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Trick or Treat
Lisa MortonThe first history of the misunderstood festival Halloween, and its current global popularity.Read more › -
Licentious Worlds
Julie PeakmanA history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.Read more › -
Venus Betrayed
Julia FreyFeaturing new insights and a wealth of superb images, Venus Betrayed explores Édouard Vuillard’s private world.Read more › -
Second Sight
Adam Mars-JonesAdam Mars-Jones guides us through his entire career as a viewer and film critic.Read more › -
Fairies
Richard SuggRanging widely through history, myth, literature and art, this new account of the fairy shows the terror lurking behind Tinkerbell.Read more ›
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Guy de Maupassant
Christopher Lloyd
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The most celebrated French storyteller of the nineteenth century, Guy de Maupassant...
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Leo Tolstoy
Andrei Zorin
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When he arrived in Moscow in 1851, a young Leo Tolstoy set himself three immediate...
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Poussin as a Painter
From Classicism to Abstraction
Richard Verdi
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Universally regarded as the father of French painting, Nicolas Poussin is arguably...
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jeremy Adler
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This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist,...
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No Home for You Here
A Memoir of Class and Culture
Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
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Raphael and the Antique
Claudia La Malfa
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The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime...
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