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| Verses and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry
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Selected and Translated by Vladimir Nabokov. Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin, eds.
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| Publisher: Harcourt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151012640. Daedalus Item Code: 30036 |
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| Hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another, Vladimir Nabokov began writing in English in his 50s, becoming as fluent as he was ... (Read More)
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| Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
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Shrabani Basu.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780752453644. Daedalus Item Code: 23176 |
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| The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just 24 years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he ... (Read More)
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| Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours
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Mary Melvin Petronella, ed.
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| Publisher: Northeastern University Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781555536053. Daedalus Item Code: 30165 |
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| This guidebook to Boston's Victorian heritage provides both walker and armchair traveler alike with delightful and enlightening discoveries of the city's wide range of 19th-century landmarks and ... (Read More)
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| Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey
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Alison Gernsheim.
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| Publisher: Dover. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780486242057. Daedalus Item Code: 38548 |
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| This most unusual fashion book reveals what Victorian and Edwardian ladies and gentlemen actually wore, in black and white photographs that document the comings and goings of bonnets, capes, frock ... (Read More)
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| The Vikings: A History
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Robert Ferguson.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780143118015. Daedalus Item Code: 38665 |
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| The Viking age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne. "The church of St. Cuthbert is spattered with the blood of the priests of God," fumed the Northumbrian cleric ... (Read More)
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| The Virgin: Mary's Cult and the Re-Emergence of the Goddess
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Geoffrey Ashe.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780750950640. Daedalus Item Code: 24156 |
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| The mother of Jesus has taken various forms in the Christian church throughout the centuries—the Blessed Virgin, the Queen of Heaven, the Madonna, the spiritual mother of all the faithful—yet Mary, ... (Read More)
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| Voyage to the End of the World: With Tales from the Great Ice Barrier
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David Burke.
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| Publisher: Univ Press Colorado. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780870817717. Daedalus Item Code: 13096 |
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| Journalist and explorer David Burke was smitten with Antarctica on his first visit in 1958. In 2001 he made his sixth journey there, traveling aboard the enormous Russian icebreaker Kapitan ... (Read More)
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| W.B. Yeats: The Love Poems
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W.B. Yeats. A. Norman Jeffares, ed.
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| Publisher: Kyle Cathie. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781856269537. Daedalus Item Code: 24040 |
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| This collection of William Butler Yeats' love poetry begins with his youthful, romantic idealism. It follows with his disillusionment in middle age after Maud Gonne married John MacBride, and ... (Read More)
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| Wagner Moments: A Celebration of Favorite Wagner Experiences
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J.K. Holman, ed.
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| Publisher: Amadeus Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781574671599. Daedalus Item Code: 14009 |
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| Wagner Moments: have you had one? For the last 150 years the music dramas of Richard Wagner have deeply moved, thrilled, and amazed listeners everywhere—so much so that it has become a tradition for ... (Read More)
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| Wallpaper
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Joachim Fischer.
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| Publisher: h.f.ullmann. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9783833147449. Daedalus Item Code: 03066 |
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| Often monochromatic in our homes, wallpaper is daring and expressive in the hands of the designers profiled in this book. Reproduced here in hundreds of color photographs, many of the designs are ... (Read More)
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