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Robert Penn Warren: A Biography
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No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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The Yellow Admiral
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Waka and Things, Waka as Things
Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern
Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...
The Ancient Fable: An Introduction
Author: Niklas Holzberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 We are all familiar with the moralizing animal tales ascribed to Aesop. Described as fiction that conveys truths, fables can be...
Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World
Author: Japan Foundation Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 For all Haruki Murakami fans, this is an investigation into the global popularity and translation of his books, which have appeared...
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius
Author: Elaine Fantham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as...
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,...
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan's court The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto interreligious rivalry...
High Voltage Women: Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light
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Lillian Hellman: The Image, The Woman
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Unquiet Soul: Biography of Charlotte Bronte
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
Author: Thomas C Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach...
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World
Author: Mark Aldridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into...
Fitzgerald, Scott (Literary Lives)
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - Softcover
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the...
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
Author: Martin Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating...
Dickens and Massachusetts: The Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth Visits
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The Newspaper of Claremont Street
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The Novels of C.P. Snow: A Critical Introduction
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A-Z of Great Writers
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Harvest
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
Author: James Shapiro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Excellent.' - New Statesman 'Outstanding.' - Irish Times 'Enthralling.' - Guardian 'Shapiro at his best.' - Daily Telegraph From the author...
Shakespeare and the Prince of Love: The Feast of Misrule in the Middle Temple
Author: Anthony Arlidge, QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 Through his researches in the rich archive of 16th and 17th century manuscripts and documents at the Middle Temple in...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
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Little Faith
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On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist: Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin
Author: Michael Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden,...
Point of No Return
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Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Hardback 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...
The Merchant of Venice
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Oppositions: Selected Essays
Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all...
Morris West: A Writer and a Spirituality
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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...
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...
Wall of Light
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The Design of Rabelais's "Pantagruel"
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The World Of The Book
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Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 236 This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most...
The Godfather was a Girl: ...And Blanche Dubois Was a Guy
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Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
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Papa Hemingway
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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
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Crossing the Gap: A Novelist's Essays
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The Playmaker
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