Literature & Literary Studies
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The Architect, The Physician, & The Poet
Birch Brook Press (US)£15.99| /A love story told through Shakespearean and Petrachan sonnets. Though written in traditional forms, these silky new sonnets strive to loosen ancien...
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The Art for Joy's Sake Journal
Schiffer£22.99| /These beautiful pages invite you to pick up your brush and grow. Kristy Rices joy-focused approach to watercolor art has won the hearts of fans wo...
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The Arthasastra
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /The only extant treatise on statecraft from classical India, the Arthsastra is an invaluable resource for understanding ancient South Asian politic...
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The Avadhoot Gita of Dattatraya Song of the Unborn
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£19.99| /The poem elucidates the universal Self, indestructible, immortal and free from the duality of bondage and attachment, knowledge and ignorance. Read...
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The Bad Wife
University of Alberta Press (CA)£15.99| /Micheline Maylor's The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This is a story of divorce, love, and what should hav...
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The Bearded Bride
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£10.00| /An edition, with stanza-by-stanza commentary and translation, of the late-medieval Icelandic rímur cycle Þrymlur, which is based on the story of th...
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The Beauty of It
Goose Lane Editions£3.99| /The Beauty of It is a collection of fifty-four poems written by a passionate professor and angler for Tuesday night gatherings at UNB.
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the bentleys
University of Alberta Press (CA)£19.99| /In the bentleys, Dennis Cooley, with his trademark energy and verve, has recreated the tensions and themes of Sinclair Ross's classic prairie novel...
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The Birds
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This is an English translation of Aristophanes' greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes back...
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The Black Horse and Other Stories
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /Twelve short stories by one of New Zealand's best-loved poets are collected here. Set in the south, they are spare pieces of prose, showing an eye ...
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The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cécité d'Homère)
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on ...
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The Book of Darkness & Light
Playdead Press£9.99| /Three chilling tales. Two ghostly performers. One thrilling night. Legend has it that many years ago a book of terrifying tales was found. Now, you...
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The Book of Her Life
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /The Hackett edition of Teresa of Avila's spiritual autobiography features Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez's authoritative translation of The ...
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The Book of John Mandeville
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day th...
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The Book of John Mandeville
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day th...
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The Braided River
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.00| /This book explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different cou...
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The Brightest Thing
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /In her first full-length collection, award-winning poet Ruth Daniell offers work that is both earnest and hopeful, even in the face of trauma. In f...
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The Burden of Gravity
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /"In this haunting and disarming debut, McConnell recalls a dark time in BCs history to give poetic voice to the many forgotten residents of the in...
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The Burgess Shale
University of Alberta Press (CA)£9.99| /"The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It's always difficult for ...
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The Butterfly Lovers
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Ju...
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The Butterfly Lovers
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£44.99| /The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Ju...
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The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten...
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The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten...
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The Case and the Canon
V & R Unipress GmbH£66.99| /The concept of a constant reformulation of the canon due to the notion of singularity or irreducibility of the case can be applied in both scientif...
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The Cherry Orchard
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Drawn from Sharon Marie Carnicke's volume of Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes (Hackett), this edition of The Cherry Orchard features Carnicke's ...
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The Cherry Orchard
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£25.99| /Drawn from Sharon Marie Carnicke's volume of Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes (Hackett), this edition of The Cherry Orchard features Carnicke's ...
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The Child of the Sun
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£35.00| /Carmen Sylva, when she discovered that I was writing, instead of laughing at me and being ironical about my modest attempts at literature, encourag...
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The Citizen
Massey University Press£34.99| /Across the globe citizens are flexing their muscles, but they are also battling oppression and discrimination. What can history tell us about the s...
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The Classical Tradition in the Baltic Region
Edition Olms AG£108.99| /Reception of antiquity in Northern and Northeastern Europe is a field of research that is overall largely undeveloped. At the same time, the countr...
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The Comedies of Machiavelli
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy mor...
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The Comedy of Errors
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 Complete Poems and Major Prose
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£63.99| /First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and af...
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The Conception of Winter
Goose Lane Editions£9.99| /Powerful yet serene, The Conception of Winter is about women, their friendships, loyalties, and pain. But most of all it about physical, mental, an...
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The Conch Trumpet
Otago University Press (NZ)£11.50| /Calling to the scattered tribes of contemporary New Zealand, The Conch Trumpet sounds the signal to listen close, critically, and "in alert reverie...
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The Convent Mermaid
Digital Publishing Centre£19.99| /Rod Usher's third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss. Many of the poems spring from his long experience as a jo...
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The Copenhagen Bohun Manuscripts
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /This book provides a detailed analysis of the components of two exquisitely illuminated fourteenth-century English manuscripts, the Hours of the Vi...
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