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Cavafy's Alexandria

Cavafy's Alexandria

Edmund Keeley

In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy's literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth.
Some Wine for Remembrance

Some Wine for Remembrance

Edmund Keeley

Did a prominent Austrian statesman play a part in a brutal massacre in Greece during World War II?
Albanian Journal: The Road to Elbasan

Albanian Journal: The Road to Elbasan

Edmund Keeley

A journey of discovery by a group of American writers to an emerging Central European nation.
Borderlines: A Memoir

Borderlines: A Memoir

Edmund Keeley

Borderlines is a memoir of Greece, its life, culture, writers and people.
School for Pagan Lovers

School for Pagan Lovers

Edmund Keeley

On the eve of World War II, seventeen-year-old Hal Gogarty arrives in Greece and falls in love with Magda Sevillas, his half-Jewish German tutor, and the two defy odds to keep their love alive.
The Megabuilders of Queenston Park

The Megabuilders of Queenston Park

Angie Brenner

The Megabuilders of Queenston Park, acclaimed author Edmund Keeley's eighth novel, opens in present-day Princeton, New Jersey, as the quaint college town faces mounting changes in its architectural and cultural landscape.
War Before Civilization

War Before Civilization

Lawrence H. Keeley

Lawrence Keeley's groundbreaking War Before Civilization offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization (an idea he ...
The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair

The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair

Edmund Keeley

Recounts the murder of American journalist George Polk during the Greek Civil War, and discusses the political forces that shaped the murder trial's outcome
Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth

Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth

Edmund Keeley

The Description for this book, Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth, will be forthcoming.
The Essential Edmund Leach: Culture and human nature

The Essential Edmund Leach: Culture and human nature

Edmund Ronald Leach

Brings together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach.
The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society

The Essential Edmund Leach: Anthropology and society

Edmund Ronald Leach

Brings together a representative selection of the writings of Edmund Leach.
Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (1729-97) was a British statesman, a political philosopher, a literary critic, the grandfather of modern conservatism, and an elegant, prolific letter writer and prose stylist.
Edmund Spenser: A Life

Edmund Spenser: A Life

Andrew Hadfield

——The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser, ed. John Hughes, 6 vols. (London, 1715) . ——The Works of Edmund Spenser, ed. H. J. Todd, 8 vols. (London, 1805). —— The Works of Edmund Spenser, with observations on his life and writings, ed.
Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

Andrew Hadfield

This collection represents some of the best recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser, a major Renaissance English poet.
Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life

Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life

Stanley J. Tambiah

Intellectual biography of Edmund Leach, a leading social anthropologist of his generation, with illustrations.
Ten Acres Is Enough

Ten Acres Is Enough

Edmund Morris

Edmund Morris. Practical. Views. Safety. of. Investments. in. Land. There. was not a particle of romance in my aspirations for a farm, neither had I formed a visionary theory which was there to be tested. My notions were all sober and prosaic.
Edmund W. Gordon: Producing Knowledge, Pursuing Understanding

Edmund W. Gordon: Producing Knowledge, Pursuing Understanding

Carol Camp Yeakey

The initial volume in this new series focuses on the work of Edmund W. Gordon, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University.
Chaos

Chaos

Edmund White

At once hilarious, sexy and heartbreaking, Chaos is a new novella and collection of short stories from the hugely acclaimed writer, Edmund White.
Collected Essays

Collected Essays

Edmund Gosse

Edmund Gosse. WOLCOTT BALESTIER IT was early in 1889 that, on an evening which must always remain memorable to some of us, two or three English writers met, at the house of Mrs. Humphry Ward, a young American man of business ...
The life of St. Edmund

The life of St. Edmund

Matthew Paris

This book offers a comprehensive and intimate portrait of Edmund as a scholar and archbishop and a study of his most famous biographer, Matthew Paris, the monk and historian of St. Albans.
Education and Justice: A View from the Back of the Bus

Education and Justice: A View from the Back of the Bus

Edmund W. Gordon

Edmund Gordon is one of the few people alive who could bring together — with passion and precision — such wide-ranging concerns as the nature of teaching and learning; the social and educational determinants of academic achievement;  ...
Lives of the Judges: Jessel, Cairns, Bowen and Bramwell

Lives of the Judges: Jessel, Cairns, Bowen and Bramwell

Edmund Heward

Each one of Edmund Heward's subjects makes interesting reading: Jessel, for example, was the subject of an apparent assassination attempt - but although he had been deafened by this in one ear, apart from writing a reassuring letter to his ...
8 papers relating to claims to the baronies of Botreaux, ...

8 papers relating to claims to the baronies of Botreaux, ...

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... Second Daughter of Edmund Lord Braye and Ancestress of the Petitioner, married Sir Ralph Verney of Pendlcy and Middle Claydon in the County of Buckingham Knight, and had issue Seven Sons and Two Daughters ; That Edmund Verney ...

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