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What Happened?

What Happened?

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Author: Hanif Kureishi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William Boyd Comic, dark and insightful, What...
Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

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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...
Little Faith

Little Faith

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Author: Nickolas Butler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with...
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

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Author: Amanda Gorman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem 'The Hill We Climb,' read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a...
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing

The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing

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Author: Debra Adelaide Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Books are impractical companions and housemates: they are heavy when you are travelling, and in the home take up...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
The Odyssey

The Odyssey

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Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca,...
Molly Keane: A Life

Molly Keane: A Life

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Author: Sally Phipps Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good...
Boy: Tales of Childhood

Boy: Tales of Childhood

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
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,...
The Foucault Reader

The Foucault Reader

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An introduction to the work of Michel Foucault, including detailed excerpts from all of his major works The Foucault...
The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born

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Author: E. M. Cioran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers 'Not...
Why Read the Classics?

Why Read the Classics?

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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...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

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Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers 'A completely superb and magisterial life of...
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost, comes a deeply moving tale of a father and son's...
PARADISE: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

PARADISE: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

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Author: Alasdair Gray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as...
Orwell in Spain

Orwell in Spain

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his...
The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time

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Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'...
Orwell's England

Orwell's England

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best...
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth

The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth

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Author: John Garth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A lavishly illustrated exploration of the places that inspired and shaped the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of Middle-earth. This new...
News from Nowhere and Other Writings

News from Nowhere and Other Writings

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Author: William Morris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer,...
The Sixteen Satires

The Sixteen Satires

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Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

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Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...
Desperate Remedies

Desperate Remedies

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Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position...
The Woodlanders

The Woodlanders

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Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the...
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...
Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...
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....
The Histories

The Histories

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Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
Mr. Penrose: The Journal of Penrose, Seaman

Mr. Penrose: The Journal of Penrose, Seaman

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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...
Essays

Essays

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this...
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,...
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...
A Tranquil Star Stories

A Tranquil Star Stories

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from...
The Bughouse The Poetry

The Bughouse The Poetry

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Author: Daniel Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In 1945, the American poet Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during...