In Paperback: The Great Sea
/David Abulafia's big book - now in paperback - tackles a subject pivotal to huge swaths of human history: the Mediterraean, that watery intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa
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/A brilliant new biography of the great man of the English Renaissance
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/A new translation raises old questions about the greatest epic of them all.
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/Courtier and cleric, adventurer and ascetic, man of faith and man of the world — John Donne was many things in his life, and a sprawling new Companion does its best to assess them all.
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