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Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software
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The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost
Author: Harold Bloom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1008 This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book...
The Victorian Popular Ballad
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Jane Austen, Early and Late
Author: Freya Johnston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and...
Dante
Author: John Took Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine Comedy. For all that has been written about the...
Lives of Houses
Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement
Author: Mary Jacobus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range...
Cheerfulness - A Literary and Cultural History
Author: Timothy Hampton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A timely story of a forgotten emotion Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination...
Prose Poetry: An Introduction
Author: Paul Hetherington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Prose Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language...
Literature for a Changing Planet
Author: Martin Puchner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this...
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
Author: Arnold Weinstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes...
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction
Author: Talia Schaffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in...
First Person
Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Flanagan's best work to date.' - Readings Magazine What is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghost writer haunted...
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 **SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring and gorgeously...
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity
Author: Joseph Farrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book...
Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau
Author: Andrew Blauner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney...
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe
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Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker
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Shakespeare's Other Son?: William Davenant, Playwright, Civil War Gun Runner and Restoration Theatre Manager
Author: R E Pritchard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'. The son of an Oxford vintner...
About Kane
Author: Graham Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In About Kane, Graham Saunders offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent times....
Tocororo: A Cuban Tale
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Gender on the Divide: Dandy in Modernist Literature
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Woman Against Her Sex: A Critique of Nawal El-Saadawi - With a Reply by Nawal El-Saadawi
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The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
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King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how...
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
Author: Louise Willder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It's good to judge a book by its cover. Drawing on her 25 years writing blurbs for Penguin books, Louise Willder...
So Many Books So Little Time
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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...
The Real Rule Of Four
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Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters 1700-1900
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Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only...
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...
Arthur Miller: A Playwright's Life and Works
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Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature
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The Joy of Bad Verse
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Remarkably Jane
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Nine Winning Habits of Successful Authors
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Mr Isherwood Changes Trains
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Megawords: 200 terms you really need to know
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Feasts: An Anthology
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Exposure: A Journey
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Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead
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Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction
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The Fable of Arachne
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Peeling Apples
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An Energy Field More Intense Than War: The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature
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To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature
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The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography
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