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Oración fúnebre a las honras del rey nuestro señor don Felipe Cuarto el Grande
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£20.99| /Esta edición/transcripción anotada de un sermón fúnebre en honor de Felipe IV escrito en la Lima colonial analiza el rol del predicador como person...
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Oracular Tales in Pausanias
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)£38.75| /Pausanias' Description of Greece is the only or at least the most important source to more than 60 percent of the oracular tales. This makes the wo...
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Oral Art Forms & their Passage into Writing
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /What happens when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? This collection examines the complex interrelationship betwee...
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Orchid Elegy
Sagging Meniscus Press£9.99| /Matthew Gasda's gorgeously contrapuntal "Orchid Elegy" is a long poem that, like a fugue, moves at once backwards and forwards, joining an impulse ...
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Oresteia
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Meineck's translation is faithful and supple; the language employed is modern without betraying the grandeur and complexity--particularly the image...
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Orhan Pamuk -- Critical Essays on a Novelist between Worlds
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£26.00| /This collection of new essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who -- despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him --...
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Ormond; or, the Secret Witness
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£23.99| /As it tells the story of Constantia Dudley, from her family's financial collapse to her encounters with a series of cosmopolitan revolutionaries an...
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Ormond; or, the Secret Witness
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£57.99| /As it tells the story of Constantia Dudley, from her family's financial collapse to her encounters with a series of cosmopolitan revolutionaries an...
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Other Side of Broadway
Presa Press (US)£18.99| /A D Winans has been around the blocks of San Francisco streets for over a generation as a witness to the changes that mark a society of consumerism...
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Otolith
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, 2018 League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardLonglisted, 2018 League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Memorial AwardOtolith -- t...
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Otros
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£18.99| /¿Cuál es la relación de Ricardo Piglia con la literatura mundial? Este libro supone el primer estudio de conjunto sobre la forma en que el escritor...
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Out All Day
Ronsdale Press (CA)£12.99| /Acclaimed for his superior craftsmanship (half the meaning of a lyric poem is in the music) and his summoning of sentiment without sentimentality, ...
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Out Here
Rocky Mountain Books£20.99| /Carolyn Highlands outdoor writing will drive readers and outdoor enthusiasts to get outside and experience all that the natural world has to offer...
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Out of School
Sammon Publishing Limited (UK)£10.99| /A tongue-in-cheek, vividly brilliant anthology of schoolyard experiences, written and illustrated by the pupils and teachers of transatlantic schoo...
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Out of the Dark
Ronsdale Press (CA)£13.99| /This collection offers a cycle of poems about the poet who, as a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, has had to live with the memories of the Holo...
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Outline of Russian Literature
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£54.99| /Russian literature begins with the nineteenth century, that is to say with the reign of Alexander I. It was then that the literary fruits on which ...
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Ova Aves
Anchorage Press£26.99| /This large-format chapbook includes 13 full-colour reproductions of Holownia's photographs, accompanied by 13 poems by Nova Scotia naturalist and p...
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Over all the Mountain Tops
Ariadne Press (US)£17.99| /This play is Thomas Bernhard's devastating satire on the business of literature. The novelist Moritz Meister, after years of neglect, has finally a...
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Oxford Version of the Achilleid
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£14.99| /Complete edition of the three known versions of the romance.
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Pacific Rim Letters
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£26.99| /Pacific Rim Letters by Roy Kiyooka at once a document and a creative work, personal meditation and cultural manifesto, it engages the reader with K...
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Painting Symphony
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£19.99| /The fusion of colours, music, dance, lyrics, songs, rhyme, rhythm and melody in this book is magnificent and the exotic fiction in verses will sure...
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Painting With Words
Manor House Publishing (CA)£23.99| /Dr. Ian Prattis, critically acclaimed author of Failsafe; New Planet, New World; and Our World is Burning, now offers Painting With Words, a collec...
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Painting With Words
Manor House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Dr Ian Prattis, critically acclaimed author of Failsafe; New Planet, New World; and Our World is Burning, now offers Painting With Words, a collect...
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Pals leizla
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£10.00| /Edition, with parallel text translation, of the Old Norse account of the Vision of St Paul and its Latin analogue.
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Paper Caskets
Newest Press (CA)£14.99| /Emilia Danielewska's debut book of prose-poetry reveals the dead. Here is work startling in its clarity, which exposes, as a photograph does, the c...
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Parables from Parallel Places
Clinical Press (UK)£6.99| /Cats that are both alive and dead, levitating shoes, gods of war, gods of love and discarded gods. Allegorical tales of weird worlds where the lead...
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Paradise Lost
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£43.99| /Since its publication by Odyssey Press in 1935, Hughes's richly annotated edition--revised in 1962--emains the preferred text of many instructors.
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Paradise Lost
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /Since its publication by Odyssey Press in 1935, Hughes's richly annotated edition--revised in 1962--emains the preferred text of many instructors.
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Paradise Lost
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Paradise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. ...
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Paradise, Later Years
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /Marion Quednaus collection Paradise, Later Years plays with the language of juxtaposition, nothing is straight on; if theres quiet beauty by the ...
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Paradiso
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£20.99| /"The Paradiso concludes Simone's excellent translation of Dante's Commedia . Consistent with the previous two volumes, the translation is accurate ...
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Paradiso
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£57.99| /Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Purgatorio (Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's Paradiso features a close yet dynamic verse tran...
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Paradiso
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£20.99| /Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Purgatorio (Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's Paradiso features a close yet dynamic verse tran...
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Parasites
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Two teenagers fleeing unthinkable dangers find solace in each other amidst the unrelentingly damaging confines of an asylum seeker processing centr...
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Paris Spleen, and La Fanfarlo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Paris Spleen , a diverse collection of fifty prose poems, is provided here in a clear, engaging, and accurate translation that conveys the lyricism...
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Paris Spleen, and La Fanfarlo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /Paris Spleen , a diverse collection of fifty prose poems, is provided here in a clear, engaging, and accurate translation that conveys the lyricism...
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Parmenides
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /"Gill's and Ryan's Parmenides is, simply, superb: the Introduction, more than a hundred pages long, is transparently clear, takes the reader meticu...
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Parmenides
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, ...
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Parramatta Girls / Eyes to the Floor
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /The inmates of The Girls Training School, Parramatta had about as hard an upbringing as you can get in Australia. But theirs is also one of the gre...
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Parthenope
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This collection of studies is a sequel to Hägg's popular survey, 'The Novel of Antiquity' (1983), and a companion volume to his recent 'The Virgin ...
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Passage Through China
China Knowledge Press (SI)£40.99| /This is no ordinary guidebook into one of the world's greatest civilisations. It will take you not through a single passage through China, but thro...
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Passport
DC Books (US)£13.99| /In some ways more of a glimpse-by-glimpse autobiography than a verse collection, the poems of Passport feel like a vivid, bumpy trek out of Newfoun...
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Pastels Are Pretty Much Polar
DC Books (US)£13.99| /This collection is about the syntax of distinction, unlikely comparison and the colorful drama that comes with choosing between actions, people and...
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Peach Season
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoë away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. Th...
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Peat
Otago University Press (NZ)£18.99| /Peat starts out as Lynn Jenners study of the Kāpiti Expressway, built between 2013 and 2017 and passing, at its nearest point, about a kilometre ...
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Pedro Salinas, Guillermo de Torre. correspondencia 1927-1950
Iberoamericana Editorial£22.99| /El presente volumen reúne las cartas que Pedro Salinas y Guillermo de Torre intercambiaron entre 1927 y 1950. El corpus consta de treinta y una mis...
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People's History of English & American Literature
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£61.99| /With special emphasis on literary merit, this book chronicles the literature of the great nations of Britain and America from their earliest origin...
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Perfection
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /"Warner relishes, in each poem, the discovery of the ugly, the reveal of the rotting underneath and inside. The rhythms feel sometimes like heavy b...
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