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Korean Treasures, Volume 2 Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University

Chung Minh

ISBN: HB: 9781851245260, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2019
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 120 colour illus.

Many important and valuable rare books, manuscripts and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Libraries and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of spe...

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Fiction

Women Studies

Awakening and Other Stories Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions

Chopin Kate

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781435168657, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, April 2019
320 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.

In 1899, Kate Chopin stunned the world with The Awakening, her tale of a woman who seeks personal fulfillment in a relationship outside her tradition-bound marriage. Chopin's pioneering novel served as a touchstone for many modernist works and is con...

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Fiction

Polonica

Heart of Darkness and Other Stories Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions

Conrad Joseph

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781435168480, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, April 2019
368 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.

The horror! The horror! These are Kurtz's final words in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", the story of a man who travels into the jungle to seek his fortune and who instead finds an all-consuming moral and spiritual wilderness. Conrad's enduring...

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Fiction

Children's Books

Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics

Conan Doyle Arthur

ISBN: HB: 9781435162051, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, November 2018
424 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.

For more than a century, the Sherlock Holmes adventures have thrilled readers. This volume collects seven of his most challenging cases, including "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed League", "The Speckled Band, The Five Orange Pips", "The Blue C...

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Poetry

My Bishop and Other Poems

Collier Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226570860, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Think of a time when you've feigned courage to make a friend, feigned forgiveness to keep one, or feigned indifference to simply stay out of it. What does it mean for our intimacies to fail us when we need them most? The poems of this collection expl...

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Biography & Memoires

Fiction

Biographic: Sherlock Great Lives in Graphic Form

Croot Viv

ISBN: HB: 9781781453148, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, June 2018
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all...

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Performing Arts

Poetry

Strange Footing Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages

Chaganti Seeta

ISBN: PB: 9780226548043, ISBN: HB: 9780226547992, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 25 halftones

For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the...

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Saga of Satisar

Chandrakanta, Kaul Ranjana

ISBN: PB: 9789381017630, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, May 2018
450 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Combining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, "The Saga of Satisar" is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winning Hindi writer Chandrakanta unspools a novel that spans two centuries, illustrating how Kashmiri live...

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Poetry

Venus as a Bear

Capildeo Vahni

ISBN: PB: 9781784105549, Carcanet, April 2018
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Vahni Capildeo's new book lives with things – carefully, lovingly: with glass, with moss, with stone. "Venus as a Bear" places the non-human world at its centre, tenderly disclosing the ways in which it is alive. We have feelings for familiar or stra...

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Carroll Lewis

ISBN: HB: 9781435166240, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, April 2018
1184 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 200 black&white illus.

This volume features all the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels, Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carrolls novels, Sylvi...

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