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Penguin Putnam Inc Dead in the Water
Book SynopsisA Financial Times Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the Year“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale “A fascinating read. Highly recommended!”-John Carreyrou, bestselling author of Bad Blood Truly one of the most nail-biting, page-turning, terrifying true-crime books I've ever read. —Nick Bilton, New York Times bestselling author of American KingpinFrom award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy—and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all.In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating ex
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Atlantic Books Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the
Book SynopsisWinner of the True Crime Awards Book of the YearShortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***A Financial Times, The Times and The Economist Book of the Year 'Gripping... A startling tale of fraud and impunity. ' The Economist'I read it in one sitting, and I know it'll stay with me for a long time.' Oliver Bullough, Sunday Times bestselling author of Moneyland Inside the corrupt and secret business of global shipping, the explosive true story of a notorious international fraud and murderIn July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked the vessel and set her ablaze. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for the ship's insurer Lloyd's of London, inspected the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. Soon after he started his investigation, Mockett was killed by a car bomb.Through first-hand accounts - from members of the crew who survived the hijacking to the ex-London detectives turned private investigators seeking to solve Mockett's murder - award-winning reporters Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel piece together the explosive true story behind one of the most brazen financial frauds in history.Trade ReviewDead in the Water has the feel of a thriller, but also laudably explains the complexity - and corruption - of the world of international shipping. * The Times, Books of the Year *A triumphant example of what happens when editors give reporters the time to pull at such a story's threads until the deceptions unravel. The result is in part a well-written, well-paced thriller. But it is also a morality tale. * Financial Times *A remarkable story... Books about merchant shipping are rarely so gripping * The Economist *With fine attention to detail and great storytelling skill... Dead in the Water is a first-class piece of reportage. * Literary Review *A masterpiece... Enlightening and thoroughly engaging. * Mark Bowden, New York Times *Brilliant * Daily Telegraph *Campbell and Chellel bring a thriller-like pace to the action. * Money Week *A fascinating read. Highly recommended! * John Carreyrou, bestselling author of Bad Blood *This is a tale of greed, murder, fraud, complacency, exploitation and hypocrisy, right in the centre of our societies. It's modern capitalism in microcosm, and it's written like a thriller. I read it in one sitting, and I know it'll stay with me for a long time. What a cracker. * Oliver Bullough, Sunday Times bestselling author of Moneyland *Campbell and Chellel's story of pirates and perfidy veers all over the world and includes a cast of characters of salty seafarers, hard-driving maritime salvors, commercial adjudicators and barristers, insurance men, detectives and hired thugs. Cantankerous investigations in the City of London are followed by high-speed chases in the Greek mountains and hush-hush whistleblower meetings in the Philippines. When you really understand its inner workings, the insurance industry is enthralling. -- Laleh Khalili * London Review of Books *A triumph of investigative journalism. * Tom Wright, Sunday Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale *Truly one of the most nail-biting, page-turning, terrifying true-crime books I've ever read. It will make you never want to sail on the open seas again. * Nick Bilton, New York Times bestselling author of American Kingpin *Dead in the Water is a brilliant exposé of corruption and malfeasance on the high seas. By telling the story of a single ship, the Brilliante Virtuoso, and the complex sequence of events that led to its destruction, Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel reveal the darkest secrets of an industry that makes the modern world go round. * Ian McGuire, bestselling author of The North Water *At once devastating and riveting, Dead in the Water is a story of human tragedy and a skilled investigation of crime, money, and power. Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel have written an urgent, essential book about the hidden relationships that underpin the global economy - and the brutal cost of getting in their way. * Katie Engelhart, author of The Inevitable *Dead in the Water gripped me from the beginning and refused to let go. Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel have written a spectacular book about business, shipping, piracy and international intrigue that will make you never look at buying fast fashion or filling up your gas tank the same way again. * Katherine Howe, New York Times bestselling co-author of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of An American Dynasty *If you want to understand the finance industry's role in global dysfunction, then read this book. -- Carson Block, Founder, Muddy Waters ResearchTable of Contents1: A LUCKY LAND 2: THE GATE OF TEARS 3: INTRUDERS 4: DISTRESS SIGNALS 5: A BRAVER WORLD 6: THE TALLEST MAN IN YEMEN 7: EVIDENCE, DEAR BOY 8: SHOCK WAVES 9: AN UPSTANDING CONSTABLE 10: FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA 11: NO CURE, NO PAY 12: HOT FROGS 13: BELOW THE SURFACE 14: WAR RISKS 15: METAL MICKEY 16: CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE 17: MARKED 18: SUPER MARIO 19: AN UNRELIABLE WITNESS 20: BEARING GIFTS 21: I'M NOT AFRAID 22: ZULU 2 23: TWO GREEK GUYS 24: THE JOB 25: DON'T LEAVE THE HOUSE 26: JUDGMENT 27: THE CAPTAIN
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats Oxford
Book SynopsisThe forty-two chapters in this book consider Yeats''s early toil, his practical and esoteric concerns as his career developed, his friends and enemies, and how he was and is understood. This Handbook brings together critics and writers who have considered what Yeats wrote and how he wrote, moving between texts and their contexts in ways that will lead the reader through Yeats''s multiple selves as poet, playwright, public figure, and mystic. It assembles a variety of views and adds to a sense of dialogue, the antinomian or deliberately-divided way of thinking that Yeats relished and encouraged. This volume puts that sense of a living dialogue in tune both with the history of criticism on Yeats and also with contemporary critical and ethical debates, not shirking the complexities of Yeats''s more uncomfortable political positions or personal life. It provides one basis from which future Yeats scholarship can continue to participate in the fascination of all the contributors here in the satisfying difficulty of this great writer.Table of ContentsPreface Part 1. Such Friends: Predecessors and Collaborators 1: Claire Lynch: Self-Making 2: Seán Hewitt: Fairy and Folk Tales of Bedford Park 3: Peter McDonald: 'Never to leave that valley': Sligo 4: Francis O'Gorman: Among the Victorians 5: Nicholas Grene: Lady Gregory: Patronage, Collaboration, Mythopoeia 6: Joseph Hassett: John Quinn and the Literary Marketplace 7: Margaret Mills Harper: George Yeats 8: Nicholas Allen: The Writings of Jack Yeats Part 2. In and Through History 9: Geraldine Parsons: Ancient Ireland 10: R.F. Foster: The Ghost of Parnell 11: Edna Longley: Renaissance Italy: 'courtly images' 12: Hugh Haughton: Tradition and Phantasmagoria: Dante and Shakespeare 13: Geraldine Higgins: Talking back to history: From 'September 1913' to 'Easter, 1916' 14: Fran Brearton: 'Knights of the Air': Flight and Modernity 15: David Dwan: Revolution and Counter-Revolution 16: Lauren Arrington: Fascist Italy 17: Alan Gillis: The Thirties: 'The day brings round the night' 18: Adam Hanna: The Senate and the Stage 19: Adam Piette: 'Cast a cold eye': Death in Wartime Part 3. From the Global to the Interplanetary 20: Justin Quinn: Tagore, Pound and World English 21: Nathan Suhr-Sytsma: Africa 22: Jahan Ramazani: Asias 23: Katherine Ebury: 'The Scientific Revolution' 24: Cóilín Parsons: Planets 25: Neil Mann: Visionary Poetics Part 4. Genres and Medias 26: Charles Armstrong: Romanticism and Aestheticism 27: Claire Nally: Rites and Rhymes 28: Tom Walker: The most characteristic poet of modern Europe': Modernist Accommodations 29: Jack Quin: Illustrating 30: Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux: Family Business at Dun Emer and Cuala: Collaboration, Contention, and Creativity 31: Emilie Morin: In the Media Part 5. Playing Yeats 32: Susan Cannon Harris: Yeats's Early Plays: Gender, Genre, and Queer Collaboration 33: Akiko Manabe: 'A Country Over Wave': Japan, Noh, Kiogen 34: Zsuzsanna Balázs: Reading the Late Plays: Sexual Unorthodoxies 35: Patrick Lonergan: Playing in Ireland 36: Susan Jones: Dance Part 6. Reading Yeats 37: Stephanie Burt: Imperfect Forms 38: Matthew Campbell: Visionary Comedy 39: Lucy McDiarmid: Masculinities 40: Wayne K. Chapman: Late Style: Art v. Life 41: Warwick Gould: Editing Postscript 42: Vona Groarke: Yeats and Contemporary Poetry: Twelve Speculative Takes
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Anthem Press The Voice of the People: Writing the European
Book Synopsis‘The Voice of the People’ presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the European folk revival of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and focuses on two key practices of antiquarianism: the role that collecting and editing played in the formation of ethnological study in the European academy; and the business of publishing and editing, which produced many ‘folkloric’ texts of dubious authenticity. The volume also presents new readings of various genres, including the epic, song, tale and novel, and contributes to the study of several crucial European literary figures. Above all, it investigates the great anonymous authors of the European folk tradition – in narrative and lyric art – and their relation to the cultural movements and imagined identities of the peoples of the emerging nineteenth-century European nation.Trade Review‘[A] fine collection of essays covering a large scope of time and geography. […] Not least among the virtues of this collection is that it makes one think and ask questions.’ —Arnd Bohn, ‘Monatshefte’ Table of ContentsList of Figures; Introduction – Michael Perraudin and Matthew Campbell; 1. The Impact of Ossian: Johann Gottfried Herder’s Literary Legacy – Renata Schellenberg; 2. On Robert Burns: Enlightenment, Mythology and the Folkloric – Hamish Mathison; 3. The Classical Form of the Nation: The Convergence of Greek and Folk Forms in Czech and Russian Literature in the 1810s – David L. Cooper; 4. Literary Metamorphoses and the Reframing of Enchantment: The Scottish Song and Folktale Collections of R. H. Cromek, Allan Cunningham and Robert Chambers – Sarah M. Dunnigan; 5. Thomas Moore, Daniel Maclise and the New Mythology: The Origin of the Harp – Matthew Campbell; 6. The Oral Ballad and the Printed Poem in the Portuguese Romantic Movement: The Case of J. M. da Costa e Silva’s Isabel ou a Heroina de Aragom – J. J. Dias Marques; 7. Class, Nation and the German Folk Revival: Heinrich Heine, Georg Büchner and Georg Weerth – Michael Perraudin; 8. The Estonian National Epic, Kalevipoeg: Its Sources and Inception – Madis Arukask; 9. The Latvian Era of Folk Awakening: From Johann Gottfried Herder’s Volkslieder to the Voice of an Emergent Nation – Kristina Jaremko-Porter; 10. From Folklore to Folk Law: William Morris and the Popular Sources of Legal Authority – Marcus Waithe; 11. Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folk-Song Revival, 1889–1904 – E. David Gregory; 12. The Bosnian Vila: Folklore and Orientalism in the Fiction of Robert Michel – Riccardo Concetti; Epilogue The Persistence of Revival – Matthew Campbell and Michael Perraudin; Bibliography; Index
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Anthem Press The Voice of the People: Writing the European
Book Synopsis‘The Voice of the People’ presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the European folk revival of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and focuses on two key practices of antiquarianism: the role that collecting and editing played in the formation of ethnological study in the European academy; and the business of publishing and editing, which produced many ‘folkloric’ texts of dubious authenticity. The volume also presents new readings of various genres, including the epic, song, tale and novel, and contributes to the study of several crucial European literary figures. Above all, it investigates the great anonymous authors of the European folk tradition – in narrative and lyric art – and their relation to the cultural movements and imagined identities of the peoples of the emerging nineteenth-century European nation.Trade Review‘[A] fine collection of essays covering a large scope of time and geography. […] Not least among the virtues of this collection is that it makes one think and ask questions.’ —Arnd Bohn, ‘Monatshefte’ Table of ContentsList of Figures; Introduction – Michael Perraudin and Matthew Campbell; 1. The Impact of Ossian: Johann Gottfried Herder’s Literary Legacy – Renata Schellenberg; 2. On Robert Burns: Enlightenment, Mythology and the Folkloric – Hamish Mathison; 3. The Classical Form of the Nation: The Convergence of Greek and Folk Forms in Czech and Russian Literature in the 1810s – David L. Cooper; 4. Literary Metamorphoses and the Reframing of Enchantment: The Scottish Song and Folktale Collections of R. H. Cromek, Allan Cunningham and Robert Chambers – Sarah M. Dunnigan; 5. Thomas Moore, Daniel Maclise and the New Mythology: The Origin of the Harp – Matthew Campbell; 6. The Oral Ballad and the Printed Poem in the Portuguese Romantic Movement: The Case of J. M. da Costa e Silva’s Isabel ou a Heroina de Aragom – J. J. Dias Marques; 7. Class, Nation and the German Folk Revival: Heinrich Heine, Georg Büchner and Georg Weerth – Michael Perraudin; 8. The Estonian National Epic, Kalevipoeg: Its Sources and Inception – Madis Arukask; 9. The Latvian Era of Folk Awakening: From Johann Gottfried Herder’s Volkslieder to the Voice of an Emergent Nation – Kristina Jaremko-Porter; 10. From Folklore to Folk Law: William Morris and the Popular Sources of Legal Authority – Marcus Waithe; 11. Pioneers, Friends, Rivals: Social Networks and the English Folk-Song Revival, 1889–1904 – E. David Gregory; 12. The Bosnian Vila: Folklore and Orientalism in the Fiction of Robert Michel – Riccardo Concetti; Epilogue The Persistence of Revival – Matthew Campbell and Michael Perraudin; Bibliography; Index
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