Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis
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In this illustrated study Richard Buxton analyses Greek literary narratives and visual...
Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance
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Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early...
Moby-Dick: or, the Whale: Or, the Whale
Herman Melville, Tom Quirk and Andrew Delbanco
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The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession....
Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought: Narratives of World Politics
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Over the past few years, 'dystopia' has become a word with increasing cultural currency, this book...
Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture: Something. Nothing. Everything
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Pain. Chronic digestive symptoms. Poor sleep. Neuropathy. Sensory disturbances. Fatigue. Panic....
Rebel Barons: Resisting Royal Power in Medieval Culture
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Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture:...
The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy
David Pearson, Antal Szerb and Len Rix
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A typically brilliant, ironic and moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest...
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe and Biyi Bandele
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A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the...
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess and Andrew Bissell
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Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of...
Age of Iron
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Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of...