madrid. He is beloved by his flock, and his renowned piety has earned him the nickname The Man of Holiness. Yet beneath the veneer of this religious man lies a heart of hypocrisy; arrogant, licentio...

    $251.00

  • STEPHEN AND MATILDA'S CIVIL WAR
    MATTHEW LEWIS
    The story of the twelfth-century rivalry for the throne between the daughter and the nephew of Henry I—a battle that tore England apart for over a decade. The Anarchy was the first civil war in post-Conquest England, enduring throughout the reign of King Stephen between 1135 and 1154. It ultimately brought about the end of the Norman dynasty and the birth of the mighty Plantage...

    $229.00

  • REBELLION IN THE MIDDLE AGES
    MATTHEW LEWIS
    This medieval history of British rebellion examines how five centuries of uprisings and insurrections helped build the United Kingdom. Shakespeare's Henry IV lamented 'Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown'. It was true of that king's reign and of many others before and after. From Hereward the Wake's guerilla war, resisting the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror, thr...

    $299.00

  • CLASSICAL NEW YORK
    ELIZABETH MACAULAY-LEWIS AND MATTHEW M. MCGOWAN
    Essays on the historical Greco-Roman influence on the evolving architectural landscape of New York City. During its rise from capital of an upstart nation to global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of New York's art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of diverse reinterpretations of ...

    $251.00

  • THE MONK
    MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS
    In what is widely considered to be the first Gothic novel, a monk must resist a temptation that could consume his soul Ambrosio has developed a reputation across Madrid for his piety and selflessness in his role as a monk. Left on the abbey's doorstep as a child, Ambrosio took quickly to monastic life, and his fellow monks pronounced him a gift from the Virgin Mary. Despite his...

    $85.00

  • EL MONJE
    LEWIS, MATTHEW G.
    Se trata de una de las piedras angulares del terror moderno que ilustra a la perfección el estilo de las novelas góticas. La historia gira en torno al abad Ambrosio, un hombre pretendidamente virtuoso que en realidad está entregado a la lujuria. Mordaz y terrible al mismo tiempo, El monje no ha perdido un ápice de esa fuerza que fascinó al público ya desde su primera publicació...
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    $569.00

  • EL MONJE
    LEWIS MATTHEW G.
    De un desarrollo sorprendente, la trama de este libro va de una leyenda que se antoja ingenua a amores escondidos, traiciones familiares, invocaciones demoníacas exitosas y la más brutal violencia. Aquí se recrean escenarios cotidianos de su tiempo. De no ser por la evidente tendencia a lo macabro y sórdido, bien podría leerse como una novela costumbrista, de recreación de la E...
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    $149.00

  • CRIMEN Y CASTIGO
    MATTHEW G. LEWIS
    Nadie ha retratado la psicología humana como lo hizo Fiódor Dostoyevski. Su obra, fiel reflejo de una personalidad compleja y atormentada, marca una de las cimas de la narrativa universal. Admirada por generaciones de lectores y autores, Crimen y castigo narra el asesinato cometido por Rodión Raskólnikov, un estudiante arrogante y endeudado cuyo nihilismo anticipa la literatura...
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    $679.00