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Here Is a Game We Could Play A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781946724403, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, May 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in – a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. See...
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£16,00
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Hernando Colon's New World of Books Toward a Cartography of Knowledge
ISBN: HB: 9780300230413, Yale University Press, March 2021
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 80 black&white illus.
This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the creation of the greatest library of the Renaissance, with ambitions to be universal––that...
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£25,00
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Heinrich Heine Writing the Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300236545, Yale University Press, January 2021
336 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was a virtuoso German poet, satirist, and visionary humanist whose dynamic life story and strikingly original writing are ripe for rediscovery. In this vividly imagined exploration of Heine's life and work, George Prochni...
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£16,99
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Hooked Art and Attachment
ISBN: PB: 9780226729633, ISBN: HB: 9780226729466, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeli...
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£18,00
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£76,00
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Hamlet's Choice Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedies
ISBN: HB: 9780300247817, Yale University Press, June 2020
224 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Conspiracies and revolts simmered beneath the surface of Queen Elizabeth's reign. England was riven with tensions created by religious conflict and the prospect of dynastic crisis and regime change. In this rich, incisive account, Peter Lake reveal...
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£35,00
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How to Read Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780300247640, Yale University Press, August 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm
A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be f...
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£9,99
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Henrik Ibsen The Man and the Mask
ISBN: HB: 9780300208818, Yale University Press, February 2019
704 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.
Henrik Ibsen (1820-1908) is arguably the most important playwright of the nineteenth century. Globally he remains the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, and "Hedda Gabler", "A Doll's House", "Peer Gynt", and "Ghosts" are all masterpieces of...
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£30,00
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Henry David Thoreau A Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226599373, ISBN: HB: 9780226344690, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
640 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live". That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small...
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£15,00
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£26,50
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History as a Kind of Writing Textual Strategies in Contemporary French Historiography
ISBN: HB: 9780226427966, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 tables
In academia, the traditional role of the humanities is being questioned by the "posts" – postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postfeminism – which means that the project of writing history only grows more complex. In "History as a Kind of Writing",...
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£41,50
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Horror and a Beauty The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels
ISBN: PB: 9788024631615, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
302 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Peter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London – its rich diversity of human experience, mood, and emotion, of actions and events, and of the tools through w...
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£15,00
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