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Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any...
Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women's Writings
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Western European mythology and history tend to view spirituality and sexuality as opposite extremes....
Rapture: A Novel
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The draft dodger Laurence yearns to take control of his destiny. Having fled to the highlands, he...
Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia
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Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous....
Sulpicius Severus' Vita Martini
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The Vita Martini or Life of Martin of Sulpicius Severus is one of the classic Latin hagiographies....
The Aeneid
Virgil, Robert Fagles and Bernard M. W. Knox
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Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of Homer's twin works The Iliad and The Odyssey have sold...
Atta
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Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert...
The Adjacent
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Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie...
The Scarlet Plague
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Jack London's plague novel, in which the world's population has been reduced to a few scattered...
The Traitor
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"War is coming - and that means our secret agents must get busy.'August 1918. On his way to the...