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Greek Fiction: Callirhoe/Daphnis and Chloe/Letters of ChionA collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while 'Daphnis and Chloe' tells of a boy and...
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Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God: (Srimad Bhagavata Purana Book X)The Beautiful Legend of God contains the tenth and most significant book in the popular Indian epic Srimad Bhagavata Purana, which is the principal source for the story of Krishna, worshipped by many Hindus as the Supreme Being. Devoted to Krishna's miraculous incarnation, this...
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The Life of Samuel JohnsonThe most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen moreAt the centre of a brilliant circle which included Burke, Reynolds, Garrick, Fanny Burney and even George III, Boswell captures the powerful, troubled and witty...
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UpdikeUpdike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike--a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work.In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John...
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Twenty-Five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National IdentityFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a highly entertaining and informative book on the twenty-five works of literature that have most shaped the American character. Thomas C. Foster applies his much-loved combination of...
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Beautiful & Pointless"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr's a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and...
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Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic OdditiesThey say you can't judge a book by its cover--but its title can tell you more than you ever needed to know Amazing, illuminating, and gut-bustingly funny, Bizarre Books is the wonderfully twisted product of more than two decades of determined searching in forgotten...
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to the Eagle Has LandedWINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped...
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Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American UniversitiesHow many times have you heard that creative writing programmes are factories that produce the same kind of writers, isolated from real life? Only by escaping academia can writers be completely free. Universities are profoundly conservative places, designed to favour a certain way of...
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Cherilo di IasoIn the current revival of studies on Alexander the Great, literature has until now neglected - also because of the scarcity of testimonies - its 'poetic' side. Choerilus of Iasus, the most important among the poets who accompanied Alexander's endeavours, represents no exception. For...
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Auden and the Muse of HistoryConcentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in light of industrialized murder,...
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Shakespeare's Mad Men: A Crisis of AuthorityThis book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the "originary scene," the scene in which humans became conscious of themselves as symbol-using moral...
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The Death of a Beekeeper: NovelThe celebrated Swedish author's American debut, The Death of a Beekeeper is a gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain.Author: Lars GustafssonPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 11/17/1981Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsISBN: 9780811208109About the AuthorGustafsson, Lars: - Lars Gustafsson is one of...
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Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian FictionAuthor: Régine Michelle Jean-CharlesPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 376Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00dISBN: 9780813948454
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Edinburgh German Yearbook 15: Tracing German Visions of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth CenturyReconsidering the German tendency to define itself vis-à-vis an eastern "Other" in light of fresh debate regarding the Second World War, this volume and the cultural products it considers expose and question Germany's relationship with its imagined East. Germany has long defined itself in...
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Zooming, Zippy Jokes about VehiclesSome zoom around racetracks. Others soar through the sky. Vehicles come in all shapes and sizes. And they make for great jokes that readers will rush to share with their family and friends. Through an engaging design that brings the jokes to life with...
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Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United StatesFirst popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now familiar idea while...
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The Making of Identities in Athenian OratoryFocusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, law, and Council in the fifth-fourth centuries BCE, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or manipulate the audience.According to...
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A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth StroutIncluding an exclusive interview with bestselling American novelist Elizabeth Strout, this groundbreaking study will engage literature scholars and general readers alike.Written in accessible language, this book is the first to offer a sustained analysis of Elizabeth Strout's work. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize...
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Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel: A Study of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, William Faulkner, and OthersThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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