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Conversations with David Foster Wallace
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Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life
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Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value
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Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind
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If You Have Two Loaves of Bread, Sell One and Buy a Lily and Other Proverbs of China
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States of Emergency
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Dr Johnson and Mr Savage
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The Modern Movement
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Creative Lives: Personal papers of Australian writers and artists
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Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists: Shelagh Delaney * Edna
'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy' ViceIn London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began...
The Scarlet Letter
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Kerouac's Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction
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Idle Talk: Gwen Harwood, Letters 1960-1964
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The Globe Guide to Shakespeare: The plays, the productions, the life
The Globe Guide to Shakespeare is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright: William Shakespeare.With full coverage of the 39 Shakespearian plays, including a...
Before Night Falls
This poignant and shocking memoir by the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas is a book about sexual, political and artistic freedom. In Before Night Falls, Arenas recounts his journey from a...
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict (SIGNED)
'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.' David KynastonChairman Mao...
Track Record: Me, Music, and the War on Blackness: THE REVOLUTIONARY
The ground-breaking memoir by acclaimed rapper and podcast host, George the PoetBorn to Ugandan parents on the St Raphael's Estate in Neasden, north-west London, George has always been an ambitious...
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Hemingway's world was close and uncomfortable and itchy and sweaty and frequently exhausting... This stuff was too good to be wasted on school exams. I must be bold and fearless...
Troy: The epic battle as told in Homer's Iliad (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. When Paris falls in love with legendary beauty Helen of Troy, the devastating effects of their affair on...
Shakespeare: For All Time
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Return of the Great Goddess
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A Life of Love: Barbara Cartland
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
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The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot
At the age of seventeen, Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch for the first time, and has read it again every five years since, each time interpreting and discovering it anew. In...
Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult
Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult is a collection of essays examining the thought of the Irish poet W. B. Yeats and particularly his philosophical reading and explorations of older systems...
Terence: The Girl from Andros
The Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist. It is based on two...
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson...
Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident
In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the "pernicious creed"...
Cavell, Companionship, and Christian Theology
In recent decades, theologians and philosophers of religion have engaged in a vigorous debate concerning the status and nature of ecclesiology. Throughout this debate, they have found resources for their...
Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin's Yiddish Drama
Jacob Gordin was the first major playwright of the "Golden Age" of New York's Yiddish theater, which was not just entertainment but also a public forum, a force for education...
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity for the first time situates Prudentius within a broad intellectual, political, and literary context of fourth-century Rome. As Marc Mastrangelo convincingly demonstrates, the late-fourth-century...
Henri Peyre: His Life in Letters
Henri Peyre (1901-1988), a giant figure in French studies, did more to introduce Americans to the modern literature and culture of French than any other person. Sterling Professor and chair...
The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama
A comparative study of the representation of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modernity, The Tears of Sovereignty argues that the great playwrights of the period-William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega,...
Updating the Literary West
"Western writers," says Thomas J. Lyon in his epilogue to Updating the Literary West, "have grown up with the frontier myth but now find themselves in the early stages of...
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains 23 newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various...
Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in
This remarkable work by Ronald D. LeBlanc is the first study to appraise the representation of food and sexuality in the nineteenth-century Russian novel. Meticulously researched and elegantly and accessibly...
Mayor's Juvenal (two volume slipcased set)
This final edition of Mayor's Juvenal, issued here in two hardback volumes (available separately or as a slip-cased set), should be an essential part of all professional Latinists' reference libraries....
Meanjin Vol 64, No. 1&2: Portraits Of Artist
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Mistaken Identity
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Rooms of Their Own
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Strong Man from Piraeus and Other Stories
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English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
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Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia
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The Eighteenth Century: Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1700-89
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Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology
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Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of L
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Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism
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The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir
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