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The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. www.mhra.org.uk

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🔊 The latest volume in the Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 👉 'Maria Janitschek: A Modern Woman. Stories and Poems', edited by Lea Felicitas Döding. 📖 Book information 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... 🎙️ Interview with Lea 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/09...
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please come along to this if you're in/near London! There'll be three interesting talks plus a drinks reception after (well, two interesting talks and one talk by me)
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A reminder about our event in London next month, 16 October. Celebrating one hundred volumes of ABELL and thinking about the past and future of English Studies. Please share with anyone who might be interested, and come join us if you're nearby! Free but RSVP 📅 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...
A cropped photo of the title page of the first volume of the MHRA's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. It reads 'Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920: Compiled by members of the Modern Humanities research Association'
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's the day after our own event celebrating 100 years of the Annual Bibliography and the MHRA's work in English Studies, so a full weekend of English Studies events! 📚
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our colleagues in the @englishassociation.bsky.social are hosting an event in London on 17 October, Why Subject Associations Matter -- celebrating their 120th birthday! Do come along if you're in the area. Details here: englishassociation.ac.uk/confronting-...
A painting of a group of hands in a rainbow of different colours
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spending today working on my talk on the history of the Annual Bibliography for our London event in October (join us!). It's going to be so hard compressing everything into the time available. Also I haven't given a public lecture for about 10 years... www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We've just published a new volume in our 'Jewelled Tortoise' series! 'Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose. A Translated Selection', translated and edited by Colton Valentine. All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When @themhra.bsky.social was founded in 1918, it was reported in The Times, and the Minister of Education sent a letter of support and good wishes. How times have changed eh! For newspapers, politicians, and the MHRA itself...
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
'The Damned of Fiat and Olivetti' Barbara Burns interviews Erica Bellia, whose book 'Narratives of Industry and Decolonisation in Italy 1955-1965: An Allegorical Reading' was published this summer in Legenda’s Italian Perspectives series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/09...
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🗣️ The 'Slavonic and East European Review' (@uclssees.bsky.social) is out! Special Issue 'Empires in Transition Between Land and Sea Southeastern Europe, 1815-1878', edited by Jovo Miladinović 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Articles via @projectmuse.bsky.social👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57552
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Read more about the edition here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
A portrait of George Moore, looking self-consciously melancholy
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We're delighted to report that Matthew Creasy's edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man, volume 5 in our Jewelled Tortoise series, has been shortlisted for The Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize for scholarly editions 2026! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...
The front cover of Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore, edited by Matthew Creasy
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Jackie Stirling @jackie-stirling.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Newly published in the Legenda series Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Thank you to the @themhra.bsky.social for all their support during this project, and to the managing editor Graham Nelson for his vital contribution to this book. www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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Rebranding Dictatorship: Franco, Golden Age Drama and Film in the Cold War - Jackie Stirling
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Book launch! For our edition of Ella Hepworth Dixon's Selected Short Stories, hosted by the Writing Lab at the Université de Genève. It's on Tuesday 8 Sept but you need to RSVP today if you'd like to come along. Send us a DM and we'll pass it on. www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
The front cover of Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament: Selected Short Stories by Ella Hepworth Dixon, edited by Valerie Fehlbaum, volume 12 in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series.
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
'The Cold War: Not Gilded, Not Golden, Just an Age' Barbara Burns speaks to Jackie Stirling, whose book 'Rebranding Dictatorship: Franco, Golden Age Drama and Film in the Cold War' has been published in Legenda’s Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📣Event! Celebrating volume 100 of the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature and the MHRA’s Work in English Studies 📆 16 October in London. All welcome. Join us in celebrating over a century of scholarship. Please share! Full details here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Call for evidence: SHAPE Research Evidence Hub from the @britishacademy.bsky.social Consider submitting a response if your work might help demonstrate the value or impact of Humanities/Arts research: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
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Zenón Luis-Martínez @zenon-l-m.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The third review of my edition of Chapman's early poems, published by the MHRA, @themhra.bsky.social, will be published shortly by The Spenser Review, and is signed by Professor Richard Danson Brown. It can be read in the OA Repository of the Open University: share.google/rjDKgWS4rPf2...
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Doing some research with the first minute-book of @themhra.bsky.social, begun in 1918 — fascinating organizational history!
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🗣️ Volume 56 of 'The Yearbook of English Studies' is out! Entitled 'Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis', the volume is edited by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Pieter Vermeulen, and Joakim Wrethed. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57375
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
'A Tiger-Cat, As Uncanny As She Is Intelligent' Barbara Burns speaks to Colton Valentine, whose book 'Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Prose: A Translated Selection' is published this summer in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series. Read the interview here 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Many congratulations to Susan Harrow and Carolin Duttlinger, respectively General Editor of Legenda and chair of Legenda's Visual Culture series, both recently elected fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Read our blog post here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/08...
The outside of the British Academy building in London
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Zenón Luis-Martínez @zenon-l-m.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My edition of George Chapman's early poems, published by the MHRA @themhra.bsky.social, has been reviewed in the TLS, in the same issue as Nolan's Odyssey. Chapman would have loved the coincidence and, I believe, enjoyed the film. www.the-tls.com/literature/t...
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Golden foolery
George Chapman (c.1559–1634) is something of an enigma. Serious, learned and prolific, he is best known for his translations of Homer, but he also wrote a
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Interested in reading #TheOdyssey? Have a look at our edition of one of the greatest of all English translations! 'a profound & moving interpretation – still relevant after four hundred years – of Homer’s story of the suffering & grace implicit in the human condition' www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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George Chapman: Homer's Odyssey - Edited by Gordon Kendal
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Recently published from our friends at @livunipress.bsky.social: Humanities Forward: Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century, ed. by Stephan Nitu and Arlene Holmes-Henderson. Open access and currently on sale in print 📖 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Humanities Forward | Home
Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century
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Kate Astbury @100days1815.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It was great to write with amazing and inspiring colleagues! We offer a simple solution to the invisibility of modern languages as an academic discipline by suggesting a change to the way in which REF categorises impact case studies…
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Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Including an article on "REF Impact and the Discipline of Modern Languages" that is worth a read.
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Portuguese Studies @portuguesemhra.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
42.1 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out! A special issue on "Arts and Culture of Resistance in Portuguese-Speaking Africa: 50 Years of Independence", edited by Lurdes Macedo, Tom Stennett, and Elísio Macamo. ToC: www.mhra.org.uk/publications... @themhra.bsky.social
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
📚The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out! Issue 121.3 features articles by Peter Zusi, Vanessa Lim, Robin Jarvis, Peter Mahoney, and Katherine Astbury, Fiona Barclay, Ashley Harris & Nina Parish, alongside Book Reviews. Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57193
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Excellent review of Critical Texts vol. 74, a critical edition of George Chapman's The Shadow of Night and Ovid's Banquet of Sense, in the latest issue of British and American Studies: bas-journal.ro/bas-32/
Pages from the edition. The book is open in the middle of the text of 'The Shadows of Night'
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Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Very happy to say that I'm now on study leave and finally I can get down to doing this!
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Katya Krylova @katyakrylova.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Trailblazing Austrian poet, writer and philosopher Ingeborg Bachmann was born 100 years ago #otd in 1926. You can read our special issue of @themhra.bsky.social Austrian Studies on the author, co-edited by @ibc-london.bsky.social, Marlen Mairhofer & yours truly here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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Reading Bachmann Now - Edited by Andrea Capovilla, Katya Krylova and Marlen Mairhofer
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
MHRA Research Fellow Amy Wilcockson was in @uk.theconversation.com back in May, talking about Shelley's 'Mont Blanc' and climate change: theconversation.com/ten-compelli...
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Ten compelling poems about climate change – chosen by our experts
These poems span over 200 years and a range of emotions, from sorrow, to fear and hope.
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
📣 New interview: 'All the Different Germanies' Barbara Burns speaks to Malcolm Spencer, whose volume of translations, 'Thomas Mann, The Later Stories 1925–53', has just been published in the MHRA New Translations series. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/06...
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A selection of recent titles available for review. Get in touch if you're interested in reviewing any of these and you have a journal in mind! 📚
The covers of four books: Ella Hepworth Dixon's Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament, Thomas Mann's The Later Stories, Carl Sternheim's A Chronicle of the Early Twentieth Century, and Ramon del Valle-Inclan's Midnight: Astral Vision of a Moment of War
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Our annual Ideas Festival is such a cornucopia of delights I can’t get it across in a single post. But in short it is a free (FREE!) festival of humanities and social sciences research with talks, exhibits, workshops, performances & more. 19/20 June London www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/ideas...
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British Academy Ideas Festival (formerly Summer Showcase)
The British Academy Ideas Festival returns on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 June. Celebrating bold thinking and unexpected discoveries from the histories that shape our identities to the forces influencin...
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🔈The new Slavonic & East European Review, edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is now out! Articles by Victoria Ivleva, Mark Gamsa, Evgenii Egorov and Liz Kohn & Book Reviews. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56918
Cover of Slavonic & East European Review, Volume 104, Number 2 (April 2026).
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Read more about the series here in this interview with Simon, who is also one of the General Editors of the series: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/03...
A page from the manuscript known as The Book of Taliesin (MS Peniarth 2)
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Two proud authors with their books! From a successful joint book launch last week for two new titles in our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series📕 The books are Children & Parents in Medieval Welsh Law by Sara Elin Roberts and An Old Welsh Reader by Simon Rodway Congratulations to both! 🥂
Sara Elin Roberts and Simon Rodway holding up copies of their books.
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🔊 New volume in the MHRA Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 'Ella Hepworth Dixon: Sidelights on the Feminine Temperament. Selected Short Stories', edited by Valerie Fehlbaum 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
📖 Read the interview with Dr Robert Ley, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher and his mentors Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Professor Charles Forsdick, on how the Languages in Policy project is helping to connect language researchers and policymakers www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/05...
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Policy and Belonging
Interviewing Dr Rob Ley, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher, and his Cambridge-based mentors Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Professor Charles Forsdick.
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
📣 Postdoc opportunity! @ucflangs.bsky.social is recruiting a MHRA-funded postdoc to implement recommendations from the Languages & Policy report and and strengthen research–policy collaboration. Supervised by @wendya-b.bsky.social and @cforsdick.bsky.social. www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/06...
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Postdoctoral Researcher — Building Policy-Research Bridges in Languages
A new postdoctoral researcher is sought for policy work, in association with the UCFL: applications close 30 June.
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wendya-b.bsky.social @wendya-b.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Are you a modern languages postdoc looking for an opportunity to work on a languages policy project? There is a new opportunity to work on a @themhra.bsky.social funded project with myself and Charles Forsdick: university-council-for-languages.org/2026/06/job-...
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Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Researcher - Building Policy-Research Bridges in Languages | University Council For Languages
Thanks to the very generous award of a Special Research Grant by the MHRA, UCFL is in a position to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to take forward
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Our current Special Research Grant focuses on creating a curated language policy space on the @ucflangs.bsky.social web. Here is an interview with Dr Robert Ley, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher, and his mentors Prof Ayres-Bennett and Prof @cforsdick.bsky.social. shorturl.at/lnWkC
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Policy and Belonging
Interviewing Dr Rob Ley, MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher, and his Cambridge-based mentors Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Professor Charles Forsdick.
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The author of the second of those titles, along with another series author, will also be speaking at an event at Aberystwyth on Celtic Lexicography the following day (Saturday 6 June) that may also be of interest to those in the field. Both events free and open to all.
Flyer for the event featuring the names of the speakers: Simon Rodway, Bernhard Maier, Andrew Hawke, David Stifter, Karen Jankulak, Alexander Falileyev, Joan Luis García-Alonso, Ranko Matasović, David Mandić, Christopher Lewin. The event is to be held at the Dialogue Centre at Aberystwyth University on 6 June.
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This Friday! A double launch event for two new titles in our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series, 5.30 pm at Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social All welcome. Read more about the series, and these books, here: www.mhra.org.uk/series/LMWL
Flyer for the event featuring the covers of the two books.
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
2025 was the 150th anniversary of Mann's birth, and this year his work comes in the public domain outside of the US, so there is lots of Mann-related work going on at the moment. Including our edition of Mann's last completed novellas, now available: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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Thomas Mann, The Later Stories: 1925–1953 - Translated by Malcolm Spencer
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A film about Thomas Mann's return to Germany after the War premiered at Cannes last week; looks like it will be well worth a watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxDL...
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FATHERLAND | Official Clip | Coming Soon
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Fascinating article in Volupté about the fin-de-siécle fashion for real-life jewelled tortoises -- by Lea Felicitas Döding, shortly to publish volume 13 in our own Jewelled Tortoise series! 🐢✨ journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/vo... Read about Lea's edition here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Nineteenth-century illustration of a jeweller's shop showing a woman selecting from a display of jewelled tortoises
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Now published in MHRA New Translations: Thomas Mann, The Later Stories 1925–1953 Translated by Malcolm Spencer Brand-new translations of a collection of stories that make up some of Mann's greatest achievements in short fiction. Available now! All info 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Cover of the volume Thomas Mann, The Later Stories, featuring a photo of Thomas Mann
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