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Poetry

Careful What You Wish For

Sansom Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781847772039, Carcanet, June 2015
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

A night in Matlock Bath, an Ode to Indolence, a boy running the ploughed fields of cross-country, and the 1975 Reading Festival... Careful What You Wish For is winter mornings lit by the tame volcano of a lava lamp, and it is Camus, St-Exupery and Ke...

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Literary Criticism

Cervantes' "Don Quixote"

Gonzalez Echevarria Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300198645, Yale University Press, May 2015
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

The novel "Don Quixote", written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deepl...

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Fiction

Creatures at the Absolute Bottom of the Sea

McGuire Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9781602232594, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2015
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A man witnesses a tragic accident that calls his own life into question. A young woman meets her high school sweetheart after many years and seeks to make sense of the separate paths they've taken. A soldier home from Iraq tries to rebuild his life i...

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Poetry

Complete Poems

Silkin Jon

ISBN: PB: 9781847772404, Carcanet, February 2015
1088 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Complete Poems" brings together the published and unpublished work of one of the most significant poets of the late twentieth century, founding editor of Stand and of the Northern House imprint. As well as reprinting all the poems included in Silkin...

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Literary Criticism

Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian, Notebooks No. 7 EUtROPEs: The Paradox of European Empire

Boyer John W., Molden Berthold

ISBN: PB: 9782952596268, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
463 pp., 20.9x14.7 cm, 32 colour plates

"Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks" publish selected papers drawn from the various advanced-level activities at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. In Volume Seven, scholars from across the continent consider Europe as a discourse made of t...

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Asia

Crafting of the 10,000 Things Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China

Schafer Dagmar

ISBN: PB: 9780226272801, ISBN: HB: 9780226735849, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
352 pp., 22.9x16.3 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line illus.

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this peri...

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Poetry

Cassandra

de Ronsard Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9781784100100, Carcanet, January 2015
216 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The sonnet sequence "Les Amours de Cassandre", first published in 1552, established Pierre de Ronsard as the outstanding French poet of his time. He was lauded by Montaigne, admired throughout Europe, and f?ted by the French Crown and foreign monarch...

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Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian, Notebooks No. 6

Meltzer Francoise

ISBN: PB: 9782952596251, University of Chicago Press, January 2015
500 pp., 20.9x14.7 cm

"Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks" publish selected papers drawn from the various advanced-level activities at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. Topics treated in each issue reflect the disciplinary diversity of conferences and lectures...

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Literary Criticism

Classicism of the Twenties Art, Music, and Literature

Ziolkowski Theodore

ISBN: HB: 9780226183985, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct – and influential – was a turn t...

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Literary Criticism

C. H. Sisson Reader

McGuinness Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781847772657, Carcanet, November 2014
528 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

C. H. Sisson was born in Bristol in 1914. To celebrate his centenary, this Reader includes a generous selection of his poems, translations and essays. The poems are drawn from all periods of Sisson's writing life, from the darkly satirical work of th...

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