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Laura Beers
Orwell's Ghosts

George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the i…

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Anna Brickhouse
Earthquake and the Invention of America

Explores the central role of earthquake for disparate modes of critical engagement across a range of literary, philosophical, historical, and journalistic works from the seventeenth century through the la…

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The Self in Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy

The first book to examine concepts of the Self and individual identity in ancient and modern philosophy from a comparative and historical perspective, illustrating arguments, connections and intellectual …

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Fakhr Al-Din Shadman,
Shadman Diaries

This volume contains nearly a decade of Shadman's diaries, spanning from his departure from Tehran in mid-December 1933 to March 1943 - almost two years before the end of his tenure as a delegate of the I…

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Philip Gould
War Power

Philip Gould examines nineteenth-century literature in light of the transformation of the federal state's power during the American Civil War. How do literary works engage the subjects of censorship, prop…

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The History of Sub-Saharan African Literatures on Film

This comprehensive history of cinematic adaptations of sub-Saharan African literatures analyzes social, economic and political factors that influenced the film versions of texts across a wide range of gen…

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James Croston
The First Free Library in Manchester: A Chapter of Local History

Reprint of the original, first published in 1878. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Liesl Yamaguchi
On the Colors of Vowels

"A thrilling journey to the edges of the mind--and into the heart and soul of language and literature. Guiding us through famous poems and forgotten treatises with equal ease, Yamaguchi unfolds a powerful…

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Lucy Ives
An Image of My Name Enters America

"What would you risk to know yourself? Which stories are you willing to follow to the bitter end, revise, or, possibly, begin all over? In this collection of five interrelated essays, Lucy Ives explores i…

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James Reichert
Literature for the Masses

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as period fiction or mass literature. It highlights the important cultural and ideological work…

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Billy Johnson
Publishing Place

Examining the periodical as a distinct genre of print cultural expression, Publishing Place rethinks the relationship between periodical form, editorial practice, and place on Canada's east coast during t…

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Jen Soriano
Nervous

“Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pain, and her life as real as any history that proceeded. Nervous gives face and weight…

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François-Réne Chateaubriand,
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815 -1830

The third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived through the beginning of the French Revolution and who would become the founder of the Romantic movement in …

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century musical cu…

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Liesl Yamaguchi
On the Colors of Vowels

On the Colors of Vowels investigates the nineteenth-century emergence of discourses attributing visual properties (color, brightness) to vowels in linguistics, poetics, acoustics, opera, and experimental …

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Geoffrey Hosking
Aleksandr Tvardovskii

Aleksandr Tvardovskii was not only one of the finest, most popular and most important poets of his epoch, but also the editor of Novyi mir, the most prominent Soviet literary journal of the postwar period…

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James Croston
The First Free Library in Manchester: A Chapter of Local History

Reprint of the original, first published in 1878. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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John Freeman
California Rewritten

Dive into the revelatory worlds of California's most exciting writers, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future. Percival Everett, Rebecca Solnit, Tommy O…

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Joy-Ann Reid
Medgar and Myrlie

#1 New York Times Bestseller NAACP Image Award Winner By MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America's struggle fo…

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Stephen Harrison,
The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII

"A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems of …

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