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E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as "Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, " and "The March." Now here are Doctorow's rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought....

The Wolf Queen's court enforces few laws. Vanessa Hart plans on breaking each and every one. The night her best friend is brutally slaughtered by wolves, Vanessa Hart's life is...

The book titled Picasso and Dora: a Personal Memoir by the author James Lord. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The first 100 years of modern art witnessed the popularization of photography and an increasing emphasis on abstraction in painting, which threatened the survival of portraiture as a genre. It...

THE NOVELIST REMEMBERS HIS FRIENDS - GEORGE ORWELL, DYLAN THOMAS, ERIC GILL (ROMAN CATHOLIC EROTOMANE AND SCULPTOR) AND J MIDDLETON MURRY (BIOGRAPHER, PUBLISHER AND HUSBAND OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD - AMONGST...

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on SloughTo get it ready for the plough.The cabbages are coming now;The earth exhales.--from "Slough" When the beloved English poet John Betjeman's "Collected Poems "first...

A memoir in which our hero blends autobiography with moral, political and cultural reflections. thoughts about god, evil, suffering, death and tragedy are interwoven with comic or moving scenes from...

Yvonne believes there's more to life than marriage to Sam, the young man who's courting her. But when she tries to have fun, she gets caught up in a fracas...

The book titled Where I Fell to Earth: A Life in Four Places by the author Peter Conrad. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Best of Friends: Letters by the author Gerald Brenan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The Best American Poetry 1995 once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on...

The book titled IT All Adds up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The idea for Ian Hamilton's unorthodox new book was sparked by a rereading of Samuel Johnson's classic "Lives of the English Poets". Johnson included appraisals of 52 poets, but of...

Award winning journalist Colette Rossnt's charming memoir of growing up in French colonial Egypt filled with her favourite recipes.

The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to contemporary Russia by examining its past. This second edition includes new material and expands sections dealing with the late...

This book takes as its focus the response of the English intelligentsia to the new, and supposedly threatening, phenomenon of mass culture. It shows how the attitudes of disdain and...

Who invented the rotary clothesline, the lawn-mower and the fibreglass swimming pool? Why are our back gardens today so different from those of our grandparents? And whatever happened to the...

Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967) founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated. Born in China to missionary parents, Luce was a kind of lay preacher, anxious to mold the American mind...

American Visions of Europe sets three learned and elegantly written portraits against the background of the dramatic events and foreign policy controversies of the twentieth century. John Lamberton Harper's careful...

Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazi regime in Germany tried to restructure a 'class' society along racial lines. This book deals with the ideas and institutions which underpinned this mission,...

While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works....

The book titled Pleasure of Ruins by the author Rose Macaulay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled The Fisher King by the author Anthony Powell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

In ancient Greece, from the sixth century onwards legilation was introduced in Athens and a number of the more advanced city states which was specifically aimed at the restriction of...

A vivid account of the people and places that inspired so much of Spark's work--Edinburgh of the 1920s; her Jewish father; her Presbyterian, English mother; and of course the original...

This is a biography of one of the last of the ideological spies, belonging to the important group the author calls "the Cambridge Comintern". Robert Cecil, a close acquaintance of...

An unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales, celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond, from the award-winning author of Hagitude 'An extra ordinary selection...

Patrick French has been granted unique access to V.S. Naipaul's private papers and his personal recollections. With great feeling for Naipaul's formidable body of work, he has produced a luminous...

The legendary "Oxford English Dictionary" today contains over 600,000 words and a staggering 2,500,000 quotations to illuminate the meaning and history of those words. A glorious, bursting treasure-house, the "OED"...

The acclaimed Proust biographer William Carter portrays Proust's amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust's own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about...

The book titled Conspiracy of Silence: Secret Life of Anthony Blunt by the author Barrie Penrose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

In Albania, under the long dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, each Albanian citizen had a biografi - literally an account of their suitability as good socialists which was registered by the...

The book titled A View from the Diners Club by the author Gore Vidal. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

21 essays on classic writers are included in this book. Essays on Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Saul Bellow, Edith Wharton, J.M. Coetzee, Primo Levi, Italo Calvino,...

This collection includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favourites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particular feature of the book is the...

The book titled Centuries of Childhood by the author Philippe Aries. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The Mitrokhin Archive II reveals for the first time the full extent of the KGB's global penetration, exposing its operations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. For...

The book titled The War Against the Jews 1933-45 by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled India: A Million Mutinies Now by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled Lord's and Commons: Cricket in Novels and Stories by the author John Bright-Holmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

In the 2000 years since Cleopatra's death she has been recreated over and over again, each time in a form that fits the prejudices and fantasies of the age that...

A brilliant collection of conversations and essays about writers and writing from Philip Roth, reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016 Philip Roth is the voice of our...

The book titled Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America by the author John D'Emilio. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

This sequel to Adam Ellis's New York Times bestselling Bad Dreams in the Night is packed with terrifying twists, haunted houses, urban legends, and delightfully horrifying stories-like your own personal...

George Whitman opened his bookstore in a tumbledown 16th-century building just across the Seine from Notre-Dame in 1951, a decade after the original Shakespeare and Company had closed. Run by...

This work documents the diversity and vitality of lesbian talent in Australia. A hitherto marginalized group, lesbian artists are now being incorporated into mainstream culture and this work provides an...