
Country Girl
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I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed...

The Roman Garden: Space, Sense, and Society
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This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary...

Amateurs in Eden: The Story of a Bohemian Marriage: Nancy and Lawrence Durrell
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Nancy Durrell was a woman famous for her silences. Anais Nin said 'I think often of Nancy's most...

The Little Magazine in Contemporary America
Ian Morris, Joanne Diaz, Betsy Sussler and Lee Gutkind
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Little magazines have often showcased the best new writing in America. Historically, they have...

Ctesias' Persica in its Near Eastern Context
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The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias,...

George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition
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The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on content rather than process within...

Goethe's Families of the Heart
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Throughout his literary work Goethe portrays characters who defy and reject 18th and 19th century...

The Death of the Book: Modernist Novels and the Time of Reading
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An examination of the ways major novels by Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf draw...

The Paris Review Interviews: I
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From William Faulkner's famous reply, 'The writer's only responsibility is to his art,' to James...

On Beauty
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Zadie Smith's On Beauty is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family Why do we fall...