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Walker: WITH The Ghost Dance
Author: Derek. Walcott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 246 Two dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Walker and Ghost Dance. On a cold winter's day...
Eclogues of Virgil
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Author: Aelius Donatus Virgil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Virgil's great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of The Odes of Horace and Gilgamesh The Eclogues of Virgil gave...
The Shelf
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Author: Phyllis Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side...
Twenty Poems That Could Save America And Other Essays
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Author: Tony Hoagland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 230 Twenty Poems That Could Save America presents insightful essays on the craft of poetry and a bold conversation about the role...
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...
Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Author: Elaine Scarry (Harvard University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A fascinating case for the identity of Shakespeare's beautiful young man Shakespeare's sonnets are indisputably the most enigmatic and...
Uncommon Carriers
Author: John McPhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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Sound the Deep Waters
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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...
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
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...
Leaving Home
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Dorothy Hewett: Selected Critical Essays
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Archimedes and the Seagle
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The Almond Picker
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Guardian of the Dawn
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Sphere History of Literature: v. 4: Dryden to Johnson
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D.H. Lawrence, the Story of a Marriage: The Story of a Marriage
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Borderline
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Chaucer A to Z
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Two Lives
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The Sons of Clovis
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William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
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Agent of Byzantium
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Faulks on Fiction
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The Modern Library: 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950
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Creme de la Phlegm: Unforgettable Australian Reviews
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The Remake
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Slip-shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet
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My Reading Life: Adventures in the World of Books
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Texas
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Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers
Author: Hannah K. Chapman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In Why She Wrote, dive into the fascinating, unexpected, and inspiring stories behind the greatest women writers in the English...
Island and Otherland: Christopher Koch and His Books
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Author: Thomas C Foster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide-a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Read the Classics: The Books that Nurtured Human Thought
Author: Matt Doucet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Take a stroll through some of the most influential pieces of literature of all time with Read the Classics. From Aristotle...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Little Faith
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...
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....
Shakespeare in a Divided America
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...
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...