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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 historical past: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by means of the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier lower than Cortes, provides a fascinatingly particular 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 seize 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 thing over 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 indicates how Nabokov went to the USA and never simply reinvented himself as an American author but in addition used the good fortune of Lolita to rescue these Russian books that were threatened by way 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 means of one in all Britain's such a lot 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 emblems, 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 eu value. His variety of curiosity as dramatist, poet, critic, thinker, theologian, philologist and masses else in addition to was once equivalent to that of Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, with all of whose rules he engaged.