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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530112623Author Geoffrey ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541285Author Lucy O'MearaFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781889985Author Derek ConnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110753516Author Ana Gallego CuiñasFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 469g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839541278Author Derek ConnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986729727Author Leo TolstoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even...

Sensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sade's vindication of...

This book traces the life of Giacomo Leopardi by examining four different yet interrelated aspects: his social origins and class in relation to his evolving conception of nobility; the mixture of idealism and misogynism in his attitude toward women and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474488013Author Julia WurrFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839542565Author Lucy O'MearaFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498123587Author United StatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 628Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 1070g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628970142Author Warren F. Motte, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher Dalkey Archive PressWeight(grams) 426g

Kevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak. There was little sentimental concern for animal welfare, leading to the routine abuse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548574925Author Robert Michael BallantyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, who gradually transformed himself into the English writer, Joseph Conrad, was a mercurial personality. He left Poland for the sea, though he had no experience with salt water. He left the Polish language for French, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534811317Author William O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498022989Author Giovanni VergaFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 417g

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Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, who gradually transformed himself into the English writer, Joseph Conrad, was a mercurial personality. He left Poland for the sea, though he had no experience with salt water. He left the Polish language for French, and...

This comprehensive study of Beckett's art proposes a doubly contextualized reading of his later works: Carla Locatelli reads late Beckett through his previous writings, and relates them to the literary, philosophical, and critical community which...

However shared the Roman inheritance may be, it hardly unifies. Which Rome is the model, the Republic or the Empire? The Rome of imperial conquest or of civil war? By whom is it ruled? By the glorious conqueror who extended universal peace, the rule of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110695748Author Folke GernertFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231088268Author H.N. FairchildFormat HardbackPage Count 535Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

A discussion of Latin literature and its form with emphasis on its influence on European education.Book InformationISBN 9780231018487Author Moses HadasFormat HardbackPage Count 474Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

This volume of eighteen articles offers: Andrew R. Dyck, "The Fragments of Heliodorus Homericus"; Hayden Pelliccia, "Aeschylus, Eumenides 64-88 and the Ex Cathedra Language of Apollo"; G. Zuntz, "Aeschyli Prometheus";...

This volume includes "A Picnic, a Tomb, and a Crow: Hesiod's Cult in the Works and Days" by Natasha Bershadsky; "Sapphica" by Alexander Dale; "Fast, Famine, and Feast: Food for Thought in Callimachus' Hymn to Demeter" by...

In 1732, a blasphemous burlesque of the Christian Atonement was published in England without comment from the government or the Church of England. In Hogarth's Harlot, Ronald Paulson explains this absence of official censure through a detailed...

Francis James Child, compiler and editor of the monumental English and Scottish Popular Ballads, established the scholarly study of folk ballads in the English-speaking world. His successors at Harvard University, notably George Lyman Kittredge, Milman...

Return Trip Tango is a veritable cornucopia of contemporary world fiction that brings together a number of renowned authors including Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kobo Abe, Marguerite Duras, Jorge Luis Borges, and Samuel Beckett, as well as the...

Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet, whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and styles overlooks the complex role of the past in his work. In Grotesque...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231088954Author Geoffrey BulloughFormat HardbackPage Count 577Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904886273Author Dionysios SolomosFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

From Odysseus to Aeneas, from Beowulf to King Arthur, from the Mahabharata to the Ossetian "Nart" tales, epic heroes and their stories have symbolized the power of the human imagination. Drawing on diverse disciplines including classics, anthropology,...

Before Joyce became famous as writer, he supported himself through his other language work: English-language teaching in Pola, Trieste, and Rome. The importance of James Joyce's teaching, however, has been underestimated until now. The very playfulness...

This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were a conspicuous feature of medieval intellectual life in Iceland and the Orkneys from the mid-twelfth to...