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The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)

Bright, robust and soaking up, it is a first-person account of 1 of the main startling army episodes in historical past: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire via the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier less than Cortes, provides a fascinatingly exact description of the Spanish touchdown in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement on the urban, the exploitation of the natives for gold and different treasures, the expulsion and flight of the Spaniards, their regrouping and eventual catch of the Aztec capital.

Nabokov and his Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace (Oxford English Monographs)

On the outbreak of the second one international conflict Vladimir Nabokov stood on the point of wasting every thing yet again. The popularity he had equipped because the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile used to be imperilled. In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White exhibits how Nabokov went to the US and never basically reinvented himself as an American author but in addition used the good fortune of Lolita to rescue these Russian books that have been threatened via obscurity.

Faustus From the German of Goethe Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The key paintings of German literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1808), was once translated into English by way of one in all Britain's so much able mediators of German literature and philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Goethe himself two times stated Coleridge's translation of his Faust. Goethe's personality wrestles with the very metaphysical and theological difficulties that preoccupied Coleridge: the that means of the trademarks, the plain competition of theism and pantheism.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: His Life, Works, and Thought

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) is the main eminent literary determine of the German Enlightenment and a author of ecu value. His diversity of curiosity as dramatist, poet, critic, thinker, theologian, philologist and masses else along with used to be reminiscent of that of Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, with all of whose rules he engaged.