Literature & Literary Studies
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Not Quite a Memoir
Silman-James Press (US)£30.99| /This is a unique collection of pieces about the many filmmakers and writers from around the globe -- Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East --...
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Notes From Other Worlds
Playdead Press£9.99| /11 characters in 11 dramatic puzzles. Well, more if you count the hiveminds. A Series of Voices in a Science Fiction Age - a Collection of Notes fr...
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Nothing But Brush Strokes
Newest Press (CA)£19.99| /This collection chronicles Phyllis Webb's struggle with the creative process and her intense need to probe beneath the surface of things. "The subj...
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Nothing For It But to Sing
Otago University Press (NZ)£11.50| /Michael Harlows poems are small detonations that release deeply complex stories of psychological separations and attractions, of memory and desire...
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Nouns, verbs, etc.
Otago University Press£18.00| /One of New Zealands most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The B...
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Novel and Other Poems
Aiora Press£12.99| /Often compared during his lifetime to T.S. Eliot, whose work he translated and introduced to Greece, George Seferis is noted for his spare, laconic...
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Novelness of Bakhtin
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /During the last 30 years, the Russian thinker M M Bakhtin has achieved great international recognition for his work with -- among other subjects --...
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Now, the Memory
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /A cache of the brooding imagery and strength characteristic of Gotro's poetry.
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Nunca mayor sobervia comidió Luçifer
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£22.99| /Analiza por primera vez la representación del concepto de conocimiento en el Librode Alexandre, poema castellano escrito en cuaderna vía durante el...
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Nurse to the Imagination
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.95| /This book illustrates the contribution made to New Zealand letters by our oldest and most prestigious literary fellowship. Edited and introduced by...
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Obama the Mamba
Playdead Press£7.99| /"My brother has risen to be leader of the most powerful country in the world. My aim, in Kenya, is to be a leader amongst the poorest people on ear...
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Obras completas, vol. IX
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£68.99| /Tras unos años de interrupción, Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert continúa la publicaciónde las Obras completas de Max Aub. A los doce tomos (en oc...
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Octaves of Narcissus
Goose Lane Editions£5.99| /Inspired in part by classical literature and Scripture, Elizabeth Harper's poems are literate, charged, and demanding in their emotional and intell...
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October
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Tim, an airline pilot and Angela, his young, beautiful wife, live the successful urban dream in a streamlined apartment in the inner city. One nigh...
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Odes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /Horace's Odes enjoys a long tradition of translation into English, most famously in versions that seek to replicate the quantitative rhythms of the...
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Odes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£57.99| /Horace's Odes enjoys a long tradition of translation into English, most famously in versions that seek to replicate the quantitative rhythms of the...
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Odes & Laments
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /Through poems that celebrate the overlooked beauty in the everyday or that mourn human incursions upon the natural world, Fiona Tinwei Lam weaves p...
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Odysseus at Troy
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£19.99| /This book contains translations of three plays:Ajax, Hecuba, and Trojan Women. They are all centered around the mythological theme of the Greek war...
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Odyssey
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic w...
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Odyssey
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his lacon...
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Odyssey
Paul Dry Books (US)£20.99| /"The poem appears in as many guises as Odysseus himself. There is so much power and grace in Homer's poetry that a reader responsive to a few parti...
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Oedipus Retold
Playdead Press£9.99| /Why do we do it? Why do we make these journeys to that smoking crack in the earth at Delphi? We watch for birds flying this or that way, Cringe at ...
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Oedipus Tyrannus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators...
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Oedipus Tyrannus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£25.99| /Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators...
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Oidipous at Colonus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Oedipus who is banished from Thebes and confronts an array of obstacles that stand between ...
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Okonomien des Begehrens, Okonomien des Erzahlens
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£57.99| /In the short quivering narratives of the late Middle Ages, called mars, love and sexuality are "negotiated" in a very literal sense: love and sexua...
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Old Sumerian & Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia II
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This book contains the 'Akkadian Texts' -- i.e. texts written in the Akkadian Language or script ductus -- the Enlilemaba Texts and the Onion Archi...
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Oliver Reed
Playdead Press£7.99| /Im Oliver Reed from Wimbledon! Id say to anyone I met. I out-drank, out-spoke and out-punched everyone. Join hell-raiser Oliver Reed as he share...
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On Crimes and Punishments
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading.
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On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£25.99| /Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydi...
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On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydi...
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On Liberty, Society & Politics
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /William Graham Sumner is the "forgotten man" of American intellectual history. Too often dismissed or only superficially understood, his interpreta...
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On Reflection
Interactive Press£17.99| /This evocative collection sets poems side by side with prose poems that help enlarge the frame of reference for the authors subjects. The collecti...
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On Stage! Short Plays for Acting Students
Meriwether Publishing (US)£17.99| /24 one-act monologues; dialogues; comedy sketches; light drama and serious drama. Prop and costume suggestions, provide the mood and setting.
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On the Nature of Things
Focus Publishing (US)£18.99| /This text is a translation of Lucretius' poem which adheres faithfully to the text, yet with poetic force, accuracy, and humanitas and includes int...
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On/Me
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /Francine Cunningham lives with constant reminders that she doesnt fit the desired expectations of the world: she is a white-passing, city-raised I...
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