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Charles Dickens: The Dickens Bicentenary 1812–2012
Lucinda Dickens Hawksley.
Publisher: Insight.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781608870523.  Daedalus Item Code: 32097
 
Produced in association with the Charles Dickens Museum, London, this beautifully decorated visual biography follows Dickens's life through paintings, drawings, and photographs—as well as removable ... (Read More)
 
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The Cheaper the Crook, the Gaudier the Patter: Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems
Alan Axelrod.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781616084028.  Daedalus Item Code: 30824
 
Anybody ever called you a dewdropper? A kibitzer? A lounge lizard? If you never knew what the heck they meant—or if you ever wanted to toss around some hip jive yourself—this is the book you need. ... (Read More)
 
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City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
Edmund White.
Publisher: Bloomsbury.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781596914025.  Daedalus Item Code: 31878
 
In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of the Stonewall uprising and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find Jasper Johns or William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as ... (Read More)
 
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Coffee with Oscar Wilde
Merlin Holland. Simon Callow, foreword.
Publisher: Duncan Baird.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781844835126.  Daedalus Item Code: 30878
 
Interviewer: "Would you say that your bid to shock the middle classes began with the writing of your first full-length novel The Picture of Dorian Gray?"

Oscar Wilde: "Well, that was how it ... (Read More)

 
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Collected Prose: Expanded Edition
Paul Auster.
Publisher: Picador.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780312429928.  Daedalus Item Code: 30551
 
The author of Invisible, The New York Trilogy, and The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster presents this highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, collaborations ... (Read More)
 
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The Complete Euripides, Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays
Peter Burian & Alan Shapiro, eds.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780195388671.  Daedalus Item Code: 20774
 
This first volume of Euripides' known works collects Andromache, a play that challenges the concept of tragic character and transforms expectations of tragic structure; Hecuba, a ... (Read More)
 
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Concerning E.M. Forster
Frank Kermode.
Publisher: FSG.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780374532383.  Daedalus Item Code: 21684
 
Based on the Clark Lectures that British critic Frank Kermode gave at Cambridge University in 2007 on the subject of E.M. Forster, this thorough reassessment of the great English novelist examines ... (Read More)
 
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A Country Doctor's Notebook
Mikhail Bulgakov.
Publisher: Melville House.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781612191904.  Daedalus Item Code: 38628
 
"Do you always swear at your patients?" With the ink still wet on his medical diploma, 25-year-old Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia, which in 1916 was still largely ... (Read More)
 
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Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
Robert Kurson.
Publisher: Random House/QPB.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780739489475.  Daedalus Item Code: 01019
 
By any definition Mike May was an exceptional person, breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. Amazingly, ... (Read More)
 
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Crossword Notecards: Puzzles for Word-Crossed Lovers: 12 notecards with envelopes
Stanley Newman, ed.
Publisher: Potter.   Format: notecards.
ISBN: 9780307337061.  Daedalus Item Code: 11653
 
Tongue-tied for the right words to send your sweetheart? In this notecard set puzzle guru Stanley Newman provides a dozen unique crossword puzzles on themes of love and romance. The triple-fold cards ... (Read More)
 
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Dante's Invention
James Burge.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780752455860.  Daedalus Item Code: 30436
 
A self-absorbed young poet who composed rarefied verse about the nature of love, Dante Alighieri seemed entirely uninterested in anything other than Beatrice, the girl he had loved since they were ... (Read More)
 
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Dark Waters Dancing to a Breeze: A Literary Companion to Rivers and Lakes
Wayne Grady, ed.
Publisher: Greystone.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781553652441.  Daedalus Item Code: 21166
 
Dedicated to the fascination of water, this anthology to rivers and lakes offers top-notch writing on exploration, travel, and natural history by 24 internationally renowned contributors. From the ... (Read More)
 
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