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Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and...

Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to...

Literature has passed through a crisis of confidence in recent decades-a radical questioning of its traditional values and its importance to humanity. In this witty and eloquent book, a distinguished...

In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist...

Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultural critic of the...

The book titled A View from the Diners Club by the author Gore Vidal. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

George Whitman opened his bookstore in a tumbledown 16th-century building just across the Seine from Notre-Dame in 1951, a decade after the original Shakespeare and Company had closed. Run by...

This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre...

Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman Empire, Virgil's Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, extreme adversity, doomed romance, fateful battles, and profound...

Written close to the end of the great writer's life, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man tells of a transformation of the heart and a journey...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES , GUARDIAN , INDEPENDENT , IRISH TIMES , SPECTATOR , TLS , NEW STATESMAN , MAIL ON SUNDAY , I...

Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Aboriginal Australian authors of popular fiction. A focus on the political characterises her chick lit; and her identity as an...

The book titled Decolonizing the Subject: Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography by the author Sidonie Smith. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Reissued with a new afterword Leonard Cohen is back! With a #1 bestselling poetry collection, The Book of Longing , flying off bookshelves; Lian Lunson's acclaimed documentary, Leonard Cohen: I'm...

This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and God's Locusts.

In a virtuoso collection of essays, Adam Phillips sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature.

Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection...

Edited by scholars and teachers whose interests range from the history of poetics to postmodernism, from classical rhetoric to eriture feminine, and from the social construction of gender to the...

"An uplifting family saga . . . [Marianne] Fredriksson provides a satisfyingly complex . . . chronicle of women and the burdens imposed by their family history, their gender and...

Years after his death, Jacques Lacan remains not only one of the foremost intellectuals of the century, but also one of the most controversial. The first major biography of Lacan,...

This comprehensive study, cosponsored by the Christian College Coalition, addresses questions faced by students in introductory literature courses. It examines literature as a form of human action and argues that...

These readings are organized into four sections. The first explores the wellsprings of the debates in the relationship between the postmodern and the enterprise it both continues and contravenes: modernism....

Australians hear the call of Country, but without knowledge of the history and the lives of its animals and plants, that call is confused and loses itself in opal fields...

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