Martial, the unexpected classic : a literary and historical study / by Sullivan, J. P.

Table of Contents: “…Martial and the Greek epigram.…”
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The Holmes reader : the life, writings, speeches, constitutional decisions, etc., of the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, as... by Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935

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Fear and the muse kept watch : the Russian masters--from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Shostakovich and Eisenstein--under Stalin / by McSmith, Andy

Table of Contents: “…Eisenstein in the Jazz Age -- The Hooligan Poet and the Proletarians -- The Master -- Corrupting Gorky -- The Stalin Epigram -- Babel's Silence -- Pasternak's Sickness of the Soul -- Stalin and the Silver Screen -- Stalin's Nights at the Opera -- Pasternak in the Great Terror -- Sholokhov, Babel, and the Policeman's Wife -- Altering History -- Anna of all the Russias -- When Stalin Returned to the Opera -- After Stalin.…”
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The inheritance of genius : a Thackeray family biography, 1798-1875 / by Aplin, John

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover ; Epigram; Title Page; Copyright ; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Prelude and Acknowledgements; 1. …”
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Oscar Wilde revalued : an essay on new materials & methods of research / by Small, Ian

Table of Contents: “…De Profundis. Poems. Epigrams. Manuscript Holdings by Library. British Library. …”
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Giles Firmin and the transatlantic Puritan tradition : polity, piety, and polemic / by Pagán, Jonathan Warren

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Lives of the eminent philosophers / by Diogenes Laertius

Table of Contents: “…Rowland -- Diogenes' Epigrams / Kathryn Gutzwiller -- Corporeal humor in Diogenes Laertius / James Romm -- Philosophers and politics in Diogenes Laertius / Malcolm Schofield -- Diogenes Laertius and philosophical lives in antiquity / Giuseppe Cambiano -- "A la recherche du texte Perdu" : the manuscript tradition of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Eminent Philosophers / Tiziano Dorandi -- Diogenes Laertius in Byzantium / Tiziano Dorandi -- Diogenes Laertius in Latin / Tiziano Dorandi -- Diogenes Laertius and the pre-Socratics / André Laks -- Plato's doctrines in Diogenes Laertius / John Dillon -- Cynicism : ancient and modern / R. …”

V.F. Odoevsky : his life, times and milieu / by Cornwell, Neil

Table of Contents: “…SobolevskyPostscript: In Conclusion; Appendix I: The Odoyevsky family tree: 18th-19th centuries; Appendix II: S.A. Sobolevsky's epigrams on V.F. Odoyevsky; Appendix III: Glossary of Odoyevsky's contemporaries; Notes; Bibliography; Selective index of works by Odoyevsky; Index.…”
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The Young Vincent Massey / by Bissell, Claude Thomas, 1916-2000

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