Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
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Instantly heralded for its "masterful" and "thrilling" portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson...
The Quran: Epic and Apocalypse
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Suppose our knowledge of the Quran began only recently with the discovery of mysterious scrolls in a...
A Canterbury Pilgrimage / An Italian Pilgrimage
Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell and Dave Buchanan
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A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed...
Summer Nineteen Forty-Five
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“Thirty years later, when he is in the middling part of his life… Peter Howard, needing to...
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The Tamer Tamed: Or, The Woman's Prize
David Bevington, John Fletcher, Gary Taylor and Celia R. Daileader
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This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's...
A Particular Friendship
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'London guests staying hate it. Keeps them awake all night they complain. The bleating in the utter...
Reading Machines: Toward and Algorithmic Criticism
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Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, what else are they...
Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England
Lucia Nigri and Naya Tsentourou
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This collection examines the widespread phenomenon of hypocrisy in literary, theological, political,...
The Best of McSweeney's
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To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the journal called "a key barometer of the literary...
Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples: With Sketches of Young Ladies by Edward Caswall
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Following the phenomenal popularity of Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers, Dickens produced two...