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Aboulela, Leila. Minaret 2005 Suzanne Black, SUNY, Oneonta 31-05-2022 Works
Aboulela, Leila. The Kindness of Enemies 2015 Suzanne Black, SUNY, Oneonta 31-05-2022 Works
Ahmad, Rukshana Munazza Yaqoob, International Islamic University Islamabad (Pakistan) 06-03-2022 People
Akhtar, Shaheen Arifa Ghani Rahman, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh 31-05-2022 People
Akhtar, Shaheen. Talaash 2004 Arifa Ghani Rahman, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh 31-05-2022 Works
Anonymous. Alvíssmál [The Song of All-wise] 1150 Andrew McGillivray, University of Winnipeg 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Eiríks saga rauða [The Saga of Erik the Red] 1450 Dale Kedwards 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Eyrbyggja saga [The Saga of the People of Eyri] 1350 Torfi Tulinius 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Finnboga saga ramma [The Saga of Finnbogi the Strong] 1300 Yoav Tirosh, Independent Scholar - Europe 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Grænlendinga saga [Saga of the Greenlanders] 1250 Dale Kedwards 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Grímnismál [The Lay of Grímnir] 1200 Andrew McGillivray, University of Winnipeg 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Guðbrandsbiblía [Guðbrand's Bible] 1584 Margrét Eggertsdóttir 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Guðmundar saga dýra 1300 Yoav Tirosh, Independent Scholar - Europe 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 1250 Torfi Tulinius 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Hungurvaka [Hunger-waker] 1601 Ásdís Egilsdóttir 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Hálfs saga 1350 Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Hárbarðsljóð [The Lay of Hárbarðr] 1150 Andrew McGillivray, University of Winnipeg 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Jómsvíkinga saga [Saga of the Jomsvikings] 1250 Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Jóns saga 1350 Ásdís Egilsdóttir 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Landnámabók [Book of Settlements] 1200 Sverrir Jakobsson 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Ljósvetninga saga [The Saga of the People of Light Lake] 1200 Yoav Tirosh, Independent Scholar - Europe 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. MS Harley 2253 1300 Susanna Fein 31-10-2022 Works
Anonymous. Möðruvallabók 1350 Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Partonope of Blois 1420 Kersti Francis 02-05-2021 Works
Anonymous. Skíðaríma 1450 Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Strengleikar [Stringed Instruments] 1250 Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. The Middle English Translations of the Life of Briggita of Sweden [England] 1370 Julia Bolton Holloway, Independent Scholar - Europe 15-03-2021 Works
Anonymous. The Middle English Translations of the Life of Catherine of Siena 1370 Julia Bolton Holloway, Independent Scholar - Europe 15-03-2021 Works
Anonymous. The Tournament of Tottenham 1400 William Storm, Eastern University, Pennsylvania 23-03-2021 Works
Anonymous. Vafþrúðnismál 900 Andrew McGillivray, University of Winnipeg 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Vopnfirðinga Saga 1000 Yoav Tirosh, Independent Scholar - Europe 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Völsunga saga 1200 Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Úlfhams saga 1300 Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir 30-09-2022 Works
Anonymous. Þorláks saga [The saga of St Þorlákr] 1350 Ásdís Egilsdóttir 30-09-2022 Works
Appanah, Natacha Ashwiny Kistnareddy, University of Cambridge 11-09-2022 People
Arab-Australian Literature and Culture Jumana Bayeh, Macquarie University 31-08-2022 Context
Arany, János Enikő Basa, Library of Congress 01-09-2022 People
Aslam, Nadeem. The Golden Legend 2017 Madeline Clements, University of Teesside 31-08-2022 Works
Atwood, Margaret Tina Trigg, The King's University, Edmonton 31-05-2022 People
Baetke, Walter Jan Alexander van Nahl 30-09-2022 People
Banville, John. Ancient Light 2012 Pietra Palazzolo, University of Essex 31-07-2022 Works
Banville, John. Shroud 2002 Pietra Palazzolo, University of Essex 31-05-2022 Works
Beck, Heinrich Jan Alexander van Nahl 30-09-2022 People
Benveniste, Emile Chloe Laplantine 21-09-2022 People
Bey, Maïssa Siobhán McIlvanney, King's College London 30-09-2022 People
Burying the Dead in 18th-Century Paris Erin-Marie Legacey, Texas Tech University 01-04-2021 Context
Byatt, A. S. Richard Todd, Universiteit Leiden 31-10-2022 People
Capgrave, John Karen Winstead 31-10-2022 People
Capgrave, John. St Katherine 1463 Karen Winstead 31-10-2022 Works
Charrière de, Isabelle Emma Dunne, University College Dublin 31-07-2022 People
Charrière de, Isabelle. Trois Femmes 1797 Emma Dunne, University College Dublin 31-07-2022 Works
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Clerk’s Tale 1386 Darragh Greene, University College Dublin 30-06-2022 Works
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Monk's Tale 1386 Darragh Greene, University College Dublin 31-08-2022 Works
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Parson's Tale 1386 Darragh Greene, University College Dublin 31-10-2022 Works
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Prioress's Tale 1387 Karla Taylor, University of Michigan 31-07-2022 Works
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Summoner’s Tale 1386 Darragh Greene, University College Dublin 31-05-2022 Works
Chowdhury, Mahbub Ul Alam Shafi Ahmed 15-12-2020 People
Cleave, Paul Jenny Lawn, Massey University 31-07-2022 People
Complaint Litencyc Editors, Independent Scholar - Europe; Rebecca Menmuir, Queen Mary, University of London 26-11-2021 Context
De Luca, Erri Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg, Florida Atlantic University 30-06-2021 People
De Quincey, Thomas. Suspiria de Profundis 1845 Adam White, The Open University 30-09-2022 Works
De Quincey, Thomas. The English Mail Coach 1849 Adam White, The Open University 30-09-2022 Works
de Vigan, Delphine Kathryn Robson 11-09-2022 People
de Vigan, Delphine. No et moi [No and Me] 2007 Kathryn Robson 11-09-2022 Works
Delaume, Chloé Dawn Cornelio 14-09-2022 People
Deleuze, Gilles Gary Genosko 06-11-2022 People
Dell, Ethel M.. The Way of an Eagle 1912 David Tanner, Independent Scholar - Europe 31-08-2022 Works
Despentes, Virginie Alexandra Pugh, King's College London 14-09-2022 People
Despentes, Virginie. King Kong Théorie 2006 Alexandra Pugh, King's College London 14-09-2022 Works
Dillwyn, Amy Kirsti Bohata, Swansea University 30-09-2022 People
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. Dusk of Dawn 1940 Elizabeth Rodrigues, Grinnell College 01-08-2022 Works
Egill Skalla-Grímsson, Egill Guðrún Nordal 30-09-2022 People
Eichendorff, Joseph von Dennis Mahoney, University of Vermont 01-09-2022 People
Einarsson, Oddur Margrét Eggertsdóttir 30-09-2022 People
Elaw, Zilpha Kimberly Blockett, Penn State University 31-05-2022 People
Erlendsson, Hauk. Hauksbók [Book of Haukr] 1300 Sverrir Jakobsson 30-09-2022 Works
Faizunnessa, Nawab Fayeza Hasanat, University of Central Florida 30-12-2020 People
Fenn, Ellenor. Cobwebs to Catch Flies 1783 Pamela Price, Cardiff University 31-07-2022 Works
Fiennes, Celia Pat Rogers, University of South Florida 03-03-2022 People
Fife, Connie Lianne Moyes 31-10-2022 People
Flete, William Julia Bolton Holloway, Independent Scholar - Europe 07-05-2021 People
French Perspectives on Spain across the Eighteenth Century Edward Corredera 30-06-2022 Context
Frost, Robert. Mending Wall 1914 Leon Lewis, Appalachian State University 30-06-2022 Works
Geoffrey of Monmouth. Historia Regum Britanniae 1138 Mary Bateman, Heinrich Heine Universität 30-06-2022 Works
Giedroyc, Jerzy George Gasyna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 31-07-2022 People
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Eighteenth-Century German Fausts 1809 James Van Der Laan, Illinois State University 31-05-2022 Works
Gosse, Edmund. Two Visits to Denmark: 1872, 1874 1911 Kathy Rees, Independent Scholar - Europe 30-06-2022 Works
Graphic Journalism Nancy Pedri, Memorial University of Newfoundland 30-09-2022 Context
Graphic Memoir Nancy Pedri, Memorial University of Newfoundland 04-07-2022 Context
Greene, Robert. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay 1594 Verena Theile, North Dakota State University 30-06-2019 Works
Gregory, Phillipa Siobhan O'Connor, Manchester Metropolitan University 30-06-2022 People
Grossman, Vasilii. Chetyre dnia [Four Days] 1936 Robert Chandler, Queen Mary, University of London 01-07-2022 Works
Grossman, Vasilii. Gliukauf 1934 Robert Chandler, Queen Mary, University of London 01-08-2022 Works
Grossman, Vasilii. Narod bessmerten [The People Are Immortal] 1942 Julia Volohova 01-06-2022 Works
Grossman, Vasilii. Stepan Kol'chugin [Kol'chugin's Youth] 1937 Robert Chandler, Queen Mary, University of London 15-06-2022 Works
Gröndal, Benedikt Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson 30-09-2022 People
Guiney, Louise Imogen Holly Faith Nelson, Trinity Western University; Jonathan Nauman 31-05-2022 People
Gunnarsson, Gunnar Jón Yngvi Jóhannsson 30-09-2022 People
Guðmundsson, Barði Yoav Tirosh, Independent Scholar - Europe 30-09-2022 People
Hallgrímsson, Jónas Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson 30-09-2022 People
Hamid, Omar Shahid Taha Kehar, Independent Scholar - Asia 31-07-2022 People
Haque, Syed Shamsul. Plays 1954 Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman, Independent University Bangladesh 31-05-2022 Works
Harrison, William Elizabeth M. Sturgeon, Mount Saint Mary's University 31-08-2022 People
Hill, Susan Val Scullion, Independent Scholar - Europe 31-10-2022 People
Hilton, Walter Julia Bolton Holloway, Independent Scholar - Europe 07-06-2021 People
Holinshed, Raphael Elizabeth M. Sturgeon, Mount Saint Mary's University 31-08-2022 People
Holtsmark, Anne Jan Alexander van Nahl 30-09-2022 People
Hugo, Richard Jiri Flajsar, Palacky University Olomouc 31-07-2022 People
Husbandry Books Nadine Kuipers 19-04-2021 Context
Hussain, Intizar. Basti 1979 Muhammad Hassan Qadeer Butt, Purdue University 21-11-2022 Works
Hussein, Abdullah Al. Emigre Journeys 2000 Muhammad Hassan Qadeer Butt, Purdue University 21-11-2022 Works
Italian Pulp Fiction Claudio Mazzola, University of Washington 01-08-2022 Context
Jakobsdóttir, Svava Ásta K. Benediktsdóttir 30-09-2022 People
Johnson, Jane. A Very Pretty Story 1745 Pamela Price, Cardiff University 30-06-2022 Works
Jónsson, Finnur Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland 30-09-2022 People
Khan, Adib Natasha Afrin 30-06-2022 People
Khan, Adib. Seasonal Adjustments 1994 Natasha Afrin 31-08-2021 Works
Khan, Uzma Aslam. Thinner Than Skin 2012 Nadia Anwar 31-05-2022 Works
Kharibi, Abdelkebir Alison Rice, Notre Dame University 11-09-2022 People
Kingsley, Charles. Alton Locke 1850 Julia Wiedemann, Katholische Universität Eichstatt 31-05-2022 Works
Kingsley, Charles. Hereward the Wake 1866 Julia Wiedemann, Katholische Universität Eichstatt 31-05-2022 Works
Korczak, Janusz. Pamiętnik z getta Halina Filipowicz, University of Wisconsin 30-09-2022 Works
Krakauer, Jon David Lombard, Université de Liège 05-08-2022 People
Kristjánsson, Sigurður Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland 30-09-2022 People
Kruczkowski, Leon. Niemcy [The Germans] 1949 Halina Filipowicz, University of Wisconsin 30-09-2022 Works
Kvaran, Einar Hjörleifsson Jón Yngvi Jóhannsson 30-09-2022 People
Laurens, Camille Adrienne Angelo 11-09-2022 People
Le Carré, John. Our Kind of Traitor 2010 LynnDianne Beene, University of New Mexico 31-05-2022 Works
Lessing and Dreams Beate Allert, Purdue University 18-07-2022 Context
Lovelace, Earl. The Dragon Can't Dance 1979 Alexandra Roch 15-01-2019 Works
Lovelace, Earl. The Wine of Astonishment 1982 Alexandra Roch 15-01-2019 Works
Luiselli, Valeria Dylan Brennan, University College Cork 30-06-2017 People
Lydgate, John. Life of Our Lady 1370 Mary Wellesley 01-08-2022 Works
Lyubka, Andriy Stepanovich Svitlana Krys, MacEwan University 31-08-2022 People
Mahmud, Altaf Azfar Hussain, Grand Valley State University; Maswood Akhter 30-06-2022 People
Malkani, Gautam Rebecca Blanchard, University of Toronto 30-06-2022 People
Malkani, Gautam. Londonstani 2006 Rebecca Blanchard, University of Toronto 30-06-2022 Works
Mar, Elías Ásta K. Benediktsdóttir 30-09-2022 People
Maritain, Jacques Éamonn Gaines 04-06-2021 People
Marsh, Richard Minna Vuohelainen, City, University of London 31-08-2022 People
Master-and-servant narratives in the English literature of the 1790s Stewart Crehan, University of Zambia 31-07-2022 Context
Mathews, John Joseph. Sundown 1934 Ken Hada, East Central University 23-08-2022 Works
McDonagh, Martin Tom Stevenson; Catherine Rees, University of Loughborough 31-10-2022 People
McKay, Don Travis Mason 31-08-2022 People
Medieval sagas Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland 30-09-2022 Context
Melville, Elizabeth. Ane Godlie Dreame 1603 Jamie Reid Baxter, University of Glasgow 30-06-2022 Works
Mokeddem, Malika Kate Averis, Universidad de Antioquia 30-09-2022 People
Montagu, Mary Wortley. Town Eclogues 1716 Pat Rogers, University of South Florida 16-07-2020 Works
Montale, Eugenio Daniela Shalom Vagata, Masaryk University 30-06-2022 People
Morgan, Evan Frederic Will Cross 31-07-2022 People
Morkinskinna Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland 30-09-2022 Context
Moshfegh, Ottessa. My Year of Rest and Relaxation 2018 Maria Flood, University of Liverpool; Jade Stewart, University of Keele 31-05-2022 Works
Moï, Anna Moï Alison Rice, Notre Dame University 11-09-2022 People
Murdoch, Iris Frances Clare Patricia White, Kingston University 31-10-2022 People
Nichols, Grace. Picasso, I Want My Face Back 2009 Pavlina Flajsarova, Palacky University Olomouc 31-05-2022 Works
Nineteenth-Century Ukrainian Literary Almanacs Taras Koznarsky, University of Toronto 04-02-2019 Context
Northern Lights in Icelandic Literature Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir 30-09-2022 Context
Oliphant, Margaret. Women Novelists of Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations 1897 Caterina Colomba, Università del Salento 31-07-2022 Works
Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight 2018 Robert Clark, University of East Anglia 30-06-2022 Works
Ouologuem, Yambo Vina Tirven-Gadum, Athabasca University 31-08-2022 People
Perrière, Guillaume de la Philippe Baillargeon, University of Massachusetts Amherst 31-08-2022 People
Perrucci, Andrea Nancy D'Antuono, St. Mary's College 31-08-2017 People
Phillips, Caryl. A New World Order 2001 Pietra Palazzolo, University of Essex 30-09-2022 Works
Phillips, Caryl. In the Falling Snow 2009 Pietra Palazzolo, University of Essex 31-08-2022 Works
Pico Della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco Borghesi, University of Sydney 15-02-2019 People
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Mystery of Marie Roget 1842 James Harvey Peacock, University of Keele; Daisy Cowley, University of Keele 15-01-2020 Works
Pope, Alexander. A Farewell to London. In the Year 1715 1715 Pat Rogers, University of South Florida 31-05-2022 Works
Pope, Alexander. Epistle to a Young Lady, on her Leaving the Town after the Coronation 1717 Pat Rogers, University of South Florida 30-05-2022 Works
Pope, Alexander. The Temple of Fame: A Vision 1715 Pat Rogers, University of South Florida 31-05-2022 Works
Pullman, Philip. La Belle Sauvage 2017 Kris Swank, University of Glasgow 01-06-2022 Works
Pullman, Philip. The Secret Commonwealth 2019 Kris Swank, University of Glasgow 01-06-2022 Works
Pálsson, Gunnar Margrét Eggertsdóttir 30-09-2022 People
Pétursson, Hallgrímur Margrét Eggertsdóttir 30-09-2022 People
Quignard, Pascal Lea Vuong 17-09-2022 People
Rahmani, Zahia Alison Rice, Notre Dame University 11-09-2022 People
Raja, Hason SpringGuest SpringGuest 31-08-2022 People
Rees, Sarah Jane Norena Shopland 31-05-2022 People
Rodó, José Enrique Gonzalo Aguiar Malosetti, SUNY, Oswego 30-06-2022 People
Romagnoli, Fernanda Lucia Aiello, University of York 17-07-2019 People
Rădulescu, Domnica Maria Sabina Draga Alexandru, University of Bucharest 30-06-2022 People
Sagnadansar Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir 30-09-2022 Context
Sansom, William Siobhan O'Connor, Manchester Metropolitan University 30-06-2022 People
Savage, Sarah Nicole Garret, Adelphi University 15-03-2018 People
Savinio, Alberto Cristina La Bella 31-03-2019 People
Shire, Warsan Caitlin Weiner, SUNY, Oneonta; Suzanne Black, SUNY, Oneonta 31-05-2022 People
Shute, Nevil. On the Beach 1957 Alan Kennedy, Carnegie Mellon University 31-08-2022 Works
Silliman, Ron Elina Siltanen, University of Turku 15-09-2022 People
Simon, Claude Alistair Duncan 23-10-2022 People
Sinha, Shumona Alison Rice, Notre Dame University 11-09-2022 People
Sissay, Lemn Claudia Corneyea, SUNY, Oneonta; Suzanne Black, SUNY, Oneonta 31-05-2022 People
Sontag, Susan Leland Poague, Iowa State University 31-05-2022 People
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Wrecker 1892 Julie Gay, Université de Poitiers 31-08-2022 Works
Storey, David Nicolas Tredell, Independent Scholar - Europe 31-07-2022 People
Storey, David. Saville 1976 Nicolas Tredell, Independent Scholar - Europe 31-08-2022 Works
Storey, David. This Sporting Life 1960 Nicolas Tredell, Independent Scholar - Europe 30-09-2022 Works
Stow, John Elizabeth M. Sturgeon, Mount Saint Mary's University 31-08-2022 People
Stow, John. A Survey of London 1598 Elizabeth M. Sturgeon, Mount Saint Mary's University 31-08-2022 Works
Sturlunga saga Sverrir Jakobsson 30-09-2022 Context
Sturluson, Snorri. Egils saga 1600 Torfi Tulinius 30-09-2022 Works
Sturluson, Snorri. Heimskringla 1230 Jan Alexander van Nahl 30-09-2022 Works
Sule, Egya Emmanuel. Sterile Sky 2012 Ignatius Chukwumah 28-02-2019 Works
Sutcliff, Rosemary Graeme Davis, University of Buckingham 31-01-2020 People
Sverris Saga Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland 30-09-2022 Context
Swift, Jonathan. A Short Character of the Earl of Wharton 1710 Nicholas Seager, University of Keele; Pat Rogers, University of South Florida 30-05-2022 Works
Swift, Jonathan. Bounce to Fop 1736 Pat Rogers, University of South Florida 31-05-2022 Works
Swift, Jonathan. Polite Conversation 1738 Pat Rogers, University of South Florida 31-05-2022 Works
Swift, Jonathan. The Conduct of the Allies and Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty 1711 Pat Rogers, University of South Florida 31-05-2022 Works
Tadjo, Véronique Alison Rice, Notre Dame University 11-09-2022 People
Tanweer, Bilal Nusrat Khawaja 30-05-2022 People
Tanweer, Bilal. Scatter Here is Too Great 2013 Nusrat Khawaja 30-05-2022 Works
Taylor, Elizabeth. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont 1972 Nadia Georgiou, Independent Scholar - Europe 30-09-2020 Works
Terza Rima Akash Kumar, Columbia University 31-08-2022 Context
The mistress and maid figures in European literature Stewart Crehan, University of Zambia 01-11-2022 Context
The Vinland sagas Dale Kedwards 30-09-2022 Context
Thorarensen, Bjarni Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson 30-09-2022 People
Timon Rebecca Laemmle, University of Cambridge 31-05-2022 People
Trevisa, John Emily Steiner 01-08-2022 People
Verville, Béroalde de Philippe Baillargeon, University of Massachusetts Amherst 31-08-2022 People
Weldon, Fay Helene Mundler, L'Université Paris-Est Créteil 30-09-2022 People
Word-painting Marjorie Cheung, University of Hong Kong 31-07-2022 Context
Yumemakura, Baku Amy Lee, The Open University 31-08-2021 People
Zambreno, Kate Olivia Heal, University of East Anglia 31-08-2022 People
Zhadan, Serhiy Viktorovych Uilleam Blacker, University College London 01-06-2022 People
Ísleifsson, Gissur Ármann Jakobsson, University of Iceland 30-09-2022 People

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