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If You Have Two Loaves of Bread, Sell One and Buy a Lily and Other Proverbs of China

If You Have Two Loaves of Bread, Sell One and Buy a Lily and Other Proverbs of China

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States of Emergency

States of Emergency

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Creative Lives: Personal papers of Australian writers and artists

Creative Lives: Personal papers of Australian writers and artists

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Kerouac's Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction

Kerouac's Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction

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Idle Talk: Gwen Harwood, Letters 1960-1964

Idle Talk: Gwen Harwood, Letters 1960-1964

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Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident

Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident

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In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the "pernicious creed"...
Meanjin Vol 64, No. 1&2: Portraits Of Artist

Meanjin Vol 64, No. 1&2: Portraits Of Artist

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Mistaken Identity

Mistaken Identity

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Seven Centuries of Poetry in English

Seven Centuries of Poetry in English

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English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

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Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia

Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia

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The Eighteenth Century: Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1700-89

The Eighteenth Century: Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1700-89

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Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of L

Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of L

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Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism

Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism

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A Marked Man

A Marked Man

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Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard

Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard

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Purity of Diction in English Verse: With New Epilogue

Purity of Diction in English Verse: With New Epilogue

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Poetry

Poetry

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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and

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'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
Holy Vikings: Saints' Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings' Sagas: Volume 340

Holy Vikings: Saints' Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings' Sagas: Volume

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Holy Vikings: Saints' Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings' Sagas: Volume
Scene of the Crime: A Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective Fiction

Scene of the Crime: A Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective Fiction

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Brilliant Isles: Art That Made Us

Brilliant Isles: Art That Made Us

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Brilliant Isles: Art That Made Us
Heroines: The essential feminist manifesto and 'One of the 50 greatest books by women' (Buzzfeed):  'Sharp, finely-structured, and meticulously researched' Maggie Nelson

Heroines: The essential feminist manifesto and 'One of the 50 greatest

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'I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order - pretending...
Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia

Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South

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Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and

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'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
Floor of Heaven

Floor of Heaven

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Book by Book

Book by Book

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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale

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Millroy the Magician.

Millroy the Magician.

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The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends

The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends

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Shakespeare on Love

Shakespeare on Love

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Beginning Theory

Beginning Theory

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Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing

Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing

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Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine

Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First

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'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary exploration of the birth,...
Ghost Season

Ghost Season

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With supreme skill and reverence, capturing shards, stillness and chaos, Fatin Abbas delivers a novel that gallops close and parallel to current events in Sudan.A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel...
The Demidenko Debate

The Demidenko Debate

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Oppositions: Selected Essays

Oppositions: Selected Essays

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'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
Oppositions: Selected Essays

Oppositions: Selected Essays

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'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
As the Crow Flies

As the Crow Flies

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Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living

Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living

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A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served...
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

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This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...
Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment

Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long [...]

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What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words,...
Language, History and Style: Leo Spitzer and the Critical Tradition

Language, History and Style: Leo Spitzer and the Critical Tradition

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Author: James V. Catano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 In 1925, Spitzer called for a science of style that described literary texts in terms of philology and comparative linguistics....
Paolo Beni

Paolo Beni

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Author: P.B. Diffley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 290 This is the first detailed life of the Italian humanist Paolo Beni (1553-c.1625), who in his lifetime was famous as a...
The Beneventan Script: A History of the South Italian Minuscule

The Beneventan Script: A History of the South Italian Minuscule

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Author: E.A. Loew Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 0
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work

North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work

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Author: Michael Blanding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous...
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

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Telling Tales

Telling Tales

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