Literature: History & Criticism
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Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Volume 3
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£89.99| /With our third and final volume of stories from the Shahnameh we move from mythology and legend to romanticized history. Here the mighty events tha...
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Strange Beautiful Excitement
Otago University Press£22.99| /How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ravishing, immersing read, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a wild ride through ...
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Study of Medieval Greek Romance
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£21.99| /Study of Medieval Greek Romance
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Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals
Spinifex Press£12.95| /To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest ey...
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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£46.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Susanna Shakespeare
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£19.95| /One can find plenty of literature on the life and works of William Shakespeare. Much less if any can be found and read about his three children. Th...
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Symposium
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophan...
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Tao of Walt Whitman
Sentient Publications, Llc (US)£10.99| /Walt Whitman, whose Leaves of Grass was called "the secular Scripture of the United States" by Harold Bloom, is a source of contemporary inspiratio...
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Tartuffe
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...
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Tartuffe
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£35.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters ...
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Tartuffe and the Misanthrope
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...
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Tartuffe and the Misanthrope
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...
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Telling Stories
Monash University Publishing£33.99| /This book explores the interaction between literary culture and the public sphere in Australia in a series of informative, witty, intelligent and t...
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Ten Canadian Writers in Context
University of Alberta Press (CA)£19.99| /Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Ba...
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Terminus
Aalborg University Press£29.00| /In Roman religion, Terminus was an agrarian god who protected boundary markers. Stones were often used to provide an effective means for marking th...
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Texts, Contexts and Intertextuality
V & R Unipress GmbH£61.99| /While Dickens used to be seen as a writer of shallow and sentimental childrens literature, as the prolific caterer to the new market of mass liter...
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The Accidental Cage
Interactive Press£18.99| /She is a hunter of women brown eyes dilated, I watch her gracefully pouring tea. She smells of the chase, her blood-smeared nails assault you in th...
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The Age of Confession / L'Àge de la confession
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /In this illuminating essay, Neil Bissoondath explores the powerful influence exerted by narrative on the human psyche. Storytelling is a primary ac...
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The Architect, The Physician, & The Poet
Birch Brook Press (US)£15.99| /A love story told through Shakespearean and Petrachan sonnets. Though written in traditional forms, these silky new sonnets strive to loosen ancien...
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The Birds
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This is an English translation of Aristophanes' greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes back...
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The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cécité d'Homère)
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on ...
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The Book of Her Life
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /The Hackett edition of Teresa of Avila's spiritual autobiography features Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez's authoritative translation of The ...
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The Book of John Mandeville
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day th...
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The Book of John Mandeville
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day th...
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The Burgess Shale
University of Alberta Press (CA)£9.99| /"The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It's always difficult for ...
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The Butterfly Lovers
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Ju...
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The Butterfly Lovers
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£44.99| /The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Ju...
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The Case and the Canon
V & R Unipress GmbH£66.99| /The concept of a constant reformulation of the canon due to the notion of singularity or irreducibility of the case can be applied in both scientif...
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The Child of the Sun
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£35.00| /Carmen Sylva, when she discovered that I was writing, instead of laughing at me and being ironical about my modest attempts at literature, encourag...
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The Classical Tradition in the Baltic Region
Edition Olms AG£108.99| /Reception of antiquity in Northern and Northeastern Europe is a field of research that is overall largely undeveloped. At the same time, the countr...
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The Comedies of Machiavelli
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy mor...
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The Complete Poems and Major Prose
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£63.99| /First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and af...
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The Copenhagen Bohun Manuscripts
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /This book provides a detailed analysis of the components of two exquisitely illuminated fourteenth-century English manuscripts, the Hours of the Vi...
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The Copper Garden
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£243.99| /The Copper Garden: New Zealand Novels is a book of literary criticism and review about Aotearoa New Zealand fiction over the past one hundred fifty...
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The Doubling
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /The Doubling: Those Influential Writers That Shape Our Contemporary Perceptions of Identity and Consciousness in the New Millennium examines pairs ...
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