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One of the greatest works of world literature, Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, …
It is 1939 and times are getting tough for everyone in Germany. Ten-year old Liesel and her brother are on …
Literary Texts and the Greek Historian provides a comprehensive and well documented survey of the ways in which non-historical texts, …
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This book investigates the various reasons behind the elevation of the memoir, previously categorized as a marginalized form of life …
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From William Morris to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British history. In …
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Recent decades have witnessed numerous studies of the role of purity in early Judaism, from ancient Israel to the rabbinic …
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In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art …
