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Poetry

Art of Robert Frost

Kendall Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780300198270, Yale University Press, November 2013
350 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Widely revered during his lifetime, Robert Frost continues to enchant readers today, nearly a century after the publication of his first volume of poems, "A Boy's Will". This book presents a splendid selection of 64 poems from across Frost's writing...

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Poetry

Accounts

Peterson Katie

ISBN: PB: 9780226062662, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
104 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The death of a mother alters forever a family's story of itself. Indeed, it taxes the ability of a family to tell that story at all".The Accounts" narrates the struggle to speak with any clear understanding in the wake of that loss. The title poem at...

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Literary Criticism

Film Studies

Archaeology of Sympathy The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema

Chandler James

ISBN: HB: 9780226034959, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 68 halftones

In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture – a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people's very...

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Literary Criticism

The Complete Greek Tragedies

Aeschylus I The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound

Grene David, Lattimore Richmond, Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311449, ISBN: HB: 9780226311432, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Aeschylus I" contains "The Persians", translated by Seth Benardete; "The Seven Against Thebes", translated by David Grene; "The Suppliant Maidens", translated by Seth Benardete; and "Prometheus Bound", translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

Aeschylus II The Oresteia

Grene David, Lattimore Richmond, Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311470, ISBN: HB: 9780226311463, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Aeschylus II" contains "The Oresteia", translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of "Proteus", translated by Mark Griffith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedie...

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Fiction

The German List

Abolition of Species

Dath Dietmar

ISBN: HB: 9780857420329, Seagull Books, May 2013
552 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The world as we know it is over. Man's reign on earth has come to an end, and the reign of the animals has begun. The indifferently wise Cyrus Golden the Lion rules the three-city state that is now what remains of Europe. Yet, other forces stir while...

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Fiction

Aesop's Illustrated Fables Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Aesop

ISBN: HB: 9781435144835, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, May 2013
464 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, illus.

As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listen...

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Poetry

Advance Payment Selected Poems

Wijnberg Nachoem M.

ISBN: PB: 9780856464508, Carcanet, March 2013
112 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

"A poem must say something that is true, in the same way that a scientific article makes true assertions. And, similarly, these assertions must not be trivial, they should appeal to the emotions of the reader" – Nachoem M. Wijnberg in an interview T...

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Literary Criticism

Culture Studies

Afghanistan in Ink Literature Between Diaspora and Nation

Green Nile, Arbabzadah Nushin

ISBN: HB: 9781849042048, Hurst Publishers, February 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Afghanistan in Ink" uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of twentieth century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show not only how Afghans have reflected on their modern history, but also how the state has repeatedly sough...

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Literary Criticism

Accommodated Animal Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales

Shannon Laurie

ISBN: PB: 9780226924175, ISBN: HB: 9780226924168, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word "animal" itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in "The Accommodated Ani...

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