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| Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words
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John Bemelmans Marciano.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781596916531. Daedalus Item Code: 31867 |
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| The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and toast, found a novel way to eat them together. French finance minister Etienne de Silhouette was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for ... (Read More)
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| Charlotte Bronte: A Writer's Life
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Rebecca Fraser.
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| Publisher: Pegasus. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781933648880. Daedalus Item Code: 32167 |
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| "If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed," wrote Charlotte Brontë, the outwardly conventional parson's daughter who rarely met any men beyond those of the church of classroom, and ... (Read More)
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| City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
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Edmund White.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781596914025. Daedalus Item Code: 31878 |
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| In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of the Stonewall uprising and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find Jasper Johns or William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as ... (Read More)
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| Cloud Gate Song: The Verse of Tang Poet Zhang Ji
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Zhang Ji. Jonathan Chaves, trans.
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| Publisher: Floating World Editions. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781891640445. Daedalus Item Code: 31760 |
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| A major poet of the Tang dynasty, and a friend and poetic correspondent of such giants as Bai Juyi and Han Yu, Zhang Ji (c.766–830) is published in English translation for the first time in this ... (Read More)
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| Cold Mountain Poems: Zen poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-Chih
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Han Shan, Shih Te & Wang Fan-Chih. J.P. Seaton, ed & trans.
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| Publisher: Shambhala. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781590306468. Daedalus Item Code: 31962 |
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| The incomparable poetry of Han Shan and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets of the T'ang era (618–907) who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers ... (Read More)
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| The Coming of Night: A Yoruba Creation Myth from West Africa
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James Riordan. Jenny Stow, illus.
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| Publisher: Frances Lincoln. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781847802767. Daedalus Item Code: 32117 |
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| Long, long ago, when the earth was new, the great river goddess Yemoya sent her daughter Aje to marry a handsome earth chief in the Land of Shining Day, in this retelling of a Yoruba tale by ... (Read More)
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| Do-It-Yourself Brain Surgery: and Other Implausibly Titled Books
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Joel Rickett.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781608190195. Daedalus Item Code: 31886 |
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| The year 2008 marked the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize, Britain's annual contest to determine the oddest book title of the year—a hilarious celebration of the barmy side of publishing. Here ... (Read More)
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| The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness
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Lila Azam Zanganeh.
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| Publisher: Allen Lane. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781846143670. Daedalus Item Code: 32563 |
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| Iranian-born author Lila Azam Zanganeh was just ten months old when Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, but this hasn't diminished her lifelong passion for the writer whose art she celebrates in this ... (Read More)
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| Enough About You: Notes Toward the New Autobiography
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David Shields. Ross McElwee, foreword.
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| Publisher: Soft Skull. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781593762193. Daedalus Item Code: 32377 |
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| What does it mean to construct a self? What does it mean to turn your life into a narrative? What is gained, and what's lost? What lies inevitably are told, and what deeper truths are reached? This ... (Read More)
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| A Garden of Greek Verse: Poems of Ancient Greece
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| Publisher: Frances Lincoln. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780711213166. Daedalus Item Code: 32565 |
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| In this anthology, poets from Homer and Sappho to Sophocles and Euripides provide a glimpse of the classical world of ancient Greece through their writings. The original verse is accompanied by the ... (Read More)
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| Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
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Leslie Brody.
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| Publisher: Counterpoint. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781582434537. Daedalus Item Code: 32384 |
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| “With passion, commitment, and a keen sense of adventure—the same qualities that defined her famous subject—Leslie Brody presents Jessica ‘Decca’ Mitford as the delightfully complicated character she ... (Read More)
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