Literature, Poetry & Plays.
Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran
$31.02 USD
– Sold Outby : Kahlil Gibran (Author)
Cranford and Selected Short Stories (Wordsworth Classics)
$7.05 USD
This book comes with an introduction and notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple, University of Hull. The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing.This new volume...
Daisy Miller: And Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)
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This title includes an introduction and notes by Pat Righelato, University of Reading. Daisy Miller is one of Henry James' most attractive heroines: she represents youth and frivolity. As a...
Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form
$14.10 USD
By Heyworth, Gregory Gregory Heyworth's Desiring Bodies considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Beginning in the odd contest...
Devils (Oxford World's Classics)
$18.33 USD
by : Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author), Michael R. Katz (Translator)
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature: Volume One
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by: Philip A. Greasley The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume One, surveys the lives and writings of nearly 400 Midwestern authors and identifies some of the most important criticism of...
Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory (Library of Arabic Literature,
$18.33 USD
by : al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān (Author), Devin Stewart (Editor, Translator), John J. Coughlin
Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory (Library of Arabic Literature, 22)
$31.02 USD
by : al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān (Author), Devin Stewart (Editor, Translator), John J. Coughlin (Foreword)
Earliest Latin Commentaries On the Epistles of St Paul
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by : Alexander Souter
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
$42.30 USD
Edward W. Said (1935-2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book...
Emblem, Iconography, and Drama
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by: Clifford Davidson Eight iconographic studies by American, Australian, and British scholars that focus on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and on the interconnectedness of their art with the visual language...
England and the Continent in the 8th Century:
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By: Wilhelm Levison
Ethan Frome
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– Sold OutOn a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young...
Euripides Our Contemporary
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by : J. Michael Walton In this accessible and beautifully written study of Euripides, the first study of all the plays of Euripides for thirty years, J. Michael Walton provides...
European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean
$28.20 USD
Over the past decade, scholars have vigorously reconsidered the history of Orientalism, and though Edward Said's hugely influential work remains a touchstone of the discussion, Karla Mallette notes, it can...
Far From The Madding Crowd
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– Sold OutFar From the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy s Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and...
For the Love of Letters
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by: John O'Connell Richly entertaining and beautifully written, here is a passionate case for the value of old-fashioned letter writing in a technology-obsessed world, along with a collection of...
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
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by : Janet Malcolm and Ian Frazier A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as...
Grave Doubt
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by : Michael Allegretto Jake Lomax takes on the case of Roger and Vivian Armis, a couple who have been receiving threatening phone calls from a blackmailer who claims to...
Green Shingles: At the Edge of Chesapeake Bay
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by : Peter svenson Green Shingles offers a unique look at America's largest estuary from one of the region's finest writers that is described as a thoughtful meditation on the...
Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language
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by : Srinivas Aravamudan Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside...
Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry
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by : Robert Kanigel (Author)
Henry Iv Part II (Penguin Shakespeare)
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Continuing the saga begun in Henry IV Part I, William Shakespeare's history play Henry IV Part II charts the continuing evolution of Prince Hal from roguish troublemaker to noble ruler...
Henry Iv Part One (Penguin Shakespeare)
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– Sold OutA history play alternating between the high drama of court life and the earthy comedy of the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap, William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I is a...
Henry VI (The Pelican Shakespeare)
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The general editors of the new series of forty volumes- the renowed Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A.R Braumuller of UCLA- have assembled a team of eminent scholars...
Henry VI Part Two (Penguin Shakespeare)
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Henry VI is tricked into marrying Margaret - lover of the Earl of Suffolk, who hopes to rule the kingdom through her influence. There is one great obstacle in Suffolk's...
How Literature Saved My Life
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BY : David Shields (Author) Blending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Evoking his deeply divided personality, his character...
Imperial Lives and Letters of the Eleventh Century
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by : Theodor E. Mommsen Although numerous texts are available in translation that illustrate the papal side of the Investiture Controversy, few accounts exist that convey the position of secular...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two (Library of Arabic Literature, 15)
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by : Muḥammad al-Tūnisī (Author), Humphrey Davies (Translator), R.S. O'Fahey (Introduction)
Journey Through The Wilderness
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by Moris Farhi Daniel Brac comes to South America to restore a major painting, but he is also on a mission: he must redeem his life-long cowardice and hunt the war...
Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism,
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by : Bill V. Mullen This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to...