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Older Scots: A Linguistic ReaderA full introduction to Older Scots language and literature, with a wide selection of copiously annotated texts from the period. This book enables both students and more advanced scholars to develop a comprehensive understanding of Older Scots, the form of Scots which survives in...
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Modern Masters Volume 13: Jerry OrdwayIn this latest volume of the Modern Masters series, Ordway's life and career are spotlighted as he discusses the work that's made him a fan-favorite, complete with an extensive art gallery. Also presented is a lavish color section, featuring more remarkable Ordway illustrations. One...
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The Celtic Heroic AgeA new fourth edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts - a huge selection including both...
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Greece: A Traveler's Literary CompanionDiscover Greece -- a country that has inspired centuries of travel -- through its best modern writers. Against a superb landscape of islands, rocks, caves, villages, windmills, vineyards, cities, ports, beaches, and ruins, all bathed in the rich light of the Mediterranean, these twenty-four...
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As Is ETextos reunidos de Josefina B ez. Textos en espa ol, ingl s y Dominicanish.Author: Josefina BaezPublisher: I Om Be PressPublished: 02/20/2015Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38dISBN: 9781882161294Language: SpanishAbout the AuthorJosefina Baez (La Romana, Dominican Republic/New York) Storyteller, performer, writer, theatre...
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The Collected Short Stories of Saki'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony...
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Northanger AbbeyIntroduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent. Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour...
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Introducing ShakespeareShakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we...
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Candide: New TranslationCandide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his tutor Dr Pangloss. But after committing an indiscretion and being expelled from his family home, Candide finds himself on a journey that will...
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Sense and SensibilitySense and Sensibility is the story of the two Dashwood sisters, who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of civilized society and the human desire for romantic passion. Elinor is cautious and unassuming about sentimental matters, while Marianne is wild and passionate, falling...
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Dark AvenuesOne of the great achievements of twentieth-century Russian migr literature, Dark Avenues--translated here for the first time into English in its entirety--took Bunin's poetic mastery of language to new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of the Russian cultural...
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The Granta Book of the American Short StoryRichard Ford, who is among the finest of American novelists and short-story writers, edits and introduces this volume. First published by Granta Books in 1992, it became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century -...
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The Adventures of OdysseusAs Odysseus fights to find his way back home after the long and brutal Trojan War, he has to endure harrowing ordeals and adventures, and come to terms with devastating losses. Storytellers Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden's graphic retelling breathes new life into this...
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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science FictionsIn an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late...
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Dead SoulsWith an Introduction by Anthony Briggs. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating...
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MetamorphosisA six-legged nightmare by Franz Kafka.Kafka's terrifying but bizarrely comic storyin a theatrically explosive new version. The ordinary, unremarkable life of the Samsas is turned upside down when their son, Gregor emerges one morning transformed into a monstrous insect. As revulsion turns to resentment,...
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How To Understand Your Bible: A Philosopher's Interpretation of Obscure and Puzzling PassagesIn spite of human prejudice to the contrary, there is but one religion and one truth, and all the great faiths of the world are parts or fragments of the Ancient Wisdom. The Scriptures of the world are the written records devised both to...
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Under the YokeUnder the Yoke is a novel by Ivan Vazov written in 1888. It depicts the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria and is the most famous piece of classic Bulgarian literature. The tranquillity in a Bulgarian village under Ottoman rule is only superficial: the people are...
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The Skinned Bird: EssaysFrom award-winning essayist Chelsea Biondolillo, THE SKINNED BIRD is about all the ways we break our own hearts. In lyric, fragmented essays-full of geological, ornithological and photographic interventions, with landscapes, loss, and longing-Biondolillo travels the terrain of leaving and finding home while keeping her...
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UlyssesAuthor: James JoycePublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 11/01/2018Pages: 512Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31dISBN: 9781731702777This title is not returnable
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