The Antagonist Principle: John Henry Newman and the Paradox of Personality
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The Antagonist Principle is a critical examination of the works and sometimes controversial public...

Hamlet: Text of the Play, the Actors' Gallery, Contexts, Criticism, Afterlives, Resources
William Shakespeare and Robert S. Miola
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This Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet features a newly edited text based on the Second Quarto...

Isidore of Seville, on the Nature of Things
Calvin B. Kendall and Faith Wallis
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For scholars in the European Middle Ages, Isidore, bishop of Seville (560? - 636) was one of the...
Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity
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Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in antiquity and late antiquity only...

Perspecta 48: Amnesia
Aaron Dresben, Edward Hsu, Andrea Leung and Ted Quintana
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Architecture, the most durable of the arts, is inextricably linked to issues of memory, nostalgia,...
Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
Marie-Pierre Rey and Susan Emanuel
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Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand...

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS In 1955, with this short story collection,...

Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon (Npg Only)
Terence Pepper and Helen Trompeteler
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During her lifetime , the Belgian - born British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 93), star of such...

Malta: Women, History, Books and Places
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A crater on the planet Mercury is named Maria de Dominici. Born in 1645, she was the first...

City of Sin: London and Its Vices
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If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. For over a thousand years, England's...