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| The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time
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Robert Brustein.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300115765. Daedalus Item Code: 31836 |
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| Concentrating on six recurring prejudices in Shakespeare’s plays—including misogyny, elitism, distrust of effeminacy, and racism—Robert Brustein examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries ... (Read More)
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| The Memory Chalet
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Tony Judt.
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| Publisher: William Heinemann. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780434020966. Daedalus Item Code: 32036 |
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| (One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2011) In 2008, expatriate British historian, essayist, and political commentator Tony Judt was diagnosed with amyotrophic ... (Read More)
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| The Serpent's Teeth
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Ovid. Mary M. Innes, translator.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780141026350. Daedalus Item Code: 32341 |
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| First published in 8 AD, Ovid's Metamorphoses synthesized many of the Greek and Roman myths into a single epic poem, and it is rightfully considered one of the great works of the ancient ... (Read More)
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| Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant
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Christopher Hibbert. Foreword by John Sutherland.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780230614260. Daedalus Item Code: 31987 |
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| The biographer of Disraeli, Edward VII, and George VI here gives us an energetic and witty portrait of Charles Dickens. Throwing a clear light on the creative process and sources of literary ... (Read More)
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| Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
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John Lellenberg, ed. Daniel Stashower, ed. Charles Foley, ed.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594201356. Daedalus Item Code: 32288 |
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| This annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. Conan Doyle emerges from the ... (Read More)
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| The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
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John Stape.
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| Publisher: Arrow. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780099478676. Daedalus Item Code: 32342 |
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| Conrad scholar John Stape here offers a thoroughly detailed biography of one of modern literature's most important writers, one whose work remains widely read and acutely relevant 80 years after his ... (Read More)
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| John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century
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Arthur Freeman & Janet Ing Freeman.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: slipcased.
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| ISBN: 9780300096613. Daedalus Item Code: 31842 |
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| (Winner of the ILAB Prize for Bibliography from the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) This immense two-volume account presents the controversial career of John Payne Collier, a ... (Read More)
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| Faulks on Fiction: A Story of the Novel in Characters
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Sebastian Faulks.
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| Publisher: BBC Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781846079603. Daedalus Item Code: 32040 |
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| Between his novels A Week in December and A Possible Life, Sebastian Faulks presented this history of the British novel through 28 profiles of great fictional characters as a companion ... (Read More)
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| Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola
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Gary Dexter, ed.
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| Publisher: Frances Lincoln. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780711229297. Daedalus Item Code: 31587 |
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| "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare," George Bernard Shaw once opined in a double-edged ... (Read More)
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| Fabulous and Monstrous Beasts
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Belinda Weber.
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| Publisher: Kingfisher. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780753462478. Daedalus Item Code: 32008 |
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| Throughout history our myths and folktales have been full of fantastical beasts and monsters, some wondrous and some downright scary. Learn about these creatures from around the world in this ... (Read More)
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