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Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition offers students detailed on-page commentary notes highlighting meaning and theatrical ideas and themes, as well as an illustrated, lengthy intr...

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Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offer...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man the mystery, the power, the freedom. Griffin, a stranger, arr...

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A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, To the Lighthouse is the most accomplished of all Woolf's novels. This new edition includes a full contextualizing introduction and notes by David Bradshaw.

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The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths and are also a valuable source for Greek religion and ethics. Ver...

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Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus 'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert Fagles This selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fal...

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Författarna Alfhild Agrell och Ellen Key föddes samma år, och kom under andra hälften av sina liv att brevväxla flitigt. Till skillnad från Key sparade Agrell inte svaren hon fick på sina brev. Det är alltså en enkelriktad korrespondens vi här får...

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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, a book that pioneered the feminist science fiction movement. As a science-fiction, fantasy novel of the mid to late 190...

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The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: I just want you to be happy; Im happy if yo...

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Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomers Cane remains an innovative literary workpart drama, party poetry, part fiction. This revised Norton Critical Edition builds upon the First Edition (1988), which was edited by the late Darwin T. Turner, a ...

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A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years 'The best German book there is' Nietzsche By the turn of the nineteenth century, the poet, novelist and ...

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Under de senaste åren har ekokritiken vuxit mycket snabbt och många teoretiska positioner har omprövats. Utifrån olika ¿perspektiv både anammar och kritiserar ekokritiken traditionella vetenskapliga modeller vilket har lett till en nyskapande ¿met...

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SEE the amazing vintage book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, knife-wielding killer crabs! READ the shocking plots involving devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! LEARN the stories of long-forgotten creators...

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Ingen elev ska lämnas ensam med sin läsning, och i den här boken får du många konkreta upplägg för hur du kan arbeta med litteraturläsning i dina klasser. Boken består av två delar. Den första delen diskuterar elevers attityder till läsning och ge...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and friendly to take ones chance in another en...

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The first sustained interrogation of travel in Sebald's literary and essayistic work, employing multivalent and new critical perspectives. W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) is the most prominent and perhaps the most enigmatic German-language writer of ...

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Moll Flanders - whore, wife, thief, felon, penitent - tells the racy tale of her life in Defoe's extraordinary novel. An account of opportunism, endurance, and survival that speaks as strongly today as it did to its first readers, this new edition...

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In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made t...

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More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincotts Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the...

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This book offers a thorough and lively introduction to the Hebrew Bible's two primary literary modes, narrative and poetry, foregrounding the nuances of plot, character, metaphor, structure and design, and intertextual allusions.

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Ett välgenomtänkt arbete med skönlitteratur kan få oss att utmana våra egna föreställningar och tankemönster. Både elever och lärare kan lockas att gå utanför sina bekvämlighetszoner i mötet med det som är främmande och annorlunda, och kritiskt gr...

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Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly...

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Gilles Deleuzes och Félix ¿Guattaris Kafkabok är något av en modern klassiker som kan få äldre kafkaister att kräkas. Skälet är de ihärdiga slagen mot magtrakten. De två författarna vägrar läsa Kafka på existentialistiskt vis med skuld och ångest ...

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De allra flesta människor skulle ha stor glädje av att utveckla sin muntliga berättarteknik. För att underhålla, undervisa eller ge händelser i livet en extra guldkant. För att göra tal eller information mer levande. På sängkanten eller på resan, ...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Earnest and naive solicitor Jona...

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From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voi...

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The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These...

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"This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored." In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encoun...

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In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed `papers' soom outgrew their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, st...

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