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Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality

Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention...

Author: Lyta Gold
ISBN: 9781593768089
Format: Paperback
$35.00

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The Seven Years Curse

The Seven Years Curse

Author: Mersha Boyle
ISBN: 9798231849918
Format: Paperback
$34.29

From shattered mirrors to spilled salt, from black cats to the number thirteen - every superstition hides a story,...  Read More >>

The Contradictions of Science in Machado de Assis

The Contradictions of Science in Machado de Assis

Author: Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação
ISBN: 9781836245414
Format: Hardback
$310.50

This book explores the role of science in the short stories of Machado de Assis, focusing on works such as ‘O Alienista’...  Read More >>

Folding Rock 003: Undersong: New Writing from Wales and Beyond

Folding Rock 003: Undersong: New Writing from Wales...

Author: Robert Harries ,  Kathryn Tann
ISBN: 9781917631044
Format: Paperback
$33.64

Something is rekindled in the grainy late-night livestreams of the Eras Tour. A fisherman wakes to sing back the...  Read More >>

Un Libro Para Cada Año de Tu Vida / A Book for Every Year of Your Life

Un Libro Para Cada Año de Tu Vida / A Book for Every...

Author: Fernando Bonete Vizcaíno
ISBN: 9786073930765
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Si solo pudieras leer un libro al año, ¿cuál sería? Un recorrido por cada etapa de la vida a través de la mejor...  Read More >>

Insurgent Veins: Indigenismo, Indigenous Literatures, and Decolonial Cracks

Insurgent Veins: Indigenismo, Indigenous Literatures,...

Author: José Carlos Díaz Zanelli
ISBN: 9780822948759
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Insurgent Veins examines the decolonial ideological bridge between the early twentieth-century indigenista literary...  Read More >>

A Concise Companion to World Literature

A Concise Companion to World Literature

Author: Ken Seigneurie (Simon Fraser University, Canada) ,  Paula Karger (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9781394185252
Format: Paperback
$93.95

Provides a student-friendly introduction to World Literature Bridging the gap between introductory materials and...  Read More >>

A Doll's House, Men of Honour, When We Dead Awaken

A Doll's House, Men of Honour, When We Dead Awaken

Author: Henrik Ibsen ,  Laura Kieler
ISBN: 9780198955092
Format: Paperback
$20.95

These three plays tell a fascinating and heartbreaking story, introduce a new playwright (Laura Kieler) to the world,...  Read More >>

Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century

Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth...

Author: Emrys D. Jones ,  Adam James Smith
ISBN: 9781684485772
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Impolite Periodicals brings together a range of perspectives on eighteenth-century periodical publication, not simply...  Read More >>

Inventions on the Brink: Essays

Inventions on the Brink: Essays

Author: J. T. Barbarese
ISBN: 9780807185087
Format: Paperback
$71.50

Inventions on the Brink, a collection of literary journalism by J. T. Barbarese, offers engagingly plainspoken and...  Read More >>

End

End

Author: David Eldridge
ISBN: 9781350609389
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Following the critically acclaimed Beginning and Middle, End is the final play in David Eldridge’s trilogy exploring...  Read More >>

Fruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems

Fruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems

Author: Mihaela Moscaliuc ,  Michael Waters
ISBN: 9798217007189
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A unique anthology of poems from around the world and through the ages that celebrate fruits, vegetables, grains,...  Read More >>

On Qian Zhongshu’s Conceptualization of Translation: Bridging Worlds between the East and the West

On Qian Zhongshu’s Conceptualization of Translation:...

Author: Chang, Chung-An
ISBN: 9781032446288
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book brings new perspective and insights to the discipline of translation studies at a time when Western theories...  Read More >>

Page to Pulse. A Guide to Mass Hysteria for Writers of Horror, Dark Fantasy, & the Weird

Page to Pulse. A Guide to Mass Hysteria for Writers...

Author: Monica Carroll
ISBN: 9780648403692
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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The New York Saturday Press Omnibus Edition

The New York Saturday Press Omnibus Edition

Author: Mark Crane ,  Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9781967987023
Format: Hardback
$184.77

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When Books Go Bad: Tales of Literary Feuds, Publishing Errors and Withering Reviews

When Books Go Bad: Tales of Literary Feuds, Publishing...

Author: Alex Johnson
ISBN: 9780712355834
Format: Hardback
$29.99

Explores the scandalous and salacious side of literary history, tapping into the perennial interest in literary...  Read More >>

Love Letters

Love Letters

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN: 9781835526071
Format: Paperback
$39.57

""Love Letters"" is a collection of personal correspondence between Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia, spanning...  Read More >>

Marginal Matters: Explorations into Commenting and Glossing Techniques in Arabic Manuscript Cultures

Marginal Matters: Explorations into Commenting and Glossing...

Author: Stefanie Brinkmann
ISBN: 9789004720688
Format: Hardback
$427.68

For centuries, scribes and users have left notes in the margins of manuscripts. This volume examines commentary...  Read More >>

Erasing and Rewriting in Manuscript Cultures: Practices of Text Obliteration and Manuscript Reuse in a Global Perspective

Erasing and Rewriting in Manuscript Cultures: Practices...

Author: Michele Cammarosano
ISBN: 9783111682730
Format: Hardback
$348.45

Rewritable media, typically used for learning to write, taking notes, and running accounts, have important implications...  Read More >>

Dionysus’ Victim: The Pentheus Myth beyond Euripides

Dionysus’ Victim: The Pentheus Myth beyond Euripides...

Author: Bartłomiej Bednarek
ISBN: 9789004743861
Format: Hardback
$369.60

This book investigates ancient texts of culture about Pentheus, providing a detailed analysis of the stylistic and...  Read More >>

Two Anonymous Byzantine Romances about the Trojan War: The Tale of Achilles and the Tale of Troy

Two Anonymous Byzantine Romances about the Trojan War:...

Author: Adam J. Goldwyn (North Dakota State University, USA) ,  Dimitra Kokkini (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032980775
Format: Hardback
$137.11

This volume provides the first English translations of The Tale of Troy and The Tale of Achilles, two medieval Greek...  Read More >>

Global Bunyan and Visual Art

Global Bunyan and Visual Art

Author: Angelica Duran ,  Katherine Calloway
ISBN: 9781666960792
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This book showcases the vibrant afterlife of the foundational English author John Bunyan in book illustrations,...  Read More >>

Handbuch Literaturkritik: Geschichte - Systematik - Praxis

Handbuch Literaturkritik: Geschichte - Systematik -...

Author: Christoph auf der Horst ,  Sabine Brenner-Wilczek
ISBN: 9783476060174
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Literaturkritik hat heute zwischen feuilletonistischer Debatte, YouTube-Kanal und universitärem Seminar viele neue...  Read More >>

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