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Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
Cave
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Dr. Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World
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Two Lives
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Ten Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
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Slip-shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet
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Orwell in Spain
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Strange Antics: A History of Seduction
Author: Clement Knox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as...
A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures
Author: Simon Armitage Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 376 '[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanor with a brilliantly understated, original and captivating address, which never strayed into pretentiousness or...
The Remake
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Ocean of Story: Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead
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The Almond Picker
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HOBBIT COMPANION
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Mr. Penrose: The Journal of Penrose, Seaman
Author: William Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Long neglected as the first American novel, Mr. Penrose narrates the adventures of a British youth who flees an...
So Many Books So Little Time
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September 1, 1939: W. H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem
Author: Ian Sansom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of...
The Stuff of Life
Author: Prof. Timothy Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than anything I recorded of it.' Sylvia Townsend...
Homer and His Iliad
Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is...
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment
Author: Kevin Birmingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature,...
The Real Rule Of Four
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The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
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King Henry V
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Lover of Gardens, A
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The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre
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Christina Stead
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Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers
Author: Hannah K. Chapman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In Why She Wrote, dive into the fascinating, unexpected, and inspiring stories behind the greatest women writers in the English...
A Peculiar Gift: Nineteenth Century Writings on Books for Children
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by...
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The definitive illustrated guide
Author: David Pringle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This essential reference book details everything the novice needs to know about the genre and everything the well-read fan is calling...
Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty
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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925
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Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia
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The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre
Author: Don Paterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What...
Love Letters from Paris: the most enchanting read of 2021
Author: Nicolas Barreau Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Enchanting. Reading Barreau is like having me-time with your best friend' NINA GEORGE, author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP 'Heart-breaking ....
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
Author: Mary Wellesley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual'...
Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642
Author: Jean E. Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Arguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own...
To Be or Not To Be: A Celebration of Shakespeare's 400-year Legacy
Author: Liz Evers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The works of William Shakespeare have been a permanent feature on school curricula for years, and almost everybody can boast even...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it? When...
The White Goddess
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves's vast reading and curious research into...
The Heart of Things: On Memory and Lament
Author: Richard Holloway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to...
Shelf Life: Writers on Books and Reading
Author: Alex Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Books; reading, collecting and the physical housing of them has brought the book-lover joy - and stress - for centuries. Fascinated...
Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature
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Arthur Miller: A Playwright's Life and Works
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The Joy of Bad Verse
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Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition
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Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature
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J.D. Salinger
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William Carlos Williams
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