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This second volume of the letters of Dr Charles Burney follows directly from the first, published in 1991, and contains roughly two hundred letters written between 1785 and 1793. In these years, Burney consolidated his reputation as a musicologist, publishing his...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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When Sylvain Tesson left the colourful yellow houses of the French Riviera for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn't know what exactly awaited him. The trek would turn into an extraordinary adventure.Over the course of...
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Polity
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2025-09-23
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Roman Comedy against the Subject provides an expansive interpretation of fourRoman comedies named after objects--Plautus's Cistellaria, Aulularia, and Rudens, and Terence's Eunuchus. In this book, the titular object provides an opportunity not to reconceive the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-17
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Roman Comedy against the Subject provides an expansive interpretation of fourRoman comedies named after objects--Plautus's Cistellaria, Aulularia, and Rudens, and Terence's Eunuchus. In this book, the titular object provides an opportunity not to reconceive the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-17
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'Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' The New Yorker on Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar BearHow perfect that Tawada's first essay collection in English dives deep into her lifelong...
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Dialogue Books
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2025-07-24
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This edition of Apuleius's fragmentary works includes 62 items which, based on the most up-to-date scholarship, can be attributed with reasonable certainty to the 'lost Apuleius'. In most cases, identifying the ipsissima verba of the author is difficult or impossible,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-19
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Why does the myth of the Fall continue to matter in an increasingly secularised world?
Why do we continue to imagine a point where everything went wrong, and why must we imagine that things were once better than they are now?
Modern political theodicies repeatedly...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-15
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I am gonna write poems tilI die and whenI have gotten outta this bodyI am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground. In the late 1960s, Ntozake Shange was a student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2025-06-26
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Phoenissae is probably Seneca's final play, left unfinished at the time of his death in 65 CE from a suicide ordered by the emperor Nero. It is a work of great dramatic, poetic, and intellectual force, a paradigm of Rome's literature of civil war, packed with the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-06-12
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90 classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin Books‘I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.’Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative stories from the childhood of the legendary Caribbean writer, Maryse...
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Penguin
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2025-04-17
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The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore provides a wide-ranging survey of the oral traditions of the Slavic and East European world. It covers national, ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic, and religious groups extending from the eastern zones of...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-04-11
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'Brims with ideas and insights . . . Ghosh is at his sparkling best' IRISH TIMESWild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the...
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John Murray
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2025-04-10
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Ours is an age of extremely fragmented experiences and identities – a fragmentation paralleled by a growing awareness that we all inhabit a common world. In reality, these two phenomena have a lot more in common than one might suspect: deeply engrained individualism and...
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Presses universitaires de Caen
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2025-04-03
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Symposia
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The Ilias Latina, the title coined by Emil Baehrens in his 1881 edition, is a condensed version of Homer's Iliad spanning 1,070 verses of Latin hexameter. It was likely composed during the latter part of the principate of Nero (c. AD 60–65).
The poem has long suffered...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-27
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
ThisVery Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian.
Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-12
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This book contains Charles Burney's letters from the age of 74 to 80, a period during which he retired from teaching but, far from slowing down despite frequent bouts of illness, continued to write, publishing his last book, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-05
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
ThisVery Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian.
Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-28
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'There's an east wind coming... such a wind as never blew on England yet.'
Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow features a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories written at a time of growing tensions in Europe. First published as a collection in 1917, against the backdrop...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-12
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'There's an east wind coming... such a wind as never blew on England yet.'
Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow features a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories written at a time of growing tensions in Europe. First published as a collection in 1917, against the backdrop...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-03
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Orléans war im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert das wichtigste Zentrum für das Studium lateinischer Dichter der Antike, der auctores. Zu den produktivsten Kommentatoren zählt Wilhelm von Orléans, der um 1200 den Kommentar Bursarii super Ovidios zu allen bekannten Werken Ovids...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-12-27
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