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The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)

Bright, strong and soaking up, this can be a first-person account of 1 of the main startling army episodes in background: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire through the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier lower than Cortes, provides a fascinatingly targeted 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 trap 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 struggle Vladimir Nabokov stood on the point of wasting every little thing once more. The attractiveness he had outfitted because the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile used to be imperilled. In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White indicates how Nabokov went to the US and never purely reinvented himself as an American author but additionally used the luck of Lolita to rescue these Russian books that were threatened by means of 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 among Britain's such a lot able mediators of German literature and philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Goethe himself two times said 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 obvious 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 importance. His variety of curiosity as dramatist, poet, critic, thinker, theologian, philologist and lots more and plenty else along with used to be reminiscent of that of Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, with all of whose principles he engaged.