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London Literature, 1300-1380
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Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England
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Until the Reformation, almost all sermons were written down in Latin. Based on the extant manuscripts, this is the first systematic description and analysis of such collect... [Read more]
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The Complete Works of Artemus Ward
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The Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
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Novel Notes
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume II (1843-1858)
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Was it Heaven? Or Hell?
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Addresses, Messages, and Replies
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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume V (1858-1862)
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From Dickens to Dracula
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Gail Turley Houston examines how the language and imagery of economics are transformed in Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of t... [Read more]
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Who I was Supposed To Be
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Behind every face in Who I Was Supposed to Be, Susan Perabo's incandescent, devilishly hilarious debut short story collection, there is something simmering, a singular quir... [Read more]
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Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith
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One of the most popular poets of her time, Charlotte Smith revived the sonnet form in England, influencing Wordsworth and Keats. Equally popular as a novelist, she experime... [Read more]
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Birth Of Rhetoric
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Plutarch and the Historical Tradition
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These essays offer diverse perspectives on the biographical techniques and appropriation of sources for the use and reshaping of historical tradition by one of the most pro... [Read more]
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Poetics
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Aristotle's classic work on the art of storytelling, literature and the dramatic arts. [Read more]
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Funny Letters from Famous People
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In this humorous collection of celebrity wit, acclaimed broadcaster and humorist Charles Osgood offers witticisms penned by luminaries ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Andy ... [Read more]
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Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England
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Christopher Warley argues that the formal tensions of the Renaissance sonnet sequence allowed poets to describe and invent new kinds of social distinction. Warley examines ... [Read more]
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Routledge Dance Studies Reader
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Represents the range and diversity of writings on dance from the mid-to-late 20th century, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance, postmodern 'movement... [Read more]
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Strip Show
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Katherine Liepe-Levinson has spent three years researching heterosexual female and male striptease in North America: this is the first full length theoretically informed st... [Read more]
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Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance
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This outstanding collection includes key texts by theorists such as Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan and Lynda Hart and interviews with practitioners including Anna Deveare Smith... [Read more]
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Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag is one of America's most prolific and important 20th century authors. Known for her philosophical writings on American culture, this volume is an exhaustive co... [Read more]
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Letters of Travel (1892-1913)
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A collection of letters from the volumes ""From Tideway to Tideway, "" ""Letters to the Family, "" and ""Egypt of the Magi... [Read more]
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The Complete Essays Of John Galsworthy
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A complete collection of the essays of John Galsworthy. [Read more]
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The Letters of Pliny the Younger
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The Letters of Pliny, a prominent lawyer, administrator and landowner of ancient Rome. [Read more]
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39 Microlectures
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39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance is a collection of miniature stories, parables, musings and thinkpieces on the nature of reading, writing, art, collaboration,... [Read more]
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The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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A Modest Proposal, The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
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A collection of works by Jonathan Swift which includes A Modest Proposal and The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces. [Read more]
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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon
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Sartor Resartus
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Carlyle's breakthrough work, Sartor Resartus, was published in 1833-34. It was a disguised spiritual autobiography, in which he faces the tendencies to intellectual skeptic... [Read more]
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The Conduct of Life
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The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow
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Essays and Lectures
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The Journal of George Fox
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The Ethics of the Dust
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Notes on the State of Virginia
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Feasting the Heart
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In the fall of 1993, Alice Winkler of National Public Radio's ""Morning Edition"" asked Reynolds Price to write a short story for a Christmas morning br... [Read more]
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Perspectives on Embodiment
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This collection of essays defy arbitrary distinctions between nature and culture and reveal the complex ways in which nature and culture interact to produce embodied subjects. [Read more]
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The George Sand - Gustave Flaubert Letters
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A collection of letters between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert. [Read more]
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Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus
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Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocrit... [Read more]
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The Little Book of Books
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Designed for those who don't know Harry Potter from Harold Pinter, this small book of literature aims to be a complete pocket library. [Read more]
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Letters of Anton Chekhov
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Selected Essays
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Transcribed by R.N. Robinson from the Travellers Library Edition (Jonathan Cape 1927) this edition of Butler's Selected Essays contains a sketch of his life by Henry Festin... [Read more]
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Italy Revisited
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Unto This Last
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Personal Narrative: Volume 2
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Souvenirs de la Maison des Morts
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Les forcats heros des Souvenirs de la maison des morts sont des criminels par accident, comme Alexandre Petrovitch Goriantchikov lui-meme. [Read more]
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William Dean Howells
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Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist traditi... [Read more]
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Sesame and Lilies
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Milton and the Idea of the Fall
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In Paradise Lost (1667), Milton produced the most magnificent poetic account ever written of the biblical Fall of man. In this wide-ranging study, William Poole analyses th... [Read more]
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Invisible Giants
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Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two ... [Read more]
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Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
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The Songs of Robert Burns
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The Songs of Robert Burns were, in their author's eyes, the crown of his achievement as a poet. Donald Low, the leading expert on Burns' songs has brought together for the ... [Read more]
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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume VI (1862-1863)
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From A Roman Note-Book
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Personal Narrative: Volume 1
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John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture
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Inspired by the example of Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated the great political questions of his time in his poetry, prose and translations. Maura Nolan offers a... [Read more]
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Murder by the Book?
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A thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. A pioneering work in the field and an indispensable ... [Read more]
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Shiksa Goddess
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Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New Yorks cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is unive... [Read more]
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Textual Practice. Volume 1 Number 2
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Dangerous Intimacy
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The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wron... [Read more]
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Propertius in Love
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These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are amongst the best of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, who was born around 50 BC, a contemporary of Ovid, ... [Read more]
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Narrative and Media
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This book explains the essentials of narrative theory by applying it to media texts which are very accessible to student readers, particularly film, television, and adverti... [Read more]
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Elise Ou La Vraie Vie
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Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. [Read more]
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From Normandy To The Pyrenees
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The Kings and Queen of England With Other Poems
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A collection of poems written, in the author's own words, hastily from the impulse of the moment, for her own entertainment, and that of her youngest grand-daughter, withou... [Read more]
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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume IV (The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Part II)
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Note-Book of Anton Chekhov
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The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Personal Narrative: Volume 3
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A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
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Service and Dependency in Shakespeare's Plays
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This is an unusual study of the nature of service and other types of dependency and patronage in Shakespeare's drama. Attentive to a range of historical sources and cultura... [Read more]
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Nouveaux mysteres et aventures
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Cette collection de cinq histoires contient le suivre: NOTRE DAME DE LA MORT, LES OS, LE MYSTERE DE LA VALLEE DE SASASSA, NOTRE CAGNOTTE DU DERBY, LE RECIT DE LAMERICAIN. [Read more]
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Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism
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Andrew M. Stauffer explores the changing place of anger in the literature and culture of the Romantic period, particularly in the poetry and prose of Blake, Coleridge, Godw... [Read more]
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52 McGs.
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Among his devoted fans, his pieces were known simply as McGs. With a ""genius for illuminating that sometimes ephemeral apogee in people's lives when they prove c... [Read more]
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Plato's Lysis
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The Lysis is a particularly puzzling Platonic dialogue which explores the subject of friendship, love and desire. This book challenges the widely-held view that it is a phi... [Read more]
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The Irish Writer and the World
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Declan Kiberd here synthesises the themes that have occupied him throughout his career as a leading critic of Irish literature and culture. This book demonstrates afresh th... [Read more]
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Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel
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Andrew Gibson sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually made possible an ethical discourse around fiction. [Read more]
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Architectural Knowledge
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This important book looks at the relationship between the architectural profession and the built environment in the context of the great political and social cycles in the ... [Read more]
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Alexander Pope
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This selection includes The Rape of the Lock, Eloisa to Abelard, and extracts from The Dunciad and the translation of Homer. [Read more]
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Pages From An Old Volume Of Life
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A collection of five essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes between 1857-1881 includes: Bread and the Newspaper, My Hunt After ""The Captain"", The Ine... [Read more]
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Letters On England
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Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion and literature. [Read more]
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The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman
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A collection of the prose works of Walt Whitman. [Read more]
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Reading Bernstein, Researching Bernstein
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Basil Bernstein's work focused on the way that knowledge is produced, transmitted and learned. He is arguably one of the most important educational theorists of the late 20... [Read more]
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Eudora Welty
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Eudora Welty's writing and photography were the subject of more than one thousand reviews, of which over two hundred are collected here. The reviews selected for reprinting... [Read more]
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Cobb's Anatomy
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Beethoven's Letters 1790-1822
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""Beethoven's Letters 1790-1822"" by Ludwig Von Beethoven is a classic work of literature that can be enjoyed by all. Download ""Beethoven's L... [Read more]
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Voices from the Heart: A Collection of Poems and Poets from Central Australia
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Voices From The Heart is the first volume of poetry published by IAD Press, the publishing arm of the Institute For Aboriginal Development in Alice Springs. Better known fo... [Read more]
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English Traits
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Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War
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Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by analysing representations of masculinity in the writings of Milton, Marvell, Waller and Herrick. Th... [Read more]
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History of the Mind-Body Problem
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This is a collection of new essays on the various concerns that have given rise to and informed the mind-body problem in philosophy. The essays range from Aristotle, Aquina... [Read more]
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News and Journalism in the UK
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This is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of press and broadcast journalism in Britain and Northern Irelan... [Read more]
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The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
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The complete fairy tales of Oscar Wilde which includes the following tales: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Remar... [Read more]
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Manhattan to Baghdad
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From one of Australia's most respected foreign correspondents, this is eloquent and powerful storytelling, and essential reading for all who want a better understanding of ... [Read more]
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T.S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration
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Richard Badenhausen examines the crucial role collaboration with other writers played in the development of T. S. Eliot's works from the earliest poetry to the late plays. ... [Read more]
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A Book of Irish Verse
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Originally published in 1895, this outstanding collection of Irish verse was part of Yeats' campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age ... [Read more]
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The Last Titan
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When Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality - for, as one reviewer put it, its dep... [Read more]
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The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
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