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Literary Criticism

Proust The Future's Secret

Taylor Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780300164169, Yale University Press, November 2015
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...

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Wilfred Owen

Cuthbertson Guy

ISBN: PB: 9780300216158, ISBN: HB: 9780300153002, Yale University Press, October 2015
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at the age of 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's ration...

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History of Art

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Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky Friends in Exile: A Decade of Correspondence, 1929-1940

Boissel Jessica, Weber Nicholas Fox

ISBN: PB: 9780300212570, Yale University Press, September 2015
172 pp., 26x19 cm, 40 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

Josef Albers (1888-1976) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), artists and teachers at the Bauhaus, were exiled from Germany when the school was forced to close in the early 1930s. The 46 letters in this volume document the intimate exchange between the...

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Europe

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Duke's Assassin Exile and Death of Lorenzino De' Medici

Dall'Aglio Stefano, Weinstein Donald

ISBN: HB: 9780300189780, Yale University Press, August 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Stefano Dall'Aglio sheds new light on the notorious Florentine Lorenzino de' Medici (also known as Lorenzaccio) and on two of the most infamous assassinations of Italian Renaissance history. In 1537 Lorenzino changed the course of history by murderin...

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Political Science

Leon Blum Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist

Birnbaum Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300189803, Yale University Press, July 2015
232 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Leon Blum (1872-1950) was many things: a socialist and political activist, leader of the Popular Front; a dedicated statesman who served as France's prime minister three times; a hero who courageously opposed anti-Semitism, Nazi aggression, and the p...

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Louisa Catherine The Other Mrs. Adams

Heffron Margery M., Michelmore David L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212563, ISBN: HB: 9780300197969, Yale University Press, June 2015
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife and political partner of John Quincy Adams, became one of the most widely known women in America when her husband assumed office as sixth president in 1825. Shrewd, intellectual and articulate, she was close to th...

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Literary Churchill Writer, Reader, Actor

Rose Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300212341, ISBN: HB: 9780300204070, Yale University Press, May 2015
506 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill's careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theatre on Ch...

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Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity

Blake David

ISBN: PB: 9780300217131, Yale University Press, May 2015
270 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hy...

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History of Art

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My Dear BB... The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959

Cumming Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300207378, Yale University Press, April 2015
570 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 black&white illus.

In 1925, the 22-year-old Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) and the legendary art critic and historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) met in Italy. From that moment, they began a correspondence that lasted until Berenson's death at age 94. This book makes avail...

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Silence Was Salvation Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union

Frierson Cathy A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179453, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist Era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the...

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