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The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)

Brilliant, strong and soaking up, it is 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 lower than Cortes, offers a fascinatingly distinctive 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 global warfare Vladimir Nabokov stood close to wasting every thing another time. The acceptance 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 US and never simply reinvented himself as an American author but additionally used the luck of Lolita to rescue these Russian books that were threatened through 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 through one in every of Britain's so much able mediators of German literature and philosophy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Goethe himself two times noted 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 emblems, 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 eu value. His diversity of curiosity as dramatist, poet, critic, thinker, theologian, philologist and masses else in addition to used to be such as that of Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, with all of whose principles he engaged.