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Aris & Phillips

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Pepita Jiménez: A Novel by Juan Valera
translated from the Spanish by Robert M. Fedorchek, introduction by James Whiston
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824?-1905), one of 19th-century Spain's most well known authors, had a career in the diplomatic service with postings in Europe and the Americas. A serious student of his own and foreign literatures, Valera wrote novels, short stories, essays and literary criticism. Fluent in a number of languages, he also translated Longus's Daphne and Chloe from Greek into Spanish. The unifying thread of his creative ...
Paperback. Price US$36.00
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The Inquisitor's Handbook (Copilación Instructiones Sancta Inquisición)
edited and translated by Tyler Fisher
The Inquisitor's Handbook, a translation of a 1537 compilation of rules for inquisitorial personnel, introduces today's reader to the Spanish Inquisition in the same way a sixteenth-century inquisitor would have been introduced to his duties. Its ...
Paperback. Price US$30.00
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Sophocles: Fragmentary Plays I
edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by Alan H Sommerstein, with David Fitzpatrick and Thomas H Talboy
^BSophocles: Fragmentary Plays
with introductions, translations and commentaries by A. Sommerstein, D. Fitzpatrick and T. Talboy
The Athenian tragic dramatist Sophocles wrote over 120 plays in his sixty-year career, of which only seven have survived complete. This volume presents what is known, or can be inferred or conjectured, about half a dozen plays known to us only from quotations, indirect references, and occasionally a papyrus. ...
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Calderon: The Physician of his Honour
by Dian Fox and Donald Hindley
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$80.00, Our Price US$14.98

Fish and Fishing in Ancient Egypt
by Douglas Brewer and R. F. Friedman
128p, 14 col and 85 b/w pls (Aris & Phillips 1989)
Paperback. Out of print. Price US$45.00
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$75.00, Our Price US$70.00

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura V
edited with translation and commentary by Monica R Gale
For a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance. This is true, above all, of the fifth book, which begins by putting a strong case against what it has recently become fashionable to call 'intelligent design', and ends with an account of human evolution and the development of society in which the ...
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Aristotle: On Sleep and Dreams
A Text and Translation with Introduction and Notes by David Gallop
This work is designed to make Aristotle's neglected but
fascinating writings on sleep and dreams accessible in
translation to modern readers, and to provide a commentary with a
contemporary perspective. It considers Aristotle's theory of
dreams in historical context, especially in relation to Plato. It
also discusses neo-Freudian interpretations of Aristotle and
contemporary experimental psychology of dreaming. ...
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Dear Diego
by Elena Poniatowska, translated with an introduction by Nathanial Gardner
When Diego Rivera's biographer, Bertram Wolfe, was sifting though the painter's jumbled collection of correspondence, he encountered a series of Parisian letters from the Russian painter Angelina Beloff. Long before Diego became famous for his Mexican murals or was applauded for his renowned wife, Frida Kahlo, he was married to Beloff. She was his wife for over ten years while the young Rivera lived as a poor and obscure artist in the city of ...
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Sophocles: Ajax
edited by A.F. Garvie
New facing-page Greek/English translation of perhaps the earliest surviving tragedy by Sophocles. With introduction and extensive commentary. 266p (Aris & Phillips 1998)
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Catullus: Poems 61-68
edited and translated by John Godwin
Although Catullus is one of the best known of the Roman poets it is his shorter poems that are more familiar. This is the first edition of the longer poems in a single volume. Text, translation and a full commentary with discussion of recent criticism. ...
Paperback. Price US$36.00