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The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)

Vibrant, robust and soaking up, this can be a first-person account of 1 of the main startling army episodes in heritage: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by way of the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier below Cortes, provides a fascinatingly distinct 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 close to wasting every thing once more. The recognition he had outfitted because the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile was once imperilled. In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White exhibits how Nabokov went to the United States and never simply reinvented himself as an American author but additionally 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 most important paintings of German literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1808), was once translated into English via certainly one of Britain's so much able mediators of German literature and philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Goethe himself two times mentioned Coleridge's translation of his Faust. Goethe's personality wrestles with the very metaphysical and theological difficulties that preoccupied Coleridge: the which 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 similar to that of Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, with all of whose rules he engaged.