Beware the Lizard Lurking (The House of the Red Duke #2)
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Welcome to the candlelit courts of Europe! Uninvited guests at a secret wedding. A frozen...
Historical Fiction
Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography
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The life of Siegfried Sassoon has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half...
The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders
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A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with...
Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
Peter J. Kitson and Robert Markley
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On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China,...
Dumfries House: An Architectural Story
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On 18 July 1754, William Crichton Dalrymple, the 5th Earl of Dumfries, laid the foundation stone of...
Arbitration and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century England
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Despite plague, fire, political upheaval and religious strife, in the 17th century English people of...
Rock 'n' Film: Cinema's Dance with Popular Music
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Rock 'N' Film presents a cultural history of films about US and British rock music during the period...
Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur: A Biographical Study
Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) is part of a notable literary cohort, American...
biography poetry
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
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In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great...
A Hero in France
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From the undisputed master of historical espionage, a story of courage, love and treachery during...