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Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction

£8.99

Laura Marcus

9780199669240
Paperback
26 July 2018

Very Short Introductions

Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. Laura Marcus defines what autobiographies are, considering their relationship with similar literary forms, and analysing the core themes in autobiographical writing. She also discusses how autobiography offers the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world.

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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

£9.99

Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Vilain

9780199646036
Paperback
12 May 2016

Oxford World's Classics

A landmark in the development of the twentieth-century novel, the Notebooks is the story of a young Danish aristocrat , told in a series of notes that explore Malte's life in Paris, childhood memories and reflections in highly crafted poetic prose. A radical departure from literary realism, it is an archetypal confrontation with the modern.

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The Liberation of Jerusalem

£12.99

Torquato Tasso, Max Wickert, Mark Davie

9780199535354
Paperback
12 February 2009

Oxford World's Classics

Tasso's epic poem concerns the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, and combines the theme of war with romantic and magical tales of love between pagan and Christian. This is the first modern translation that faithfully reflects the sense and verse form of Tasso's hugely infuential masterpiece.

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Miss Julie and Other Plays

£8.99

Johan August Strindberg, Michael Robinson

9780199538041
Paperback
13 November 2008

Oxford World's Classics

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Don Carlos and Mary Stuart

£10.99

Friedrich Schiller, Hilary Collier Sy-Quia, Peter Oswald, Lesley Sharpe

9780199540747
Paperback
12 June 2008

Oxford World's Classics

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Indiana

£8.99

George Sand, Sylvia Raphael, Naomi Schor

9780199540488
Paperback
12 June 2008

Oxford World's Classics

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