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Robertson Davies: Man of Myth
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Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass: A Study of the Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years
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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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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...
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...
Lillian Hellman: The Image, The Woman
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The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature: A Crash Course in Words and Pictures
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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...
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - Softcover
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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...
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
Author: Ann Patchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the...
Dickens and Massachusetts: The Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth Visits
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The Newspaper of Claremont Street
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A-Z of Great Writers
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The Best Of The Lifted Brow: Volume One
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Harvest
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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
Author: Nickolas Butler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife,...
Au Revoir, Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature
Author: Viv Groskop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A lighthearted look at how to bring more humor, happiness, and joie de vivre into our lives through French literature Like...
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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Forgotten Women: The Writers
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
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...
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...
Writing in an Age of Silence
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Wall of Light
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The Design of Rabelais's "Pantagruel"
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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 Book of Forgotten Authors
Author: Christopher Fowler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK' CATHY RENTZENBRINK 'A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING' IRISH INDEPENDENT...
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...
Crossing the Gap: A Novelist's Essays
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The Playmaker
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Ocean of Story: Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead
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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
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Flash House
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History And Social Theory
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The Poets' Discovery: Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse
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Ode Less Travelled, TheUnlocking the Poet Within
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Great Australian Yarns
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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Faulks on Fiction
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