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Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted. The Tragic Zeus. The Rooster. Prometheus. Icaromenippus. Timon. Charon. Sale of Lives

Lucian, Volume II: The Downward Journey. Zeus Refuted....
Author: Lucian , Professor Peter Thonemann ISBN: 9780674997714 Format: Hardback	$51.95
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Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus. Heracles. On Amber. The Fly. Nigrinus. Demonax. On the Hall. Encomium of the Fatherland. The Long-Lived. True Stories I–II. Slander. Lawsuit of the Consonants. Symposium

Lucian, Volume I: Phalaris I–II. Hippias. Dionysus....
Author: Lucian , Professor Peter Thonemann ISBN: 9780674997707 Format: Hardback	$51.95
Antiquity's satirist supreme. Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly... Read More >>

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value

Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History...
Author: Günter Leypoldt (Professor of American Studies, Professor of American Studies, University of Heidelberg) ISBN: 9780197815113 Format: Hardback	$245.95
Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between... Read More >>

The Last Picture

The Last Picture
Author: Catherine Dyson ISBN: 9781350623002 Format: Paperback	$22.99
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The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel
Author: Julie A. Buckler (Professor, Professor, Harvard University) , Justin Weir (Professor, Professor, Harvard University) ISBN: 9780197520857 Format: Hardback	$419.95
The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian... Read More >>

The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time

The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time
Author: Shaj Mathew (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Hunter College, City University of New York) ISBN: 9780197819043 Format: Hardback	$183.95
It is generally understood that the modern colonial encounter warped the experience of time in the postcolonial... Read More >>

Introducing the Medieval Bear

Introducing the Medieval Bear
Author: Karen Sullivan ISBN: 9781837723751 Format: Paperback	$34.99
Since the Middle Ages, bearshave mostfrequentlybeen seenas objects. For many centuries, Europeans regarded bears... Read More >>

Write That Love Story: A Wedding Celebrant's Guide To Creating Compelling Narrative

Write That Love Story: A Wedding Celebrant's Guide To...
Author: Veronika Sophia Robinson ISBN: 9781738532483 Format: Paperback	$55.41
A Wedding Celebrant's Guide to writing great love stories. Read More >>

Women and Resistance in the ""Annals"" of Tacitus

Women and Resistance in the ""Annals"" of Tacitus
Author: Caitlin C. Gillespie ISBN: 9781501786150 Format: Hardback	$116.00
Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship... Read More >>

Masculine Births: Milton, Women, and the Law

Masculine Births: Milton, Women, and the Law
Author: Lynne Greenberg , Lynne Ann Greenberg ISBN: 9780810149847 Format: Paperback	$100.32
Masculine Births is a groundbreaking and interdisciplinary study of John Milton's works about women and early modern... Read More >>

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean

El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality...
Author: Alberto Sosa-Cabanas , Jossianna Arroyo ISBN: 9781978846258 Format: Paperback	$74.80
El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera's... Read More >>

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

Somerset Maugham and the Cinema
Author: Robert Calder ISBN: 9780299346249 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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Gestuary

Gestuary
Author: Sylvie Kandé , Nancy Naomi Carlson ISBN: 9781803096087 Format: Paperback	$34.95
A richly imagined, physically charged poetry collection in which history, myth, and protest are transformed into... Read More >>

The Maëlstrom

The Maëlstrom
Author: Paris Bourdain ISBN: 9798318805455 Format: Paperback	$39.57
A profound journey through the psyche unfolds, merging prose and poetry to explore themes of ego death, resilience,... Read More >>

Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century: Walt Whitman, Theodore Winthrop, J. S. Lefanu, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carpenter

Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century:...
Author: Various , Theodore Winthrop ISBN: 9780486855455 Format: Paperback	$26.99
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The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial Literature

The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-Reform China and Postcolonial...
Author: Yawen Li ISBN: 9783032081308 Format: Hardback	$343.17
The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural... Read More >>

The Art of Stating the Obvious

The Art of Stating the Obvious
Author: Reg Henry ISBN: 9798892288040 Format: Paperback	$42.21
There is no such thing as a people's philosopher but Duffer O'Grady set out to be one. From his earliest years,... Read More >>

Masculine Births: Milton, Women, and the Law

Masculine Births: Milton, Women, and the Law
Author: Lynne Greenberg , Lynne Ann Greenberg ISBN: 9780810149854 Format: Hardback	$316.80
Masculine Births is a groundbreaking and interdisciplinary study of John Milton's works about women and early modern... Read More >>

In the Forest

In the Forest
Author: Edna O'Brien ISBN: 9780571397495 Format: Paperback	$24.99
A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man. Read More >>

The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness

The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness...
Author: Nicholas Jenkins ISBN: 9780571239023 Format: Paperback	$45.00
A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development... Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature...
Author: Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck College, University of London) ISBN: 9781009690508 Format: Paperback	$64.69
Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written... Read More >>

Molière in Context

Molière in Context
Author: Jan Clarke (University of Durham) ISBN: 9781108717489 Format: Paperback	$77.60
This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,... Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context

Tom Stoppard in Context
Author: David Kornhaber (University of Texas, Austin) , James N. Loehlin (University of Texas, Austin) ISBN: 9781108413046 Format: Paperback	$77.60
Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the... Read More >>

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England
Author: Jonathan Baldo (University of Rochester, New York) , Isabel Karremann (University of Zurich) ISBN: 9781009048330 Format: Paperback	$59.49
The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,... Read More >>

Percy Shelley for Our Times

Percy Shelley for Our Times
Author: Omar F. Miranda (University of San Francisco) , Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts) ISBN: 9781009206495 Format: Paperback	$59.49
Two centuries after Percy Shelley's death, his writings still resonate with pressing societal issues. This collection... Read More >>

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