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The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two
University of Alberta Press (CA)£23.99| /In this, the companion to the landmark volume The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two, George Melnyk ex...
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The Mangy Parrot
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£42.99| /Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José JoaquÃn Fernà ndez de Lizardi ...
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The Mangy Parrot
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£24.99| /Repeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José JoaquÃn Fernà ndez de Lizardi ...
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The Mangy Parrot, Abridged
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The Mangy Parrot captures all of the narrative drive, literary innovation, and biting social com...
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The Mangy Parrot, Abridged
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£38.99| /David Frye's abridgment of his 2003 translation of The Mangy Parrot captures all of the narrative drive, literary innovation, and biting social com...
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The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1980. This reliable text presents a clear and simple outline of Greek and Latin meters in ...
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The Mirror of My Heart
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£42.99| /So speaks one of the many distinctive voices in this new anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been transla...
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The Mirror Of My Heart
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£76.99| /This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart - the poems in Persian and English on facing pages - is a unique and captivating collection ...
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The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253--55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to ...
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The Mongol Conquests in the Novels of Vasily Yan
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£18.00| /Vasily Yan (Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky, 18741954) was a writer of historical novels whose popularity survives the test of time. He was wide...
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The Narrow Pass of Our Nerves
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£34.99| /The book analyzes, from the perspective of the coloniality of power, the cultural and political work of colonial subjects such el Inca Garcilaso de...
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The Office Tower Tales
University of Alberta Press (CA)£19.99| /In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstone...
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The Orestes Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Featuring Cecelia Eaton Luschnig's annotated verse translations of Euripides' Electra , Iphigenia among the Tauri , and Orestes , this volume offer...
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The Orestes Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Featuring Cecelia Eaton Luschnig's annotated verse translations of Euripides' Electra , Iphigenia among the Tauri , and Orestes , this volume offer...
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The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating
V & R Unipress GmbH£80.99| /Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in todays media ...
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The Prince
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /To investigate the imaginative leaps of so agile and incisive a mind as Machiavelli's one needs as much commentary about history, political theory,...
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The Prince
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£47.99| /To investigate the imaginative leaps of so agile and incisive a mind as Machiavelli's one needs as much commentary about history, political theory,...
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The Representation of the Ottoman Orient in Eighteenth Century English Literature
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£28.99| /Noticing the importance of the fact that there is a growing interest in oriental countries and cultures, Hasan Baktir studies in his book the repre...
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The Rhetoric of Womens Humour in Barbara Pyms Fiction
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /In this study of three of Barbara Pyms novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of womens humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, a...
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The Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£22.00| /In this fascinating book, Johanna Emeney examines the global proliferation of new poetry related to illness and medical treatment from the perspect...
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The Sense of a Beginning
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£35.99| /This is the first comprehensive exploration of the openings of novels. With a title that deliberately echoes Frank Kermodes famous book on endings...
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The Spacious Margin
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /The Spacious Margin: Eighteenth-Century Printed Books and the Traces of their Readers draws from the holdings of the Bruce Peel Special Collections...
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The Steel Registry
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£274.99| /The Steel Registry. Characters of Crime Fiction is a celebration of the genre of detective fiction and detective fiction characters. Beginning with...
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The Tale of Cupid and Psyche
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Is Cupid and Psyche a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream? ...
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The Talk in Jane Austen
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /Jane Austen's novels have been widely read and discussed, but one topic that is rarely studied is her use of speech. In this volume, writers from a...
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The Tempest
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£9.99| /George Lyman Kittredge's perceptive editions have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging acco...
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The Thrill of Repulsion
Schiffer£22.99| /This collection of carefully curated lists, articles, and interviews celebrates the beleaguered horror genre across different media while tracing t...
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The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£48.99| /A gripping novel of romance and adventure, the Persiles will moreover captivate anyone interested in Cervantes' development as a novelist; the cult...
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The Trojan Women
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy The Trojan Women about the consequences of war; the victors and the fate of those defeated in ...
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£11.99| /Like previous editions in the New Kittredge Shakespeare series, this edition of The Two Noble Kinsme n takes George Lyman Kittredge's text as its b...
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The Two Romanticisms and Other Essays
Sydney University Press£20.00| /The Romantic period is the most appealing but also the most confusing period of English literature for the student. Crucially, this book distinguis...
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The Underdogs
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /In addition to a fresh translation of Los de Abajo , Azuela's classic novel of the Mexican Revolution, this volume offers both a general Introducti...
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The Underdogs
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£29.99| /In addition to a fresh translation of Los de Abajo , Azuela's classic novel of the Mexican Revolution, this volume offers both a general Introducti...
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The Western Literary Tradition
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£90.99| /This compact anthology provides a thorough introduction to the major works of the Western literary tradition from Antiquity to 1700. It includes ex...
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The Western Literary Tradition
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£28.99| /This compact anthology provides a thorough introduction to the major works of the Western literary tradition from Antiquity to 1700. It includes ex...
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The World Cup Baby
Interactive Press£25.99| /Euan McCabe is a football World Cup compulsive. Once a typical rugby-loving New Zealand schoolboy, he was mesmerised by his first sighting of Bueno...
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The Writing Life
Massey University Press£38.99| /A unique, candid and intimate survey of the life and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip T...
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Theban Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the tr...
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Theban Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£35.99| /This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the tr...
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Then & Now
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /These two long essays make up a short book, one full of depth and knowledge, in which Eva Brann gets at the roots of our thinking -- without tearin...
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Theogony
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous notes and annotations to provide the history and ...
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Theory of Literature
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£274.99| /Theory of Literature was originally published in 1949. It is not a textbook introducing the young to the elements of literary appreciation nor a su...
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Thirty-Two Stories
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /America's most influential literary figure worldwide is familiar to most readers of short fiction through only about a dozen stories. This is becau...
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Thirty-Two Stories
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£38.99| /America's most influential literary figure worldwide is familiar to most readers of short fiction through only about a dozen stories. This is becau...
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This Book Is Unpublishable!
Fidelio Press (UK)£7.95| /This book delves into the stories of forty authors of the past whose works, although initially rejected, are today very much alive. Their experienc...
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This Way the Road
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£13.99| /Inspired by working at the Royal Ontario Museum, gifted poet Nina Berkhout spins a catastrophic yet enduring tale of love set amidst the chaos of a...
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Three Other Theban Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae , the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Gr...
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Three Other Theban Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£42.99| /Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae , the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Gr...
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