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Travel Writing: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Tim Youngs
9780198794110 Travel writing goes back thousands of years and is found in many cultures. Tim Youngs examines its various forms, including diaries, letters, adventure narratives, and blogs, and outlines their uses. He shows how in describing places and their journeys to them, travel writers also reveal something of their own values and preoccupations. |
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Nelson Mandela: A Very Short IntroductionSecond Edition £8.99 Elleke Boehmer
9780192893444 This second edition of Nelson Mandela VSI focuses on a far-reaching critical look at meanings of reconciliation and Mandela's ethic of reciprocity. |
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Japanese Literature: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Alan Tansman
9780199765256 |
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The Yijing: A Guide£16.99 Joseph A. Adler
9780190072469 |
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Elegies of Chu£12.99 Nicholas Morrow Williams
9780198818311 This anthology, Elegies of Chu, will provide readers with an understanding of Chinese literature, examining its evolution from free-spirited, mythico-religious songs to the more formal, polished style of the Han court. |
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The Analects: A Guide£16.99 Erin M. Cline
9780190863128 |
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The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Andrew Kahn
9780198754633 Drawing on examples from across the globe and throughout history, Andrew Kahn explores the key characteristics of the short story. He shows how its rise was intertwined with international print culture, and discusses the essential techniques within this thriving literary genre, as well as the ways in which it is constantly innovated, even today. |
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The Marquise de Gange£8.99 The Marquis de Sade, Will McMorran
9780198848288 Loosely based on one of the most notorious crimes of the seventeenth century, The Marquise de Gange by The Marquis de Sade is a neglected classic. Although a departure from his earlier pornographic and libertine works, the novel reads with the same subversive tension of an author plotting against virtue in his distress. |
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The AssommoirSecond Edition £8.99 Émile Zola, Brian Nelson, Robert Lethbridge
9780198828563 The seventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Assommoir is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. |
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Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Ilan Stavans
9780190076979 |
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The Essential Mòzǐ: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings£12.99 Mo Zi, Chris Fraser
9780198848103 An abridged translation of the influential classical Chinese text Mòzi covering the ethical and political writings and the dialectical texts. |
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Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Liza Knapp
9780198813934 Leo Tolstoy is one of the greatest novelists ever to have lived, whose books have stood the test of time to remain widely recognised as literary masterpieces today. This Very Short Introduction explores his celebrated novels and nonfiction writings to reveal the core themes and thought at the heart of Tolstoy's work. |
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Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Laura Marcus
9780199669240 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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Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Ben Hutchinson
9780198807278 Considering literature comparatively can help readers realize how much can be learned by looking beyond the horizon of their own cultures, discovering not only more about other literatures, but also about their own. Ben Hutchinson offers a history of comparative literature, placing it at the heart of literary criticism. |
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Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Sean Teuton
9780199944521 |
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Earth£11.99 Émile Zola, Brian Nelson, Julie Rose
9780199677870 Zola's novel of peasant life describes the disintegration of the Fouan family when Papa Fouan decides to divide his land between his three children. Greed and violence feed a bitter struggle for supremacy. This new translation captures the novel's blend of brutality and lyricism in its evocation of the inexorable cycle of the natural world. |
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Anna Karenina£9.99 Leo Tolstoy, Rosamund Bartlett
9780198748847 One of the greatest novels ever written, Anna Karenina is the story of a beautiful woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties. This major new translation conveys Tolstoy's precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful. |
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Selected Poems: with parallel French text£9.99 Guillaume Apollinaire, Martin Sorrell
9780199687596 Apollinaire is the most significant French poet of early modernism and the only great First World War poet from France. He coined the word 'surrealism' and was at the forefront of literary and artistic experimentalism. This new selection covers the full range of his career in facing-page translations, with some pictorial calligrams. |
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories£8.99 Leo Tolstoy, Nicolas Pasternak Slater, Andrew Kahn
9780199669882 In these six late stories Tolstoy explores human relationships and moral choices, raising profound questions about life in gripping fictional form. 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' is an existential masterpiece, a harrowing tale of the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer. Newly translated, and with a wide-ranging Introduction. |
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Selected Poems£9.99 Paul Verlaine, Martin Sorrell
9780199554010 |
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