Rapture: A Novel
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The draft dodger Laurence yearns to take control of his destiny. Having fled to the highlands, he...
Red Vienna, White Socialism, and the Blues: Ann Tizia Leitich's America
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After the First World War, Vienna was overrun by jazz, Hollywood movies, and Fordism; its citizens...
Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer
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Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller's...
Sophocles: Antigone
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Antigone is Sophocles' masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and...
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 Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats
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This book focuses on W. B. Yeats's critical writings, an aspect of his oeuvre which has been given...
The Iliad
Homer, E.V. Rieu and Peter Jones
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A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation....
The Most Beautiful Gardens Ever Written
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Are gardens anything more than collections of plants? Spaces for leisure activities? Extensions that...
Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic
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Wolves lope across Gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to humanity, in the figure...
Aliens & Anorexia
Chris Kraus and Palle Yourgrau
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First published in 2000, Chris Kraus's second novel, Aliens & Anorexia, defined a female form of...