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The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

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Author: Nancy Pearl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary...
William Shakespeare: A Companion Guide to His Life & Achievements

William Shakespeare: A Companion Guide to His Life & Achievements

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Author: Gill Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 William Shakespeare was born April 1564 and died 23 April 1616, four hundred years ago. Today the bard from Queen Elizabeth's...
The William H. Gass Reader

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...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

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Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935?2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary...
the princess saves herself in this one

the princess saves herself in this one

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Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first...
What to Read and Why

What to Read and Why

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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,...
Waka and Things, Waka as Things

Waka and Things, Waka as Things

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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...
Jane Austen's Universal Truths: Wisdom and witticisms from her writings

Jane Austen's Universal Truths: Wisdom and witticisms from her writings

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Author: Susan Hart-Byers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Well-known for her humour, Jane Austen's Universal Truths is a collection of some of Austen's most choice and wry observations. Featuring...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People

Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People

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Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure he seeks...
The Pearl: Popular Penguins

The Pearl: Popular Penguins

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Author: John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 100 When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically...
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

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...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind

Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind

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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

Emigres: French Words That Turned English

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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...
Oppositions: Selected Essays

Oppositions: Selected Essays

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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...
This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books

This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books

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Author: Joan Anim-Addo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Vital and timely ... Perfectly curated and filled with brilliant literature' Nikesh Shukla These are the books you should read. This...
Lives of Houses

Lives of Houses

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Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...
Shakespeare in a Divided America

Shakespeare in a Divided America

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Author: James Shapiro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Excellent.' - New Statesman 'Outstanding.' - Irish Times 'Enthralling.' - Guardian 'Shapiro at his best.' - Daily Telegraph From...
The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry

The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled provides us with a witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing...
Poetics

Poetics

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Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....
Aspects of the Novel

Aspects of the Novel

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Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at...
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

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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...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People

Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People

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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 Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

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Author: Nancy Pearl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 NEW & NOTEWORTHY THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna...
Prose Poetry: An Introduction

Prose Poetry: An Introduction

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Author: Paul Hetherington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Prose Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language...
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius

Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius

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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...
Literature and Evil

Literature and Evil

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Author: Georges Bataille Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging...
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators

The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators

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Author: Martin Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical book. In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years,...
In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

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Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is...
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays

William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays

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Author: Prof. Eric Rasmussen (USA) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of...
In My Father's Court

In My Father's Court

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Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father...
How to Read Sade

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...
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship

Truth and Beauty: A Friendship

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Author: Ann Patchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction...
Orwell and Politics

Orwell and Politics

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The definitive collection of George Orwell's timeless political writing This comprehensive collection brings together the best of George Orwell's...
The Rock Blaster

The Rock Blaster

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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...
Faust, Part I

Faust, Part I

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Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a...
My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant Career

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Author: Miles Franklin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore wish for happiness, homes, and husbands by and by,...
Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins

Metamorphosis: Popular Penguins

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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...
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

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Author: Mary Wellesley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only...
Music of the Ghosts A Novel

Music of the Ghosts A Novel

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Author: Vaddey Ratner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 This "novel of extraordinary humanity" (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing) from New York Times...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

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Author: Sarah Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both...
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

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Author: Arnold Weinstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes...
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer

Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer

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Author: Christopher S. Celenza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian...
Wartime Writings 1943-1949

Wartime Writings 1943-1949

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Author: Marguerite Duras Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Published for the first time in english, the World War II notebooks of one of the twentieth century's most renowned literary...
The Gilded Chalet: Travels through Literary Switzerland

The Gilded Chalet: Travels through Literary Switzerland

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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 -...
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement

On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement

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Author: Mary Jacobus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range...
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

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Author: Duncan White Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 'White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose...
Dante

Dante

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Author: John Took Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine Comedy. For all that has been written about the...
12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives

12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives

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