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Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity offers a thematic analysis of the poetry of the late Latin poet Prudentius, focusing in particular on his descriptions of the geographical and cultural landscapes of late antiquity.
Cillian O'Hogan setsPrudentius in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-15
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'This selection is a ceaseless delight ... there is a treat on almost every page' Daily TelegraphGeorge Orwell wrote, in his words, from 'a desire to see things as they are'. This new collection of his journalism and other writings, including articles, essays,...
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Penguin
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2016-09-15
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How Does That Make You Feel? obliterates the boundaries between the shrink and the one being shrunk with unabashedly candid writers breaking confidentiality and telling all about their experiences in therapy. This revelatory, no-punches-pulled book brings to light...
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Seal Press
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2016-09-13
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The symposion is arguably the most significant and well-documented context for the performance, transmission, and criticism of archaic and classical Greek poetry, a distinction attested by its continued hold on the poetic imagination even after its demise as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-08
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This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-08
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This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-08
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Ajji, can I have some water? … Just a few drops will do, Ajji. With the searing sky above and the blistering earth below, like cactus the people of this parched terrain are determined to stay alive. Emaciated children scurry along, dejected farmers pawn their ploughs,...
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OUP India
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2016-08-25
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Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two areParis Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, andParis Metro Tales, in which the twenty-two stories are related to a trip...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-17
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Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two areParis Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, andParis Metro Tales, in which the twenty-two stories are related to a trip...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-07-21
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This ravishing book opens a window onto the lives, designs, and passions of two charismatic artists. Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat thrilled by the sun-baked cultures of Crete and Knossos; William Morris, a...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-07-07
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“Some aspects of Robert Burns” is a short essay from the compilation “Familiar studies of men and books”, written by Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in Cornhill magazine in August 1879.
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Les Editions de Londres
Parution :
2016-06-25
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“Victor Hugo’s Romances” is a short essay from the compilation “Familiar studies of men and books”, written by Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in Cornhill magazine in August 1874.
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Les Editions de Londres
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2016-06-25
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“Walt Whitman” is a short essay from the compilation “Familiar studies of men and books”, written by Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in New Quarterly Magazine in October 1878.
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Les Editions de Londres
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2016-06-25
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This monograph is a literary study of Lycophron's Alexandra, whose obscurity, a quality notorious already in antiquity, has long hampered holistic approaches. Through a series of distinct but closely integrated literary studies of major aspects of the poem, including...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-24
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'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .'So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school headmaster. For...
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John Murray
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2016-06-02
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Irish music holds pride of place among the cultural attributes defining Ireland, and its role in shaping national identity is undisputed. To question these certainties which tend to convey a restrictive notion of a so-calledIrish music, the firstIrish music studies...
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Presses universitaires de Caen
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2016-05-29
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Symposia
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The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings uses the means of literary biography and criticism to do something rarely attempted--to understand how a key creative period establishes the authoritative voice of a unique artist.The essays which explore this hidden process of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-12
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This monograph is a literary study of Lycophron's Alexandra, whose obscurity, a quality notorious already in antiquity, has long hampered holistic approaches. Through a series of distinct but closely integrated literary studies of major aspects of the poem, including...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-04-21
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When Toby Little was five years old, he decided to write to someone in every country in the world.With the help of his mum, Toby started handwriting and posting letters to everyone from research scientists in Antarctica to game-keepers in Chad and even the Pope. Not...
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Penguin
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2016-03-24
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'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics...
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Penguin
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2016-03-03
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