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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 >>

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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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 >>

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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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 >>

Conversations with Michael S. Harper

Conversations with Michael S. Harper

Author: John Zheng ,  Michael Antonucci
ISBN: 9781496861610
Format: Hardback
$254.00

Interviews that illuminate a life shaped by jazz, history, and verse  Read More >>

The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets

The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives...

Author: J. T. Welsch
ISBN: 9781526191991
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Interweaving stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, J. T....  Read More >>

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing of History in the Greco-Roman World

Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus and the Writing...

Author: John Marincola (Leon Golden Professor Emeritus of Classics, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780198979180
Format: Hardback
$246.95

This volume explores Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus within the traditions of Greek literary and rhetorical...  Read More >>

New Directions in the Ghost Story, Volume I

New Directions in the Ghost Story, Volume I

Author: Henry Bartholomew ,  Joan Passey
ISBN: 9783032104793
Format: Hardback
$362.22

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