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Epic of Damarudhar
ISBN: HB: 9780857427458, Seagull Books, August 2021
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Originally published between 1910 and 1917, and collected in book form in 1923, "The Epic of Damarudhar" story cycle occupies an important and unique position in the history of Bengali literature. Tackling cosmology and mythology, class and caste abu...
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£18,99
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Ever Since I Did Not Die
ISBN: HB: 9780857427908, Seagull Books, July 2021
96 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
"I gathered these texts like someone collecting body parts. Here are the pieces of my body, haphazardly brought together in a paper bag. It looks like me with all my madness and sickness – how the revolution made me grow up, what the war broke inside...
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£12,99
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Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)
ISBN: HB: 9781649590206, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
492 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates, 19 halftones
This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable insight into understanding the literature of the period. Its owner and principal scribe, Humfrey Coningsby, drew on texts circulating...
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£77,00
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Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons
ISBN: PB: 9780857428363, ISBN: HB: 9780857421845, Seagull Books, March 2021
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"My father bought me from the council for 365 francs", recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel 'The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons'. She's a young girl, an immigrant to Switzerland whose adoption is yet to be finalized. When she finally moves...
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£11,99
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£16,00
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Epidemic Empire Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020
ISBN: PB: 9780226739359, ISBN: HB: 9780226739212, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this tro...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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End of the World Poetry and Prose
ISBN: PB: 9788024645278, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Sometimes called the Czech Bukowski, and more widely known by the epithet "Magor" (which translates roughly to "fool" or "madman"), Ivan Jirous was one of the most significant figures in t...
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£20,00
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English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800
ISBN: HB: 9780300254358, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 29.2x22.5 cm, 313 colour illus.
This engaging book provides an essential introduction to the manuscript in early modern England. From birth to death, parish record to probate inventory, writing framed the lives of the early modern English. The book offers a detailed technical intro...
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£30,00
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Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens's Birds
ISBN: PB: 9780226687971, ISBN: HB: 9780226687834, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us...
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£66,00
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Eleanor
ISBN: PB: 9781933880754, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, March 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In" Eleanor", Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century, this famous historical figure h...
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£13,00
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Emperors
ISBN: PB: 9781784109103, Carcanet, February 2020
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Later Emperors", the second Carcanet collection from Canadian poet and critic Evan Jones, is a catalogue of ambition and failure: historical figures – emperors, historians, moralists – are brought back to life and consider the world in which we live...
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