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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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Perfectionist
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£13.99| /An examination of marriage which follows a pair of academics from Denmark to Sydney as they blunder along the rival paths of career and parenthood ...
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£9.99| /George Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wi...
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Persian Studies in North America
Ibex Publishers (US)£100.00| /Thirty-two articles by leading scholars on the state of the study of Persian literature. Four of the articles are in Persian. These articles were d...
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Personal Modernisms
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Gifford's invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the "lost generation" of writers of the 1930s and 19...
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Perverse Serenity
Spinifex Press£10.95| /When a feminist and a monk fall in love, poetry results.
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Pete the Sheep
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Shaun the Shearer just wants to give smokin' haircuts to sheep; it's his calling. Unfortunately the other shearers on the station don't like Shaun'...
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Petese Stories II
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£60.99| /The Carlsberg Papyri 6 (CNI 29) contains the edition of a new manuscript with Petese Stories from the Tebtunis temple library, dating to the period...
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Phaedo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /A first rate translation at a reasonable price. --Michael Rohr, Rutgers University
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Phaedo
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of one of Plato's great dialogues of Socrates talking about death, dying, and the soul due to his impending executio...
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Phaedrus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects b...
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Pheonix Rising
Goose Lane Editions£5.99| /Sometimes the words are not enough. The structures of language inhibit, prevent the vision. Haiku are keys to unlock images, ideas, and feelings th...
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Philebus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /This translation by Dorothea Frede of Plato's dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge achieves a high standard...
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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£30.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoktetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Philoctetes, an archer who had been abandoned on Lemnos by the rest of the Greek fleet whil...
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Picasso's Artful Occupation
Playdead Press£9.99| /In a gloomy vault of a Paris bank in September 1940, Picasso has been summoned by the German occupation authorities. His precious works of art are ...
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Piled Higher & Deeper on the Cariboo Trail
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£9.99| /Cowboy poet, artist and raconteur Mike Puhallo continues his poetic exploration of the cowboy and modern life. At various times in his life a worki...
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Pinocchio / The Yellow Wallpaper
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /The Yellow Wallpaper: It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw not beautiful ones like b...
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