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Rogues, Widows and Orphans: Mischief and Misadventures in the World of Books

Rogues, Widows and Orphans: Mischief and Misadventures...
Author: Rebecca Lee ISBN: 9781805221180 Format: Hardback	$42.99
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Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare

Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare
Author: Greg Doran ISBN: 9781526694379 Format: Hardback	$50.00
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Shakespeare’s Strong Women: The Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness of His Fiercest Female Characters

Shakespeare’s Strong Women: The Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness...
Author: Royal Shakespeare Company ISBN: 9780008809409 Format: Hardback	$32.99
'If I be waspish, best beware my sting' Read More >>

Shakespeare's Notebook: The Life, Times and Works of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Notebook: The Life, Times and Works of...
Author: Sophie Collins ISBN: 9781837051502 Format: Hardback	$39.99
An immersive account of William Shakespeare’s life and legacy presented in a lavishly illustrated journal-style... Read More >>

Consolations: Timeless Wisdom from the Ancient World for Every Day

Consolations: Timeless Wisdom from the Ancient World...
Author: Irene Vallejo , Charlotte Whittle ISBN: 9781399745659 Format: Hardback	$55.00
Timeless wisdom from the ancient world to dip into every day - from internationally bestselling classicist Irene... Read More >>

The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard

The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J....
Author: Christopher Priest , Nina Allan ISBN: 9781399417495 Format: Hardback	$49.99
This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel. Read More >>

Great Literary Sisters

Great Literary Sisters
Author: Janet Phillips ISBN: 9781851246212 Format: Hardback	$34.99
An exploration and insightful analysis of sisters in literature and their depiction in three centuries of the novel.... Read More >>

Movement, Text, Performance

Movement, Text, Performance
Author: Paul Allain (University of Kent ) ISBN: 9781009684286 Format: Hardback	$142.31
This Element argues that movement, overseen by a movement director, is vital for theatre-making. It can support... Read More >>

Poetry and Opinion

Poetry and Opinion
Author: Vidyan Ravinthiran (Harvard University) ISBN: 9781009549059 Format: Hardback	$142.31
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Writing and Reading Poetry: A Cognitive Poetic Approach

Writing and Reading Poetry: A Cognitive Poetic Approach...
Author: Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University) , Kimberley Pager-McClymont (University of Aberdeen’s International Study Centre) ISBN: 9781009498593 Format: Hardback	$142.31
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen...
Author: Caroline Bicks ISBN: 9781399744522 Format: Paperback	$34.99
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Faith in the Furnace of Doubt: Dana Gioia's Visionary Poetics

Faith in the Furnace of Doubt: Dana Gioia's Visionary...
Author: Joshua Hren ISBN: 9780813239910 Format: Paperback	$46.99
Dana Gioia’s characters and verses cry from the depths, their faith tried—and purified—in the furnace of doubt.... Read More >>

Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics

Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics...
Author: Kir Kuiken ISBN: 9781503646827 Format: Paperback	$73.99
Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to... Read More >>

Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas

Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas...
Author: Emily Gowers ISBN: 9780691257457 Format: Paperback	$54.99
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Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages and Other Economic Curiosities in the World of Harry Potter

Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages...
Author: J Brian O'Roark ISBN: 9781592116874 Format: Paperback	$39.99
Magic can’t fix bad economics—discover why the wizarding world is still stuck in the Dark Ages! Discover the Shocking... Read More >>

Love and Death in the American Novel

Love and Death in the American Novel
Author: Leslie Fiedler ISBN: 9781681379692 Format: Paperback	$55.00
""No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."" Washington Post... Read More >>

There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories

There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories
Author: Brad Watson , Joy Williams ISBN: 9781324123378 Format: Paperback	$32.95
A posthumous collection of beloved and never-before-read stories from a titan of contemporary Southern fiction Read More >>

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings
Author: Sebastian D. G. Knowles , Geert Lernout ISBN: 9780813081311 Format: Paperback	$52.80
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Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions

Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other...
Author: José A. de la Garza Valenzuela ISBN: 9781477333532 Format: Paperback	$80.99
Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate... Read More >>

Narration and Narratology in Modern Persian Literature

Narration and Narratology in Modern Persian Literature...
Author: Alireza Korangy , Sara Khorshidi ISBN: 9789819698325 Format: Hardback	$258.72
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Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: Gendered narratives of encounter

Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts: Gendered narratives...
Author: Claudia Capancioni , Julia Kuehn ISBN: 9781526184429 Format: Hardback	$206.99
This collectionreassesses and revitalises the gendered and gendering debates associated with nineteenth-century... Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey

Approaches to Teaching Homer's Odyssey
Author: Lillian E. Doherty ISBN: 9781603297103 Format: Paperback	$87.99
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen...
Author: Caroline Bicks ISBN: 9781399744515 Format: Hardback	$69.99
An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archives. Read More >>

Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics

Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geopoetics...
Author: Kir Kuiken ISBN: 9781503645981 Format: Hardback	$300.00
Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to... Read More >>

Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine

Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic...
Author: A. David Lewis ISBN: 9781496862266 Format: Hardback	$229.00
An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity Read More >>

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