Literature: History & Criticism
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Ariadne Press (US)£40.99| /This portrayal of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is based on published and unpublished sources. Like many women novelists of her time -- pa...
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Mark Twain
Schiffer£13.99| /This book is a fresh appraisal of the writer who made American fiction and travel writing popular worldwide. Looking at his life and his body of wr...
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Marvellous Fantasy
Aalborg Universitetsforlag (DK)£35.95| /In this book academics write about significant fantasy books, films, television series and music. The different approaches offer new insights into ...
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Maurice Gee
Otago University Press (NZ)£15.50| /Maurice Gee's fiction for younger readers blends exciting stories with serious issues. Told through a range of genres, from fantasy to realism, adv...
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Medea
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy with...
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Medea
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£28.99| /This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy with...
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Medea
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and her revenge against her husband Jason. Focus ...
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Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£21.99| /This anthology includes four outstanding translations of Euripides' plays: Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytus, and Heracles. These translations remain clos...
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Medicine and Humor from the Writings of Hans Sachs and Hans Folz, Meistersinger
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£243.99| /Hans Sachs (1494-1576), while also a cobbler, was the most prolific German author of the 16th century. He was the immediate literary successor in p...
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Medieval Drama
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£61.99| /This reprint (with updated 'Suggestions for Further Reading') of the Houghton Mifflin edition makes David Bevington's classic anthology of medieval...
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Medieval Narratives Between History & Fiction
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£56.99| /The rise of literary fiction in medieval Europe has been a hotly debated topic for at least two decades. Important progress has been made, but diff...
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Memoirs of Victor Hugo
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£97.99| /Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 26 1802 -- 22 May 1885) is recognised as the most influential Romantic writer of the 19th century and is often ident...
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Memorable Deeds and Sayings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as...
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Memorable Deeds and Sayings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£47.99| /Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as...
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Memorias de la orfandad
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£34.99| /El propósito de este libro es profundizar sobre las ficciones que abordan el tema de laexpropiación de niños durante la dictadura española y las ap...
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Memory Serves & Other Essays
Newest Press (CA)£19.99| /This book gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for public...
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Message to Erin
DC Books (US)£14.99| /This anthology is indispensable to anyone desiring a fuller knowledge of the lives and sentiments of this founding Canadian community. The book inc...
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Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and ...
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Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and ...
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Mind Presentation in Ian McEwan's Fiction
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-VerlagOriginal price £34.99Current price £30.00| /This book explores the central fictional minds in three of Ian McEwan's most popular narratives. Mind presentation constitutes the main part of cha...
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Miscellany of Demotic Texts & Studies
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£77.99| /Third in the series of texts of the The Carlsberg Papyri. It contains a series of contributions on a variety of Demotic subjects including a new ve...
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Mixed Bag
Sagging Shorts£13.99| /Of all of Raymond Smullyan's many books, this perhaps best captures the timeless delight of the casual conversation of this American polymath. A se...
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Mixing Memory & Desire
Folklore Publishing (CA)£19.99| /The last soldier who saw trench action in the Great War died in 2009. With his passing, all direct memory of the horror of that war ceased-memory b...
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Modern Austrian Prose
Ariadne Press (US)£35.99| /Volume II continues the goal of introducing readers to significant works of modern Austrian prose within the broader field of German-language liter...
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Modern Austrian Prose
Ariadne Press (US)£39.99| /The sixteen articles compiled here are devoted to individual prose works published after 1970 that reflect the "Austrian tradition" within the fiel...
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Modern Persian Prose Literature
Ibex Publishers (US)£20.99| /This is a study of the prose literature written in Persia since the end of the nineteenth century, and it is comprehensive and self contained. It b...
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Moliere -- Four Plays
Branden Publishing Co (US)£20.99| /Moliere is considered the Shakespeare of France. Moliere's plays are enacted throughout the world in virtually every language, as much today as ever.
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More One-Act Plays: Acting for Students
Meriwether Publishing (US)£20.99| /The success of One-Act Plays for Acting Students prompted this follow-up book of twenty-eight contemporary short dramas by nationally known playwri...
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Most of What Follows is True
University of Alberta Press (CA)£10.99| /"In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between th...
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Moving to the Clear
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£11.99| /This is the first full-length collection of poems by poet and scholar Jason Dewinetz. From the sun drenched Okanagan Valley of B.C. to "Géricault's...
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Mulan
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /The legend of Mulan--the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place--remains one of the mo...
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Mulan
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£43.99| /The legend of Mulan--the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place--remains one of the mo...
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My Beloved Wager
NeWest Press (CA)£19.99| /This book gathers essays by noted poet and translator Erín Moure, and records a quarter century of writing practice emerging from a city of exhilar...
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My Business Is Circumference
Paul Dry Books (US)£27.99| /Twenty-eight contemporary American poets reflect on the poems that have most influenced their own creative vision and offer their best new works in...
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Myths of Love
Linden Publishing£17.99| /Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America';s favorite sex therapist, analyzes ancient myth and its relevance to 21st century relationships in her new book Myths...
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Myths of Oppression
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-VerlagOriginal price £28.99Current price £22.99| /Inci Bilgin Tekin's study offers a comparative perspective on two very challenging contemporary female playwrights, Liz Lochhead and Cherrie Moraga...
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Narrating the Other
Monash University Publishing£25.99| /The first extensive study of Japan in Australian literary consciousness, this is a broad chronological exploration of Australian writers representa...
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Narrative Ambiguität
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£80.99| /This book studies the transformations of the figure of Faust found in the Faust books dating from the 16th to the early 18th century, which laid th...
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Narratives of Loving Resistance
Ariadne Press (US)£13.99| /The two stories contained in this edition -- 'Love at First Sight: A Recollection' and 'History of a Promise' -- reveal Erich Hackl's unique and lu...
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Neo-Latin Contexts in Croatia and Tyrol
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Co.KG£80.99| /Research during the last decades has demonstrated the critical importance of Neo-Latin literature for the formation of cultural identities on both ...
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New Intersections
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£18.99| /These essays deliver innovative and valuable aspects for a new reading of parts of late 19th century Latin American cultural critique, but above al...
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New Play Development
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£23.99| /"This is a book for dramaturgs of new work, but it is also a particularly effective book for anyone working on new plays: playwrights, directors, p...
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New Studies of the Autograph Manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Neuva coronica y buen gobierno
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /In 2001 the Royal Library in Copenhagen launched a digital facsimile on the Internet of the unique manuscript Nuevà corónica from 1616 by the ethni...
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Nightingale in the Garden of Love
Anqa Publishing (UK)£15.95| /This is a translation of the spiritual poems of one of the greatest Ottoman Sufi masters, Mehmed Muhyiddin Üftade (1490-1580). Üftade was born and ...
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Nikephoros
Weidmann£93.99| /In June 2014, to mark the appearance of volume 25 of the journal NIKEPHOROS, a conference was held in Graz on the theme of sport in antiquity. It d...
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Noctes Atticae
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£38.99| /Noctes Atticae - Articles on Greco--Roman Antiquity & its Nachleben
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Nordic Light
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)£20.45| /"Nordic Light" mainly comprises Scandinavian contributions to two conferences convened by The International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies ...
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Nordic Orientalism
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /This book explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian 19th century nation-building. The project queries Edward Said'...
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