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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...
William Shakespeare: A Companion Guide to His Life & Achievements
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...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
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...
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,...
the princess saves herself in this one
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...
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...
Jane Austen's Universal Truths: Wisdom and witticisms from her writings
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
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
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
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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
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....
Lives of Houses
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...
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...
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...
This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books
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...
The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
In the Heart of the Country: A Novel
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
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
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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...
Why Read the Classics?
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest...
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
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
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
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
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...
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics
Author: Larissa Behrendt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Fiona Foley, Finding Eliza is a vital Indigenous perspective...
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
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...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
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
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...
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
Author: Andrew Pettegree Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are...
A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life
Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The world of books in one little book. It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books...
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
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
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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
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
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...
Dante
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
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Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback 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...
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...