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| Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Lynda Mugglestone.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300106992. Daedalus Item Code: 31848 |
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| The story behind the creation of the greatest dictionary in the English language has become a popular fascination, with several treatises on the subject. A scholar of 19th-century English at Oxford, ... (Read More)
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| On Whitman: Writers on Writers
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C.K. Williams.
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| Publisher: Princeton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780691144726. Daedalus Item Code: 31826 |
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| In this slim but insightful book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C.K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around the work and person of Walt Whitman, ... (Read More)
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| Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker
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David Remnick.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780330443999. Daedalus Item Code: 32337 |
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| Longtime New Yorker reporter David Remnick here collects the cream of his in-depth stories from the magazine over 15 years, particularly on Russian and Jewish subjects, including Vladimir ... (Read More)
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| A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas
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Virginia Woolf. Michele Barrett, ed.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780141198545. Daedalus Item Code: 32338 |
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| In 1928, Virginia Woolf delivered two college lectures that were expanded and published the following year as A Room of One's Own. Wondering why it is that men have always had the power while ... (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 it is rightfully considered one of the great works of the ancient ... (Read More)
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| The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
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John Stape.
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| Publisher: Arrow. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780099478676. Daedalus Item Code: 32342 |
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| Conrad scholar John Stape here offers a thoroughly detailed biography of one of modern literature's most important writers, one whose work remains widely read and acutely relevant 80 years after his ... (Read More)
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| The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time
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Robert Brustein.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300115765. Daedalus Item Code: 31836 |
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| Concentrating on six recurring prejudices in Shakespeare’s plays—including misogyny, elitism, distrust of effeminacy, and racism—Robert Brustein examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries ... (Read More)
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| The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete Uncensored History of the Beat Generation
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Bill Morgan.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416592426. Daedalus Item Code: 21339 |
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| "[Bill] Morgan brings a productive career of chronicling the mid-20th-century writers known as the Beats to a fine point with this thorough popular history that eschews criticism to concentrate on ... (Read More)
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| Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the Theater
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Garry Wills.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670023042. Daedalus Item Code: 31132 |
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| The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg as well as profiles of Saint Augustine and such apologia as Why I Am a Catholic, lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills here ... (Read More)
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| Writers
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Nancy Crampton, photog. Mark Strand, foreword.
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| Publisher: Quantuck Lane. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781593720285. Daedalus Item Code: 31433 |
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| What do we see in the eyes of our favorite authors? The official photographer of New York City's Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, famous for its literary readings, Nancy Crampton has ... (Read More)
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