Literature & Literary Studies
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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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One
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Winner, Governor General's Award for PoetryShortlisted, Governor General's Award for TranslationAn elegant testimony to the beautiful and the good,...
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One Crow Sorrow
Brindle & Glass (CA)£19.99| /Lisa Martin-DeMoor's debut collection of poetry, One Crow Sorrow, is both fearless and vulnerable-an exploration of grief and loss that is rooted i...
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One Step Over the Line
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"We are stepping into unfamiliar territory." This unfamiliar territory is the borderlands of women's histories traversing the American and Canadian...
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Ones Who Keep Quiet
Otago University Press£14.99| /The ones who keep quiet for the longest are the dead, yet there are echoes of them everywhere. A turn of the head brings a glimpse of a Victorian b...
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Opening a Fuzzwollop's Frame of Mind
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£7.99| /In a closed room a group of people trapped by their surroundings accept their predicament. The Eyre, a naïve young stranger, poses the question of ...
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Ophelia Thinks Harder
Play Press (NZ)£8.00| /These 19 characters can be played with a minimum of 9 actors doubling, if preferred. A riotous reworking of Shakespeare´s Hamlet. Featuring Ophelia...
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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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