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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Eclipse of Action Tragedy and Political Economy

Halpern Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226433653, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the...

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Fiction

Death of Sheherzad

Husain Intizar

ISBN: HB: 9780857423931, Seagull Books, March 2017
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A man scours the town he left fifty years ago for some modest evidence of past joys. Javed, who has returned to Lahore from East Pakistan, won't speak of what he witnessed in his time away. In her dreams, an old woman boards a train full of dead ance...

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Fiction

Les Miserables Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Hugo Victor

ISBN: HB: 9781435163690, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, February 2017
928 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm

One of the most widely read novels of all time, "Les Miserables" was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo's career. An enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I, the nov...

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Fiction

Behind the Lines Bugulma and Other Tales

Hasek Jaroslav

ISBN: PB: 9788024632872, ISBN: HB: 9788024620138, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2016
224 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 38 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read yet incomplete novel "The Good Soldier Schweik", a series of absurdist vignettes about a recalcitrant WWI s...

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Fiction

Rambling On An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab

Hrabal Bohumil

ISBN: PB: 9788024632865, ISBN: HB: 9788024623160, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
230 pp., 19x14 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and spent decades working at a variety of laboring jobs before turning to writing in his late forties. From that point...

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Fiction

Bad Lands A Novel

Hall Oakley

ISBN: PB: 9780226412610, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map

It's 1883 in Johnson County, in the old Dakota Territory – a rugged, wide-open landscape of rolling, red earth, prairie, and cattle as far as the eye can see. But the land is closing, the "Beef Bonanza" is ending, and the free-range cattlemen are stu...

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Fiction

Odyssey Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions

Homer

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781435163102, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, September 2016
296 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.

"The Odyssey" reveals a universal order where gods intercede in the destinies of men, heroes are both deceitful and brave and a sea voyage becomes a test of human ingenuity and endurance. Following the fall of Troy, Odysseus sets sail for home. But b...

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Poetry

Book of Fans

Honcoopova Helena, Mostow Joshua, Yasuhara Makoto

ISBN: HB: 9788024625188, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
180 pp., 28.4x22.8 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The National Gallery in Prague has in its collection a unique Japanese illustrated manuscript of ogi no soshi, a genre of waka poems illustrated in fan-shaped pictures, which blossomed fro...

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Poetry

Literary Criticism

Substance of Shadow A Darkening Trope in Poetic History

Hollander John

ISBN: HB: 9780226354279, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons...

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Poetry

Through

Herd David

ISBN: PB: 9781784102562, Carcanet, April 2016
84 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Timely collection of poems tackling the highly topical issue of immigration.

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