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Primo Levi The Matter of a Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300137231, Yale University Press, December 2013
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of only...
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£18,99
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Swann's Way
ISBN: PB: 9780300185430, Yale University Press, December 2013
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, "In Search of Lost Time". In the intervening century his famously compelling novel has never been out of print and has been...
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Diasporas of the Mind Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History
ISBN: HB: 9780300093186, Yale University Press, December 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers – some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal – to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after...
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War on Words Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226101699, ISBN: HB: 9780226294131, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm
How did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with...
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£47,00
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Boccaccio A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
ISBN: HB: 9780226079189, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Long celebrated as one of "the Three Crowns" of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings – which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to my...
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£44,00
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Conditional Tense After the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
ISBN: HB: 9780857421746, Seagull Books, December 2013
264 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm, 18 colour plates
When apartheid ended in 1994, a radiant optimism suggested a bright future for the new, unified South Africa. But today, even in the midst of a vibrant economy, the cumulative effect of the country's corrosive past – three hundred years of colonialis...
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£22,50
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Storm Still
ISBN: PB: 9780857425584, Seagull Books, December 2013
112 pp., 19.5x14 cm
Peter Handke, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry, and drama informed by some of the most tumultuous events in modern history. But even as these events shaped his work, the presence of his mother – a woman whose li...
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£12,99
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Drafts for a Third Sketchbook
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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Art of Robert Frost
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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To the War Poets
ISBN: PB: 9781906188085, Carcanet, November 2013
86 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm
"In To the War Poets" John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of distance: "No larks, / just the passing of traffic"...
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