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Vampire A New History

Groom Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300254839, ISBN: HB: 9780300232233, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 35 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of "The Vampyre", Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century,...

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Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

Popoff Alexandra

ISBN: PB: 9780300255379, Yale University Press, September 2020
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, "Life and Fate", had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" and before Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag". But "Life and Fate" was seized by the KGB. W...

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Views from the Inside Czech Underground Literature and Culture (1948-1989)

Machovec Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024635927, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
130 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! From political novels to surrealist poetry and censored rock and roll, Czech underground culture of the later twentieth century displayed an astonishing, and unheralded, variety. This fasc...

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Voynich Manuscript

Clemens Raymond, Harkness Deborah E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217230, Yale University Press, February 2017
304 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 268 colour illus.

The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle. "The Voynich Manuscript" is produced from new photographs of the entire original and accompanied by expert essays that invite anyone to understan...

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Vise and Shadow Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture

Balakian Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226254333, ISBN: HB: 9780226254166, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 2 halftones

Peter Balakian is a renowned poet, scholar, and memoirist; but his work as an essayist often prefigures and illuminates all three".I think of vise and shadow as two dimensions of the lyric (literary and visual) imagination", he writes in the preface...

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Voice Still Heard Selected Essays of Irving Howe

Howe Irving, Dickstein Morris

ISBN: HB: 9780300203660, Yale University Press, January 2015
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America's most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe's work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and p...

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Virtue of Sympathy Magic, Philosophy and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

Lobis Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780300192032, Yale University Press, December 2014
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and building to a new reading of Milton's "Paradise Lost", author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred t...

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Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles

Seale David

ISBN: PB: 9780226181745, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
270 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this study, David Seale argues that Sophocles's use of stagecraft, which has thus far received little attention, was as sophisticated as that of Aeschylus or Euripides. His discussions of the physical and visual elements of Sophocles's seven plays...

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Volume the First A Facsimile

Austen Jane

ISBN: HB: 9781851242818, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2013
224 pp., 18x14 cm

A plain, blank stationer's notebook from the 1780s in the Bodleian Library contains some of the most famous juvenilia in all of English literature. Copied out in Jane Austen's youthful hand, "Volume the First", which takes its name from the inscripti...

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Virginia Woolf Becoming a Writer

Dalsimer Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9780300184099, Yale University Press, November 2011
226 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

By the time she was twenty-four, Virginia Woolf had suffered a series of devastating losses that later she would describe as "sledge-hammer blows", beginning with the death of her mother when she was thirteen years old and followed by those of her ha...

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