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A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life

A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life

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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...
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

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Author: Christopher Prendergast Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity...no Proustian should be without it.' - Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster 'Literate, lively, and...
How to Read Now

How to Read Now

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Author: Elaine Castillo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading - and our potential to become radically better readers in the world....
A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)

A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)

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Author: Francesca Wade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read...
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home

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Author: Alexander Wolff (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' - Philippe Sands In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander...
Disseminating Darwinism: The Role Of Place, Race, Religion, And Gender

Disseminating Darwinism: The Role Of Place, Race, Religion, And Gender

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I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

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Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

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L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"

L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"

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Author: Lucasta Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short...
Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature

Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature

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Cracking the Da Vinci Code: The Facts Behind the Fiction

Cracking the Da Vinci Code: The Facts Behind the Fiction

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Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism And The Fin De Siecles

Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism And The Fin De Siecles

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Self Consciousness: Memoirs

Self Consciousness: Memoirs

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Are You Somebody?: The Life and Times of Nuala O'Faolain

Are You Somebody?: The Life and Times of Nuala O'Faolain

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At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995

At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995

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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

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Frederick Manning an Unfinished

Frederick Manning an Unfinished

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The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s

The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s

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Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 2

Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 2

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Reading Columbus

Reading Columbus

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Peter Porter

Peter Porter

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The Year the Dragon Came

The Year the Dragon Came

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Penfriends from Porlock

Penfriends from Porlock

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In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

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All My Love

All My Love

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The Brain of Robert Frost: Cognitive Approach to Literature

The Brain of Robert Frost: Cognitive Approach to Literature

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Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

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Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire

Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire

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Author: Pankaj Mishra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

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The Best of Me

The Best of Me

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In the Land of Oz

In the Land of Oz

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Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World

Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World

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Author: Brian Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad 'Recalls the work of John...
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984

The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984

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Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...
And So Forth

And So Forth

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Fly Away Peter

Fly Away Peter

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Ginsberg: A Biography

Ginsberg: A Biography

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The Singing Detective

The Singing Detective

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The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places

The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places

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For Love and Money

For Love and Money

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The Black Interior

The Black Interior

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Author: Elizabeth Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 221 Legendary poet Elizabeth Alexander turns her finely-honed sensibilities to the subject of blackness and the interior world of the modern African-American....
House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann

House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann

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Author: Evelyn Juers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In 1933, the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in...
Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction

Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction

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Author: Professor of Political Science Joshua Cohen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 "Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable...
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines

Bibliophile: Diverse Spines

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Author: Jamise Harper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 It's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are...
The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried / Alice, Let's Eat / Third Helpings

The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried / Alice, Let's Eat / Third Helpings

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Author: Calvin Trillin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants...
Patrick White:  A Life

Patrick White: A Life

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How Proust Can Change Your Life

How Proust Can Change Your Life

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