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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 Measure of Paris
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /Paris remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself const...
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The Meditations
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Includes a translator's Introduction, selected bibliography, note on the text, glossary of technical Terms, and a biographical inde.
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The Melancholy of Yorrick
Birch Brook Press (US)£12.99| /Poetry in a classical mode on the pain of lost youth, love, life...
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The Merchant of Venice
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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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Wartelsteiner GmbH (D)£19.99| /The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602
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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 Mighty Carlins and Other Plays
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /Award-winning playwright Collin Doyle has crafted three gripping plays that display a keen understanding of human relationships, both functional an...
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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 Moon in a Bowl of Water
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.99| /Bound together by myth and music, Michael Harlows The Moon in a Bowl of Water is a stunning new collection from a poet in complete control of his ...
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The Mountain Road
Goose Lane Editions£4.99| /An early collection from the founder of Canadian Literature containing poems divided into four collections, excluding the preface and epilogue poem...
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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 Nibelungenlied
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge—yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character—the Nib...
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The Occupied World
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /In ancient Roman times rituals were performed to sanctify the ground on which new cities were founded. With this invocation, space could then be oc...
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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 Outlines of Our Warm Bodies
Goose Lane Editions£7.99| /Pat Jasper collects memories, peels off their labels, gives them a good wash, and transforms them into insights. She focuses on the "small close sp...
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The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /In this sensuously defiant collection of new poems, the winner of the 2004 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal expands and deepens a poetic ruse. In hi...
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The Paper Nautilus
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.00| /The Paper Nautilus is about loss the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginni...
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The Peasant Prince
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /This extraordinary play for young people is an adaptation of Li Cunxins picture book The Peasant Prince - the true story of Maos Last Dancer. Ad...
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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 Poetic Edda
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc£17.99| /"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be prai...
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The Poetic Edda
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be prai...
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The Politics of Cultural Mediation
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /This collection of essays explores the contact zones produced by the migrations of two German-born cultural figures: New York Dada poet and artist ...
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The Postcult Heart
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /On the eve of her wedding, a mother hands her daughter an unpublished manuscript -- a collection of love poems -- written by the famous poet and ma...
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The Power of Ignorance
Brindle & Glass (CA)£15.99| /Your brain cells are prison cells! Break free with The Power of Ignorance, the smash Fringe play! Join certified Ig-master Vaguen on the road to bl...
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The Power of Women
Interactive Publications£19.99| /While women account for 50% of the population they only occupy around 0.5% of recorded history. When pre-history turned into history, and, as new c...
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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 Project
Playdead Press£9.99| /Northern Holland, 1943. Westerbork. A bleak muddy camp in a bleak muddy landscape. Bursting at the seams with angry worried people torn from their ...
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The Radio Room
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /In The Radio Room, Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen travels space and time, throwing 'thought-lines' from her present-day corner of the world to the anc...
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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 Response of Weeds
Newest Press (CA)£14.99| /Bertrand Bickersteths debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographica...
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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 Romance of Tristan and Iseut
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /The first English language translation of Bedier's classic work in nearly seventy years, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary ma...
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The Romance of Tristan and Iseut
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /The first English language translation of Bedier's classic work in nearly seventy years, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary ma...
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The Royal Collector of Dreams
Fiddlehead Poetry Books£3.99| /From the eponymous first poem set in the world of dreams to the pain of growing up and the people who inhabit the author's life, Gail Fox offers of...
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The Ruck
Playdead Press£9.99| /From the Golden Mile to the Gold Coast: A new play inspired by the real life story of the first UK girls rugby league team to tour Australia. All t...
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The Rudiments of Poetry
Sagging Meniscus Press£22.99| /In reading this vast new collection by the prolific Iván Argüelles, written in ten months straddling 2017 and 2018, we participate in a universal m...
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The Sacking of the Muses
Spinifex Press£14.95| /Muses have been sacked' their role in the pantheon, sold up for some new, real estate venture. When the Muses are sacked, what are we to do? The Mu...
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The Sasquatch at Home
University of Alberta Press (CA)£9.99| /In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. R...
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The Scare in the Crow
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /As Tammy Armstrong rode horseback on a one-month sojourn in Iceland, up rose the ley lines that crosshatched the landscape -- ancient tracks rife w...
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