Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581
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Many early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court,...
Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid
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The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our...
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Plain Bad Heroines
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‘Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief’ SARAH WATERS ...
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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
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From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose...
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Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff: A Novel
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“An almost literally up-to-the-minute fever dream of a novel.” —Bill Maher From legendary...
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Hope Against Hope
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'Suddently, at about one o'clock in the morning, there was a sharp, unbearably explicit knock on the...
Al Dente: Madness, Beauty and the Food of Rome
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Imagine the River Tiber as an alimentary tract. Picture a hungry saint. Think of erotic Renaissance...
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Last Man Standing: Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
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On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl (b. 1927) took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed...
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The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century
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The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse...