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The Rock Blaster
Author: Henning Mankell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial...
The Gilded Chalet: Travels through Literary Switzerland
Author: Padraig Rooney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on the goings on of poets Byron and Shelley -...
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels
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Author: Adam Nicolson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is...
The William H. Gass Reader
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Author: William H Gass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
Author: Alan Jacobs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women....
Emigres: French Words That Turned English
Author: Richard Scholar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases-such as...
Mr. Penrose: The Journal of Penrose, Seaman
Author: William Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Long neglected as the first American novel, Mr. Penrose narrates the adventures of a British youth who flees an...
What to Read and Why
Author: Francine Prose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic,...
On Seamus Heaney
Author: Roy Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most...
Letters of Peter Abelard, Beyond the Personal
Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Romantic Tale of Peter Abelard and Heloise has been widely known for centuries. The legend relates in part...
Euripides: Ion
Author: Laura Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 "Euripides' Ion" is the story of a young man's search for his identity, and a woman's attempt to come...
How to Read Sade
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Author: John Phillips Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a...
Worlds Elsewhere
Author: Andrew Dickson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the Wild West- this is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before....