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Rewriting India : Eight Writers
Bruce King
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• Author(s): Bruce King • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Asian - IndicA study of eight major contemporary Indian authors who write in English -- Arun Kolatkar, Keki N. Daruwalla, Amit Ch...
View full detailsEnglish Literature: Its History and Its Significance For the Life of the Englishspeaking World
William J. Long
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• Author(s): William J. Long • Publisher: Rupa & Co. • Publisher Imprint: Rupa & Co. • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshEnglish Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World is an all-encompa...
View full detailsThe Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version
William Butler Yeats
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• Author(s): William Butler Yeats • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII: A Vision is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of ...
View full detailsThe Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions
Robert Harvey
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• Author(s): Robert Harvey • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryA provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susce...
View full detailsThe Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson
Jeremy Noel-Tod
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• Author(s): Jeremy Noel-Tod • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: PoetryAn essential anthology that puts contemporary geniuses Eileen Myles and Margaret Atwood in conversation with literary classics Charles Baude...
View full detailsThe Essential Prose of John Milton
John Milton
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• Author(s): John Milton • Publisher: Modern Library • Publisher Imprint: Modern Library • BISAC: GeneralEdited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon The legendary author of Paradise Lost and other poems was also a superb and p...
View full detailsRiver in an Ocean: Essays on Translation
Nuzhat Abbas
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• Author(s): Nuzhat Abbas • Publisher: Trace Press • Publisher Imprint: Trace Press • BISAC: Modern - 21st Century"Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work."- from the Foreword by Françoise Vergès.What are the histories, constraints, and ...
View full detailsRequired Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
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• Author(s): Priyasha Mukhopadhyay • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Books & ReadingHow ordinary forms of writing--including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines--shaped th...
View full detailsMaurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing: A Change of Epoch
Leslie Hill
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• Author(s): Leslie Hill • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - FrenchWriting in fragments is often held to be one of the most distinctive signature effects of Romantic, modern, a...
View full detailsKeep the Aspidistra Flying
Orwell
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• Author(s): Orwell • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Beka Lamb
Zee Edgell
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• Author(s): Zee Edgell • Publisher: Hodder Education • Publisher Imprint: Hodder Education • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureThere have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Conte...
View full detailsAnnotations to James Joyce's Ulysses
Sam Slote
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• Author(s): Sam Slote • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyJames Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its r...
View full detailsThe French Revolution
Thomas Carlyle
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• Author(s): Thomas Carlyle • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: GeneralThomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napol...
View full detailsLast Letter to a Reader
Gerald Murnane
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• Author(s): Gerald Murnane • Publisher: And Other Stories • Publisher Imprint: And Other Stories • BISAC: Australian & OceanianIn the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of Engl...
View full detailsA Dictionary of Narratology (Revised Edition)
Gerald Prince
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• Author(s): Gerald Prince • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryHistory, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely h...
View full detailsShe Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies
Henry Fielding
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• Author(s): Henry Fielding • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full...
View full detailsNarratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Fourth Edition
Mieke Bal
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• Author(s): Mieke Bal • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheorySince its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international cl...
View full detailsThe Law Code of Manu
Patrick Olivelle
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• Author(s): Patrick Olivelle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Asian - IndicThe Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for...
View full detailsMadness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle
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• Author(s): Mary Ruefle • Publisher: Wave Books • Publisher Imprint: Wave Books • BISAC: PoetryThis is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the we...
View full detailsThe "Scandal" of Marxism: And Other Writings on Politics
Roland Barthes
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• Author(s): Roland Barthes • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • BISAC: GeneralA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback...
View full detailsKafka
Gilles Deleuze
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• Author(s): Gilles Deleuze • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press • BISAC: ReferenceIn this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of Kafka'...
View full detailsThe Interpretation of Dreams
Artemidorus
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• Author(s): Artemidorus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Ancient and Classical'Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source' Artemidorus' The Interp...
View full detailsMushroom
Sara Rich
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• Author(s): Sara Rich • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. They are th...
View full detailsStephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
Liam Haydon
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• Author(s): Liam Haydon • Publisher: Macat Library • Publisher Imprint: Macat Library • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshWhat is a self? Greenblatt argues that the 16th century saw the awakening of modern self-consciousness, the ability to ...
View full detailsMrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
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• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text, introduced a...
View full detailsHamlet
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare • BISAC: ShakespeareThis Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, mod...
View full detailsBe as Children
Vladimir Sharov
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• Author(s): Vladimir Sharov • Publisher: Dedalus • Publisher Imprint: Dedalus • BISAC: Russian & SovietAt the center of Be As Children is an ailing Vladimir Lenin, infected not with syphilis, as some historians have claimed, but with Christi...
View full detailsLiterary Theory: A Complete Introduction
Sara Upstone
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• Author(s): Sara Upstone • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryLiterary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about...
View full detailsThe Making of a Poem
Eavan Boland
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• Author(s): Eavan Boland • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company • BISAC: PoetryTwo of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches ...
View full detailsMythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
Edith Hamilton
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• Author(s): Edith Hamilton • Publisher: Black Dog • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: History • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyThis deluxe edition of the world's most beloved, bestselling classic on Greek, Roman, and...
View full detailsThe Assommoir
Émile Zola
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• Author(s): Émile Zola • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Generalb 'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' /b In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gerva...
View full detailsThe Norton Anthology of Poetry [With Access Code]
Margaret Ferguson
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• Author(s): Margaret Ferguson • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company • BISAC: PoetryThis highly anticipated new edition features NEW poets, NEW poems, and innovative digital resources. The Sixth E...
View full detailsA Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry
Robert Hass
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• Author(s): Robert Hass • Publisher: Ecco Press • Publisher Imprint: Ecco Press • BISAC: PoetryFrom the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts...
View full detailsOn Obligations
Cicero
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• Author(s): Cicero • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalCicero wrote On Obligations (De Officiis) in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to prov...
View full detailsA Horse at Night: On Writing
Amina Cain
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• Author(s): Amina Cain • Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project • Publisher Imprint: Dorothy a Publishing Project • BISAC: Feminist"A Horse at Night is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us t...
View full detailsThe Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Vincent B. Leitch
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• Author(s): Vincent B. Leitch • Publisher: W.W. Norton & Comp. • Publisher Imprint: WW Norton • Subject: Encyclopaedias and References • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThe gold standard anthology for anyone who wants to understand the developm...
View full detailsThe Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen
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• Author(s): Henrik Ibsen • Publisher: Dover Publications • Publisher Imprint: Dover Publications • BISAC: European - ScandinavianThis 1884 masterpiece may have its genesis in the hostile reception Ibsen -- widely regarded as the father of modern...
View full detailsRamayana Verses Mahabharata -
Devdutt Pattanaik
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• Author(s): Devdutt Pattanaik • Publisher: Rupa Publications • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Asian - IndicIt is a popular belief that the Ramayana is idealistic, while the Mahabharata is realist...
View full detailsReadings in Chinese Literary Thought
Stephen Owen
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• Author(s): Stephen Owen • Publisher: Harvard University Press • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThis dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period t...
View full detailsThe Hatred of Literature
William Marx, Nicholas Elliott
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• Author(s): William Marx | Nicholas Elliott • Publisher: Belknap Press • Publisher Imprint: Belknap Press • BISAC: Books & ReadingFor the last 2,500 years literature has been attacked, booed, and condemned, often for the wrong reasons and oc...
View full detailsTartuffe
Moliere
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• Author(s): Moliere • Publisher: Dover Publications • Publisher Imprint: Dover Publications • BISAC: GeneralRenowned for his satirical works, Moli re (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673) delighted in lampooning the social pretensions and conceits...
View full detailsClose Every Door
Shomshuklla Das
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• Author(s): Shomshuklla Das • Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. • BISAC: GeneralA colourful collection of eclectic poems, Close Every Door is the result of its creator's travels, mu...
View full detailsHistory Of Medicine
Hachette India
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• Author(s): Hachette India • Publisher: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd • BISAC: GeneralFrom ancient remedies to modern miracles, from the dark phases of medicinal history to lif...
View full detailsThe The Palace Of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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• Author(s): Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni • Publisher: Pan Macmillan India • Publisher Imprint: Pan Macmillan India • BISAC: Novel As Form‘An epic story ... poignantly told’ Hindustan Times ‘Radiant ... A charming and remarkable book’ Houston Chron...
View full detailsGreek Way
Edith Hamilton
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• Author(s): Edith Hamilton • Publisher: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd • BISAC: GeneralThe Greek Way explores the antiquities of Greece through their writing and art. In her deb...
View full detailsHachette Book Of Indian Detective Fiction
Edited By Saint, Tarun K.
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• Author(s): Edited By Saint | Tarun K. • Publisher: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd • BISAC: GeneralAn elite squad detective from the future travels back in time to hunt down a t...
View full detailsEverybodys Son
Thrity Umrigar
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• Author(s): Thrity Umrigar • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc • Publisher Imprint: Harpercollins Publishers Inc • BISAC: GeneralThe bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The World We Found deftly explores is...
View full detailsKrishna Deva Raya
Roopa Rai, Archana
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• Author(s): Roopa Rai | Archana • Publisher: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd • BISAC: GeneralThe girl's mouth fell open. 'Your father was a king?'Amma smiled. 'And not any old ki...
View full detailsSerious Noticing: Selected Essays
James Wood
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• Author(s): James Wood • Publisher: PRH India • Publisher Imprint: Vintage UK • BISAC: ReferenceThe selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius...
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
Faber Inhouse
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• Author(s): Faber Inhouse • Publisher: PRH India • Publisher Imprint: Faber • BISAC: GeneralA revolutionary army is taking on the failing government and the US Marines, and the cities have become vast garbage-strewn slums. In The Real Life of Al...
View full detailsLego Harry Potter. La Guía Mágica De Las Casas De Hogwarts
Julia March
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• Author(s): Julia March • Publisher: PRH India • Publisher Imprint: Dorling Kindersley - Kids • BISAC: Children'S & Young Adult LiteratureDescubre el increíble mundo de Harry Potter y las casas de HogwartsAdéntrate en las cuatro casas de Hog...
View full detailsThe Handbook of Persian Carpets: Cultural and Semiotic Perspectives
Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz, Mahdi Noshadi
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• Author(s): Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz | Mahdi Noshadi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThis book analyzes Persian carpets through the holistic and multifaceted perspective of cultural linguistic...
View full detailsEl magnicidio
Germán Espinosa
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• Author(s): Germán Espinosa • Publisher: Magisterio • Publisher Imprint: Magisterio • BISAC: GeneralEsta novela, de los m�s importantes escritores colombianos, est� concebida dentro de un esquema polic�aco. Versa sobre el asesinato de un dictado...
View full detailsJacques. Tome 2
George Sand
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• Author(s): George Sand • Publisher: Hachette Livre Bnf • Publisher Imprint: Hachette Livre Bnf • BISAC: European - FrenchJacques. Tome 2 / par George Sand...Date de l'édition originale: 1834Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de con...
View full detailsLa Terre de Tom Tiddler
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Hachette Livre Bnf • Publisher Imprint: Hachette Livre Bnf • BISAC: GeneralLa terre de Tom Tiddler / Charles DickensDate de l'édition originale: 1893Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de cons...
View full detailsStudies in Classic American Literature
D. H. Lawrence
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• Author(s): D. H. Lawrence • Publisher: Martino Fine Books • Publisher Imprint: Martino Fine Books • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh2019 Reprint of 1923 Edition. Studies in Classic American Literature is Lawrence's most famed work of lite...
View full detailsPerils of Protection: Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights
Susan Honeyman
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• Author(s): Susan Honeyman • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureUnrecognized in the United States and resisted in many wealthy, industri...
View full detailsPerils of Protection: Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights
Susan Honeyman
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• Author(s): Susan Honeyman • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureUnrecognized in the United States and resisted in many wealthy, industri...
View full detailsSacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature
Edward McLean Test
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• Author(s): Edward McLean Test • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press • BISAC: RenaissanceMore than five hundred years after the fact, present-day writers still use hyperbolic adjectives to de...
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