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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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Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway: Stories of the Inspiration Behind Great Works of Literature
Celia Blue Johnson.
Publisher: Perigee.   Format: laminated cover.
ISBN: 9780399536922.  Daedalus Item Code: 30322
 
Gabriel García Márquez was driving to Acapulco with his family when he abruptly turned the car around, abandoning their trip so he could return to his desk, after a childhood memory of touching ice ... (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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The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend
Thomas Malory. Retold by Peter Ackroyd.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670023073.  Daedalus Item Code: 30377
 
The muchly honored biographer and novelist of all things English and particularly Londonish, Peter Ackroyd here gives us a companion of sorts to his modernization of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ... (Read More)
 
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Demon Box
Ken Kesey.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780140085303.  Daedalus Item Code: 31092
 
In this 1986 collection of short stories and essays, which the author himself called a "box novel" (and at one point considered publishing as pamphlets within a physical box), Ken Kesey challenges ... (Read More)
 
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Diary of a Witness, 1940–1943
Raymond-Raoul Lambert. Richard I. Cohen, ed. Isabel Best, trans.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781566637404.  Daedalus Item Code: 21954
 
Written between the German invasion of France in 1940 and his arrest in August 1943—after which he and his family were interred at Drancy and then sent to their deaths at Auschwitz—Raymond-Raoul ... (Read More)
 
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Don't Know Much About Literature: What You Need to Know But Never Learned About Great Books and Authors
Kenneth C. Davis & Jenny Davis.
Publisher: Harper.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780061719806.  Daedalus Item Code: 30326
 
Did a whale named "Mocha Dick" inspire Melville's masterpiece? Who was the first poet to speak at a presidential inauguration? And which French-speaking high school football star shook up the ... (Read More)
 
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