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Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother
Simon Schama.
Publisher: Ecco.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780062009869.  Daedalus Item Code: 23955
 
The author of The American Future: A History and the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Rough Crossings here brings his keen critical sensibility to a wide range of topics. ... (Read More)
 
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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness—and a Trove of Letters—Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
Ted Gup.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781594202704.  Daedalus Item Code: 31077
 
Shortly before Christmas 1933 in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, 75 families in distress received cash gifts from an anonymous benefactor, after responding to a newspaper ad with descriptions of ... (Read More)
 
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Secret Language
Barry J. Blake.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780199579280.  Daedalus Item Code: 24149
 
Ciphers and codes conceal messages and protect secrets; symbols and runes contain hidden or ancient meanings; and languages made to baffle and confuse the uninitiated let insiders talk openly without ... (Read More)
 
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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
Henry Hitchings.
Publisher: Picador.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780312428563.  Daedalus Item Code: 21714
 
"This historical tour of the English lexicon considers words as etymological fossils of past dreams and traumas, revealing the preoccupations of the ages that produced them. The 19th century's cult ... (Read More)
 
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The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
Geoffrey Chaucer. Sheila Fisher, trans.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393079456.  Daedalus Item Code: 23893
 
In this poetically faithful and engaging translation of 14 selected episodes from The Canterbury Tales, Sheila Fisher presents a vivid and lively new version of Geoffrey Chaucer's lyric ... (Read More)
 
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Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley. James Sexton, ed.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781566636292.  Daedalus Item Code: 21972
 
The correspondence of Aldous Huxley reveals one of the 20th century's liveliest minds; of the ten thousand letters he wrote, only a fraction appeared in the collection published in 1969. James ... (Read More)
 
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The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume I: 1920–1945
Tennessee Williams. Albert J. Devlin & Nancy M. Tischler, eds.
Publisher: New Directions.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780811214452.  Daedalus Item Code: 23912
 
This first volume of Tennessee Williams' collected letters begins with a letter from eight-year-old Tennessee to his mother and progresses through a youth that meandered through various universities ... (Read More)
 
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The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume II: 1945–1957
Tennessee Williams. Albert J. Devlin & Nancy M. Tischler, eds.
Publisher: New Directions.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780811216005.  Daedalus Item Code: 23913
 
This second volume of collected letters charts a time of intense creativity for Tennessee Williams, which saw the production of six major plays and several major film projects, including A ... (Read More)
 
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Seven Mozart Librettos: A Verse Translation
J.D. McClatchy, trans.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780393066098.  Daedalus Item Code: 23894
 
The editor of the Yale Review and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, J.D. McClatchy is also a librettist with ... (Read More)
 
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Shakespeare Country
Neil Jinkerson.
Publisher: Jarrold Publishing.   Format: laminated cover.
ISBN: 9780711716070.  Daedalus Item Code: 23167
 
Taking in the historic town of Stratford-upon-Avon and the surrounding countryside, this beautifully photographed book portrays the timeless character of Shakespeare's town—the gentle rolling ... (Read More)
 
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The Shakespeare Miscellany
David Crystal & Ben Crystal.
Publisher: Overlook.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781585677160.  Daedalus Item Code: 22300
 
A champion of the English language (the author of How Language Works, The Fight for English, and The Stories of English) and his son, a Shakespearean actor, together present this ... (Read More)
 
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The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
Ron Rosenbaum.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780375503399.  Daedalus Item Code: 83679
 
"The Shakespeare Wars: a conversation, a debate, a polemic, a memoir, a seduction, an ecstasy! [New York Observer columnist] Ron Rosenbaum takes Shakespeare personally, catapulting the ... (Read More)
 
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