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Literary Criticism

Linguistics

Enumerations Data and Literary Study

Piper Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226568751, ISBN: HB: 9780226568614, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 line drawings, 26 tables

For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data – or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments...

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Fiction

Wishes

Perec Georges

ISBN: PB: 9781939663337, DAP, Wakefield Press, July 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! "In the beginning was the pun", Samuel Beckett once wrote. And so it was that Georges Perec brought the good word to his friends and acquaintances on a yearly basis, as an expression of his best wishes for the New Year. "Wi...

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Fiction

Edgar Allen Poe: Classic Stories Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions

Poe Edgar Allan

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781435166189, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, April 2018
352 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.

Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the tale of psychological horror. This anthology gathers over 20 of Poes groundbreaking tales of the macabre, among them "The Tell-tale Heart", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Fall of the House of Usher". It als...

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Poetry

Installations for a New Baby

Power Phoebe

ISBN: PB: 9781784105341, Carcanet, February 2018
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

First full debut from a promising young poet reflects a risky exploration of the unfamiliar and a search for strangeness, spirituality and stories.

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Poetry

Ends of the Earth Poems

Partridge Kate

ISBN: PB: 9781602233324, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2017
96 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Ends of the Earth" uses the landscape of Alaska as a testing ground for love and elegy. It is a poetry collection that contains both lyric responses to the urban Alaska environment and extended sequences that cycle between autobiography, mythic allu...

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Children's Books

Fiction

"Catarina the Wise" and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales

Pitre Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9780226462790, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again... So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may...

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Literary Criticism

Arthritic Grasshopper Collected Stories, 1934-1944

Prassinos Gisele

ISBN: PB: 9781939663221, DAP, Wakefield Press, April 2017
240 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! First discovered, celebrated and published by the Surrealists at the age of 14 (they declared her the "new Alice"), Gisele Prassinos quickly found herself established in the literary world as a fount of automatic tales frei...

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Literary Criticism

Placing John Haines

Perrin Warren James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233096, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

John Haines arrived in Alaska, fresh out of the Navy, in 1947, and established a homestead seventy miles southeast of Fairbanks. He stayed there nearly twenty-five years, learning to live off the country: hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering berries...

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Poetry

Moon for Sale

Price Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781784102845, Carcanet, January 2017
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

These are sensual, shapeshifting poems by this award-winning and "compelling pleasurable poet" (The Guardian), which unfold like a series of haunting dreams.

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Fiction

We Were a Handful

Polacek Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024632858, ISBN: HB: 9788024614496, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
400 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A favorite work of Czech humor, "We Were a Handful" depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Polacek...

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