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Traditional African And Oriental Music - Otto Karolyi - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Traditional African And Oriental Music - Otto Karolyi - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The aim of this book is to offer an introduction to the underlying principles of non-Western music and to encourage the reader to explore rich and fascinating sounds and rhythms from around the world. Otto Karolyi covers the traditional music of five continents, namely Sub-Saharan Africa, the Islamic world, the Indian subcontinent, China and the Far East. Each chapter examines the rhythm, melody, harmony and instruments of the region''s music, plus elements of the culture which contribute towards an appreciation of the music, such as religion, poetry, drama and dance.

DKK 161.00
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The Lamp of Memory - John Ruskin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Lamp of Memory - John Ruskin - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential – not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

DKK 107.00
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Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into the mould of traditional heroes. Some stories concern characters in Iceland - among them Hrafknel''s Saga, in which a poor man''s son is murdered by his powerful neighbour, and Thorstein the Staff-Struck, which describes an ageing warrior''s struggle to settle into a peaceful rural community. Others focus on the adventures of Icelanders abroad, including the compelling Audun''s Story, which depicts a farmhand''s pilgrimage to Rome. These fascinating tales deal with powerful human emotions, suffering and dignity at a time of profound transition, when traditional ideals were gradually yielding to a more peaceful pastoral lifestyle.

DKK 141.00
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Interzone - William S. Burroughs - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Interzone - William S. Burroughs - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Interzone portrays the development of Burroughs''s mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. His outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of four decades of oppressive sexual and social conditioning. Burroughs''s close observations of humanity - its ugliness and ignorance - invites the reader to dispense with their traditional notions of decorum, and taste the world as he sees it.

DKK 126.00
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Botchan - Natsume Soseki - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Botchan - Natsume Soseki - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests, from the pupils - prone to playing tricks on their new, naïve teacher; the staff - vain, immoral, and in danger of becoming a bad influence on Botchan; and from his own as-yet-unformed nature, as he finds his place in the world. One of the most popular novels in Japan where it is considered a classic of adolescence, as seminal as The Catcher in the Rye , Botchan is as funny, poignant and memorable as it was when first published, over 100 years ago.In J. Cohn''s introduction to his colourful translation, he discusses Botchan ''s success, the book''s clash between Western intellectualism and traditional Japanese values, and the importance of names and nicknames in the novel.

DKK 112.00
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Chronicles of the Canongate - Sir Walter Scott - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Chronicles of the Canongate - Sir Walter Scott - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Set within a framing narrative told by Chrystal Croftangry, these three stories are set in the years following the Jacobite defeat and all feature characters who are leaving Scotland to seek their fortunes elsewhere. In ''The Highland Widow'' and ''The Two Drovers'', two young men find themselves torn between traditional Scottish loyalties and the opportunities offered by England. And ''The Surgeon''s Daughter'' follows three young Scots to India during the first phase years of the British Empire.

DKK 141.00
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - Friedrich Engels - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - Friedrich Engels - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies. Under this patriarchal system, women were servants and, effectively, prostitutes. Only Communism would herald the dawn of communal living and a new sexual freedom and, in turn, the role of the state would become superfluous.

DKK 152.00
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The New Spaniards - John Hooper - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The New Spaniards - John Hooper - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which traditional attitudes and contemporary preoccupations exist side by side. Focussing on issues which affect ordinary Spaniards, from housing to gambling, from changing sexual mores to rising crime rates. John Hooper''s fascinating study brings to life the new Spain of the twenty-first century.

DKK 126.00
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Some Japanese Ghosts - Lafcadio Hearn - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Some Japanese Ghosts - Lafcadio Hearn - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat: yet there were no other signs of death.'The phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore are in this book driven back into the world of the living. Mysterious brides melt into mist, paintings come alive, and man-eating goblins barter for redemption. Traditional Japanese folktales and legends, infused with memories of Lafcadio Hearn’s own haunted childhood, are here masterfully retold.

DKK 92.00
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Androcles and the Lion - George Bernard Shaw - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Androcles and the Lion - George Bernard Shaw - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw.Androcles and the Lion is Shaw''s retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including cultural clash between Jesus'' teachings and traditional Roman values.

DKK 141.00
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The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or simply live well? In this epic journey into our past, Jared Diamond reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms. Drawing on decades of his own fieldwork, Diamond explores how tribal people approach essential human problems, from health and diet to conflict resolution and language, and discovers they have much to teach us. Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel , which was named one of TIME''s best non-fiction books of all time, and Collapse , a #1 international bestseller. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond''s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.

DKK 155.00
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Seven Viking Romances - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Seven Viking Romances - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic imagination, they relate intriguing, often comical tales of famous kings, difficult gods and women of great beauty, goodness or cunning. The tales plunder a wide range of earlier literature from Homer to the French romances—as in the tale of the wandering hero Arrow-Odd, which combines several older legends, or Egil and Asmund, where the story of Odysseus and the Cyclops is skilfully adapted into a traditional Norse legend. These are among the most outrageous, delightful and exhilarating tales in all Icelandic literature.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

DKK 141.00
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A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang - Lee Onhwa - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang - Lee Onhwa - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

*Available to pre-order now*By buying sweets from the Hwawoldang, you get yourself a ticket to a new life . . . ***Welcome to the Hwawoldang, a traditional sweetshop where every bite comes with satisfaction for both the mouth and the soul . . . When twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa loses her grandmother, enigmatic and distant proprietor of the Hwawoldang, she decides to respect her wishes by keeping the store going for at least another month, between the hours of 10pm and midnight. She has never learnt to make the traditional desserts herself, and hopes to learn more about her grandmother in the process. On her very first day at work, she is soon interrupted by one of her grandmother’s most regular visitors, who hints that Hwawoldang is no ordinary pastry shop, and its customers not entirely alive… With each new face that arrives at the store, Yeon-hwa is taken into their memories – but will this bring her the closure she craves, and continue her grandmother’s legacy of aiding those left in the land of the living? Evocative, nourishing and cosy, A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang shows that even the most lost souls will find a place to call home.

DKK 155.00
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Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri - - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact revenge at any cost and whose death is tragic when it comes. In contrast his nephew, Snorri, represents a new generation and acts to strengthen the new social order. Taken together these sagas reveal the richness and variety of the saga tradition.

DKK 126.00
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Selected Short Stories - Virginia Woolf - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Selected Short Stories - Virginia Woolf - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Woolf is modern ... With Joyce and Eliot she has shaped a literary century'' Jeanette WintersonVirginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the ''swarm and confusion of life''. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of ''Solid Objects'' through the fragile impressionism of ''Kew Gardens'' to the abstract exploration of consciousness in ''The Mark on the Wall''.Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra Kemp

DKK 113.00
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Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales—with an anarchic twist—but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination.The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as "The Tinderbox" and "The Emperor''s New Clothes" through poignant masterpieces such as "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling," to more subversive later tales such as "The Ice maiden" and "The Wood Nymph."

DKK 168.00
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The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Andersen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Andersen - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Step into the enchanting world of Hans Christian Andersen with this collection of timeless Christmas tales, capturing both the magic and melancholy of the season. This selection brings together Andersen’s most beloved works, from the magical journey of ‘The Snow Queen’ to the heart-breaking ‘The Little Match Girl’, and the tender reflections on the passage of time in ‘The Fir Tree’. Together these stories show how Andersen transformed the traditional fairy tale with his unique ability to blend exuberant whimsy and profound insight.

DKK 139.00
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Birds, Beasts and Relatives - Gerald Durrell - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Birds, Beasts and Relatives - Gerald Durrell - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The follow up to My Family and Other Animals and the second book in The Corfu Trilogy, the beloved books that inspired ITV''s television series The Durrells. In this second collection of tales concerning the Durrell family on the island of Corfu, young Gerry continues to be captivated by the fascinating flora and fauna of their adopted home - much to the bemusement and upset of his long suffering siblings and mother.Whether it''s lamp fishing by night or roving the countryside with his mentor Theodore, Gerry encounters intoxicated hedgehogs, tarantulas, dung beetles, water spiders and other animals, some of which become the family''s very unwanted pets. ''A wild and amusing chronicle'' Daily Express ''This book, an evocation of a budding naturalist''s life as a boy on Corfu, will delight many readers, even those who can''t stand spiders...'' Evening Standard ''Delightful, charming, funny'' The Times

DKK 126.00
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The Complete Fairy Tales - George Macdonald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Complete Fairy Tales - George Macdonald - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dreamworlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children''s stories were profoundly experimental, questioning the association of childhood with purity and innocence, and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism and disbelief.

DKK 110.00
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Together - Richard Sennett - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Together - Richard Sennett - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. In modern society traditional bonds are waning, and we must develop new forms of secular, civic ritual that make us more skilful in living with others. From Medieval guilds to today''s social networks, Richard Sennett''s visionary book explores the nature of co-operation, why it has become weak and how it can be strengthened.

DKK 127.00
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The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse - Anthony Thwaite - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse - Anthony Thwaite - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards, including the rising poets Tamura Ryuichi and Tanikawa Shuntaro.

DKK 141.00
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Collected Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Collected Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Isaac Bashevis Singer''s work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the best of his writing. From the supernatural ''Taibele and Her Demon'' to the poignant ''The Unseen'', and from gentle humour in ''Gimpel the Fool'' to tragedy with ''Yentl the Yeshiva Boy'', these tales explore good and evil, passion and restraint, religious fervour and personal failings, within the traditional shtetls of pre-war Eastern Europe and post-war America.

DKK 155.00
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Lyrical Ballads - William Wordsworth - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Lyrical Ballads - William Wordsworth - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature. Co-written by friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the collection broke away from traditional poetic form. Of the twenty-three poems, Wordsworth penned works such as ''Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey'' and ''The Idiot Boy'' that use colloquial speech and take the everyday as their theme. The collection also includes Coleridge''s greatest poem ''The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere'', a supernatural tale of a sailor''s voyage.

DKK 139.00
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A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees - None Kenko - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees - None Kenko - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...'' Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman''s hair - these exquisite reflections on life''s fleeting pleasures by a thirteenth-century Japanese monk are delicately attuned to nature and the senses.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin''s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Yoshida Kenko (c. 1283-1352). Kenko''s work is included in Penguin Classics in Essays in Idleness and Hojoki .

DKK 79.00
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