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Reducere. Bel-ved re; or The Garden of the Muses is an early modern printed commonplace book containing an anthology of nearly 4, 500 short verse quotations ...

This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over thi...

Presents an anthology of Irish American poetry. This book collects the work of over two hundred Irish American poets, as well as other American poe...

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Reducere. Just as the Reformation was a movement of intertwined theological and political aims, many individual authors of the time shifted back and forth be...

Reducere. In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which...

Reducere. In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remai...

One of America's most important contemporary critics, Marjorie Perloff has been a widely published and influential reviewer, especially of poetry a...

The English court masque was one of the most extravagant and spectacular forms of entertainment ever produced, the most important period being betw...

Reducere. Uncovering the professional secrets of con artists and swindlers in the medieval Middle East The Book of Charlatans is a comprehensive guide to tri...

Reducere. Ever So Grateful is a book filled with poetic expressions of love and gratitude to God for His great faithfulness and tender mercies. Many of the p...

An indispensable tool for teaching and reading Herodotus' first book in Greek. The Commentary provides considerable help with matters of language. ...

The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages.During the thirteenth century, E...

Now in its fifth edition, The Book of Forms continues to be the go-to reference and guide for students, teachers, and critics. Filled with both com...

Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for stu...

A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 A Level English qualifications.

A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 A Level English qualifications.

A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 A Level English qualifications.

Reducere. Ever So Grateful is a book filled with poetic expressions of love and gratitude to God for His great faithfulness and tender mercies. Many of the p...

This work provides an introduction to the "Argonautica" and its poet, an up-to-date text of Book III and a full commentary which covers problems of...

Through technological experiments, readers have seen the concept of the book change over the years, and the novel reflects these experiments, actin...

Demonstrates the importance of textual production to understanding the place of drama in the early modern public sphere. This collection of essays ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Richard L. RegosinNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 215 x 138 x 20Cover typ...

In the penultimate book of his epic Metamorphoses, Ovid continues his literary challenge to Virgil's Aeneid, narrating erotic adventures from early...

Reducere. Here is the eagerly awaited new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry brought completely up to date and dramatically expanded by poet David...

DescriptionBook VII of Lucan's De Bello Ciuili recounts the decisive victory of Julius Caesar over Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus on 9 August 48...

The satires in Book II are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome's trickiest poet. For intermediate and advanced students, this edition expla...

Pliny the Younger's nine-book Epistles is a masterpiece of Roman prose. Often mined as a historical and pedagogical sourcebook, this collection of ...

The twenty-fourth book of the Iliad is one of the masterpieces of world literature, a work of interest to a far wider audience than scholars of anc...

The first annotated translation of the 9th-century Islamic apocalyptic work 'The Book of Tribulations' the earliest complete Muslim apocalyptic tex...

Reducere. This compelling account concludes Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's literary memoirs of his years in the West after his forced exile from...

The New Oxford Book of English Verse is now firmly established as a classic anthology of English poetry. Chosen by the distinguished scholar and cr...

Reducere. DescriptionStudents of Latin have long enjoyed the poetry of Ovid, but his love poems, aptly titled Amores, have proved more difficult to introduce...

At his death in 2016, Geoffrey Hill left behind The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, a sequence of more than 270 poems, to be published posthu...

Presents the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe's complex place in the canon both bibliographically and theatrically. The collection consider...

This book appeals to scholars with interests in Shakespeare's authorial and publication history and book history, from the Renaissance to the early...

The Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful. The...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Hannah FieldNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 230 x 178 x 17Cover type: Pape...

The adventures of the man who created AladdinThe Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man fro...

Reducere. DescriptionJesus comes to life in this fascinating modern biography excerpted from The Urantia Book. Many of these historical stories are familiar ...

Poems that speak words about life highlight not only the good in life, but also the saddness of things that come people's way and the bad. When it ...

Reducere. The Book of the Ancient Romans is an introduction to the history and civilization of Rome from the traditional date of the founding of the city to ...

Reducere. The Book of the Ancient Greeks is an introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corint...

Reducere. This anthology, revised and greatly expanded since the groundbreaking first edition, features poetry by sixteen of Ireland s finest poets: Eilean N...

Reducere. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept a journal his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. In these first journals the most important and formative...

Book, Text, Medium: Cross Sectional Reading for a Digital Age utilizes codex history, close reading, and language philosophy to assess the transfor...

Reducere. Considerable interest in faery tradition has grown up in recent years and not least in the story of Melusine of Lusignan, the subject of a prose ro...

An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the ...

The Strangers Book explores how various nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it ...

The Alchemy Press Book of the Dead 2020 celebrates the careers more than 450 individuals who made significant contributions to the horror, science ...

Reducere. "To take the wrong door means indeed to go against the order that presided over the plan of the house, over the layout of the rooms, over the beaut...

Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. It was also considere...

Reducere. Now in paperback--the definitive history of how theBig Book of Alcoholics Anonymous was written, edited, and finally brought to press.It has been o...

First published in 1941 as one in a series of Cambridge children's books related to the natural world, F. Fraser Darling provides a beautifully wri...

From the hand of H. E. Marshall, one of the greatest authors of juvenile history comes this introduction to English literature. From early Gaelic t...

Reducere. This is a book for everyone. In using the metaphor comparing the raising of the seed of wheat with that of a baby, the importance of a nurturing en...

Reducere. "...I have been married fifteen months, and we have moved fifteen times. Lest our monthly vacations arouse suspicion, let it be quickly known that ...

Reducere. Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures--and perhaps the most imp...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edmund SpenserEditor: Roy Maynard"Despite all of his acknowledged greatness, almost no one reads Spenser any more. Roy Mayn...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Gary GoodmanIllustration(s): 19 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 200Publication date...

Reducere. In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty...

Reducere. The Man You Never Knew You KnewIt's one of the most powerful and popular images in the history of space exploration: an astronaut in a snow-white s...

Reducere. Part fun- and information-filled almanac, part good book guide, the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac is a new way to discover a great children's book-...

Reducere. A vast collection of more than seven hundred quotations meant to inspire genius, this scrapbook contains favored sayings of the late-nineteenth- an...

Reducere. A writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates. From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection of...

Reducere. The Absence of Zero is a triumphantly-executed celebration of the long poem tradition. Consisting of 256 16-line quartets, and 34 free-form interru...

Reducere. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. will forever be linked to the historical 2008 presidential campaign of the Senator Barack Obama. Although unwillingly thrus...

A FINE MESS is a book with a little more snark than syrup.It helps you face the crappy spot you find yourself in.And one that adds some black humor...

Reducere. The World Is a Book, Indeed chronicles in eleven rich personal essays the ongoing quest of award-winning writer Peter LaSalle to embark on offbeat,...