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Ana Kinsella
Literary Landscapes: Dublin

A bibliophile's journey through Dublin's rich heritage, storied lore, and lively craic: exploring bookshops, museums, and authors' watering holes, offering an experience for literature students, Irish nat…

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Victoria Houseman
American Classicist

A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical worldEdith Hamilton (1867--1963) didn't publish her first book until she was sixty-two. …

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Robert J Patterson
Black Narratives of Slavery

Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThis Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people--en…

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Guy De La Bédoyère
The Confessions of Samuel Pepys

A remarkable collection of the most personal aspects of Samuel Pepys' diaries, in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of their publication.The Diary of Samuel Pepys is the most celebrated persona…

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Stephen Yeager
Chaucer's Problem of Prose

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales , key structural moments arise when a speaker shifts from rhyming heroic couplets to address the reader in prose, as well as in instances where prose …

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Megan C Reynolds
Like

"A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language"--

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Mirjam E Kotwick
The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams

The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams , Mirjam…

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Antonios Pontoropoulos
Writing Herstory Through Ancient Greek Letters

Offering the first comprehensive feminist analysis of ancient Greek fictional letters, this book focuses on the centuries between the Roman Imperial period and late antiquity. Through an exploration of mo…

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John Julius Norwich
The Ultimate Christmas Cracker

In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his…

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Shakespeare and Comics

From their inception, 'low culture' comics have intersected with the 'high culture' of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision.Its cha…

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David Streitfeld
Western Star

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove , The Last Picture Show , and Brokeback …

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Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe

What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanctioned and institutional forms of stage censorship in the …

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Thomas Wright, Paul Kinsella
Oscar Wilde, Parnellite Home Ruler and Gladstonian Liberal

This book presents original archival findings concerning Wilde's membership of a Liberal Party club and his views on Irish Home Rule. The findings have significant implications for our understanding of hi…

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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome, J: Three Men in a Boat

Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey th…

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A Companion to Ancient Education

A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices a…

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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Renée Bergland
Natural Magic

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known a…

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Aa Vv
The Passenger: Thailand

"These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home."-The TLSThe Passenger makes its first stop in Southeast Asia. A journey to one of the wo…

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Paul Allen Miller
Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero

Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero offers a fundamental re-examination of the relation between truth and enjoyment as understood in the traditional confrontation between rhetoric and philosophy in Cicero. His …

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