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Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa's...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-05-19
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'I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.'
The Sin of Abbé Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of constant prayer, but...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-05-04
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Letters of hope, passion and courage, written in the wake of Trump's election, from some of our best-loved writers, including Junot Díaz, Karen Joy Fowler, Mona Eltahawy, Claire Messud, Celeste Ng, Hari Kunzru and Jane Smiley.RADICAL HOPE is a collection of inspiring...
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Virago
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2017-05-02
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'I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.'
The Sin of Abbé Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of constant prayer, but...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-27
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Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-06
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2017 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZECuba is on the brink of seismic change – but in the age of post-Fidel, post-Obama and post-truth, the country’s future hangs in the balance as it finds itself facing a decisive endgame moment with the new US...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-03-31
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2017 WINNER OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZEIn this quest across India during the recent cash crisis, Chris Newens follows in the footsteps of TV chef Rick Stein in search of divine truth and the perfect curry. Steeped in the smells and colours of south...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-03-31
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2017 RUNNER-UP OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZEIn this sharp, witty essay, written from inside the Indian banking system, we witness the absurdities and mundanities of corruption and bureaucracy, set against a backdrop of modern urban India. In a...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-03-31
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The New Oxford Shakespeare is a landmark print and online project, which for the first time provides fully edited and annotated texts of all extant versions of all Shakespeare's works, including collaborations, revisions, and adaptations. Based on a fresh examination of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-30
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The twelve edited volumes of Orwell's non-fiction, collected for the first time in one invaluable ebook. A rich treasure trove of material, this unique collection includes Orwell's reviews, broadcasts, notebooks, wartime diaries, articles on socialism and censorship,...
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Penguin
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2017-03-09
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At the outbreak of the Second World War Vladimir Nabokov stood on the brink of losing everything all over again. The reputation he had built as the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile was imperilled. In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White shows how Nabokov went to...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-09
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Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-02
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Walter Scott and Fame is a study of correspondences between Scott and socially and culturally diverse readers of his work in the English-speaking world in the early nineteenth century. Examining authorship, reading, and fame, the book is based on extensive archival...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-01
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Walter Scott and Fame is a study of correspondences between Scott and socially and culturally diverse readers of his work in the English-speaking world in the early nineteenth century. Examining authorship, reading, and fame, the book is based on extensive archival...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-01
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At the outbreak of the Second World War Vladimir Nabokov stood on the brink of losing everything all over again. The reputation he had built as the pre-eminent Russian novelist in exile was imperilled. In Nabokov and his Books, Duncan White shows how Nabokov went to...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-23
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Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-23
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A luminous memoir from the award-winning author of The Vagrants andA Thousand Years of Good Prayers'What a long way it is from one life to another. Yet why write if not for that distance?'Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a memoir of a life...
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Penguin
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2017-02-23
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Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of new and original essays in honour of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter.
All of the essays in the volume contribute to a shared project - the exploration of ancient concepts of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-23
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Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of new and original essays in honour of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter.
All of the essays in the volume contribute to a shared project - the exploration of ancient concepts of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-16
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This long tradition would certainly not be a reason in itself to keep or restore the subject, had it not something to do with the subject itself. All of the associations between the past and literature, all of the signs that point towards an essential link between the...
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Collège de France
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2017-02-12
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Leçons inaugurales
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