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Simone A Novel

Lalo Eduardo

ISBN: PB: 9780226207483, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
152 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 halftone

Eduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translation of his most celebrated novel, "Simone" – which w...

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Poetry

Sonnets

Benjamin Walter

ISBN: PB: 9781624620812, DAP, Publication Studio Hudson, October 2015
394 pp., 16.5x12 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Walter Benjamin's sonnets, written to mourn his friend Fritz Heinle, constitute an important though little-known part of the philosopher's literary achievement and a unique contribution to the history of the German sonnet....

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Children's Books

Secret Garden Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics

Hodgson Burnett Frances

ISBN: HB: 9781435158184, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, October 2015
304 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.

On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle Archibald's estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. With the help of Dickon Sowerby, a young local boy who can charm anima...

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Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini A Bilingual Edition

Pasolini Pier Paolo

ISBN: PB: 9780226325446, ISBN: HB: 9780226648446, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Most people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary works – "Arabian Nights", "The Gospel According to Matthew", "The Decameron", and "The Canterbury Tales" among them. What most people are not aware of i...

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School of Solitude Collected Poems

Hernandez Luis

ISBN: PB: 9780983322061, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, August 2015
160 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 12 halftones

Peruvian poet Luis Hernandez is legendary in his native country. Haunted by addiction and spending periodic reclusion in rehabilitation centers, Hernandez was exceptionally gifted in his youth, publishing three books of poetry by the time he was twen...

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Steep Tea

Leong Koh Jee

ISBN: PB: 9781847772275, Carcanet, July 2015
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Singapore-born poet Jee Leong Koh's first book to be published in Great Britain is rich in detail of the worlds he explores and invents as he follows his desire for an unknown other, moving tentatively, passionately, always uncertain of himself. His...

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Season's Vagrant Light New and Selected Poems

Benning Sheri

ISBN: PB: 9781784101060, Carcanet, July 2015
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

This book marks the UK debut of Canadian poet Sheri Benning, featuring new poems alongside work previously published in Canada. Benning's early work draws on her strongly felt connection to her native landscape, rural Saskatchewan. In poems that coup...

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Selected Verse

Swinburne Algernon Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781784100414, Carcanet, July 2015
384 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of English poetry's truly distinctive stylists. Next to Tennyson and Browning, he was one of the major poets of the Victorian era; and he was almost certainly the most provocative. In this new selection,...

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Literary Criticism

Songbook How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226270050, ISBN: HB: 9780226280516, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 7 colour illus.

Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poe...

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Children's Books

Snow Queen and Other Winter Tales Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

ISBN: HB: 9781435160699, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, July 2015
736 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" has delighted readers for more than a century and inspired numerous adaptations. This anthology gathers 100 tales that share the winter theme of Andersen's classic. In addition to stories by Andersen and the...

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