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| Sacred Wisdom: Tales from Rumi: Essential Selections from The Mathnawi
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E.H. Whinfield, trans. Alan Jacobs, intro.
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| Publisher: Watkins. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781842931226. Daedalus Item Code: 31329 |
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| The 13th-century Persian poet Rumi has been rediscovered and widely celebrated in the West for his passionate engagement with the divine. This selection of his work is taken from his monumental ... (Read More)
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| The Memory Chalet
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Tony Judt.
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| Publisher: William Heinemann. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780434020966. Daedalus Item Code: 32036 |
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| (One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2011) In 2008, expatriate British historian, essayist, and political commentator Tony Judt was diagnosed with amyotrophic ... (Read More)
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| A Book Addict's Treasury
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Julie Rugg & Lynda Murphy.
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| Publisher: Frances Lincoln. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780711226852. Daedalus Item Code: 31579 |
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| A treat for the book-obsessed—and you know who you are—this is an extensively researched anthology of more than 350 quotations and extracts on the subject of books and bookishness, including ... (Read More)
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| The Poetry Lesson
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Andrei Codrescu.
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| Publisher: Princeton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780691147246. Daedalus Item Code: 31816 |
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| In his hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik" (one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an ... (Read More)
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| Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty
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Alan Jacobs, ed.
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| Publisher: Watkins. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781842931097. Daedalus Item Code: 31324 |
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| This anthology gathers 600 inspirational poems spanning four millennia of world literature, including translations from Sanskrit, Egyptian, Hindi, Persian, Hebrew, Chinese, and Homeric Greek. A ... (Read More)
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| John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century
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Arthur Freeman & Janet Ing Freeman.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: slipcased.
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| ISBN: 9780300096613. Daedalus Item Code: 31842 |
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| (ILAB Prize for Bibliography from the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) This is an immense 2-volume account of the controversial career of John Payne Collier, a writer and ... (Read More)
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| Faulks on Fiction: A Story of the Novel in Characters
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Sebastian Faulks.
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| Publisher: BBC Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781846079603. Daedalus Item Code: 32040 |
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| Between his novels A Week in December and A Possible Life, Sebastian Faulks presented this history of the British novel through 28 profiles of great fictional characters as a companion ... (Read More)
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| Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola
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Gary Dexter, ed.
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| Publisher: Frances Lincoln. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780711229297. Daedalus Item Code: 31587 |
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| "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare," George Bernard Shaw once opined in a double-edged ... (Read More)
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| I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections
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Nora Ephron.
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| Publisher: Knopf/BOMC. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307595607. Daedalus Item Code: 31616 |
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| Barely suppressed chortlings were overheard in the offices here at Daedalus when this collection of Nora Ephron's candid, edgy musings began to be passed around. In this follow-up to I Feel Bad ... (Read More)
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