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“A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading.” —Steven Poole, The GuardianSix incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries...

Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evilDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a morality tale, this dark...

'Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged...I was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.' Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It...

Mechanical Witness is the first cultural and legal history charting the changing role and theoretical implications of film and video use as courtroom evidence. Schwartz moves from the earliest...

A penetrating examination, based on recently released archival material and private papers, of wartime colonial controversies.

Catalogo della mostr, organizzata dalla Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, che presenta la collezione Sonnabend. Opere di: J. Johns, R. Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, C. Oldenburg, A. Warhol, R...

Viewing Louis Zukofsky as a reader, writer, and innovator of twentieth-century poetry, Sandra Stanley argues that his works serve as a crucial link between American modernism and post- modernism.Like...

In the late seventeenth century the role of printed propaganda in manipulating public consciousness became increasingly explicit, and governments developed systematic controls over the printed word...

English summary: This collection of nineteen articles examines the specificity and coherence of Xenophons representation of Socrates. Of Socratess students, Plato and Xenophon are the only ones to...

169 pp., index. Excellent état.