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SALE Quick view How To Read Poetry Like A Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse. He explains elements of literature that often confuse students in a way that makes learning fun and entertaining. From classic poets such as Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to later poets such as E.E. Cummings, Billy Collins, and... Publisher's Price Was: $39.95 Now: Now: $12.95 Compare
SALE Quick view The Word at War: World War Two in 100 Phrases. Gooden explores 100 phrases spawned and popularized in the lead-up to and during the conflict of World War Two. Substantial essays explore and explain the derivations of and the stories behind popular terms and phraseology of the period, including... Publisher's Price Was: $19.99 Now: Now: $5.00 Compare
SALE Quick view How to Sound Cultured: Master The 250 Names That Intellectuals Love To Drop Into Conversation. Just in case you confuse Rambo with Rambeau at your next dinner party, this useful guide will open the doors of the mirrored palaces of high culture and you'll be able to name drop with the best of them. There are literally hundreds of cultural names... Publisher's Price Was: $24.99 Now: Now: $5.00 Compare
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SALE Quick view Master of Shadows. Set in 15th century Constantinople where Scotsman John Grant searches for a girl and the chance to fulfil a deathbed promise. But the girl, Lena, does not wish to be found. At the siege of Constantinople with an army beyond the city's ancient walls the... Publisher's Price Was: $39.99 Now: Now: $9.95 Compare
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