The Friendship
Author: Adam Sisman
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship -- and quarrel -- between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy, shared ... |
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A Personal History
Author: Jonathan Franzen
This is a brilliant, award-winning memoir from the author of The Corrections. Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Discomfort Zone is his intimate memoir of his gr ... |
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Author: Gunter Grass
Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. Gr ... |
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Selected Letters Between a Father and Son
Author: Louis Ginsberg & Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsburg
FAMILY BUSINESS is not only a personal glimpse into the life of one of the great US poets, but also the moving story of a relationship between a father and a son set against the turbulent world of postwar America. As a l ... |
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Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity
Author: Stefan Jonsson
This innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in western culture. Stefan Jonsson argues that Musil's Austria was the first postimperial state in modern Europe. Pr ... |
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Author: Francis G. Gentry
In perhaps 25 years of creative productivity (ca. 1180-ca. 1205), Hartmann von Aue authored a dispute about love between the body and the heart, Die Klage, numerous songs of courtly love, crusading songs, and most likely ... |
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Author: Jenny Bond & Chris Sheedy
Behind the Bestsellers is a collection of fifty fascinating stories about the lives, loves and literature that inspired the world's greatest books. Full of literary history, dinner party trivia and lore of all kinds, thi ... |
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Author: Richard Wasowski
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and vi ... |
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The Lives and Loves of Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Author: Hazel Rowley
They are one of the world's legendary couples. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Startre - those passionate, free-thinking Existentialist philosopher-writers - had a committed but notoriously open union that generated no ... |
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Letters Between Six Sisters
Author: Charlotte Mosley
The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniq ... |
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Author: Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encounters with Europe but also the dark side of ... |
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A Memoir
Author: Jennie Erdal
Totally original and difficult to classify, Ghosting is a remarkable account of one woman's life. Or to be more accurate lives. For about fifteen years Jennie Erdal had a double existence: officially she worked as a pers ... |
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Author: Philip Gourevitch
How do great writers do it? From James M Cain's hard-nosed observation that writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational, to Joan Didion's account of how ... |
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A Critical Anthology
Author: Martin Myrone & Christopher Frayling
Not since the canonical phase of the Gothic that stretched from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764) to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) have the themes of the Gothic, horror and fantasy been so prevalent within c ... |
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Author: Dawn Ades
The revolutionary artistic and political movement, Dada, emerged amid the unprecedented carnage of the First World War. Although short-lived, the movement, a heady mix of anarchy, nihilism and a lethal dash of humour, pr ... |
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The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
Author: Maggie Humm
In this enthralling portrait, Maggie Humm makes available, for the first time, a wealth of barely known photographs, both amateur and professional, that cast new light on the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa B ... |
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Author: Pauline Kiernan
Despite the richness of Shakespeare's sexual language (his work includes no fewer than 150 puns for female genitals, and 180 for male genitalia), scant attention has been paid to it until now. Filthy Shakespeare offers m ... |
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German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Carol Diethe
No doubt, the feminist movement has come a long way, even though many of its aims have not been realized or, in fact, are still debated by its supporters and critics. It is sobering and instructive to look back and exami ... |
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Author: Michael Perraudin
Between the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, poverty reached new extremes in Germany, as in other European countries, and gave rise to a class of disaffected poor, leading to the widespread expectation of a social revolutio ... |
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A Study of George Orwell
Author: George Woodcock
A BIOGRAPHY DETAILING SO MUCH MORE ABOUT GEORGE ORWELL THAN SIMPLY HIS BOOKS THE CRYSTAL SPIRIT is a revealing look at the great writer and political thinker George Orwell, whose visionary work gave us the great anti-uto ... |
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