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| The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
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Henry Hitchings.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780312428563. Daedalus Item Code: 21714 |
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| "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
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Geoffrey Chaucer. Sheila Fisher, trans.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393079456. Daedalus Item Code: 23893 |
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| 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
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Aldous Huxley. James Sexton, ed.
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| Publisher: Ivan R. Dee. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781566636292. Daedalus Item Code: 21972 |
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| 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
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Tennessee Williams. Albert J. Devlin & Nancy M. Tischler, eds.
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| Publisher: New Directions. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780811214452. Daedalus Item Code: 23912 |
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| 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
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Tennessee Williams. Albert J. Devlin & Nancy M. Tischler, eds.
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| Publisher: New Directions. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780811216005. Daedalus Item Code: 23913 |
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| 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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| The Serpent's Teeth
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Ovid. Mary M. Innes, translator.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780141026350. Daedalus Item Code: 32341 |
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| First published in 8 AD, Ovid's Metamorphoses synthesized many of the Greek and Roman myths into a single epic poem, and is rightly considered one of the great works of the ancient world. This ... (Read More)
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| Seven Mozart Librettos: A Verse Translation
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J.D. McClatchy, trans.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393066098. Daedalus Item Code: 23894 |
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| 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
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Neil Jinkerson.
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| Publisher: Jarrold Publishing. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9780711716070. Daedalus Item Code: 23167 |
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| 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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| Shakespeare Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide to the Man and His Works
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A.D. Cousins.
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| Publisher: Global Book. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781740480345. Daedalus Item Code: 32445 |
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| This beautifully illustrated reference is a wide-ranging, visually exciting, and entertaining guide to all things Shakespeare, explaining the themes, plots, and contexts of his works, as well as ... (Read More)
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| The Shakespeare Miscellany
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David Crystal & Ben Crystal.
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| Publisher: Overlook. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781585677160. Daedalus Item Code: 22300 |
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| 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
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Ron Rosenbaum.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375503399. Daedalus Item Code: 83679 |
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| "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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