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Product Description: The narrator of Volatile Texts: Us Two falls in love with Pierre, the book’s secret protagonist. During their trysts she rediscovers Switzerland, a place where every valley has its own language and every person is translated. It’s a perfect microcosm of Europe―a collection of accents, languages, and landscapes...read more
By Chenxin Jiang (trans)

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9781628971361 | Dalkey Archive Pr, August 26, 2016, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The narrator of Volatile Texts: Us Two falls in love with Pierre, the book’s secret protagonist.

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Product Description: Writers in Translation, established in 2005 and supported by Bloomberg and Arts Council England, champions the best literature from around the world. To mark the programme's tenth anniversary, ten leading writers from around the world, many of whom have been supported in their work by English PEN, explore the themes of movement, freedom and narrative...read more

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9781782271895 | Pushkin Pr Ltd, June 21, 2016, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Writers in Translation, established in 2005 and supported by Bloomberg and Arts Council England, champions the best literature from around the world.

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Product Description: Moritz Wenk is an averagely unsuccessful painter, and Judith Wenk, a dental hygienist, are a close and harmonius couple. During a week in a very hot summer, in perhaps Zurich, he's found work cutting out and painting shop-window dummies for a costume rental firm...read more
By Michael Hofmann (trans)

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9781943150007 | Dalkey Archive Pr, June 10, 2016, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Moritz Wenk is an averagely unsuccessful painter, and Judith Wenk, a dental hygienist, are a close and harmonius couple.

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Product Description: This user-friendly resource is the perfect reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this guide introduces the styles, trends, and genres of the world's literatures, from Scandinavian crime thrillers and cutting-edge Chinese works to Latin American narco-fiction and award-winning French novels...read more

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9780231146746 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This user-friendly resource is the perfect reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore fiction from around the world.

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9780231146753 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $27.95

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Product Description: Sayed Kashua has been praised by the New York Times as “a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society.” An Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist together...read more

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9780802124555 | Grove Pr, February 2, 2016, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Sayed Kashua has been praised by the New York Times as “a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society.

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By Kelly J. Mays (editor)

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9780393938913 | 12 har/psc edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 5, 2016), cover price $116.45
9780393913385 | 11 har/psc edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2013), cover price $116.45
9780393934267 | 10 har/psc edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 29, 2010), cover price $106.50
9780393109870 | Cdr stu edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 17, 2007), cover price $28.40
9780393108880 | 9 pck har/ edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2007), cover price $93.75

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9780393913392 | 11 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 21, 2012), cover price $92.30
9780393935141, titled "The Norton Introduction to Literature: Shorter Edition" | 10th edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 2010), cover price $86.65
9789990006261 | 8 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 2001), cover price $0.02

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9780444875518, titled "The Performance of Public Enterprises: Concepts and Measurement" | Elsevier Science Ltd, January 1, 1984, cover price $114.25 | also contains The Performance of Public Enterprises: Concepts and Measurement

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Product Description: Start your Word Cloud Classics collection with adventures from some of the most popular authors in classic literature. Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, the Brothers Grimm, and more are included in this set of treasured classics...read more

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9780444875457, titled "Geometry of Geodesics and Related Topics" | Elsevier Science Ltd, November 1, 1984, cover price $212.00 | also contains Geometry of Geodesics and Related Topics | About this edition: This third volume in the Japanese symposia series surveys recent advances in five areas of Geometry, namely Closed geodesics, Geodesic flows, Finiteness and uniqueness theorems for compact Riemannian manifolds, Hadamard manifolds, and Topology of complete noncompact manifolds.

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9781626863194 | Box lea edition (Canterbury Classics, September 1, 2015), cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Start your Word Cloud Classics collection with adventures from some of the most popular authors in classic literature.

Product Description: Last Last Orders is the third part of Arno Camenicsh's award-winning trilogy set in the Swiss Alps. It is the final evening in the Helvetia bar, and the regulars sit around one last time to drink and talk before the bar closes forever...read more
By Donal Mclaughlin (trans)

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9781564783783 | Dalkey Archive Pr, June 16, 2016, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Last Last Orders is the third part of Arno Camenicsh's award-winning trilogy set in the Swiss Alps.

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Product Description: Traditional scholarship on the kings' sagas has tended to focus on the textual histories and interrelationships between the various twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scandinavian manuscripts. Thus previous scholars have striven to ascertain chronology, dating, and potential literary borrowings between the various native medieval manuscripts without considering the possibility of foreign textual influences on native literary traditions...read more

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9781138878396 | Routledge, July 31, 2015, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Traditional scholarship on the kings' sagas has tended to focus on the textual histories and interrelationships between the various twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scandinavian manuscripts.

Book by Nagy, Moses M.

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9780815309277 | Taylor & Francis, February 1, 1994, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Book by Nagy, Moses M.

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9781138883642 | Routledge, February 29, 2016, cover price $49.95

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9780547725147 | Houghton Mifflin, January 14, 2014, cover price $27.00

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9780544538504 | Mariner Books, March 10, 2015, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Critical approaches to the study of topics related to Persian literature and Iranian culture have evolved in recent decades. The essays included in this volume collectively demonstrate the most recent creative approaches to the study of the Persian language, literature, and culture, and the way these methodologies have progressed academic debate...read more
By Kamran Talattof (editor)

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9781138826212 | Routledge, February 25, 2015, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: Critical approaches to the study of topics related to Persian literature and Iranian culture have evolved in recent decades.

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Product Description: Designed to offer a clear, concise, and accessible way to explore the familiar and unfamiliar territories of world literature, this two-volume version of The Bedford Anthology of World Literature offers students and teachers a broad and carefully balanced selection of literary works supported by extensive historical background and generous contextual materials...read more
By John F. Crawford (editor)

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9781319005955 | Compact edition (Bedford/st Martins, May 1, 2015), cover price $82.40 | About this edition: Designed to offer a clear, concise, and accessible way to explore the familiar and unfamiliar territories of world literature, this two-volume version of The Bedford Anthology of World Literature offers students and teachers a broad and carefully balanced selection of literary works supported by extensive historical background and generous contextual materials.

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Product Description: First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume “Bonaventura,” The Nightwatches of Bonaventura is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett. The narrator and antihero is not Bonaventura but a night watchman named Kreuzgang, a failed poet, actor, and puppeteer who claims to be the spawn of the devil himself...read more

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9780226141428 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 24, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume “Bonaventura,” The Nightwatches of Bonaventura is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett.

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9780226141565 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 24, 2014, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume “Bonaventura,” The Nightwatches of Bonaventura is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett.

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Product Description: The great works of world literature contribute to our understanding of history and humanity. The Nobel Prize for literature recognizes modern classics and the efforts of authors to bridge gaps among different countries, cultures, and time periods...read more
By Per W„stberg (editor)

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9789814583121 | 1 edition (World Scientific Pub Co Inc, October 21, 2014), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The great works of world literature contribute to our understanding of history and humanity.

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9780300186857 | Yale Univ Pr, November 5, 2013, cover price $25.00

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9780300205312 | Yale Univ Pr, September 30, 2014, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, approached not theoretically but through the lens of fiction...read more

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9780300198003 | 1 edition (Yale Univ Pr, September 30, 2014), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain.

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Detailed maps provide a social, political, and economic geography of the United States

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9780384336506, titled "Historical Atlas of the United States" | Revised edition (Johnson Reprint Corp, June 1, 1972), cover price $39.00 | also contains Historical Atlas of the United States | About this edition: Detailed maps provide a social, political, and economic geography of the United States

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9780134015361 | Pap/psc st edition (Longman Pub Group, August 16, 2014), cover price $75.80
9780321878229 | Pck pap/ps edition (Longman Pub Group, February 5, 2013), cover price $74.47
9780205730520 | Longman Pub Group, January 23, 2013, cover price $67.80

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Product Description: William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time―a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come: the methodical and rational Galileo, the skeptical Montaigne, and―as Falk convincingly argues―Shakespeare, who observed human nature just as intently as the astronomers who studied the night sky...read more

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9781250008770 | Thomas Dunne Books, April 22, 2014, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time―a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution.
9780864924186 | Goose Lane Editions, April 15, 2014, cover price $29.95

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9780312153113, titled "Literature: Reading and Writing the Human Experience" | Bedford/st Martins, November 1, 1997, cover price $56.10 | also contains Literature: Reading and Writing the Human Experience | About this edition: Offering new opportunities to think and write critically about literature, this classic anthology continues to provide a rich selection of stories, poems, plays, and essays in a flexible arrangement that invites students to explore the essential themes of humanity.

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