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Jane Austen, Early and Late
Author: Freya Johnston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and...
Egg
Author: Dr. Nicole Walker (Northern Arizona University, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary...
Metaphysical Poetry
Author: Colin Burrow (editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry reacted to a time of startling progress,...
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity
Author: Joseph Farrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book...
My Invented Country: A Memoir
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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...
Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition
Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As children, learning to read, we look first at the illustrations - but how do these tell their stories...
Black and Female
Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more than merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.This paradigm shifting...
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...
Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure
Author: Michael McGirr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books Here are forty texts to read at some...
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
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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...
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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Orwell and the Dispossessed
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An expansive collection of George Orwell's writing on the down and out The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in...
The Yellow Admiral
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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...
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...
Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Author: John Sutherland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Does Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant...
Selected Poems, 1968-1996
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Author: Joseph Brodsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Joseph Brodsky spent his life advocating for the place of the poet in society. As Derek Walcott said of him, "Joseph...
Classical Literary Criticism
Author: Penelope Murray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world- they created...
Troublesome Words
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With Troublesome Words, bestselling writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of...
Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau
Author: Andrew Blauner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney...
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...
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World
Author: Mark Aldridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into...
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today
Author: Professor Nick Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Ever since The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was first published in 1937 the popularity of the vast, imaginative world he...
Are You Somebody?: The Life and Times of Nuala O'Faolain
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Cave
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A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures
Author: Simon Armitage Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 376 '[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanor with a brilliantly understated, original and captivating address, which never strayed into pretentiousness or...
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...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it? When...
The Penguin Henry Lawson: Short Stories
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The Ancient Fable: An Introduction
Author: Niklas Holzberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 We are all familiar with the moralizing animal tales ascribed to Aesop. Described as fiction that conveys truths, fables can be...
Journeys from Scandinavia: Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840-2000
Author: Elisabeth Oxfeldt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 328 For all of the scholarship done on postcolonial literatures, little has been applied to Scandinavian writing. Yet, beginning with...
The World Of The Book
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Christina Stead
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Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
Author: Louise Willder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It's good to judge a book by its cover. Drawing on her 25 years writing blurbs for Penguin books, Louise Willder...
The Playmaker
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Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer's life from the Sunday Times bestselling author
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. A unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In...
Freedom from Violence and Lies: Anton Chekhov's Life and Writings
Author: Michael C. Finke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Anton Chekhov's stories and plays endure as outstanding modern literary works, and his life was no less dramatic, rising from...
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street
Author: Pat Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history...
K.
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A singular journey through the visionary world of Kafka and its captivating mysteries, now in Penguin Modern Classics What...
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
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Author: Michael Blanding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous...
Cracking the Da Vinci Code: The Facts Behind the Fiction
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Memoirs of Many in One
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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,...
About Kane
Author: Graham Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In About Kane, Graham Saunders offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent times....
Papa Hemingway
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
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