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Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters

These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's cha…

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Maïssa Bey,
Blue White Green

Through the lives and love of Lilas and Ali, we see Algeria as it grows into its own independenceFor a young boy named Ali, the first few days of Algerian independence are tumultuous. The changes around h…

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Peter Macsovszky,
Making Skeletons Dance

An introduction to the work of acerbic Slovak writer Peter Macsovszky.Simon Blef, who comes from "a small, stifling country without a sea" in some corner of Europe, has gone to live in the Nethe…

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Arthur Hugh Clough

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), one of the most distinctive writers of the Victorian p…

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Beci Carver
Modernism's Whims

Thomas Hardy asks of the ghost stalking him: 'Whither, O whither will your whim now draw me?' Immediately tripping up on its own laid-out comma, then pausing to howl theatrically, and hedging its bets wit…

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Laurel Brake, Robyn Jakeman
The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Volume V

Studies and Reviews, 1864-1889 is volume five in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater . It brings together, for the first time, Pater's essays, reviews, and articles that were published in the p…

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Henrike Schmidt, Astrid Köhler
The Health Resort in Modern European Literature

This innovative open access book reappraises the health resort in literature from its rise in the late Enlightenment period to the wellness age of the 21st century . Most of the existing body of academic …

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Pablo Neruda in Context

Pablo Neruda in Context includes forty-two essays by some of the main experts on Pablo Neruda's oeuvre that focus on how his places of residence and travel (Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, Asia), the la…

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Nabokov on the Heights

This unique volume features a baker's dozen of essays about Vladimir Nabokov by Boston College students and. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov sc…

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Konopnicka Maria
The Fair Folk and Little Orphan Mary

A classic children's tale about Gnomes, appealing equally, if not more so, to the adult child. Written in rich, lyrical prose, frequently shifting into the peasant dialect and interspersed with sundry ver…

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Henry James,
The Ambassadors

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. One of Henry …

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Mariana De' Carli
The Knightsbridge Crowd

Getting onto the invite list is hard, but staying there is even harder.Knightsbridge is one of London's most exclusive postcodes, with cut-throat rules for anyone trying to make it into the social scene. …

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Leo N. Tolstoi
Leo Tolstoy's Writings for Young Children

This volume is the very first annotated translation of all the titled stories included in the New ABC Book and in Tolstoy's four Primers for Reading. There are approximately 300 of these pieces, ranging i…

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Leo N. Tolstoi
Leo Tolstoy's Writings for Young Children

This volume is the very first annotated translation of all the titled stories included in the New ABC Book and in Tolstoy's four Primers for Reading. There are approximately 300 of these pieces, ranging i…

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Aristophanes and the Current Moment

Aristophanes' comedies have long been read as a response to the political turbulence of 5th-century Athens, particularly during the Peloponnesian War.However, this volume frames him as a 'political corres…

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Anton Chekhov,
Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories

"Anton Chekhov: Earliest Stories offers the first comprehensive translation in English... And it is supremely juvenile in the best way." -The GuardianThis volume comprises a complete annotated t…

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Clement Pansaers
Bar Nicanor

A comprehensive anthology of writings by Belgium's leading Dadaist, Clément PansaersAfter entering the literary world under the pseudonym Julius Krekel, the Belgian poet Clément Pansaers underwent a serie…

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Lucy Evans
Crime Fiction in the Caribbean

Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to raise pressing questions…

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Jeff Jarvis
Hot Type

Hot Typeis the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg's movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media.The Linotype mechanized the 400-ye…

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Twelfth Night

"This volume offers critical opinions about Twelfth Night across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism…

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