Oxford University Press

The Curse of Caste is the earliest published novel by an African American woman yet to be discovered....

Some of the world's leading academic experts on American-European relations provide the most up-to-date analysis of this crucial aspect of world politics....

In this study, Irene Backus examines the fate of the Apocalypse at the hands of early Protestants in three centres of the Reformation: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg. To do so, Backus systematically investigates sources and methods on the most important reformed and Lutheran commentaries of the Apocalypse from 1528-1584....

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By turns flippant and profound, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is the story of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions, a harebrained idea for curing the world of melancholy, and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed from beyond the grave. Written by Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de...

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