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Persea Books Into the Widening World International Comingof
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Persea Books Inc Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender
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Tin House Books Asta in the Wings Tin House New Voice
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Hal Leonard Corporation Rodgers and Hammerstein s Carousel The Complete
Book SynopsisCAROUSEL: THE COMPLETE BOOK AND LYRICS OF THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
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Graywolf Press TheYellowlighted BookshopA Memoir a History
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Georgetown University Press Modern Arabic Literature
Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to modern Arabic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This title traces its development from the medieval Arabic literary tradition - beginning in the sixth-century with nomadic Bedouin poetry and the Qur'an - through new literary forms adapted from Western imaginative literature.
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Georgetown University Press Modern Arabic Literature
Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to modern Arabic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This title traces its development from the medieval Arabic literary tradition - beginning in the sixth-century with nomadic Bedouin poetry and the Qur'an - through new literary forms adapted from Western imaginative literature.
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The Library of America Norman Mailer: The 1960s Collection: A Library of
Book SynopsisFifty years after the turmoil of 1968, modern America's most turbulent decade comes to life though the collected writings of its greatest literary provocateur.
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The Library of America Norman Mailer: Four Books Of The 1960s (loa
Book SynopsisFour Mailer classics in one volume for the first time, books that crackle with the creative energy and raw passions of America s most turbulent decade.
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Milet Publishing Starting English For Turkish Speakers
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Milet Publishing TURKISH HANDBOOK FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS Milet
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New Island Books A Very Strange Man: A Memoir of Aidan Higgins
Book SynopsisThis is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland’s great Modernist tradition. They wrote steadily during their twenty-nine years together, but their careers could not have been more different: while Aidan focused on fiction and memoirs, Alannah prioritised work that paid the bills. This gave Aidan the most stable and productive years of his life. But as his eyesight failed and his memory began to fade, Alannah became his carer and had to fight to keep her own writing career alive. Drawing from diaries and notebooks, and correspondence with writers such as Samuel Beckett, Alice Munro and Harold Pinter, this is a unique record of a major Irish writer. From the joyful honeymoon years – filled with launches, festivals and visits to their Kinsale home by Richard Ford, Edna O’Brien and other literary legends – to the increasingly difficult years of Aidan’s decline, Hopkin tells their story candidly and without commentary. She shows us how, in spite of all, they remained the best of friends, in love until Aidan’s very last breath. A Very Strange Man is an exceptional piece of writing, objective and authoritative, personal, honest and moving. Trade ReviewI can't remember when I've read such a moving memoir, or one written with such raw honesty ... It’s also compelling; I couldn’t put it down. It stands out for the clear-eyed view of a wife who doesn’t shy away from sometimes portraying herself in an unfavourable light. -- Sue Leonard * Books Ireland *a subtle and memorable book ... clear-eyed and candid, but generous too and wise -- Colm Tóibín * The Irish Times *Powerful and moving. Above all, this is a book about the emotional challenges of caring for someone with dementia – proving that grief really is the price we pay for love. * Sunday Business Post *Your book of the year? So far, A Very Strange Man, by Alannah Hopkin. This is a strangely consoling memoir, and a very rare thing, being an accurate, candid, and moving book about what it is like to be a writer and to live with a writer. I began it the other morning outside in the sun and finished it some hours later, with a mild sunburn and a sense of great gratitude. -- Sebastian Barry * Irish Independent *‘among the richest accounts I’ve ever read of lives devoted to writing.’ -- Rob Doyle * Irish Times *Hopkin’s straightforward approach suits the biographical record, but her writing comes into its own whenever she exercises her gift for topographical evocation: “Every tiny stone-walled field had a wealth of meadow grasses and wild flowers” -- Patricia Craig * The Times Literary Supplement *
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Five Star Publications Twelfth Night: Sixty-Minute Shakespeare Series
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Pushcart Press The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small
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Pushcart Press The Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small
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Pushcart Press Radical Descent: The cultivation of an American
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Pushcart Press Cathedral: An Illness and a Healing
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Classical Press of Wales Virgil the Partisan: A Study in the
Book SynopsisSince its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus. It refreshes the study of Virgil's poetry by comparing it with the detail (normally neglected by scholars) of Rome's civil wars after Julius Caesar's death, when Octavian's survival looked highly unlikely. And it argues that Virgil wrote as a passionate - and brave - partisan of Octavian, who - like a good lawyer - confronted his patron's undeniable failings in order to defend. Awarded in 2011 the prize of the Vergilian Society for 'the book that makes the greatest contribution toward our understanding and appreciation of Virgil'.Trade ReviewToward the end of this book, Powell (Univ. of Wales) sums up his approach as proceeding from ideals expressed to realities suffered.' A striking example of this is the chapter titled 'The Theft of Pietas,' in which the author argues that Virgil, unable to credit Octavian with pietas, creates the image of a pius ancestor, Aeneas, the incarnation of this virtue, which would then be transferred by association to Octavian. Powell himself is much more partial toward Sextus Pompeius--witness Sextus Pompeius, which he edited with Kathryn Welch (2002)--a fierce opponent of Octavian who styled himself Magnus Pius. One of Powells objectives here is to shift the focus of Virgilian studies from individual works to the whole oeuvre and to see one intention in all of them, to defend the cause of Octavian-Augustus. Although he accepts the premises behind analyses of Virgils works based on genre and architecture, Powell sees an overarching political structure. In elaborating this thesis he makes good use of neglected ancient historians of the period--Suetonius, Appian, Dio Cassius. His countercurrent argument is bound to stir up much controversy among traditional Virgilian scholars, which is all to the good. An absorbing read. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty. -- C. Fantazzi, East Carolina University Choice September 2008 Powell is not afraid to use modern parallels that, among other things, demonstrate clearly to a contemporary audience how knowledge of the timing of an event can inform our understanding of it and of a writers' reasons to include or exclude it. He writes in a lucid and attractive style, displaying his admiration for Virgil on every page...' -- D.E. Hill Greece and Rome 2009 Radicalises the study of politics in Augustan poetry...A book rich in arguments which opens new fields to explore.' -- Frank Wittchow Gymnasium This stimulating volume seeks to put the party politics back into Virgils oeuvre...Powell rightly concludes that the success of the Augustan project has concealed the partisan and prophetic aspect of Virgils political stance...' -- Stephen Harrison Mnemosyne '...the contribution of this book lies above all in the compelling argument that the political and military history of the 30s BC is more important for an understanding of all three of Virgil's major works than it is often taken to be... Powell's Virgil is unashamedly pro-Octavian, pro-Augustus... This is not a fashionable approach to Virgil, and doubtless many will resist Powell's political reading. But it will be impossible in future to ignore Powell's careful and detailed arguments for the centrality of the historical context...' -- Philip Hardie and Julia Dyson Hejduk Vergilian Society Prize Committee citation 'Powell's analysis is acute and his reading is coherent and cogent. This is a book full of interest and surprises on virtually every page...' -- John Godwin Journal of Classics TeachingTable of Contents1) Introduction: 'Our Virgil' and the Lure of Circularity; 2) The Eclogues : Sanctuary Wood; 3) The Georgics : the Fate of the Muses; 4) The Theft of Pietas; 5) Recovering Sicily; 6) The Politics of Virgil's Underworld; 7) Sex and the Importance of Misery; 8) Le Grand Absent?; 9) Conclusion: Virgil the Partisan.
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Armenian Research Center The Bois De Vincennes
Book SynopsisAn important work of poetic prose in modern Armenian literature.
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Classiques Garnier Correspondance de la Grande Guerre: Sauver Le
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Classiques Garnier Imprimeurs Et Libraires Parisiens
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Classiques Garnier Diderot Et l'Antiquite Classique
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Classiques Garnier Correspondance. Tome XV: Juillet 1858 - Juin 1860
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Classiques Garnier Raymond Roussel Et La Psychanalyse
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Classiques Garnier Bulletin de la Societe Paul Claudel
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Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner Florilege de Litterature Orale Marocaine
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Classiques Garnier Defense de l'Esprit Des Lois
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Classiques Garnier Mes Voyages
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Classiques Garnier La Cousine Bette
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Classiques Garnier Oeuvres Completes: Correspondance, II
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Classiques Garnier Les Mille Et Un Visages de la Virago: Marphise Et
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Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres Le sentiment va vite en voiture: Recueil de nunu
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Bohlau Verlag Berta Zuckerkandl - Gottfried Kunwald:
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Aschendorff Verlag Suo Sunt Genera Christianorum: Untersuchungen Zur
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Bohlau Verlag William Morris und die Buchmalerei
Book SynopsisZeit seines Lebens fasziniert die mittelalterliche Buchmalerei den englischen Kunstler, Schriftsteller und Sammler William Morris. Seine kunstlerischen Entwurfe wie die Ausgestaltung eigener Handschriften und schliealich sein Engagement als Sammler sind davon beeinflusst. Mit diesem Buch legt Michaela Braesel eine umfassende Darstellung seiner praktischen und theoretischen Auseinandersetzung mit der Buchmalerei vor. Die unterschiedlichen Aspekte seiner Beschaftigung mit Handschriften beleuchtet sie aus textkritischer, stilanalytischer, ikonographischer und wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Sicht. Dabei offenbaren sich die Relevanz und das Innovative von Morris'' Position innerhalb der Buchkunst des 19. Jahrhunderts.
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Der Linguist Anton Schiefner (1817-1879) Und Sein
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Almanach Der Akademie Der Wissenschaften /
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Digitale Rekonstruktionen Mittelalterlicher
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Edition Imorde Asthetik Des Oralen
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Prakash Books Wuthering Heights
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Almuzara Por qué lo llaman liderazgo cuando quieren decir
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BUENAS CHICAS LAS
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Kitsune Books Libro de Las Trenzas
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Atico de Los Libros Concentración Y Relajación Para Niños
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Kitsune Books Guía Práctica Para Pacientes de Covid Persistente
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Koan Asuntos de Venus
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Koan Arte de Vivir, El
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