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| Mark Twain: Great American Fiction Writer
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Anna Carew-Miller. Andrea Di Gennaro, illus.
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| Publisher: Mason Crest. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781590841587. Daedalus Item Code: 30994 |
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| From a boyhood in 1840s Missouri much like that of his young hero Tom Sawyer, Samuel Langhorne Clemens—Mark Twain—seemed destined for a life seeking freedom and adventure, and that is indeed how Anna ... (Read More)
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| Martial's Epigrams: A Selection
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Garry Wills, trans.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670020393. Daedalus Item Code: 12029 |
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| One of classical literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of his time, and set a pattern that satirists have admired and imitated across the ... (Read More)
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| Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer
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James McDermott.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300083804. Daedalus Item Code: 31847 |
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| (2001 Keith Matthews Prize Winner)Sponsored by the Canadian Nautical Research Society, James McDermott’s biography of the swashbuckling Martin Frobisher is a highly entertaining account of the ... (Read More)
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| Martyr: An Elizabethan Thriller
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Rory Clements.
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| Publisher: Bantam. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780385342827. Daedalus Item Code: 30335 |
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| This ingenious debut of Rory Clements's historical series introduces John Shakespeare, Will's older brother and an intelligencer for Elizabeth I's spymaster Sir John Walsingham. In a burnt-out house, ... (Read More)
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| Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting: The American Collections
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Miyeko Murase.
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| Publisher: Braziller. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780807612309. Daedalus Item Code: 72801 |
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| Exquisitely reproduced in process color and gold ink on heavy stock—including some examples printed as double-gatefold pages that open to more than 54 inches across—this large album presents and ... (Read More)
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| Matthew Boulton: Ormolu
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Nicholas Goodison.
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| Publisher: Christie's. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780903432702. Daedalus Item Code: 30230 |
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| Produced through a dangerous process that involved applying a gold and mercury amalgam to bronze and then burning off the mercury, ormolu resulted in gilded ornamental metalwork of unsurpassed ... (Read More)
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| Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life
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N. John Hall.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300097054. Daedalus Item Code: 03984 |
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| Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age, becoming famous in the mid-1890s and remaining so until his death in 1956. His wit manifested itself in both prose and caricature, ... (Read More)
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| The Meaning of Night: A Confession
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Michael Cox.
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| Publisher: Norton/BOMC. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393062038. Daedalus Item Code: 81563 |
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| "After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper," reports narrator Edward Glyver at the beginning of this extraordinary debut novel. A scholar of humble means who ... (Read More)
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| Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Asti Hustvedt.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393025606. Daedalus Item Code: 23885 |
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| Blanche, Augustine, and Geneviève were each admitted to the hysteria ward of the Salpêtrière Hospital in 1870s Paris, where their care was directed by the prominent neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. ... (Read More)
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| Medicine Women: A Pictorial History of Women Healers
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Elisabeth Brooke.
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| Publisher: Quest. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780835607513. Daedalus Item Code: 31357 |
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| From Egyptian priestess-healers in the temples of Isis to the hedge-witches and herbalists of medieval Europe, from the midwives and nurses of later centuries to the physicians, researchers, and ... (Read More)
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