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Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence by Luis Poirot Publisher Comments In this beautiful printing of Poirot's classic work--featuring new scans from newly made prints--we come to know the poet's magical world through his poems, his houses, the wonderful things he collected, and his friends.... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Tretower to Clyro: Selected Essays by Karl Miller Publisher Comments From a great literary critic comes a book on writers and their relationship to the countryside, including discussion of Seamus Heaney, Ian McEwan, Anne Tyler, and more In this essay collection the founder of the London Review of Books turns his... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Great Writers by John J. Ross Publisher Comments The Bard meets House in this illumination of the medical mysteries surrounding ten of the English languages most heralded writers Were Shakespeares shaky handwriting, his obsession with venereal disease, and his premature retirement... (read more) Available October 16, 2012 Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe by Naghmeh Sohrabi Publisher Comments Accounts of travel to far-flung places have deservedly gripped the imagination of readers for centuries. Yet travelogues can reveal much more than the customs of a foreign land; they can also serve as a window into the culture and concerns of their place... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $85.95 New - Hardcover
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The Truth about William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction, and Modern Biographies by David Ellis Publisher Comments How can biographies of Shakespeare continue to appear when so little is known about him? And when what is known has been in the public domain for so long? Why have the majority of the biographies published in the last decade been written by distinguished... (read more) Available January 2013 Your price: $41.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg (Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Literature) by Ian Duncan Publisher Comments Featuring the contributions of nearly all the major figures in Hogg studies, this is the first guide to James Hogg's career and worlds, publishing history, reception and reputation, his treatments of politics, religion, nationality, social class... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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Historical Dictionary of the Beat Movement (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) by Paul Varner Publisher Comments The Beat Movement was one of the most radical and innovative literary and arts movements of the 20th century, and the history of the Beat Movement is still being written in the early years of the 21st century. Unlike other kinds of literary and artistic... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $109.75 New - Hardcover
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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion) by Rebecca Lemon Publisher Comments The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature offers a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination of the Bible's role and influence on English Literature, from Old English poetry through to T. S. Eliot. Including examples from medieval... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $48.25 New - Trade Paper
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Inventing the Enemy: Essays by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years. From a disquisition on the theme that runs through his recent novel, The Prague Cemetery—every country needs... (read more) Available September 4, 2012 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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An Introduction to British Arthurian Narrative (New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditi) by Susan Aronstein Synopsis "Whether discussing how the figure of Arthur was appropriated by Welsh lords to justify acts of rebellions or by English kings to support a centralized monarchy, Aronstein subtly and intelligently recognizes complex interrelationships between... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $85.50 New - Hardcover
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Philoponus: On Aristotle Meteorology 1.4-9, 12 by Inna Kupreeva Publisher Comments Aristotle's Meteorology influenced generations of speculation about the earth sciences - ranging from atmospheric phenomena to earthquakes. The commentary of John Philiponus (6th century AD) is here translated for the first time into English by Dr Inna... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $117.75 New - Hardcover
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The Twentieth Century by Sara Haslam Publisher Comments The third volume in the Reading and Studying Literature series, co-published with the Open University, introduces students to modernism and to the globalisation of English in the twentieth century. Each period is discussed in terms of an overarching... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $138.95 New - Hardcover
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Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War (Translation/Transnation) by Andrew N. Rubin Publisher Comments "This is a brilliant and highly original investigation of how Cold War politics shaped the emergence of world literature and new forms of cultural authority, literary consecration, and political surveillance in the aftermath of the Second World War. Eye... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $49.75 New - Hardcover
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Poetic Language: Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present by Tom Jones Publisher Comments The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspective. In a series of 12 chapters, exemplary poems - by Walter Ralegh, John Milton, William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Frank... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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How to Do Things with Fictions by Joshua Landy Publisher Comments Why does Mark's Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why are Beckett's novels so inscrutable? And why don't stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits anymore? In a series of captivating chapters on Mark, Plato... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick by George Cotkin Publisher Comments Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $23.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Greek Idea: The Formation of National and Transnational Identities (International Library of Political Studies) by Maria Koundoura Publisher Comments Greece today finds itself caught on a turbulent edge of Europe, yet both high culture and popular myth have long placed Greece as a locus of Western civilization, reinforced by English travellers' 'discovery' of Greece in the late-eighteenth century and... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $50.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Hunt for Optimism by Viktor Shklovsky Publisher Comments Begun in 1929 under the title "New Prose," and drastically revised after Vladimir Mayakovsky's sudden death, A Hunt for Optimism (1931) circles obsessively around a single scene of interrogation in which a writer is subjected to a show trial for his... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs by Josephine Metcalf Publisher Comments A close examination of the emergence of three Los Angeles gangland autobiographies and their literary... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $68.50 New - Hardcover
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The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing (Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature) by Glenda Norquay Publisher Comments By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which women lived and wrote. It places the work of established writers such as... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $139.25 New - Hardcover
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