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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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Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen

"The first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life on modern stage and screen. Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare and his contemporaries in th…

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Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild…

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Ping Wang
The Poetic Way of XIE Lingyun

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and place During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (6…

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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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Sean Gerrity
Beyond Emancipation

"Explores how African American literary representations of Maroons in the decade leading up to the Civil War complicate conventional narratives and geographies of slavery and freedom in the US"--

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Michael Korda
Muse of Fire

Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolis…

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Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage

Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage is the first major work to explore and analyse the popular 'extra-theatrical' performances in late medieval and Renaissance England. This wider heterogeneo…

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Amy Von Lintel
Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters

In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O'Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle, to take a position as art teacher for the newly organized Amarillo Public Schools.…

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Odile Hellier
Village Voices

"Founded by Odile Hellier in 1982, The Village Voice Bookshop in Paris was a hub for anglophone literary life and a meeting place for French, American and English literati for over three decades. Hellier'…

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José Martí
José Martí Reader

This anthology of the writing of José Martí’s features bilingual poetry, political essays, writings on Latin American culture, and his letters. José Martí organized and unified the movement for Cuban ind…

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Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception

"The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious mystery; calendrical and cyclical thinking as…

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William Blake
Songs of Innocence

An exquisite edition of William Blake's Songs of Innocence, accompanied by an introduction to his life and work. One of the most important books of illustrated poetry in English literature, William Blake…

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Matthew Wright,
Euripides and Quotation Culture

"Presenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture. Treating extant works and lost works side-by-side, Matthew Wright pr…

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Saul Noam Zaritt
A Taytsh Manifesto

A Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies, and for the study of modern Jewish culture, that identifies-in Yiddish and beyond-how cultures intertwine, how they become implic…

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Naomi Seidman
Translating the Jewish Freud

"There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This boo…

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Naomi Scott
Jokes in Greek Comedy

In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever 'just a joke'. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve, and shows that far from being mere surface-level phenomena, jokes in Greek comedy are in f…

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Wilfred Lupano,
Surrounded

In 1832, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a " charming and picturesque" little school for young girls opens to accommodate around twenty residents. Educating girls is a bit ridiculous and useless, they think i…

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John Godwin
OCR Anthology for Latin as and a Level Shorter Verse Authors

The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Latin AS and A-Level prescription of Tibullus I.2, I.5, II.4, Ovid's Metamorphoses VII and Lucretius' de rerum natura I for examinations in 2026-28..

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