
Reading Austen in America
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Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience...

Reading Robin Hood: Content, Form and Reception in the Outlaw Myth
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Reading Robin Hood explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the Middle Ages...

Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, 1603-1660
John Peter Rumrich and Gregory Chaplin
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A time of political and social unrest in England, this period produced some of the greatest poetry...

Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres: Renaissance Conceptions of the Pythagorean Music of the Universe
Jacomien Prins and Maude Vanhaelen
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This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony...

The Wedding Girl
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At eighteen, Milly was up for anything. So when a friend asked her to marry him just so that he...

When We Were Orphans
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England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the...

Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe
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Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the Wild West: this is...

A Fugitive Englishman
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Edwin James reaches the height of his professional career in the law when, on the brink of being...

Around the World in Eighty Days
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"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available,...

Sea Change
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January, 1721. London is reeling from the effects of the greatest financial scandal of the age - the...