
Object Lessons: The Novel as a Theory of Reference
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Object Lessons explores a fundamental question about literary realism: How can language evoke that...

The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952
Allen Ginsberg, Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan
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Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) kept a journal his entire life, beginning at the age of eleven. In these...

The Hurt(Ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600-1800
Tomas Macsotay and Karel Vanhaesebrouck
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This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period,...

The Shakespearean Forest
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The Shakespearean Forest, Anne Barton's final book, uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in...

Reputations
Anne McLean and Juan Gabriel Vasquez
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A taut new novel by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling - 'one of the most...

Teatro Grottesco
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Thomas Ligotti is often cited as the most curious and remarkable figure in horror literature since...

The 19th Wife
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Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled...

The Little Paris Bookshop
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The international bestseller, translated from the German by Simon Pare. On a beautifully restored...

The Meursault Investigation
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Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt Winner of the Goncourt du Premier Roman Winner of the Prix des...

Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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Kirsteen is the tale of a young woman from an old but impoverished Argyllshire family who escapes...