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| Martial's Epigrams: A Selection
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Garry Wills, trans.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670020393. Daedalus Item Code: 12029 |
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| One of classical literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of his time, and set a pattern that satirists have admired and imitated across the ... (Read More)
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| Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life
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N. John Hall.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300097054. Daedalus Item Code: 03984 |
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| Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age, becoming famous in the mid-1890s and remaining so until his death in 1956. His wit manifested itself in both prose and caricature, ... (Read More)
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| The Memory Chalet
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Tony Judt.
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| Publisher: William Heinemann. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780434020966. Daedalus Item Code: 32036 |
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| (One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2011) In 2008, expatriate British historian, essayist, and political commentator Tony Judt was diagnosed with amyotrophic ... (Read More)
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| Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps
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Dave Isay, ed.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594202612. Daedalus Item Code: 31230 |
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| Through conversations between parents and children, husbands and wives, siblings and friends, the life of the American mother unfolds in this collection of interviews and personal stories from Dave ... (Read More)
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| Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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Matsuo Basho. David Young, trans.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307962003. Daedalus Item Code: 38570 |
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| Renowned as a bohemian wanderer and poet of 17th-century Japan, Matsuo Munefusa—Basho—is attuned to both the natural world and simple human activity; "Piles of quilts / snow on distant mountains / I ... (Read More)
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| Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter
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Antonia Fraser.
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| Publisher: Nan A. Talese. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780385532501. Daedalus Item Code: 30304 |
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| The author of Marie Antoinette, The Wives of Henry VIII, and Mary, Queen of Scots, James Tate Black Prize and Wolfson History Prize winner Antonia Fraser was the lover and then ... (Read More)
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| My Father's Roses: A Family's Journey from World War I to Treblinka
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Nancy Kohner.
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| Publisher: Pegasus. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781605980737. Daedalus Item Code: 22244 |
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| Unlike other fathers in their northern English town, Nancy Kohner's father was elegantly dressed after the Eastern European fashion, never without a rose in his lapel. When he died, Kohner delved ... (Read More)
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| My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times
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Harold Evans.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316031424. Daedalus Item Code: 21301 |
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| "Harold Evans, a Manchester-born British newspaper editor who became an American citizen in 1993, is not as well known as he should be in his adopted country. He has written two best-selling books ... (Read More)
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| My Prizes: An Accounting
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Thomas Bernhard. Carol Brown Janeway, trans.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307272874. Daedalus Item Code: 31062 |
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| This book of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of 20th-century literature's more notorious enfants terribles—written in 1980 but unpublished for two decades—tells the story of the ... (Read More)
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| My Ideal Bookshelf
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Thessaly La Force, ed. Jane Mount, illus.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316200905. Daedalus Item Code: 29454 |
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| (Featured on NPR and included in the New York Times Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books) In this unusual book of portraits, illustrator Jane Mount depicts such cultural figures ... (Read More)
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| Mythology
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Edith Hamilton.
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| Publisher: Back Bay. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780316223331. Daedalus Item Code: 29449 |
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| The longtime headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Edith Hamilton (1868–1963) was a classicist of world renown—indeed, she regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which ... (Read More)
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