Literature in the Modern World, Paperback

The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan, Paperback - Anonymous

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The Canterbury Tales, Paperback - Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, Paperback - Robert Chandler

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The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity, Paperback - Benjamin Isaac

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There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "e...

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Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World, Paperback - Nicholas C. Edsall

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The Tarot of the Bohemians - The Most Ancient Book in the World - For the Exclusive Use of Initiates - Absolute Key to Occult Science, Paperback - Pap

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Kokoro, Paperback - Natsume Soseki

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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Paperback - Raymond Williams

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Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, Paperback - Paul Fussell

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Paperback - Thomas Hardy

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Natural Questions, Paperback - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives, Paperback - Gustave Flaubert

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Culture and Customs of Nigeria, Paperback - Toyin Falola

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The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry: Fourth Edition, Paperback - Gerald Moore

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Chants of Belial, Paperback - Asenath Mason

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The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700-1700: An Anthology of Sources, Paperback - Samuel Noble

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The Master and Margarita, Paperback - Mikhail Bulgakov

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House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed], Paperback - N. Scott Momaday

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Selected Poems, Paperback - Robert Browning

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Robert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer imme...

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Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings, Paperback - Rene Descartes

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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, Paperback - Barry Lopez

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Reading Isaiah: A Literary and Theological Commentary, Paperback - Hyun Chul Paul Kim

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In this commentary, Hyun Chul Paul Kim brings together innovative interpretive approaches and the proposals of various scholars to interpret the bo...

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The Dream Encyclopedia, Paperback - James R. Lewis

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Where the Paths Do Not Go, Paperback - Rainer Maria Rilke

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Gilgamesh: A Captivating Guide to Gilgamesh the King and the Epic of Gilgamesh, Paperback - Captivating History

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Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of Gilgamesh the King and the Epic of Gilgamesh Rarely does a name survive as many millennia as Gilgamesh has. Worl...

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Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Liza Knapp

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War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognized as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Leo Tolstoy has been honored as the ...

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Sky and Symbol, Paperback - Liz Greene

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Between the Assassinations, Paperback - Aravind Adiga

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On the Making of Man, Paperback - St Gregory of Nyssa

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The Jungle, Paperback - Upton Sinclair

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Ankoku Buto, Paperback - Susan Blakeley Klein

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A brief introduction to the history, philosophy, and techniques of the Japanese avant-garde dance movement, Ankoku Buto. Evoking images of grotesqu...

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Hero: The Path Through Jiu Jitsu and Life, Paperback - Chris Matakas

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Where (on Earth) Did the Enneagram Come From', Paperback - Fatima Fernandez Christlieb

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The Discourses, Paperback - Niccolo Machiavelli

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Yi Sang: Selected Works, Paperback - Yi Sang

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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, Paperback - John Wesley Powell

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Letters to a Young Catholic, Paperback - George Weigel

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On Living and Dying Well, Paperback - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Philosophical writings on "the good life" by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Rom...

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The Great Books: A Journey Through 2, 500 Years of the West's Classic Literature, Paperback - Anthony O'Hear

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The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, Paperback - J. Gordon Melton

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I Am a Christian: Authentic Accounts of Christian Martyrdom and Persecution from the Ancient Sources, Paperback - Jr. Anthony P. Schiavo

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The Home and the World, Paperback - Rabindranath Tagore

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Spring and All, Paperback - William Carlos Williams

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Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide, Paperback - Jonardon Ganeri

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The Magic Mountain, Paperback - Thomas Mann

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Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism, Paperback - Malka Z. Simkovich

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The Professor, Paperback - Charlotte Bronte

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Saharasia: The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence, in the Deserts of the Old World, Paperback - James DeMeo

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Arab Women Writers: An Anthology of Short Stories, Paperback - Dalya Cohen-Mor

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Not a Chance: God, Science, and the Revolt Against Reason, Paperback - R. C. Sproul

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Ovid: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Llewelyn Morgan

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"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death,...

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Monsignor Quixote, Paperback - Graham Greene

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Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere, Paperback - Anna Westerstahl Stenport

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Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and...

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Odes and Elegies, Paperback - Friedrich H lderlin

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The Burnout Society, Paperback - Byung-Chul Han

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Unheard Cry for Meaning, Paperback - Viktor Emil Frankl

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The Petit Albert: The Marvellous Secrets of the Little Albert: English Edition, Paperback - Unknown Author

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Rhetorics of Fantasy, Paperback - Farah Mendlesohn

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Time Travel: A History, Paperback - James Gleick

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The Rainbow, Paperback - D. H. Lawrence

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Women's Room, Paperback - Marilyn French

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A landmark in feminist literature, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with p...

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