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To Zenzi
ISBN: PB: 9781936970698, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, April 2021
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
To Zenzi is the extraordinary story of Tobias Koertig's odyssey through the apocalypse of Berlin in 1945. An orphaned thirteen-year-old who loves to draw, Tobias is coerced into joining the German youth army in the last desperate weeks of the war. Mi...
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£15,00
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Portulans
ISBN: PB: 9780226737393, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Taking inspiration from medieval sea charts – portulans – the poems in Jason Sommer's collection bring a fresh variation to the ancient metaphor of life as a journey. Creating a coordinate system charting paths between ports and the dangers that surr...
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Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226792200, ISBN: HB: 9780226632612, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 80 halftones
How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this q...
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£27,00
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In the Antarctic Circle
ISBN: PB: 9781938769726, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This collection addresses issues of identity as two people find themselves living in an uncommon landscape. Through hybrid narrative prose poems, Hank and an unnamed narrator try to navigate their relationship and understand their identities amid a l...
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£14,00
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All the Roads Are Open The Afghan Journey
ISBN: PB: 9780857428226, Seagull Books, March 2021
124 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by wha...
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£9,99
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Death in Persia
ISBN: PB: 9780857428233, Seagull Books, March 2021
156 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach—journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist—has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians.   Available in Engli...
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£9,99
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Yankinton
ISBN: HB: 9780857427960, Seagull Books, March 2021
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Set in the early days of the Jewish state, "Yankinton" tells the stories of refugees from the Holocaust and antisemitism who struggled to build new lives in Israel. Through the eyes of a young Orthodox Jewish girl growing up in Tel Aviv, we watch a c...
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Teaching Archive A New History for Literary Study
ISBN: PB: 9780226736136, ISBN: HB: 9780226735948, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. In Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan's literary history, we watch T. S. Eliot and his working-class students revise...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel
ISBN: PB: 9788024645322, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book-length study, Ewa Szary-Matywiecka examines Maria Wirtemberska's Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition, an international success upon its publication in 1816 that is now widely co...
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£16,00
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No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Edition: King Lear
ISBN: PB: 9781411479661, GMC Group, Spark Notes, November 2020
336 pp., 22.6x15 cm
Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to a line-by-line translation in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help student...
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£8,99
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