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'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!'
Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. His...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...'
So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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'I went & sat with W & walked backwards & forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem. I broiled Beefsteaks.'
Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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This edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona offers a complete consideration of all aspects of the text. It interprets the play less as a contribution to a Renaissance literary debate between love and friendship (the traditional academic view) than as a dramatization of...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper Mérimée in the nineteenth century and Anne-Marie Garat in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper Mérimée in the nineteenth century and Anne-Marie Garat in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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Arguing against the prevailing view that Holocaust survivors (encouraged by a new and flourishing culture of 'witnessing') have come forward only recently to tell their stories,Writing the Holocaust examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the first...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-26
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How does one construct a role for oneself in the fourth-century democratic city? This commentary on Isocrates' Antidosis , which includes a full translation as well as an extensive introduction, demonstrates that a rhetorician may do so by assuming roles that subvert...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-05
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The fifth and final volume of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield covers the almost thirteen months during which her attention at first was firmly set on a last chance medical cure, then finally on something very different - if death came to seem inevitable,...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-05
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Cristoforo Landinos Dialog "De vera nobilitate" gehört zu den Spätschriften des Autors. Er fügt sich ein in die während des ganzen 15. Jahrhunderts anhaltende Diskussion über Wesen und Begriff des "nobilitas". Dabei versucht Landino eine Definition auf der Grundlage des...
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Librairie Droz
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2008-06-01
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Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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This is the third and final volume of a series of books devoted to design of Rabelais's Pantagrueline epics. It completes the project begun in The Design of Rabelais's Pantagruel and continued in The Design of Rabelais's Tiers Livre de Pantagruel. Its subject is...
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Librairie Droz
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2008-06-01
Collection :
Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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Sommaire: V. Branca, «Apertura del Convegno»; G. Ricuperati, «La cultura italiana nel secondo Settecento europeo»; S. Moravia, «La filosofia degli “idéologues”. Scienza dell’uomo e riflessione epistemologica tra Sette e Ottocento»; L. Sozzi, «L’idea di illusione tra la...
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Librairie Droz
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2008-06-01
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Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire
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`The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick,' said the Witch; `so you cannot miss it. When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you.'
A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy and her little dog Toto to...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-05-08
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`The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick,' said the Witch; `so you cannot miss it. When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you.'
A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy and her little dog Toto to...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-05-08
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'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.'
George Eliot
Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-04-17
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'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.'
George Eliot
Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-04-17
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This book has two main and connected themes - the conception and articulation of time in the Greek world and the creation of history, especially in the context of the Greek city. Both how time is expressed and how the past is presented have often been seen as...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-03-20
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Argentina's best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's work spans many literary styles and ideological positions. He was influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and also as the poet of Argentine nature. His short stories (Las...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-03-19
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Argentina's best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's work spans many literary styles and ideological positions. He was influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and also as the poet of Argentine nature. His short stories (Las...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-03-19
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This new edition corrects shortcomings of earlier editors by providing a text which incorporates neglected or unavailable material from Greek manuscripts, recently published papyri, and quotations from the orations by rhetoricians dating from antiquity through to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-02-21
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