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Midland book ; MB-162
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English
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A text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse. Referred to by Dante as his libello, or "little book", The New Life is the first of two collections of verse written by Dante in his life. La Vita Nuova is a prosimetrum, a piece containing both verse and prose, in the vein of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy. Dante used each prosimetrum...
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English
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"With accuracy, wit, and intelligence, this remarkable new translation of The Golden Ass breathes new life into Apuleius's classic work. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet as well as a highly respected translator, skillfully duplicates the verbal high jinks of Apuleius's ever-popular novel. It tells the story of Lucius, a curious and silly young man, who is turned into a donkey when he meddles with witchcraft. Doomed to wander from region to region and mistreated...
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Midland book ; MB-6
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English
Description
"To the superficial observer there would seem never to have been an age less propitious for the birth of a new nation. The tendency of the times was altogether for the aggrandizement of big states and the consolidation of their territory at the expense of the little ones, for the extinction of the weaker nations and governments rather than for the creation of new ones. Nevertheless it was this bitter cut-throat international rivalry which was to make...
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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
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John Scott's classic account of his five years as a worker in the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk in the 1930s, first published in 1942, is enhanced in this edition by Stephen Kotkin's introduction, which places the book in context for today's readers; by the texts of three debriefings of Scott conducted at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1938 and published here for the first time; and by a selection of photographs showing life in Magnitogorsk in...
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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
Wide-ranging, representative sampling of myths and legends collected from a diversity of tribes contains nearly 100 stories of heroes, journeys to the other world, animal wives and husbands, tales borrowed from the Europeans, and even biblical subjects. Includes "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" (Seneca), "The Star Husband" (Ojibwa), "The Bear-Woman" (Blackfoot), "Cinderella" (Zuñi), "Making the Princess Laugh" (Micmac), "Crossing the Red Sea" (Cheyenne),...
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Midland book ; MB125
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
11) African notebook
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Midland book ; MB-14
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
1958.
Language
English
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Midland book ; MB-82
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
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Midland book ; MB-93
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
14) Essays on Dante
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Midland book ; MB-69
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
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Midland book ; MB-66
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
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Midland book ; MB-86
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[1966, ©1947]
Language
English
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Midland book ; MB 762
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
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