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February 2024
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius
Author: Elaine Fantham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as...
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
Author: Alan Rickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as...
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
Author: Peter Burness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 644 Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western...
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries
Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just...
Jane Austen's Universal Truths: Wisdom and witticisms from her writings
Author: Susan Hart-Byers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The enduring appeal of Jane Austen's fiction is captured in this pocket-sized collection of quotations taken from her celebrated works. The...
Jump and Other Stories
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Author: Nadine Gordimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Jump and Other Stories collects fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging tales from political activist and Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, with...
The Ancient Fable: An Introduction
Author: Niklas Holzberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 We are all familiar with the moralizing animal tales ascribed to Aesop. Described as fiction that conveys truths, fables can be...
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern
Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...
Waka and Things, Waka as Things
Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays
Author: Prof. Eric Rasmussen (USA) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
Author: Claudia Baracchi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work...
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 465 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...