A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Author: Sarah Bakewell
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming e ... |
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Author: James Joyce
"Finnegans Wake" is the most bookish of all books. John Bishop has described it as 'the single most intentionally crafted literary artefact that our culture has produced'. In its original format, however, the book has be ... |
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The Life of Roald Dahl
Author: Donald Sturrock
The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete and exclusive access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. Roald Dahl pushed children's literat ... |
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A Memoir
Author: Isabel Allende
The life story of Isabel Allende -- one of the world's favourite writers -- is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels. Just three when her parents divorced, Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparent ... |
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Stories of the Inspiration Behind Great Works of Literature
Author: Celia Blue Johnson
Every great book begins with an idea, whether it comes to a writer's mind with lightning speed or tugs at the imagination over time. "Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway" offers stories of the inspiration behind fifty classic wor ... |
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A Personal History
Author: Jonathan Franzen
A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', arrived late, and last, in a family of boys ... |
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Letters to and from the Children's Poet
Author: Sydelle Pearl
It is a fascinating biography that brings to life one of 19th century America's most popular and highly regarded poets. Best known for "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Paul Revere's Ride", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-18 ... |
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Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English
Author: Varughese E. Dawson
Reading New India is an insightful exploration of contemporary Indian writing in English. Exploring the work of such writers as Aravind Adiga (author of the Man-Booker Prize winning White Tiger), Usha K.R. and Taseer, th ... |
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"Animal Farm", "Nineteen Eighty-four"
Author: Daniel Lea
George Orwell is a writer who has been appropriated by very different political regimes and opinions, pressed into service as his various critics have seen fit. Though a polemicist and satirist at heart, his anti-totali ... |
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 On Sale
Author: Andrew Hodges
A new edition to celebrate Alan Turing's centenary, includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of th ... |
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Author: Elena Santangelo
In DAME AGATHA'S SHORTS, mystery author Elena Santangelo guides you through the short works of one of mystery's most famous writers, AGATHA CHRISTIE. Find out: - what was the most exciting event in Christie's li ... |
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A Secret Chronology of the World (Volume 1)
Author: Win Scott Eckert
From the depths of ancient ages, when Atlantis fell, to the Regency, Victorian, and Edwardian eras, and to the burgeoning 20th century, CROSSOVERS is a massive timeline of crossover stories in which characters, situation ... |
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Author: Bloomsbury Group & British Library Sound Archive
The Bloomsbury Group remains of great public interest for its influence on art,literature and politics in the first half of the 20th century. Recordings of this informal association of writers, artists and intellectuals, ... |
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Biography as Gendered Metafiction
Author: Susanna Scarparo
This book uses a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the role of biographies and autobiographies in the construction of historical narratives. |
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Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner
Author: William H. Rueckert
Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner is the culmination of William H. Rueckert's lifetime of study of this great American novelist. Rueckert tracks Faulkner's developme ... |
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Author: Julian W. Connolly
One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" is renowned for its innovative style and notorious for its subject matter and influence on popular culture. This ... |
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Author: Pauline Drouin-Degorgue
Diary of an Insane Woman is a fictional novel that was inspired by the death of JonBenet Ramsey. Twelve years ago, Christmas Eve of 1996, this lovely Mini-Miss was murdered in her own home while her parents slept in anot ... |
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Author: Bharat Tandon
This important study investigates how Austen worked with, and played upon, the cracks and faultlines which time had uncovered in the ideals of polite conversation. In a wide-ranging argument combining intellectual histor ... |
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Explorations of Fantasy Through Essays, Articles and Reviews
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
An entertaining, eclectic chronicle of modern fantastical fiction, Monstrous Creatures delivers incisive commentary, reviews, and essays pertaining to permutations of the monstrous, whether it's other people's monsters, ... |
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Author: George Hardin Brown
The Venerable Bede is a crucial figure for Anglo-Saxonists, arguably the most important, known character from the period. A scholar of international standing from an early period of the Anglo-Saxon church (c.672-732), he ... |
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