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The Book of Hours
Kevin Jackson
Hardcover - $32.95
Throughout history, most people have lived by the celestial clock of night and day, and by the biological clock of hunger and thirst. Alongside civilization developed the astonishing idea that the day might be divided and subdivided into regular unit ...
Digenis Akritis : The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions
Elizabeth Jeffreys
Paperback - $107.95
"Digenis Akritis" is Byzantium's only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of "double descent" on the frontiers between Byzantine and Arab territory in Asia Minor in the ninth and tenth centuries. It survives partially in six versio ...
Historical Fiction : A Guide to the Genre
Sarah L. Johnson
Hardcover - $159.95
A complete guide to one of today's hottest genres, organizing more than 3,800 titles according to reading preferences.
The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror
Simon Joyce
Paperback - $50.95
When Margaret Thatcher called in 1979 for a return to Victorian values such as hard work, self-reliance, thrift, and national pride, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock responded that " Victorian values" also included " cruelty, misery, drudgery, squalo ...
Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael
Anne K. Kaler
Paperback - $30.95
Detective, monk, father, herbalist, Crusader, sailor, Celt, friend--author Ellis Peters bestows all these attributes on her twelfth-century Benedictine monk-detective Brother Cadfael. As a detective, Cadfael uses his analytic mind to solve crimes and ...
Unhappily Ever After : Deceptive Idealism in Cervantes's Marriage Tales
Eric J. Kartchner
Paperback - $36.95
Short Story Criticism, Volume 107 : Criticism of the Works of Short Ficiton Writers
Jelena Krstovic
Hardcover - $468.95
Each volume in this series presents biographical and critical information on four to eight short story writers and a historical survey of the critical response to their work. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately (incl ...
Reconstructing Hybridity : Post-Colonial Studies in Transition.
Joel Kuortti
Hardcover - $193.95
This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial theory and literature. The challenging articles written by internationally acclaimed scholars discuss the usefulness ...