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(H/B) GRAPHS, MAPS, TREES
The "great iconoclast of literary criticism" reinvents the study of the novel. In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers charts, maps and time lines, developing the idea of "distant reading" into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, in which the canon disappears into the larger literary system. Charting entire genres -...
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INCOGNITA
Returning to Florence on the occasion of his eighteenth birthday, Aurelian - together with his sworn companion Hippolito - dons his disguise in anticipation of the famous Florentine ball. Once there, the two are soon separated, and each finds himself paired off with a beautiful - and masked - lady. Whilst Aurelian yearns to learn the true identity of his 'Incognita', Hippolito is mistaken for another and brazenly plays along with the conceit. As morning dawns, the youths cannot escape the elaborate web of deceit they have unwittingly creat...
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ROCK CRYSTAL
This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence, but is implicit with the fragility of life and the inevitability of death. This quasi-fairy tale speaks of village life in the high mountains, but is also a parable of belief and faith. "Rock Crystal" is a Christmas story and a story about the heart of the ice, the crystal. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) NIGHTINGALES AND PLEASURE GARDENS
The earliest Turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since then, love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moods - pre-Islamic, Ottoman classical, folk, modern. In style, form and sensibility, this collection offers a broad spectrum: virtually all types and varieties are represented here. The English versions are loyal to the originals and strive to be authentic poems in English. Here are lyrics from pre-Islamic Central Asia, passages from epics, mystical ecstasies of such eminent thirteenth-century figu...
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(H/B) POSSESSIONS
This sequel to Julia Kristeva's celebrated allegory "The Old Man and the Wolves" returns to the corrupt seaside resort of a mythical town, where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarism, and good and evil are erased. Part mystery, part meditation, this engrossing tale features the return of Parisian amateur detective and newspaper reporter Stephanie Delacour (Kristeva's alter ego), drawn into the mystery of a friend's murder. The story opens with the gruesome discovery of the decapitated body of gifted translator Gl...
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(P/B) HORACE DORLAN
Preparing to deliver a lecture in Pisa, Professor Horace Dorlan plans to incorporate music and performance into his scientific presentation. On the eve of his big event, however, strange things start to happen. Consciousness and reality start to shift, divergent voices speak of confusing things and questions start to mount up. Where, for instance, is his wife, why is there a miniature musical quintet in his room, and what of the accident that afflicted him? A darkly imaginative tour de force - that melds elements of silent movies, graphic ...
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(P/B) THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF MAF THE DOG, AND OF HIS FRIEND MARILYN MONROE
Marilyn always had a book in her handbag. She was always on the way to a discovery, to a large recognition that would change everything. (from the publisher)...
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(H/B) SHERLOCK'S SISTERS
Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This character, originating in the 1860s, configures a new representation of women in narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This analysis explores female empowerment through professional unofficial or official detection, especially as this surveillance illuminates legal, moral, gendered, institutional, criminal, punitive, judicial, political, and familial practices. This book considers a...
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PERFECT BLEMISH / PERFFAITH NAM
Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. The extraordinary international range of her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe’s leading poets. This bilingual edition of her later poetry includes all her work from Cell Angel (1996) and Blind Man’s Kiss / Cusan Dyn Dall (2001), as well as the first English translations of Perffaith Nam (2005) and a selection of new poems. The Welsh originals in this book have facing English translations by Elin...
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(P/B) VOICE RECOGNITION
Who are the best young poets today? Which new poets are most likely to become the defining voices of their generation? Two young editors, James Byrne and Clare Pollard, set out to answer these questions in Voice Recognition, a vibrant anthology introducing 21 of the most exciting young poets of the 21st century. Voice Recognition showcases the work of a talented new wave of poets from Britain and Ireland who are just now starting to make their mark. None has yet published a first book of poems. All are likely to produce distinctively diffe...
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(P/B) SELECTED POEMS, PROSE AND LETTERS
Felicia Hemans was the most widely read woman poet in the nineteenth-century English-speaking world. Broadview’s edition shows why she was one of the few standard poets to be found in middle-class homes on both sides of the Atlantic, despite being routinely disparaged as a "merely" feminine poet. Included here is poetry representative of her entire career, from often-anthologized works, such as "The Homes of England" and "Casabianca," to several long poems in their entirety, such as "The Forest Sanctuary." Also included are selections of h...
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(P/B) BUG-JARGAL
Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal (1826) is one of the most important works of nineteenth-century colonial fiction, and quite possibly the most sustained novelistic treatment of the Haitian Revolution by a major European author. This Broadview edition makes Hugo's novel available in a completely new English translation, the first in over one hundred years. Set in 1791, during the first months of a slave revolt that would eventually lead to the creation of the black republic of Haiti in 1804, Bug-Jargal is a stirring tale of interracial friendship a...
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(P/B) PURITY OF BLOOD
A woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled. In her hand is a pouch containing fifty escudos and a handwritten - but unsigned - note bearing the words 'For masses for her soul'. The chief constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade in arms, Diego Alatriste. Still in danger from the powerful enemies he made in his first adventure, Captain Alatriste is considering returning to Flanders where the war has just resumed. But first, his old friend Quevedo asks him for a favour. The daughter of one o...
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(H/B) SECRET HISTORIES
The Purcell Papers (1880) are a collection of Gothic, supernatural, historical and humorous short stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) originally written for the Dublin University Magazine. The first twelve were written between 1838-40 and purport to be extracts from the 'MS. Papers of the late Rev. Francis Purcell, of Drumcoolagh', a Catholic priest. The thirteenth and last tale on the collection, Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory dates from 1850 and is not connected with Father Purcell. (From Wikipedia)...
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(H/B) GREEN TEA
Perhaps today, the world forgets what it owes the great 19th century Anglo-Irish writers. While LeFanu's introduction to Uncle Silas acknowledges the very un-Irish Sir Walter Scott, Joseph Thomas Sheridan LeFanu was born in Dublin in 1814 into a wealthy family of Huguenot origins. He was one of the most popular and influential authors of the Victorian era, and his vampire story Carmilla (1872) strongly influenced Bram Stoker's creation of Dracula. LeFanu wrote from the tradition that bred Jonathan Swift, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Oscar...
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(P/B) THE SHADOWLESS MAN

THE PROW BEAST (H/B)
A band of brothers, rising from the seas, bound by an oath of fierce loyalty to each other and to their reluctant young leader, Orm. Cross the Oathsworn at your peril, for they will fight to the death to defend each other. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) UTAH
Utah, Toby Olson's fourth novel, is a haunting tale that serves as both a continuation and a tantalizing expansion of the themes that have possessed his work. Told in the first person and set against the backdrop of contemporary America, the book beautifully captures the intertwining lives of an unforgettable group of men and women, each displaced by old loves and modern life. At the center of the novel is David, a masseur whose hands reveal secrets and ease pain. But now his own pain-from the death of his friend Anson- is complicated by t...
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(H/B) FANNY HILL OR, MEMORIES OF A WOMAN OF PLEASURE (VOLUME II)
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel". One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity. [From Wikipedia]...
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(H/B) THE OTHER SELF - SELFHOOD AND SOCIETY IN MODERN GREEK
The Other Self is the first English-language, book-length literary analysis of some of the most celebrated Greek novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A must read for anyone interested in Greek literature and culture, it offers both a solid introduction to modern Greek literature and close reading of individual texts. Author Dimitris Tziovas focuses on the issues of identity, autobiography, and social determinism raised in these texts, providing a fresh perspective and suggesting new ways of exploring forms of engagement betwee...
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