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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and
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Scene of the Crime: A Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective Fiction
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Papyrus: THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER
The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and readingA FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK...
Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South
Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and
'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
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Constellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism Year One
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The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends
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Shakespeare on Love
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Ghost Season
With supreme skill and reverence, capturing shards, stillness and chaos, Fatin Abbas delivers a novel that gallops close and parallel to current events in Sudan.A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel...
The Demidenko Debate
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Oppositions: Selected Essays
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
Language, History and Style: Leo Spitzer and the Critical Tradition
Author: James V. Catano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 In 1925, Spitzer called for a science of style that described literary texts in terms of philology and comparative linguistics....
Paolo Beni
Author: P.B. Diffley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 290 This is the first detailed life of the Italian humanist Paolo Beni (1553-c.1625), who in his lifetime was famous as a...
Family Skeleton
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A Book To Love: Favourite Guests of ABC TV's First Tuesday Book Club Share Their Most Loved Books
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King Arthur in Legend and History
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F. Scott, Ernest And Me
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Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
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Women Writers of the 17th Century
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Fictions of Embassy: Literature and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
Author: Leah Price Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Around 2000, people began to believe that books were on verge of extinction. Their obsolescence, in turn, was expected to doom...
Britannicus
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Henry Handel Richardson: A Life
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The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
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The Smiling Buddha
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Criticism: Ideas in Profile
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsAt the heart of criticism lies one question: What do you think of it? Every time we comment on an artefact, whether a...
Re-Figuring Hayden White
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Ian Hamilton Collected Poems
Author: Alan Jenkins (Asst editor, poetry editor) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Edited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose...
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
Author: Andrew Pettegree Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are...
Breaking the Da Vinci Code
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Banners of Gold
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Hotel Bellevue
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Rome's Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas
Author: Emily Gowers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 488 The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and culture An unelected...
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Author: Marion Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman...
Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: James Marcus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph...
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
Author: Renee Bergland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin...
The Merchant of Venice (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 10
Author: SparkNotes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Merchant of Venice on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation...
A Common Life: Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence
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The Female Eunuch
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Macbeth
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Black Market
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Great Books
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Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
Author: Christopher S. Celenza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian...
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street
Author: Pat Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history...
the princess saves herself in this one
Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections...
A Superior Spectre
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