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Side of Paradise and Other Classic Works Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Fitzgerald Scott F.

ISBN: HB: 9781435146198, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, February 2015
864 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm

If the Roaring Twenties are remembered as the era of flaming youth , it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. His semi-autobiographical first novel, This Side of Paradise, became an instant best-seller and established an image of seemingly carefr...

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Fitzgerald Edward, Bull Rene

ISBN: HB: 9781851244171, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2014
112 pp., 24.6x18.9 cm, 26 colour illus.

"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou..." When Edward Fitzgerald first published his translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam in 1859 it had little impact on the literary world. But a chance find in a book...

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La Vida Doble A Novel

Fontaine Talavera Arturo, McDowell Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205763, ISBN: HB: 9780300176698, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm

Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, "La Vida Doble" is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point when every choice she confronts is impossible. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, wi...

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After Lermontov Translations for the Bicentenary

France Peter, Marsack Robyn

ISBN: PB: 9781847772756, Carcanet, April 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is best known in the West today as the author of the novel "A Hero of Our Time". But at the time of his death, aged only 26, he was widely regarded as Russia's greatest living poet. He achieved almost instant fame in 183...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta

Ferrari Gloria

ISBN: PB: 9780226668680, ISBN: HB: 9780226668673, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 2 halftones

The "Partheneion", or "maiden song", composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. A provocative reinterpretation of the "Partheneion" and its broader context, "Alcman and the C...

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Of Mice and Mooshaber

Fuks Ladislav

ISBN: HB: 9788024622163, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2014
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Ladislav Fuks (1923-1994) was an outstanding Czech writer whose work, consisting primarily of psychological fiction, explores themes of anxiety and life in totalitarian systems. Fuks is be...

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The Swiss List

Drafts for a Third Sketchbook

Frisch Max

ISBN: HB: 9780857421692, Seagull Books, December 2013
104 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

"New York... I HATE IT... I LOVE IT... I DON'T KNOW..." These are the reflections of Max Frisch (1911-1991) writing from his apartment in the Big Apple near the end of the twentieth century. Beginning in 1946 and continuing until his death at the age...

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BBC National Short Story Award 2013

Frostrup Mariella

ISBN: PB: 9781905583638, Carcanet, October 2013
116 pp., 17x11 cm

Edgar Allan Poe once claimed the greatest literary works were those that could be read "in one sitting". "Brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect", he argued, once the effect has been established, of course. The stori...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works Two Novels and Nineteen Short Stories

Fitzgerald Scott F.

ISBN: HB: 9781435142855, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, October 2013
800 pp., 22.9x19.7 cm, colour illus.

Inseparably associated with a point in history he claimed to despise, F. Scott Fitzgerald is both the quintessential Jazz-Age writer and perhaps the era's harshest critic. Included in this book are: The Beautiful and Damned (novel), a cautionary t...

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Quorum

Fuller William

ISBN: PB: 9780857420916, Seagull Books, April 2013
72 pp., 25x15 cm

"Quorum", the latest book from William Fuller, is a collection of vivid detours and deadpan visions arranged into forty-five sonnet-like poems. Employing an ear "that hears not what the eye / sees not, in detail", the poet makes his rounds through a...

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