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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
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• Author(s): L. Frank Baum • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a famous children’s novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, was originally published in...
View full detailsThe Chinar Is My Address: Poems in Exile
Maharaj Krishen Santoshi, Translated from Hindi by Arvind Gigoo
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• Author(s): Maharaj Krishen Santoshi | Translated from Hindi by Arvind Gigoo • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionThe Chinar is My Address: Poems in Exile contains English translation of fifty Hi...
View full detailsA Dictionary of Novel
Sunil Kumar Sarker
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• Author(s): Sunil Kumar Sarker • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureNovel is arguably the most important genre of English literature. According to Jane Austen, the greatest powers of the mind are displ...
View full detailsMask Manifesto
Pawan Vijay
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• Author(s): Pawan Vijay • Publisher: BluOne Ink • Publisher Imprint: BluOne Ink • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: General
Sweet Excess: Crafting Mishti in Bengal
Ishita Dey
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• Author(s): Ishita Dey • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routedge IndiaIshita Dey is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asian University, Delhi. Her research interests ar...
View full detailsWhite Fang
Jack london
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• Author(s): Jack london • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"The Wild still lingered in him, and the wolf in him merely slept." White Fang, published in 1906 by Jack London, is an enthralling adventur...
View full detailsSex and Repression in Savage Society
Bronislaw Malinowski, Bronislaw Malinowski
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• Author(s): Bronislaw Malinowski | Bronislaw Malinowski • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyDuring the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski fou...
View full detailsSix Tragedies
Seneca Emily Wilson, Emily Wilson
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• Author(s): Seneca Emily Wilson | Emily Wilson • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalHere is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the mos...
View full detailsWomen Writing in India: 600 BC to the Early Twentieth Century
Tharu Susie & Lalita K., Lalita K.
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• Author(s): Tharu Susie & Lalita K. | Lalita K. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Freda Mcmanus
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• Author(s): Freda Mcmanus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Psychotherapy - BehaviorismbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological therapy. ...
View full detailsA New Introduction To Islam
Daniel Brown
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• Author(s): Daniel Brown • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyWritten in an engaging style, this text introduces students not just to what Muslims believe and practise, but also to the history and d...
View full detailsTragedy (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Adrian Poole
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• Author(s): Adrian Poole • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: DramaAbout the Book To your local anchorperson, the word "tragedy" brings to mind an accidental fire at a low-income apartment ...
View full detailsThe Remembered Village
Srinivas M.N.
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• Author(s): Srinivas M.N. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralAbout the Book Sketching an ethnographic portrait of the village ion its own terms, and as an integral part of larger political and ...
View full detailsThe Indian Constitution : Oxford India Short Introductions
Khosla Madhav
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• Author(s): Khosla Madhav • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsAbout the Book Giving identity to over a billion people, the Indian Constitution is one of the world's great political texts. Drafted ov...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Bimal Roy: An 'Outsider' Within
Shoma A. Chatterji
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• Author(s): Shoma A. Chatterji • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Communication StudiesAbout the Book An analysis of Bimal Roy’s films and their depiction of people outsi...
View full detailsSikhism
Hew Mcleod
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• Author(s): Hew Mcleod • Publisher: Yoda Press • Publisher Imprint: Yoda Press • Subject: Religion and Philosophy‘McLeod has done more for Sikh history than anyone now alive. In fact, if there is a Father of Sikh History, it is Hew Mcleod.’ Ruku...
View full detailsRitwik Ghatak Stories
Ritwik Ghatak, 0
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• Author(s): Ritwik Ghatak | 0 • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: English LiteratureRitwik Ghatak, the famous filmmaker, is known all over India and abroad for some of the greatest films made in India, which set ...
View full detailsHeterogeneities Identity Formations In Modern India
Pradip Kumar Datta
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• Author(s): Pradip Kumar Datta • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralAbout the Book Taking the instability of all identities as its point of depar...
View full detailsCitizenship (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Richard Bellemy
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• Author(s): Richard Bellemy • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipAbout the Book Interest in citizenship has never been higher. Politicians of all stripes str...
View full detailsTolstoy (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Knapp
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• Author(s): Knapp • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyWar and peace and anna karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Le...
View full detailsCorrespondence : Pablo Picasso
Picasso Pablo
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• Author(s): Picasso Pablo • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: LettersPablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth centur...
View full detailsTughlaq :
Karnad Girish
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• Author(s): Karnad Girish • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Asian - GeneralMuhammad Bin Tughlaq, who ruled from Delhi in the fourteenth century, was a man of many dimensions. A w...
View full detailsMystics of the East
Acharya Rajneesh (Osho)
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• Author(s): Acharya Rajneesh (Osho) • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Divination - TarotThis is a compilation of osho's discourses on some of the enlightened masters who were bo...
View full detailsDescartes (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Sorell
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• Author(s): Sorell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernRené Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his ...
View full detailsThe Golden Age Of Indian Buddhist Philosophy
Jan Westerhoff
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• Author(s): Jan Westerhoff • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: EasternJan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development...
View full detailsPower: A New Social Analysis
Bertrand Russell
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• Author(s): Bertrand Russell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyIn this remarkable book, regarded by Russell as one of the most important of his career, he argues that powe...
View full detailsSamajshastra Ke Siddhant
Ram Nath Sharma, R.K. Sharma
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• Author(s): Ram Nath Sharma | R.K. Sharma • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Sociology and Anthropologyसमाजशास्त्र के सिद्धान्तों पर यह पुस्तक समस्त भारतीय विश्वविद्यालयों में समाजशास्त्र विषय में Principles of Sociol...
View full detailsIslam In India or The Qanun-I-Islam: The Customs of the Musalmans of India
Ja'Far Sharif, G.A. Herklots
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• Author(s): Ja'Far Sharif | G.A. Herklots • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyWhen the British began their rule in India the Muslims had been in power for several centuries. Yet their customs wer...
View full detailsGlimpses Of Reality
Benito De Donno
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• Author(s): Benito De Donno • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyWith a vast knowledge of physics, metaphysics, biology, spirituality, health and cosmic laws, De Donno probes over 150 unexplained ...
View full detailsAstrology: A Science or Myth
Sanat Kumar Jain
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• Author(s): Sanat Kumar Jain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyConsidered by some as Science while by others a mere blind faith, Astrology is a complex subject that needs to be studied in prope...
View full detailsThe Return Of The Native
Thomas Hardy
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• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Return of the Native, both powerful and sombre, is considered to be the most representative of Hardy’s novels. It is set in Egdon Heath ...
View full detailsThe Mill On The Floss
George Eliot
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• Author(s): George Eliot • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe novel is set in the period of George Eliot’s own childhood, in the pre-railway, pre-industrial age, with its settled and secure order, a...
View full detailsTess Of The D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
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• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTess of the D’Urbervilles, a brilliant tale of seduction, love, betrayal, and murder, is generally regarded as Thomas Hardy’s finest novel. ...
View full detailsSons And Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
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• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSons and Lovers is considered to be D.H. Lawrence’s first mature novel. What is unique about this novel is its profound psychological insig...
View full detailsPostmodern Indian English Literature
Bijay Kumar Das
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• Author(s): Bijay Kumar Das • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteraturePostmodernism in Indian English literature refers to the works of literature after 1980. If Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938) marks modernism...
View full detailsEnglish Literature
William J. Long
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• Author(s): William J. Long • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe book presents the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era. It aims to create in every...
View full detailsPrinciples of Literary Criticism
I.A. Richards
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• Author(s): I.A. Richards • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: English LiteratureIvor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers an...
View full detailsThomas Hardy'S Poetry And Existentialism
Mallikarjun Patil
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• Author(s): Mallikarjun Patil • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe book is a scholarly work which throws ample light on Hardy, a poet-thinker so far a neglected genius. The author penetrates deep i...
View full detailsThe Hound of the Baskervilles
A. Conan Doyle
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• Author(s): A. Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Hound of the Baskervilles is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s third crime novel featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. It was originally ser...
View full detailsNovel: Theories and Practices
Partha Kumar Mukhopadhyay
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• Author(s): Partha Kumar Mukhopadhyay • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureNovel has become the main literary medium in today’s world. The growth of novel in its different phases and over ages has witn...
View full detailsDifferent Dimensions of Dalit Discourse
Bijender Singh
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• Author(s): Bijender Singh • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureDalit literature defies inequality, injustice, subjugation, and marginalization; and sows the seeds of revulsion, resistance, and revolut...
View full detailsBest Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureInterest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test th...
View full detailsBasics Of Hindi Language
Simret Jandu
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• Author(s): Simret Jandu • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureStandard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, is also known as Manak Hindi (Devanagri: मानक हिन्दी). It is the primary official ...
View full detailsWaiting for Shiva: Unearthing the Truth of Kashi’S Gyan Vapi
Vikram Sampath
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• Author(s): Vikram Sampath • Publisher: BluOne Ink • Publisher Imprint: Occam • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaFew places in the world carry the heavy burden of history as effortlessly as Kashi, or Varanasi, has. T...
View full detailsEssays: First and Second Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Author(s): Ralph Waldo Emerson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyRalph Waldo Emerson’s Essays: First and Second Series presents a collection of his most influential writings, originally publish...
View full detailsThe Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureLucentio loves Bianca but cannot court her until her formidable elder sister Katherine is wedded off. The wily Petruchio plans a cour...
View full detailsSociology of India
Abhijit Kundu, Nupurnima Yadav
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• Author(s): Abhijit Kundu | Nupurnima Yadav • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyThis new textbook traces the evolution and development of sociology as a field of study in India and enumertes t...
View full detailsHistory of English Literature
Alexander
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• Author(s): Alexander • Publisher: Macmillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac • Subject: English LiteraturePfs History of English Lit Indian [Paperback] Alexander
Teen Talaq: Aastha ki Chaan-Been
Khurshid Salman
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• Author(s): Khurshid Salman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: Civil LawTriple talaq, or talaq-e-bidat, is one of the most debated issues not only in India but also in other countries ha...
View full detailsThe Tempest-Arden Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare | Virginia Mason Vaughan | Alden T. Vaughan • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury • Subject: English LiteratureThe Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both in the classroom and in...
View full detailsThe Future (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Jennifer M. Gidley
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• Author(s): Jennifer M. Gidley • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Future StudiesFrom the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity t...
View full detailsSocial Movements in Contemporary India
Ranjana Subberwal, Krishna Menon
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• Author(s): Ranjana Subberwal | Krishna Menon • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGETexts • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAbout the Book An interdisciplinary text that offers a comprehensive un...
View full detailsNation Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India
Ishita Banerjee- Dube, Avishek Ray
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• Author(s): Ishita Banerjee- Dube | Avishek Ray • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyFrom the shaping of identities and belongings through to current reconfigurations of nation, gove...
View full detailsJewish Literature (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Ilan Stavans
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• Author(s): Ilan Stavans • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: General Books • BISAC: JewishAbout the Book In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian...
View full detailsIndian Cinema Today And Tomorrow: Infrastructure Aesthetics Audiences
S.V. Srinivas, Ratheesh Radhakrishnan
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• Author(s): S.V. Srinivas | Ratheesh Radhakrishnan • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Music, Theatre & FilmsCinema has been, and is, a powerful tool for social mobilisation. The political import...
View full detailsCity Planning (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Carl Abbott
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• Author(s): Carl Abbott • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Architecture & Interior Designs • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAbout the Book City planning is a practice and a professio...
View full detailsCalcutta 1940-1970: In the Photographs of Jayant Patel
Lila Patel
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• Author(s): Lila Patel • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: PhotographyCalcutta 1940–1970: In the photographs of Jayant Patel is an outstanding collection of black-and-white photographs, depicting a wide swathe of...
View full detailsBlasphemy (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Yvonne Sherwood
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• Author(s): Yvonne Sherwood • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Religious Intolerance, Persecution & ConflictIn a world where not everyone believes in God, 'blasphemy' is surely a concept that has passed its use-by...
View full detailsAmerican Poetry (VSI): Very Short Introduction
David Caplan
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• Author(s): David Caplan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: PoetryA leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engag...
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