The poems have been rendered into vigorous contemporary English. A selection of Michelangelo\'s letters, many of the to important contemporaries such as Vasari and Duke Cosimo, is accompanied by the `Life\' of the great artist written by his pupil Ascanio C

WINNER OF THE 2014 OJO CRITICO LITERARY PRIZE AN OFFICIAL SELECTION OF THE FESTIVAL DU PREMIER ROMAN IN CHAMBERY Peru, 1904. Jose Galvez and Carlos Rodriguez are poets. Or, at least, they\'d like to be. Sons of Lima\'s elite in the early twentieth century, they scribble bad verses and read all the greats, especially their idol Juan Ramon Jimenez, the Spanish Maestro. Desperate for Jimenez\'s latest

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Twenty years ago, Tommy Molto charged his colleague Rusty Sabich with the murder of a former lover; when a shocking turn of events transformed Prosecutor Rusty from the accuser into the accused. Rusty was cleared, but the seismic trial left both men reeling. Molto\'s name was dragged through the mud and while Rusty regained his career, he lost much more ...Now, Rusty - sixty years old and a chief judge

For as long as Fei can remember, there has been no sound in her village. Her people are at the mercy of a mysterious faraway kingdom, which delivers food in return for precious metals mined from the treacherous cliffs surrounding them. When villagers begin to lose their sight, their rations shrink and many go hungry. Fei\'s home, the boy she loves, and her entire existence is plunged into crisis, under

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In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament marked by an institutionalised oppression that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the subjugated writers with whom he quickly

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This edition of Othello is part of the groundbreaking Cambridge School Shakespeare series established by Rex Gibson. Remaining faithful to the series\' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well as the complete script of the play, you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities, an eight-page colour section and a selection of notes including information

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Nobody writes about money like Balzac, and his classic chronicle of a young man from the provinces clawing his way to success in 19th century Paris, even as an older man is victimized by the same milieu, shrewdly captures the financial dimension of so much that goes on between people. The boarding house in which the two protagonists live is a microcosm of their world, and Goriot\'s treatment by his

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