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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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| A Ned Rorem Reader
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Ned Rorem. J.D. McClatchy, foreword.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300089844. Daedalus Item Code: 11742 |
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| This anthology of composer Ned Rorem's acerbic musings on music, people, and life—a co-winner of the 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in the Symphonic Books Category—surveys the full range of his ... (Read More)
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| Neverland: J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan
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Piers Dudgeon.
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| Publisher: Pegasus. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781605981918. Daedalus Item Code: 22150 |
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| Befriending Daphne Du Maurier as an editor for her book Enchanted Cornwall, Piers Dudgeon became fascinated with her family history: her father was the actor Gerald Du Maurier, her grandfather ... (Read More)
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| New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families
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Colm Toibin.
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| Publisher: Scribner. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451668551. Daedalus Item Code: 31741 |
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| From Jane Austen's aunts to Tennessee Williams's mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can be seen in many of literature's greatest works, and in this brilliant, nuanced ... (Read More)
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| Njal's Saga: Or the Story of Burnt Njal
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George Webbe Dasent, trans.
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| Publisher: Dover. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780486443676. Daedalus Item Code: 04230 |
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| A spiteful, selfish wife instigates a grim blood feud between the families of two well-to-do Icelandic landowners. As it spirals out of control, the long and costly battle claims lives and property. ... (Read More)
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| The Noel Coward Reader
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Barry Day, ed.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307273376. Daedalus Item Code: 23515 |
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| A fellow who has given us half a dozen books on Noël Coward and edited his letters (he is, after all, a trustee of the Noël Coward Foundation), Barry Day here collects a broad and very fine sampling ... (Read More)
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| Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms
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Carmela Ciuraru.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061735264. Daedalus Item Code: 31599 |
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| Privacy may seem to be a quaintly old-fashioned idea in our "look at me" era, yet for some of our great writers, a new name—even a new personality—was essential to creative freedom. Carmela Ciuraru ... (Read More)
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| Notebook 1967–68
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Robert Lowell.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780374532109. Daedalus Item Code: 11921 |
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| A cycle of unrhymed sonnets dealing with public and private crises, marriage, middle age, and fatherhood, Notebook 1967–68 is considered by many readers to be one of two-time Pulitzer Prize ... (Read More)
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| October, or Autumnal Tints
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Henry David Thoreau. Robert D. Richardson, intro. Lincoln Perry, illus.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393081886. Daedalus Item Code: 29353 |
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| This beautiful new presentation of Henry David Thoreau's classic work is enhanced with an essay by Thoreau biographer Robert Richardson and elegant watercolors by Lincoln Perry. Originally delivered ... (Read More)
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| Of Minds & Language: A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country
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Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Juan Uriagereka & Pello Salaburu, eds.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199544660. Daedalus Item Code: 30754 |
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| Investigating what we know and would like to know in the common realm of language, mind, and brain, based on a 2006 conference hosted by the University of the Basque Country, this book examines such ... (Read More)
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