Literature: History & Criticism
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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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The Electra Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles: Electra
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The Electra Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£36.99| /Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles: Electra
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The Epic of The Cid
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /The Epic of the Cid records the deeds of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the Cid of history and legend. A powerful warrior in the Christian reconquest of me...
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The Essential Iliad
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad , this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological conten...
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The Essential Iliad
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£31.99| /While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad , this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological conten...
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The Essential Odyssey
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£32.99| /This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episod...
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The Essential Petrarch
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. ....
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The Essential Petrarch
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£48.99| /Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. ....
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The Fiction of Tim Winton
Sydney University Press£30.00| /In The Fiction of Tim Winton, Lyn McCredden explores the work of a major Australian author who bridges the literary-popular divide. Tim Winton has ...
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The Golden Ass
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, ...
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The Golden Ass
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£39.99| /Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, ...
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The Greek and Roman Critics
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /A reprint of the University of Toronto edition of 1965.
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The Greek and Roman Critics
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /A reprint of the University of Toronto edition of 1965.
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The Hornbooks of Rita K
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Whe...
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The Human Flow. An Adventure Story
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£26.00| /Looking for a gripping and thought-provoking read? Look no further than this captivating book about two journalists, a Tanzanian, Agnes and Jon, an...
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The Jew of Malta
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£30.99| /This edition answers the needs of both beginning and advanced students: It features the text of Marlowe's play with modern spelling and punctuation...
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The Layered Heart
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£62.99| /This book has been published in celebration of the poet and scholar Dick Davis, dubbed our pre-eminent translator from Persian by The Washington Po...
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The Lays of Marie de France
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /This edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of The Lays of Marie de France ; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lay...
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The Lays of Marie de France
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /This edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of The Lays of Marie de France ; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lay...
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of many classic novels. He was also prolific letter writer. The letters in volumes I and II, cover the years 1...
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of many classic novels. He was also prolific letter writer. The letters in volumes I and II, cover the years 1...
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The Literary History of Alberta Volume One
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /This long-awaited, landmark volume chronicles Alberta writing: the writers, their works, and their vigorous and changing landscape. A must for anyo...
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The Literary History of Alberta Volume One
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /Alberta's contradictory landscape has fired the imaginative energies of writers for centuries. The sweep of the plains, the thrust of the Rockies, ...
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The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /In this, the companion to the landmark volume The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to WorldWar Two, George Melnyk exa...
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