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Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784103125, Carcanet, December 2016
144 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The poems of the author of "Le Grand Meaulnes" ("The Lost Domain") search for the lost Eden of pre-war Europe. His poems appear now in English for the first time.
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£9,99
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Almost Complete Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784103163, Carcanet, December 2016
94 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Stanley Moss has been a defining editor and publisher of world poetry for six decades. He has amassed a body of his own poems so impassioned and original that he deserves a place high on the American Parnassus.
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£19,99
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Yves Bonnefoy Reader I: Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784100759, Carcanet, December 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The definitive reader for one of the greatest living French poets and translators.
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£19,99
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Behind the Lines Bugulma and Other Tales
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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£8,99
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£19,00
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Blumenberg
ISBN: HB: 9780857423696, Seagull Books, December 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight – a lion lying on the floor as if it's the most natural thing in the world. The lion stretches comfortably on the Turkmen rug, eyes resting on Blumenberg. The...
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£18,50
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Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781435154469, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, December 2016
1040 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.
Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionised modern poetics.The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables...
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£30,00
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Complete Works of William Shakespeare Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781435154476, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, December 2016
1280 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, colour illus.
This new edition collects all 37 of Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies and historical plays in a collectible edition. The volume also features Shakespeare's complete poetry, including the sonnets. With this beautiful edition, you can enjoy Shakespeare...
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£30,00
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Art of Survival France and the Great War Picaresque
ISBN: HB: 9780300217513, Yale University Press, November 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless victim sacrificed by a ruthless society in the...
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Occupant
ISBN: PB: 9781784103002, Carcanet, November 2016
84 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
In galleries and living rooms, on trains and trams and buses, mysterious scenes are briefly illuminated, their occupants caught in "some small act" or dream – in the National Gallery a gardener steals part of a still-life canvas to replant in his own...
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Proust The Search
ISBN: PB: 9780300224283, Yale University Press, November 2016
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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