Literature
Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave
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An influential seventeenth-century fable, by a pathbreaking woman writer, about the fall of a black prince.
Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles and How They Got That Way
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"An entertaining little book. . . . It is a good thing that writers have to keep struggling for the right title, to judge from Bernard's amusing evidence."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
German in 32 Lessons
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Here is the third in Norton's colorful reissues of Adrienne's popular guides to learning languages.
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
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Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.