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Heroines: The essential feminist manifesto and 'One of the 50 greatest
'I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order - pretending...
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies
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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...
Floor of Heaven
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Constellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism Year One
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
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Millroy the Magician.
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The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends
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Shakespeare on Love
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Beginning Theory
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Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing
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Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First
'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary exploration of the birth,...
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...
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...
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...
As the Crow Flies
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Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living
A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served...
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family
This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...
Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long [...]
What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words,...
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...
The Beneventan Script: A History of the South Italian Minuscule
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Author: E.A. Loew
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North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
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Author: Michael Blanding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous...
Jane Eyre
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Telling Tales
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Pride and Prejudice (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England
Author: Heather Dubrow (John D Boyd,SJ Chair in Poetic Imagination, Fordham University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely. While the...
The Epigram in England, 1590-1640
While among the most common of Renaissance genres, the epigram has been largely neglected by scholars and critics: James Doelman's book is the first major study on the Renaissance English...
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes by Christine de Pizan: Volume 457
Christine de Pizan attracted an international audience of admirers her during her lifetime, including many readers in England. The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) is the earliest English...
A Book To Love: Favourite Guests of ABC TV's First Tuesday Book Club Share Their Most Loved Books
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Ian McEwan
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Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary
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Class and Gender in Early English Literature: Intersections
Author: Britton J. Harwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 These dramatic new readings of Old and Middle English texts explore the rich theoretical territory at the intersection of class...
Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution
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Stone 588
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Representing War: Form and Ideology in First World War Narratives
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Boeve de Haumtone and GUI de Warewic: Two Anglo-Norman Romances: Volume 332
Author: Judith WeissFormat: Hardback, 280 pagesPublished: State University of New York at Binghamton,Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, United States, 2008
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate
Author: Daniel MendelsohnFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 120g, 128 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2022Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year.'Astounding'...
Behind The Bestsellers
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When Memory Speaks
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Lonesome George: C'Est Moi! a South American Odyssey
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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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Reading the Medieval Book: Word, Image, and Performance in Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Willehalm
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Women Writers of the 17th Century
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Nganajungu Yagu
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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...